hacpack-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer darkgeem 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary (hacpack) from a personal host (darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr) maintained by the package author themselves, not from the official upstream (github.com/The-4n/hacPack). The official upstream does provide release binaries on GitHub, so there is no legitimate reason to host the binary on a personal server instead. The binary is installed as an executable in /usr/bin. While a sha256sum is provided, it only verifies integrity against the personal host's file — if that host is compromised or the maintainer substitutes a malicious binary, users would execute arbitrary code with no way to verify it matches the official upstream release. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host rather than the verified upstream release channel.

Triggered rules

Medium source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:12 source_x86_64=("https://darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr/arch/archives/hacpack.tar.gz")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary (hacpack) from a personal host (darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr) maintained by the package author themselves, not from the official upstream (github.com/The-4n/hacPack). The official upstream does provide release binaries on GitHub, so there is no legitimate reason to host the binary on a personal server instead. The binary is installed as an executable in /usr/bin. While a sha256sum is provided, it only verifies integrity against the personal host's file — if that host is compromised or the maintainer substitutes a malicious binary, users would execute arbitrary code with no way to verify it matches the official upstream release. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host rather than the verified upstream release channel.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: darkgeem <darkgeem at pyrokinesis.fr>
    
      2pkgname=hacpack-bin
    
      3pkgver=1.36
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="hacPack is a tool for creating Nintendo Switch NCAs (Nintendo Content Archive) and packing them into NSPs (Nintendo Submission Package)"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://github.com/The-4n/hacPack/"
    
      8licence=('GPL2')
    
      9depends=('pacman')
    
      10provides=('hacpack')
    
      11conflicts=('hacpack')
    
      12source_x86_64=("https://darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr/arch/archives/hacpack.tar.gz")
    
      13sha256sums_x86_64=("29f54663af7d3ffeb6715690cc0a498969c178a8b3f85fca8ce37027397d658a")
    
      14
    
      15package() {
    
      16	_bin_name="${pkgname/-bin/}"
    
      17	_bin_file="${srcdir}/${_bin_name}"
    
      18	install -Dm755 "${_bin_file}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_bin_name}"
    
      19}
    
      20

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2