malcat-lite

LOW
maintainer orphaned 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary from the official project's domain (malcat.fr), which is not on a standard hosting platform but is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; the source is verifiable via checksum and the package installs only the official application files without executing remote code or obfuscation.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary from the official project's domain (malcat.fr), which is not on a standard hosting platform but is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; the source is verifiable via checksum and the package installs only the official application files without executing remote code or obfuscation.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
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=("https://malcat.fr/all/$pkgver/malcat_ubuntu23_lite-$pkgver.zip"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Luca D'Amico <damico.luca91[at]live.it>
2
3pkgname=malcat-lite
4pkgver=0.9.6
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Malcat is a feature-rich hexadecimal editor / disassembler for Windows and Linux targeted to IT-security professionals."
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://malcat.fr"
9license=('Custom')
10depends=('gtk3' 'python311' 'python-pycryptodomex' 'python-pyasn1' 'python-pyasn1-modules' 'python-ruamel-yaml'
11 'python-ruamel.yaml.clib' 'python-six' 'python-acefile' 'python-requests' 'python-dissect.cstruct' 'python-tabulate')
12source=("https://malcat.fr/all/$pkgver/malcat_ubuntu23_lite-$pkgver.zip"
13 "malcat-lite.desktop")
14sha256sums=('3ccec457e2b0c21da20b1f61e8adf7a29aa704b16e77af9282c6df68d217b077'
15 '823099b512653d9e1aa3d09be42f0ce737248cab29ea8dd3bb2a3c4916922a04')
16
17package() {
18 mkdir -p $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/bin/ $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/
19 rm $srcdir/malcat_ubuntu23_lite-$pkgver.zip $srcdir/malcat-lite.desktop
20 cp -R $srcdir/* $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname
21 install -Dm 644 $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/static/icone.png $pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/$pkgname.png
22 install -Dm 644 $startdir/$pkgname.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/
23 ln -s /opt/$pkgname/bin/malcat $pkgdir/usr/bin/malcat
24}
25

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