merlin-server-bin

LOW

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

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Why flagged

The pip install occurs only if _buildman is set to 'yes', which is disabled by default; the installed packages (sphinx_rtd_theme, recommonmark) are documentation tools used to build man pages, not malicious dependencies, and the build process otherwise uses verifiable, official release binaries from the project's GitHub.

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 pip install occurs only if _buildman is set to 'yes', which is disabled by default; the installed packages (sphinx_rtd_theme, recommonmark) are documentation tools used to build man pages, not malicious dependencies, and the build process otherwise uses verifiable, official release binaries from the project's GitHub.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium pip install of an external package pip_install_external

`pip install <package>` fetches an unpinned package from PyPI at build time, outside source=() and makepkg's checksums.

PKGBUILD:30 pip install sphinx_rtd_theme recommonmark

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: M0ustach3 <pablobondialuttiau@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3# Should the man page be built ? yes or no. The help of this package is available on GitHub
    
      4_buildman="no"
    
      5
    
      6_pkgname=merlin-server
    
      7pkgname=merlin-server-bin
    
      8pkgver=1.3.0
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc='Merlin is a cross-platform post-exploitation Command & Control server and agent written in Go'
    
      11arch=(x86_64)
    
      12url="https://github.com/Ne0nd0g/merlin"
    
      13license=('GPL3')
    
      14source=("https://github.com/Ne0nd0g/merlin/releases/download/v${pkgver}/merlinServer-Linux-x64.7z")
    
      15sha256sums=('0dfb581ed043749a0731d4be7decaabb24218b5aab27aebe0761976eef809b92')
    
      16makedepends=(p7zip)
    
      17depends=(glibc)
    
      18conflicts=("${pkgname}")
    
      19
    
      20[[ "${_buildman}" == "yes" ]] && makedepends+=('python' 'python-sphinx' 'python-pip')
    
      21
    
      22prepare(){
    
      23  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      24  7z -p"merlin" x merlinServer-Linux-x64.7z
    
      25}
    
      26
    
      27build(){
    
      28  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      29  if [[ "${_buildman}" == "yes" ]]; then
    
      30    pip install sphinx_rtd_theme recommonmark
    
      31    pushd "docs"
    
      32    make man
    
      33    popd
    
      34  fi
    
      35}
    
      36
    
      37package(){
    
      38  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      39  if [[ "${_buildman}" == "yes" ]]; then
    
      40    install -Dm644 "docs/_build/man/merlin.1" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/${_pkgname}"
    
      41  fi
    
      42  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}"
    
      43  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/data"
    
      44  install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      45  cp -r "data" "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}"
    
      46  install -Dm755 "merlinServer-Linux-x64" "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}"
    
      47  cat > "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}" << EOF
    
      48#!/bin/sh
    
      49exec /opt/${_pkgname}/merlinServer-Linux-x64 "\$@"
    
      50EOF
    
      51  chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
    
      52}
    
      53

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2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2