owl-client

MEDIUM

maintainer ArthurSiminho 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

Downloads and executes a prebuilt AppImage binary from cdn.owlclient.com.br (a CDN subdomain of a small Brazilian gaming client site) with SKIP'd checksum, making it unverifiable and trivially swappable; while the domain appears to be the project's own CDN, the combination of a prebuilt executable, no integrity check, AI-assisted PKGBUILD, and few votes warrants medium concern.

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=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage::https://cdn.owlclient.com.br/launcher/${pkgver}/OwlClient-${pkgver}.AppImage")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 75%): Downloads and executes a prebuilt AppImage binary from cdn.owlclient.com.br (a CDN subdomain of a small Brazilian gaming client site) with SKIP'd checksum, making it unverifiable and trivially swappable; while the domain appears to be the project's own CDN, the combination of a prebuilt executable, no integrity check, AI-assisted PKGBUILD, and few votes warrants medium concern.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Arthur <arthursimao567@gmail.com>
    
      2# Note: This PKGBUILD was created with AI assistance
    
      3pkgname=owl-client
    
      4pkgver=3.5.21
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Owl Client - Gaming client launcher"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://owlclient.com.br/"
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10depends=('fuse2' 'zlib' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
    
      11options=('!strip')
    
      12source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage::https://cdn.owlclient.com.br/launcher/${pkgver}/OwlClient-${pkgver}.AppImage")
    
      13sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      14noextract=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage")
    
      15
    
      16prepare() {
    
      17    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      18    chmod +x "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage"
    
      19    ./"${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage" --appimage-extract >/dev/null
    
      20}
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      24    
    
      25    # Install the AppImage
    
      26    install -Dm755 "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage"
    
      27    
    
      28    # Install icon
    
      29    install -Dm644 squashfs-root/owlclient.png "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/${pkgname}.png"
    
      30    
    
      31    # Create desktop file
    
      32    cat > "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.desktop" << EOF
    
      33[Desktop Entry]
    
      34Type=Application
    
      35Name=Owl Client
    
      36Comment=Owl Client Launcher
    
      37Exec=/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage
    
      38Icon=${pkgname}
    
      39Terminal=false
    
      40Categories=Game;Utility;
    
      41EOF
    
      42    
    
      43    # Install desktop file
    
      44    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      45    
    
      46    # Create a symlink in /usr/bin for easy launching
    
      47    mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      48    ln -s "/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      49}
    
      50

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2