phratch

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary archive (Phratch4.1-linux.zip) from phratch.com, which is the official project website for Phratch. The archive is unpacked and a binary ('phratch') is symlinked into /usr/bin, meaning the downloaded content is directly executed. There is a fixed md5sum checksum, which provides some integrity guarantee but MD5 is cryptographically weak. The host (phratch.com) is the upstream vendor's own domain, not a random personal host, which reduces but does not eliminate supply-chain risk. There are also minor issues: a duplicate 'source=' line (the first one referencing a local file that doesn't exist), and use of MD5 rather than SHA256. Overall this is a real medium-severity concern: a prebuilt executable from a small, unofficial project host with only MD5 verification, but not clearly malicious.

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:15 source=('Phratch.zip::http://phratch.com/download/Phratch4.1-linux.zip' 'phratch.desktop')

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary archive (Phratch4.1-linux.zip) from phratch.com, which is the official project website for Phratch. The archive is unpacked and a binary ('phratch') is symlinked into /usr/bin, meaning the downloaded content is directly executed. There is a fixed md5sum checksum, which provides some integrity guarantee but MD5 is cryptographically weak. The host (phratch.com) is the upstream vendor's own domain, not a random personal host, which reduces but does not eliminate supply-chain risk. There are also minor issues: a duplicate 'source=' line (the first one referencing a local file that doesn't exist), and use of MD5 rather than SHA256. Overall this is a real medium-severity concern: a prebuilt executable from a small, unofficial project host with only MD5 verification, but not clearly malicious.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Contributor: Erick Pires <rckkas@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Laurent Laffont <laurent.laffont@gmail.com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=phratch
    
      5pkgver=4.1
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="Phratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. Port of Scratch on Pharo."
    
      8arch=(i686 x86_64)
    
      9source=($pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
    
      10url="http://www.phratch.com"
    
      11license=('MIT')
    
      12makedepends=('gendesk')
    
      13depends=('pharo-vm')
    
      14
    
      15source=('Phratch.zip::http://phratch.com/download/Phratch4.1-linux.zip' 'phratch.desktop')
    
      16
    
      17md5sums=('aec0d828e291ebbe0a225d5b12576c80' '97c22472ed23597881c547a67c8eee95')
    
      18
    
      19prepare() {
    
      20    gendesk -f --pkgname "$pkgname" --pkgdesc "$pkgdesc"
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25    cd $srcdir/
    
      26    mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/phratch/
    
      27    unzip Phratch.zip -d $pkgdir/usr/share/phratch/
    
      28
    
      29    mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/bin/
    
      30    mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/
    
      31
    
      32    chgrp users $pkgdir/usr/share/phratch/Phratch/shared/Pharo4.0.changes
    
      33    chmod 775 $pkgdir/usr/share/phratch/Phratch/shared/Pharo4.0.changes
    
      34
    
      35    ln -s /usr/share/phratch/Phratch/phratch $pkgdir/usr/bin/phratch
    
      36
    
      37    cp $pkgdir/usr/share/phratch/Phratch/icons/Pharo.png $pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/$pkgname.png
    
      38    install -Dm644 "$pkgname.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop"
    
      39}
    
      40

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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