powder-toy-jacob1-bin

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

The package downloads a modded version of The Powder Toy from a plausible project-related host (starcatcher.us, associated with the game's community) and an icon from its static asset domain; both are used as data or for building, with no evidence of malicious or remote code execution, and the source is a prebuilt binary mod from a known developer, not an arbitrary remote executable.

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 modded version of The Powder Toy from a plausible project-related host (starcatcher.us, associated with the game's community) and an icon from its static asset domain; both are used as data or for building, with no evidence of malicious or remote code execution, and the source is a prebuilt binary mod from a known developer, not an arbitrary remote executable.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://starcatcher.us/TPT/mod/Older/Jacob1's%20Mod%20ver%20${pkgver}%20linux64.zip"
  • PKGBUILD:16 "powder-jacobsmod.png::https://static.powdertoy.co.uk/avatars/jacob1.256.png"

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Rafael Dominiquini <rafaeldominiquini at gmail dor com>
2# Maintainer: Matthew Blankenbehler <spectrino3d@gmail.com>
3# Contributor: Julius de Jeu <julius@voidcorp.nl>
4
5pkgname=powder-toy-jacob1-bin
6pkgver=58.2
7pkgrel=1
8pkgdesc="Desktop version of the classic falling sand physics sandbox, simulates air pressure, velocity & heat! Modded version by Jacob1"
9arch=('x86_64')
10url='https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=11117'
11license=('GPL3')
12depends=('openssl' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
13conflicts=("powder-toy-jacob")
14provides=("powder-toy-jacob")
15source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://starcatcher.us/TPT/mod/Older/Jacob1's%20Mod%20ver%20${pkgver}%20linux64.zip"
16 "powder-jacobsmod.png::https://static.powdertoy.co.uk/avatars/jacob1.256.png"
17 "powdertoy-jacobsmod.desktop")
18sha256sums=('cb918ffaa4ae8bb5666584cc79f0f6982e719e28de5022bcde549b5a5d27551f'
19 '9d269c19ea49c20e0c1e060d8508b0c0c39a32d042d7dc6d1d5cc72d50e674de'
20 '6d720a85267e2a4dd59fe6e6a89abbd6eaa0e9f3881f12811a5a16733fa86afa')
21
22prepare(){
23 mv "${srcdir}/Jacob1's Mod" "${srcdir}/powder-jacobsmod"
24
25 mv "${srcdir}/README" "${srcdir}/README.md"
26 mv "${srcdir}/CHANGELOG" "${srcdir}/CHANGELOG.md"
27}
28
29package(){
30 cd "${srcdir}"
31
32 install -Dm 755 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" powder-jacobsmod
33 install -Dm 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications" powdertoy-jacobsmod.desktop
34 install -Dm 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}" README.md
35 install -Dm 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}" CHANGELOG.md
36 install -Dm 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}" LICENSE
37
38 install -Dm 644 "powder-jacobsmod.png" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/"
39}
40

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-09-17 00:27:14 Low 2
2026-09-16 00:03:17 Low 2
2026-09-15 00:25:31 Low 2
2026-09-14 00:27:57 Low 2
2026-09-13 00:19:54 Low 2
2026-09-12 00:25:17 Low 2
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2026-09-04 00:03:13 Low 2
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2026-09-01 00:11:19 Low 2
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