reliao

MEDIUM
maintainer dryland 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from hotchat-dl.iqiyi.com, which is iQIYI's (a major Chinese streaming company) official download CDN for their 热聊 (Reliao) chat application. The domain is plausibly the vendor's own distribution host, not a random personal server. However, it is still a prebuilt binary from a non-standard host (not GitHub releases, not a distro mirror), with only an MD5 checksum (weak, collision-vulnerable). The binary is extracted and installed directly without any integrity verification beyond MD5. This is a legitimate medium-risk supply-chain concern: if the CDN is compromised or the domain changes hands, arbitrary code could be executed. The risk is real but not clearly malicious — this is a common pattern for proprietary Chinese software distributed via AUR.

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:14 source=("https://hotchat-dl.iqiyi.com/version/linux/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
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 .deb from hotchat-dl.iqiyi.com, which is iQIYI's (a major Chinese streaming company) official download CDN for their 热聊 (Reliao) chat application. The domain is plausibly the vendor's own distribution host, not a random personal server. However, it is still a prebuilt binary from a non-standard host (not GitHub releases, not a distro mirror), with only an MD5 checksum (weak, collision-vulnerable). The binary is extracted and installed directly without any integrity verification beyond MD5. This is a legitimate medium-risk supply-chain concern: if the CDN is compromised or the domain changes hands, arbitrary code could be executed. The risk is real but not clearly malicious — this is a common pattern for proprietary Chinese software distributed via AUR.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: dryland <dryland718@163.com>
2
3pkgname=reliao
4pkgver=4.3.3
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="爱奇艺之家热聊"
7arch=("x86_64")
8url="https://home.iqiyi.com/app/download/index.html"
9license=("custom")
10depends=(
11 "gtk2" "libxss"
12)
13
14source=("https://hotchat-dl.iqiyi.com/version/linux/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
15md5sums=('03f9eded1836cb8fedd2806829b6fb44')
16
17package() {
18 cd ${srcdir}
19 tar -xzvf data.tar.gz -C ${pkgdir}
20}
21
22

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