remotemouse
The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary (RemoteMouse) from remotemouse.net, the official vendor website for the Remote Mouse application. This is the legitimate upstream source for this proprietary closed-source application. However, the concern is real: a prebuilt executable from a proprietary vendor is installed directly to /opt and executed, with no source build. The vendor host (remotemouse.net) is the official site, so this is not an unofficial/personal host — it is the canonical distribution point for this software. The md5sums provide minimal integrity checking (MD5 is weak but present). The main risk is the typical supply-chain concern of any prebuilt proprietary binary: if the vendor's server is compromised or the binary is malicious, it executes with user privileges. This is a standard medium-risk pattern for AUR packages distributing prebuilt proprietary binaries from official vendor sites — not a false positive, but also not an active attack. The cheaper model's assessment is essentially correct in classification, though the framing slightly overstates the concern by calling it 'non-standard' when it is actually the official vendor host.
Triggered rules
source_untrusted_domain
One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).
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PKGBUILD:13
source=("https://www.remotemouse.net/downloads/linux/RemoteMouse_x86_64.zip"
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 (RemoteMouse) from remotemouse.net, the official vendor website for the Remote Mouse application. This is the legitimate upstream source for this proprietary closed-source application. However, the concern is real: a prebuilt executable from a proprietary vendor is installed directly to /opt and executed, with no source build. The vendor host (remotemouse.net) is the official site, so this is not an unofficial/personal host — it is the canonical distribution point for this software. The md5sums provide minimal integrity checking (MD5 is weak but present). The main risk is the typical supply-chain concern of any prebuilt proprietary binary: if the vendor's server is compromised or the binary is malicious, it executes with user privileges. This is a standard medium-risk pattern for AUR packages distributing prebuilt proprietary binaries from official vendor sites — not a false positive, but also not an active attack. The cheaper model's assessment is essentially correct in classification, though the framing slightly overstates the concern by calling it 'non-standard' when it is actually the official vendor host.
PKGBUILD
1 offending line(s) highlighted# Maintainer: warpigglets
# Contributor: Daniel Bertalan <dani@danielbertalan.dev>
# Contributor: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@barrera.io>
pkgname=remotemouse
pkgver=1
pkgrel=5
pkgdesc="Turn your mobile phone or tablet into a set of wireless mouse and keyboard."
arch=("any")
url="https://remotemouse.net/"
license=('Unknown')
options=('!strip')
source=("https://www.remotemouse.net/downloads/linux/RemoteMouse_x86_64.zip"
"remotemouse.sh"
"RemoteMouse.desktop")
md5sums=('05d4ae6d0e5117a2d885c21d8f19f285'
'4713068dacd034226b9b0c6be1e39aef'
'45ff986a05bdeacda1da57b19d3b027c')
package() {
cd "$srcdir"
install -Dm 755 RemoteMouse "$pkgdir/opt/remotemouse/RemoteMouse"
cp -r lib "$pkgdir/opt/remotemouse"
cp -r images "$pkgdir/opt/remotemouse"
install -Dm 644 RemoteMouse.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/RemoteMouse.desktop"
install -Dm 755 remotemouse.sh "$pkgdir/usr/bin/remotemouse"
}
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 |