tricks-bin

maintainer orphaned · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from tricks.aseman.io, which is the official project website (matching the url= field) for the Tricks social network app by Aseman Land. The AppImage is executed during the package() function (chmod +x then ./${_filename} --appimage-extract) and installed as a setuid-755 binary. While the host appears to be the legitimate upstream vendor site (same domain as url=), it is still a personal/company-controlled host rather than a major distribution mirror, and AppImages are self-contained executables. A sha256sum is provided, which mitigates silent substitution risk somewhat. The main concern is that this is an opaque prebuilt binary from a small vendor host with no reproducibility guarantees — a classic medium-risk supply-chain pattern for AUR -bin packages. This is not clearly malicious, but the executed binary from a non-standard host warrants medium severity.

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:13 source=("https://tricks.aseman.io/tricks/static/downloads/Tricks-${pkgver}_linux.AppImage"

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 AppImage binary from tricks.aseman.io, which is the official project website (matching the url= field) for the Tricks social network app by Aseman Land. The AppImage is executed during the package() function (chmod +x then ./${_filename} --appimage-extract) and installed as a setuid-755 binary. While the host appears to be the legitimate upstream vendor site (same domain as url=), it is still a personal/company-controlled host rather than a major distribution mirror, and AppImages are self-contained executables. A sha256sum is provided, which mitigates silent substitution risk somewhat. The main concern is that this is an opaque prebuilt binary from a small vendor host with no reproducibility guarantees — a classic medium-risk supply-chain pattern for AUR -bin packages. This is not clearly malicious, but the executed binary from a non-standard host warrants medium severity.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Ali Molaei <ali dot molaei at protonmail dot com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=tricks-bin
    
      4pkgver=1.0.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="The social network for programmers!"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://tricks.aseman.io/"
    
      9license=('GPL3')
    
      10conflicts=('tricks')
    
      11provides=('tricks')
    
      12options=('!emptydirs' '!strip')
    
      13source=("https://tricks.aseman.io/tricks/static/downloads/Tricks-${pkgver}_linux.AppImage"
    
      14        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Aseman-Land/Tricks/main/LICENSE")
    
      15sha256sums=('b40ac37ad95179f91a76d4ae65802504df34dfa3f0d64996ab3a6b2092b77162'
    
      16						'2ca9503d76d1ffab14f599b4741382eec11face60ad1f0d7a41897809003a286')
    
      17
    
      18
    
      19_filename="Tricks-${pkgver}_linux.AppImage"
    
      20_squashfs_desktop_file="Tricks.desktop"
    
      21_desktop_file="/usr/share/applications/tricks.desktop"
    
      22_appimage_name=$(echo "${_filename}"|sed -E 's/-[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*//')
    
      23_install_path="/opt/tricks-bin/${_appimage_name}"
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26    chmod +x "${_filename}"
    
      27    mkdir -p squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/{72x72,16x16}/apps
    
      28    ./${_filename} --appimage-extract "tricks.png" > /dev/null 2>&1
    
      29    ./${_filename} --appimage-extract ${_squashfs_desktop_file} > /dev/null 2>&1
    
      30    echo "Exec=${_install_path} --no-check-desktop-installation" >> "squashfs-root/${_squashfs_desktop_file}"
    
      31
    
      32    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons"
    
      33    cp -dpr --no-preserve=ownership "squashfs-root/tricks.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/"
    
      34    chmod -R 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons"
    
      35    find "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons" -type f -name "tricks.png" -exec chmod 644 {} \;
    
      36
    
      37    install -Dm644 "squashfs-root/${_squashfs_desktop_file}" "${pkgdir}/${_desktop_file}"
    
      38    install -Dm755 "${_filename}" "${pkgdir}/${_install_path}"
    
      39    mkdir "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/" && chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
    
      40    ln -s "${_install_path}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/tricks"
    
      41
    
      42    install -Dm644 "LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/tricks-bin/LICENSE"
    
      43
    
      44}
    
      45

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