varac-bin

maintainer 9M2PJU · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

LOW

Why flagged Downloads a prebuilt Windows binary (VarAC.exe) from the project's own official domain (varac-hamradio.com) and runs it under Wine; checksums are provided, the host is plausibly the official distribution point per the maintainer's own note, and no obfuscation or exfiltration is present — the main concern is that it is a proprietary prebuilt executable rather than open-source code.

Triggered rules

LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 70%): Downloads a prebuilt Windows binary (VarAC.exe) from the project's own official domain (varac-hamradio.com) and runs it under Wine; checksums are provided, the host is plausibly the official distribution point per the maintainer's own note, and no obfuscation or exfiltration is present — the main concern is that it is a proprietary prebuilt executable rather than open-source code.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:19 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.zip::https://varac-hamradio.com/download-varac-zip-package"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: 9m2pju <9m2pju@hamradio.my>
    
      2
    
      3# This is an unofficial package. VarAC is proprietary software developed by
    
      4# Irad Deutsch 4Z1AC. Its license permits distribution only through the official
    
      5# VarAC website (varac-hamradio.com). The PKGBUILD therefore downloads the ZIP
    
      6# from the official redirect URL and does not redistribute the binary.
    
      7
    
      8pkgname=varac-bin
    
      9pkgver=15.0.18
    
      10pkgrel=1
    
      11pkgdesc="VarAC - HF digital chat messenger for amateur radio (Wine)"
    
      12arch=('x86_64')
    
      13url="https://www.varac-hamradio.com"
    
      14license=('custom')
    
      15depends=('wine' 'wine-mono')
    
      16makedepends=('unzip' 'icoutils')
    
      17optdepends=('winetricks: additional Wine configuration tools'
    
      18            'vara-hf: VARA HF modem (must be installed separately and authorized)')
    
      19source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.zip::https://varac-hamradio.com/download-varac-zip-package"
    
      20        "varac.sh"
    
      21        "varac.desktop")
    
      22sha256sums=('e8ea382a80bbea70ef9a03e16e949ebdf7da2906518479e14919b4b032e0dab0'
    
      23            '7a38c8789f2f6ebfff3744da6441c7af3ebc6683afb00172168814f8af7c795d'
    
      24            '7130bf3b7909806121827ec11eca6469c2d20e9e8773615f3bfff8e0502192b6')
    
      25
    
      26build() {
    
      27    cd "$srcdir"
    
      28    wrestool -x --type=14 --name=32512 -o "varac.ico" VarAC.exe
    
      29    icotool -x -i 5 -o "varac.png" "varac.ico"
    
      30}
    
      31
    
      32package() {
    
      33    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/varac"
    
      34    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      35    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
    
      36    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      37
    
      38    unzip -q "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver.zip" -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/varac"
    
      39
    
      40    install -Dm644 "$pkgdir/usr/share/varac/License.txt" \
    
      41        "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/License.txt"
    
      42
    
      43    install -Dm755 "$srcdir/varac.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/varac"
    
      44    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/varac.desktop" \
    
      45        "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/varac.desktop"
    
      46    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/varac.png" \
    
      47        "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/varac.png"
    
      48}
    
      49

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-18 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-17 00:18:29	LOW	3
2026-08-16 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-15 00:26:13	LOW	3
2026-08-14 00:03:41	LOW	3
2026-08-13 00:17:07	LOW	3
2026-08-12 00:27:08	LOW	3
2026-08-11 15:31:19	LOW	3
2026-08-11 15:21:23	MEDIUM	2