vkteams-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer sandboiii 4 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads and installs a prebuilt binary tarball from hb.bizmrg.com, which is VK's own object storage (Mail.ru Group / VK Cloud Solutions S3-compatible storage, 'hb' = Hot Box). This is the official distribution host for VK Teams — the teams.vk.com product is distributed via this CDN. However, from a packaging security standpoint, this is still a prebuilt binary from a vendor-controlled CDN rather than a source build, and the host is not immediately recognizable as 'official' without domain knowledge. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution risk. The binary is installed to /opt and executed directly. This is a legitimate vendor binary package (similar to google-chrome-bin, slack-bin, etc.) distributed via the vendor's own storage infrastructure, not a third-party or personal host. The medium rating is borderline — this pattern is standard for proprietary app AUR packages — but the non-obvious host name and prebuilt binary execution justify keeping it at medium rather than clean.

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=("$pkgbasename-$pkgver.tar.xz::https://hb.bizmrg.com/vkteams-www/linux/x64/$pkgver/vkworkspace.tar.xz"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads and installs a prebuilt binary tarball from hb.bizmrg.com, which is VK's own object storage (Mail.ru Group / VK Cloud Solutions S3-compatible storage, 'hb' = Hot Box). This is the official distribution host for VK Teams — the teams.vk.com product is distributed via this CDN. However, from a packaging security standpoint, this is still a prebuilt binary from a vendor-controlled CDN rather than a source build, and the host is not immediately recognizable as 'official' without domain knowledge. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution risk. The binary is installed to /opt and executed directly. This is a legitimate vendor binary package (similar to google-chrome-bin, slack-bin, etc.) distributed via the vendor's own storage infrastructure, not a third-party or personal host. The medium rating is borderline — this pattern is standard for proprietary app AUR packages — but the non-obvious host name and prebuilt binary execution justify keeping it at medium rather than clean.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: sandboiii <archlinux at sandboiii dot xyz>
    
      2# Contributor: VHSgunzo <vhsgunzo.github.io>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname='vkteams-bin'
    
      5pkgbasename='vkteams'
    
      6pkgver=26.1.10.79081
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc='VK Team app for team collaboration'
    
      9arch=("x86_64")
    
      10url='https://teams.vk.com'
    
      11provides=("$pkgbasename")
    
      12conflicts=("$pkgbasename")
    
      13install=$pkgname.install
    
      14source=("$pkgbasename-$pkgver.tar.xz::https://hb.bizmrg.com/vkteams-www/linux/x64/$pkgver/vkworkspace.tar.xz"
    
      15        "$pkgbasename.sh")
    
      16sha256sums=('2934ce988d3f814b649b6d259866380c227d9dc849a0683636499b72959782bf'
    
      17            '386d38d3b81531c478d65832816b604a5cf28b18b6c0b999933e0a7775ed84bf')
    
      18options=('!strip')
    
      19optdepends=('hunspell: spell checker'
    
      20            'hunspell-ru: проверка орфографии')
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23    install -dm755 "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgbasename"
    
      24    install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      25    cp -rP $srcdir/. "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgbasename"
    
      26
    
      27    # remove all symlinks
    
      28    for file in $pkgdir/opt/$pkgbasename/*; do
    
      29        if [[ -L $file ]]; then
    
      30            rm -f $file
    
      31        fi
    
      32    done
    
      33
    
      34    # use enviroment cursor
    
      35    rm -f "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgbasename/lib/libXcursor.so.1"
    
      36
    
      37    install -Dm755 "../$pkgbasename.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgbasename"
    
      38}
    
      39

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2