AI Analysis
Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS
The package exhibits a high level of obfuscation risk due to the use of pickle.loads, which could potentially be used for malicious purposes such as code injection. Further investigation is needed to confirm if this is part of legitimate functionality or indicative of a supply-chain attack.
- High obfuscation risk
- Potential misuse of pickle.loads
Per-check LLM notes
- Network: Network calls are common in packages that need to interact with web services or APIs, but should be reviewed for their purpose and destination.
- Shell: No shell execution patterns were detected, indicating no immediate risk from this aspect.
- Obfuscation: The use of pickle.loads to decode data from a file is suspicious and may indicate an attempt to hide code or data.
- Credentials: No clear evidence of credential harvesting, but the presence of sensitive operations like decoding file contents warrants further investigation.
- Metadata: The maintainer has only one package, indicating they may be new or less active, but no other red flags are present.
Heuristic Checks
Outbound Network Calls
score 3.0
Found 2 network call pattern(s)
) self.client = httpx.AsyncClient(http2=True, verify=_SSL_CONTEXT) self.boundary: strn self._session = aiohttp.ClientSession(headers=self._headers) def _get_cookies_from_session(se
Code Obfuscation
score 2.0
Found 1 obfuscation pattern(s)
cookies = pickle.loads(await myfile.read()) if self._debug:
Shell / Subprocess Execution
No shell execution patterns detected
Credential Harvesting
No credential harvesting patterns detected
Typosquatting
No typosquatting candidates detected
Registered Email Domain
Email domain looks legitimate: gmail.com
Suspicious Page Links
All external links appear legitimate
Git Repository History
No GitHub repository linked
No GitHub repository link found
Maintainer History
score 2.0
1 maintainer concern(s) found
Author "Keaton Taylor" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
Known CVE Vulnerabilities
No known vulnerabilities found in OSV database.
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