🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package exhibits moderate risks, particularly concerning network calls and credential handling. While it does not definitively indicate malicious intent, the combination of signals suggests potential vulnerabilities that require caution.

moderate network risk
potential misuse of GITHUB_TOKEN

Per-check LLM notes

Network: Network calls to external URLs are observed, which could be for legitimate updates but warrant further investigation into the package's purpose.
Shell: Shell execution patterns include pip and ensurepip commands, which might be intended for package maintenance but could also indicate unexpected behavior requiring closer scrutiny.
Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected.
Credentials: Potential risk of unauthorized access as the code checks for and uses an environment variable 'GITHUB_TOKEN' which could be misused if not properly secured.
Metadata: The package is new and the maintainer has limited history, raising some suspicion but not definitive evidence of malice.

🔬 Heuristic Checks

⚠ Outbound Network Calls score 7.5

Found 5 network call pattern(s)

"get-pip.py" with urllib.request.urlopen(GET_PIP_URL, timeout=60) as response, script_path.op
: str) -> dict: request = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=_headers()) with urllib.request.url
headers=_headers()) with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=30) as response: return jso
exist_ok=True) request = urllib.request.Request(remote.archive_url, headers=_headers()) with url
headers=_headers()) with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=120) as response, archive_path.open

✓ Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

⚠ Shell / Subprocess Execution score 10.0

Found 6 shell execution pattern(s)

ensurepip") try: subprocess.run( [sys.executable, "-m", "ensurepip", "--upgrade"
(response.read()) subprocess.run([sys.executable, str(script_path)], check=True) subproc
ript_path)], check=True) subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "--upgrade", "pip"]
try: completed = subprocess.run( [sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "--version"],
try: completed = subprocess.run( command + ["-c", "import sys; print('.'.join(ma
un] {' '.join(command)}") subprocess.run(command, check=True, cwd=cwd, env=dict(env) if env else None

⚠ Credential Harvesting score 2.5

Found 1 credential access pattern(s)

ler/0.9.0", } token = os.environ.get("GITHUB_TOKEN") if token: headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer

✓ Typosquatting

No typosquatting candidates detected

✓ Registered Email Domain

No author email provided

✓ Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

✓ Git Repository History

No GitHub repository linked

No GitHub repository link found

⚠ Maintainer History score 4.0

2 maintainer concern(s) found

Only one version has ever been released — brand new package
Author "Tommy-OMI" 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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