MIset

v1.1.0 suspicious
4.0
Medium Risk

Mutual Information based feature selection techniques

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package has low risks in terms of network, shell, and obfuscation but exhibits high metadata risk due to signs of abandonment or lack of community involvement. This could indicate potential issues such as unmaintained code or a possible supply-chain attack.

  • High metadata risk due to minimal activity
  • Suspected abandonment or new creation of the repository
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal unless the package's functionality requires external communication.
  • Shell: No shell execution patterns detected, indicating no immediate risk of command injection or privilege escalation.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Metadata: The repository shows signs of being abandoned or newly created, with minimal activity and contributors, raising suspicion.

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls

No suspicious network call patterns found

Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

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 score 7.5

Git history flags: Repository has zero stars and zero forks

  • Repository has zero stars and zero forks
  • Very few commits: 1 total
  • Single contributor with only 1 commit(s) — possibly throwaway account
Maintainer History score 4.0

2 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Author name is missing or very short
  • Author "" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
Known CVE Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities found in OSV database.

💡 AI App Starter Prompt

Use this prompt to build a project with MIset
Develop a data analysis tool named 'FeatureSelector' using Python and the 'MIset' library. This tool aims to help data scientists and analysts quickly identify the most relevant features in their datasets using mutual information-based feature selection techniques. The application should allow users to upload a CSV file containing their dataset, select target variables, and apply various feature selection methods provided by the MIset package. The output should include a ranked list of features based on their relevance to the target variable(s), along with visualizations such as bar charts showing the importance scores of each feature. Additionally, the tool should provide options to filter out features below a certain threshold of importance and export the selected features to a new CSV file. Ensure the application has a user-friendly interface, supports multiple target variables, and includes documentation explaining how to use MIset for feature selection in different types of datasets.