Needless-Recursion

v1.0.0 suspicious
6.0
Medium Risk

A suite of unnecessarily recursive algorithms.

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package shows low risks in terms of obfuscation and credential theft but has a high metadata risk due to recent and rapid activity and a lack of maintainer history.

  • High metadata risk
  • No description provided
Per-check LLM notes
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk of malicious intent.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, suggesting no immediate threat to secrets or credentials.
  • Metadata: High risk due to recent and rapid activity, lack of maintainer history, and sparse repository engagement.

🔬 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 5.0

Git history flags: Repository has zero stars and zero forks

  • Repository has zero stars and zero forks
  • All 4 commits happened within 24 hours
Maintainer History score 6.0

3 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Only one version has ever been released — brand new package
  • 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 Needless-Recursion
Your task is to create a fully-functional mini-application called 'Recursive Maze Solver' using the Python package 'Needless-Recursion'. This application will generate a simple maze and solve it using one of the unnecessarily recursive algorithms provided by the 'Needless-Recursion' package. Here are the detailed steps and features for your project:

1. **Maze Generation**: Develop a feature that generates a simple 2D maze using a standard algorithm like Prim's or Recursive Division. Ensure the maze is represented as a grid of cells where walls separate each cell.
2. **Visualization**: Implement a basic graphical user interface (GUI) using a library such as Pygame or Tkinter to visualize the maze. The GUI should display the maze and highlight the path taken by the solver as it progresses.
3. **Solver Integration**: Utilize the 'Needless-Recursion' package to implement a maze-solving algorithm. Choose an algorithm from the package that demonstrates unnecessary recursion, such as a depth-first search with redundant recursive calls. Ensure that the solver finds a path from the start to the end of the maze.
4. **Performance Analysis**: Add a feature that measures and displays the time taken by the solver to find a solution. Highlight the inefficiency of using a deeply recursive approach by comparing it with a non-recursive version of the same algorithm if possible.
5. **User Interaction**: Allow users to interact with the maze by generating new mazes of different sizes and solving them using the recursive solver. Include options for the user to pause, resume, or restart the solving process.
6. **Documentation**: Write clear and concise documentation explaining how to install and run the application, including any dependencies on external libraries like 'Needless-Recursion', Pygame, or Tkinter.

This project aims to showcase both the creative and potentially inefficient use of recursion in solving real-world problems, providing insights into the trade-offs between readability and performance.