SecantusDB

v0.5.2b7 suspicious
6.0
Medium Risk

An embeddable, MongoDB compatible, document database, built on WiredTiger

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package exhibits significant network and shell risks, suggesting potential unauthorized external communication and execution of subprocesses. While there are no definitive signs of credential theft, the combination of these factors raises concerns about possible malicious intent.

  • High network risk
  • High shell risk
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: The presence of network connection attempts and HTTP requests suggests potential unauthorized external communication.
  • Shell: Subprocess calls to execute scripts or commands might indicate the package is designed to run additional processes, which could be used for malicious purposes.
  • Obfuscation: The code shows signs of obfuscation through base64 encoding, which could be used for legitimate purposes such as data encryption but may also indicate attempts to hide malicious activities.
  • Credentials: No clear patterns indicating credential harvesting have been detected.
  • Metadata: The package shows low maintainer activity and poor metadata quality, raising suspicion but not conclusive evidence of malice.

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls score 7.5

Found 5 network call pattern(s)

  • try: with socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout=0.5): return True
  • try: with socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout=0.5): return e
  • try: with socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout=0.3): return True
  • try: with urllib.request.urlopen(f"http://{host}:{port}/healthz", timeout=0.5) as r:
  • ken=...)`` and drive it via ``httpx.AsyncClient(transport=ASGITransport(app))``. """ from __future__ import
Code Obfuscation score 8.0

Found 4 obfuscation pattern(s)

  • ionCount"]), salt=base64.b64decode(sub["salt"]), stored_key=base64.b64decode(sub["s
  • lt"]), stored_key=base64.b64decode(sub["storedKey"]), server_key=base64.b64decode(s
  • ey"]), server_key=base64.b64decode(sub["serverKey"]), mechanism=mechanism,
  • try: client_proof = base64.b64decode(client_proof_b64, validate=False) except Exception as ex
Shell / Subprocess Execution score 10.0

Found 6 shell execution pattern(s)

  • ss on ``port``.""" return subprocess.Popen( [ sys.executable, "-m", "secantus",
  • cess.Popen[bytes]: return subprocess.Popen( [ sys.executable, "-m", "bench.load_wri
  • ort = _free_port() proc = subprocess.Popen( [ sys.executable, "-m", "secantus",
  • dir / "mongod.log" proc = subprocess.Popen( [ "mongod", "--bind_ip", "1
  • cess.Popen[bytes]: return subprocess.Popen( [ sys.executable, "-m", "secantus",
  • end("--drop") p = subprocess.Popen( argv, stdin=subprocess.DEVN
Credential Harvesting

No credential harvesting patterns detected

Typosquatting

No typosquatting candidates detected

Registered Email Domain

Email domain looks legitimate: joedrumgoole.com>

Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

Git Repository History

No GitHub repository linked

  • No GitHub repository link found
Maintainer History score 6.0

3 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Author name is missing or very short
  • Author "" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
  • Package has no PyPI classifiers (low effort / metadata quality)
Known CVE Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities found in OSV database.

💡 AI App Starter Prompt

Use this prompt to build a project with SecantusDB
Create a mini-library management system using the Python package 'SecantusDB'. This application will allow users to manage a collection of books, including adding new books, updating book details, searching for books by title or author, and deleting books from the library catalog. Additionally, implement features to track borrowed books and manage user accounts. Utilize 'SecantusDB' as the backend database to store all information related to books and users. Ensure that your application can perform CRUD operations efficiently, leveraging the MongoDB compatibility of 'SecantusDB'. Include error handling and validation checks to ensure data integrity. Finally, provide a simple command-line interface for interacting with the library management system.