aic-utils

v2.0.12 suspicious
6.0
Medium Risk

AIC API wrapper and GitLab integration framework for pipeline management

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package exhibits moderate risks due to potential obfuscation techniques and unusual repository behavior, indicating possible irregularities that warrant further investigation.

  • Moderate obfuscation risk due to base64 encoding
  • Suspiciously low activity and single-commit repository
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: The observed network calls appear to be legitimate API interactions, possibly for fetching datasets or other resources.
  • Shell: No shell execution patterns were detected.
  • Obfuscation: The code uses base64 encoding for data manipulation, which could be used for obfuscation but is also common in legitimate scenarios.
  • Credentials: No clear signs of credential harvesting were detected.
  • Metadata: Suspiciously low activity and single-commit repository suggest potential risk.

📦 Package Quality Overall: Low (3.4/10)

○ Low Test Suite 1.0

No test suite detected

  • No test files or test-runner configuration detected
◈ Medium Documentation 5.0

Some documentation present

  • Detailed PyPI description (28350 chars)
○ Low Contributing Guide 4.0

No contributing guide or governance files found

  • Development Status classifier >= Beta
◈ Medium Type Annotations 5.0

Partial type annotation coverage

  • 32 type-annotated function signatures detected in source
○ Low Multiple Contributors 2.0

Single-author or unverifiable project

  • 1 unique contributor(s) across 1 commits in dylandoyle11/aic_utils
  • Single author with few commits — possibly a personal or throwaway project

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls score 9.0

Found 6 network call pattern(s)

  • try: resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=timeout) except reques
  • pository/tree" resp = requests.get(url, headers={'PRIVATE-TOKEN': self.gitlab_token}, params=pa
  • /datasets" response = requests.get(url, headers=self.headers) response.raise_for_status
  • d}/tables" response = requests.get(url, headers=self.headers) response.raise_for_status
  • try: response = requests.post(url, headers=self.headers, json=payload) respons
  • branch response = requests.put(url, headers=self.headers, json=payload) respons
Code Obfuscation score 2.0

Found 1 obfuscation pattern(s)

  • tent') return base64.b64decode(enc).decode('utf-8') if enc else None elif resp.
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: jdpa.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 2.0

1 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Author "Dylan D" 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 aic-utils
Your task is to create a small but powerful application that integrates AIC APIs for managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines using the 'aic-utils' Python package. This application will serve as a bridge between your local development environment and GitLab, allowing you to trigger builds, manage pipeline statuses, and more, all from your command line interface.

### Project Overview:
- **Name**: GitLab Pipeline Manager
- **Objective**: Develop a tool that simplifies the process of interacting with GitLab CI/CD pipelines via AIC APIs.
- **Features**:
  - Trigger a new pipeline for a specific branch.
  - Retrieve the status of a pipeline by its ID.
  - List all pipelines for a given project.
  - Cancel an ongoing pipeline.
  - Integrate with a local Git repository to automatically trigger a pipeline upon pushing changes.

### Utilizing 'aic-utils':
- Use the 'AicClient' class from 'aic-utils' to authenticate and connect to the AIC API endpoints.
- Leverage the GitLab integration framework within 'aic-utils' to interact with GitLab's CI/CD functionalities.

### Steps to Build the Application:
1. **Setup and Configuration**:
   - Install the required packages including 'aic-utils'.
   - Configure your application to accept user input for GitLab project details and AIC credentials.
2. **Authentication**:
   - Implement a function to authenticate with the AIC API using the provided credentials.
3. **Pipeline Management Functions**:
   - Create functions to trigger, cancel, and retrieve pipeline statuses using the AIC API.
4. **Integration with Local Git**:
   - Hook into local Git operations to automatically trigger pipeline actions when changes are pushed.
5. **User Interface**:
   - Design a simple CLI interface to allow users to interact with the GitLab Pipeline Manager easily.
6. **Testing**:
   - Test each functionality thoroughly to ensure reliable operation.
7. **Documentation**:
   - Write clear documentation on how to use the application, including setup instructions and usage examples.