almaqso

v1.6.1 suspicious
6.0
Medium Risk

Automation for downloading and processing ALMA calibration target observations.

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package almaqso v1.6.1 has moderate risks associated with network and shell command usage, which could indicate potential misuse. However, there is no clear evidence of malicious intent.

  • moderate network risk
  • high shell risk
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: Network calls can be legitimate if the package is designed to fetch updates or data from a server, but unsecured requests may pose risks.
  • Shell: Executing shell commands, especially those involving file extraction, could indicate risky behavior unless explicitly documented and necessary for package functionality.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Metadata: The package shows signs of low maintainer activity and poor metadata quality, raising some suspicion but not definitive evidence of malice.

📦 Package Quality Overall: Low (4.8/10)

✦ High Test Suite 9.0

Test suite present — 2 test file(s) found

  • Test runner config found: pyproject.toml
  • 2 test file(s) detected (e.g. test_query.py)
◈ Medium Documentation 7.0

Some documentation present

  • 1 documentation file(s) (e.g. conf.py)
  • Detailed PyPI description (4762 chars)
○ Low Contributing Guide 2.0

No contributing guide or governance files found

  • No CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, or governance files found
◈ Medium Type Annotations 5.0

Partial type annotation coverage

  • 33 type-annotated function signatures detected in source
○ Low Multiple Contributors 1.0

Unable to verify contributor count: no GitHub repository found

  • No GitHub repository linked — contributor count unavailable

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls score 1.5

Found 1 network call pattern(s)

  • ) try: response = requests.get(url, stream=True, verify=True, timeout=(3, 60)) resp
Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

Shell / Subprocess Execution score 4.0

Found 2 shell execution pattern(s)

  • tr(script_name)] result = subprocess.run( cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr
  • e}") try: subprocess.run(["tar", "-xf", f"../{filename}"], check=True) lo
Credential Harvesting

No credential harvesting patterns detected

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 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.

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