api-security-auditor-pro

v1.0.0 suspicious
6.0
Medium Risk

Professional command-line tool for comprehensive API security auditing

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package exhibits moderate risks due to obfuscation techniques and questionable metadata quality, though it lacks clear evidence of malicious intent.

  • High obfuscation risk due to base64 decoding and eval usage
  • Metadata issues with a non-existent git repository
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: The presence of network calls is expected for an API auditing tool, but the incomplete code snippet raises some concerns about potential misuse.
  • Shell: No shell execution patterns were detected, which is reassuring.
  • Obfuscation: The use of base64 decoding and eval function indicates potential risk as they can be used for hiding malicious code.
  • Credentials: No clear patterns of credential harvesting are present, but the usage of eval could still pose a security risk.
  • Metadata: The package shows some red flags such as a non-existent git repository and low metadata quality, but there's no direct evidence of malice.

📦 Package Quality Overall: Low (3.2/10)

○ 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 (9636 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 7.0

Partial type annotation coverage

  • Type checker (mypy / pyright / pytype) referenced in project
  • 13 type-annotated function signatures detected in source
○ Low Multiple Contributors 1.0

Could not retrieve contributor data from GitHub

  • GitHub API error: 404

🔬 Heuristic Checks

⚠ Outbound Network Calls score 3.0

Found 2 network call pattern(s)

  • rrency) async with aiohttp.ClientSession(connector=connector) as session: tasks = []
  • try: async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=timeout) as session: async with ses
⚠ Code Obfuscation score 4.0

Found 2 obfuscation pattern(s)

  • header = json.loads(base64.b64decode(token.split('.')[0] + '==').decode()) if header
  • builder.post(target_url, json=eval(payload)) if response and response.status == 200:
✓ 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 3.0

Repository not found (deleted or private)

  • Repository not found (deleted or private)
⚠ Maintainer History score 6.0

3 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Only one version has ever been released — brand new package
  • Author "Your Name" 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 api-security-auditor-pro 
Create a Python-based mini-application named 'SecurityScanPro' that leverages the 'api-security-auditor-pro' package to perform comprehensive security audits on web APIs. This application should be designed to help developers and security professionals identify potential vulnerabilities in their APIs before they become exploitable issues. Here are the key functionalities your application should include:

1. **API Discovery**: Automatically discover all endpoints of a given API URL.
2. **Vulnerability Scanning**: Use 'api-security-auditor-pro' to scan each endpoint for common vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection, XSS, CSRF, etc.
3. **Reporting**: Generate a detailed report of findings including severity levels (High, Medium, Low), descriptions of detected vulnerabilities, and recommended fixes.
4. **Integration with CI/CD Pipelines**: Allow the integration of SecurityScanPro into Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automatically run security checks on every code commit or deployment.
5. **Customizable Scan Profiles**: Enable users to define custom scan profiles based on specific security requirements or compliance standards (e.g., PCI-DSS).
6. **Real-time Alerts**: Implement real-time alerting via email or webhook when critical vulnerabilities are found during scans.
7. **User Interface**: Develop a simple web interface using Flask or Django where users can input API URLs, manage scan profiles, view reports, and configure alert settings.

Your task is to design and implement this application from scratch, ensuring it is user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Additionally, provide documentation detailing how to install, configure, and use 'SecurityScanPro', and ensure the application supports both command-line and web-based interactions.

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