azure-mgmt-security

v7.0.0 suspicious
4.0
Medium Risk

Microsoft Azure Security Center Management Client Library for Python

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package shows signs of potentially risky coding practices, specifically the use of eval() with 'nosec', which could indicate poor security hygiene or intentional obfuscation. However, there are no direct indicators of malicious activity such as shell execution or network calls.

  • Use of eval() with 'nosec' comment
  • Single-package author account
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is unusual but not necessarily indicative of malicious activity without further context.
  • Shell: No shell execution patterns detected, indicating the package does not attempt to execute system commands directly.
  • Obfuscation: The use of eval() function with the 'nosec' comment suggests potential code injection risks, indicating malicious intent or extremely poor coding practice.
  • Credentials: No clear patterns for credential harvesting were detected.
  • Metadata: The author has only one package, suggesting it might be a new or less active account, but no other suspicious flags are present.

📦 Package Quality Overall: Medium (5.4/10)

○ 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 (33055 chars)
○ Low Contributing Guide 4.0

No contributing guide or governance files found

  • Development Status classifier >= Beta
◈ Medium Type Annotations 7.0

Partial type annotation coverage

  • Type checker (mypy / pyright / pytype) referenced in project
  • 80 type-annotated function signatures detected in source
✦ High Multiple Contributors 10.0

Active multi-contributor project

  • 35 unique contributor(s) across 100 commits in Azure/azure-sdk-for-python
  • Active community — 5 or more distinct contributors

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls

No suspicious network call patterns found

Code Obfuscation score 8.0

Found 4 obfuscation pattern(s)

  • _unicode(data) return eval(data_type)(data) # nosec @classmethod def serializ
  • _unicode(attr) return eval(data_type)(attr) # nosec @staticmethod def deseria
  • __path__ = __import__("pkgutil").extend_path(__path__, __name__) __path__ = __import__("pkg
  • path__, __name__) __path__ = __import__("pkgutil").extend_path(__path__, __name__) # coding=utf-8 # ---------
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: microsoft.com

Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

Git Repository History

Repository Azure/azure-sdk-for-python appears legitimate

Maintainer History score 2.0

1 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Author "Microsoft Corporation" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
Known CVE Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities found in OSV database.

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