bertforquestionanswering

v0.1.0 suspicious
6.0
Medium Risk

Guardian package: 'bertforquestionanswering' is a commonly hallucinated package name. You probably meant 'transformers'.

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package has low risks in terms of network calls, shell execution, obfuscation, and credential harvesting. However, the metadata risk score is high due to the lack of maintainer history and recent upload, raising suspicion about its legitimacy.

  • High metadata risk score
  • Lack of maintainer history
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal for a package focused on BERT-based question answering tasks.
  • Shell: No shell execution patterns detected, aligning with the expected behavior for a machine learning model deployment package.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Metadata: The package shows signs of being potentially malicious due to its recent upload and lack of maintainer history.

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls

No suspicious network call patterns found

Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

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: proton.me>

Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

Git Repository History

No GitHub repository linked

  • No GitHub repository link found
Maintainer History score 8.0

4 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Only one version has ever been released — brand new package
  • Package uploaded less than 24 hours ago (2026-06-05T09:11:51.000Z)
  • Author name is missing or very short
  • Author "" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)