captureoutput

v0.1.0 suspicious
5.0
Medium Risk

Guardian package: 'captureoutput' is a commonly hallucinated package name. You probably meant 'pytest'.

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package shows low risks in direct code execution and obfuscation but raises concerns due to its minimal metadata and lack of a linked GitHub repository, which could indicate a potential supply-chain attack.

  • Minimal metadata and no linked GitHub repository
  • Low risk in network calls, shell execution, and obfuscation
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal unless the package requires external services.
  • Shell: No shell execution detected, which is expected and safe.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, suggesting low risk of malicious obfuscation.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk of secret or credential theft.
  • Metadata: The package is newly created with minimal information and no linked GitHub repository, raising suspicion.

🔬 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 (2026-06-05T08:59:22.000Z)
  • Author name is missing or very short
  • Author "" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)