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v0.1.0 suspicious
4.0
Medium Risk

Differentiable Cryo-EM map fitting in JAX

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package shows low risks in terms of network usage, shell execution, obfuscation, and credential harvesting. However, the metadata risk score is high due to recent activity and a lack of maintainer history, raising suspicion about potential supply-chain attack vectors.

  • High metadata risk score
  • Lack of maintainer history
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal unless the package requires network functionality.
  • Shell: No shell execution detected, indicating no immediate risk from command injection or similar attacks.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Metadata: Highly suspicious due to recent activity 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

No author email provided

Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

Git Repository History score 5.0

Git history flags: Repository created very recently: 0 day(s) ago (2026-06-05T00:59:46Z)

  • Repository created very recently: 0 day(s) ago (2026-06-05T00:59:46Z)
  • All 7 commits happened within 24 hours
Maintainer History score 6.0

3 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Only one version has ever been released — brand new package
  • Package uploaded less than 24 hours ago (2026-06-05T02:44:24.000Z)
  • Author "George Elkins" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)