nova-2d

v0.1.0 suspicious
6.0
Medium Risk

A lightweight 2D game engine built on top of Pygame

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package shows no direct signs of malicious intent such as network calls or shell executions. However, the metadata risk score is high due to the lack of maintainer history and recent upload, raising suspicion about potential supply-chain attack.

  • High metadata risk due to recent upload and lack of maintainer history
  • No direct malicious activities detected
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal unless the package's functionality requires external API interactions.
  • Shell: No shell executions detected, indicating that the package does not execute system commands, which is safe and expected unless command execution is part of its intended use.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Metadata: The package is highly suspicious 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: gmail.com>

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 (2026-06-05T09:16:25.000Z)
  • Author name is missing or very short
  • Author "" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)