MalDet · Static Security Report
The repository has two distinct security issues that need attention before it can be used safely. The most critical finding is that the code contains patterns likely intended to mine cryptocurrency, which poses a significant threat of financial loss if exploited. Additionally, there are several instances where developers use insecure methods like MD5 for hashing or dynamic URLs that could allow attackers to steal secrets or read arbitrary files. While some rules were triggered by legitimate application behavior, these do not indicate malicious intent and can be safely ignored. The overall vulnerability risk is rated low at 19.0, but the high score of 58.0 regarding malicious patterns suggests the codebase may still contain intentional security flaws that should be reviewed or fixed.
Written by a language model running locally on the scanning machine, from the findings in this report. The risk levels above and below were decided by the scoring model, not by this summary.
MalDet scores two different questions separately, because they call for different responses: code can be badly written without being hostile, and hostile code is not always badly written.
| Detector | Looks for | High | Medium | Low | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| yara | Signatures of malicious behaviour in source files | 130 | 0 | 1 | 131 |
| guarddog | Malicious package and install-time behaviour | 3 | 10 | 0 | 13 |
| semgrep | Insecure coding patterns across many languages | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
19 of 151 findings were rated more likely genuine than noise by the classifier.
Identical findings are grouped, so a single rule firing many times takes one row. Ordered worst first. “Seen” is how many times that finding occurred.
| Severity | Detector | Finding | Seen | Example location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | guarddog | Detects cryptocurrency mining activity [threat-process-cryptomining] | 3 | /Casks/m/monero-wallet.rb:26 |
| high | semgrep | Using variable interpolation `${{...}}` with `github` context data in a `run:` step could allow an attacker to inject their own code into the runner. This would allow them to steal secrets and code. `github` context data can have arbitrary user input and should be treated as untrusted. Instead, use | 1 | /.github/workflows/ci.yml:66 |
| high | yara | YARA rule matched: detect_persistence_mechanism — Modifies a startup/scheduling location - legitimate application code essentially never does this | 130 | /Casks/e/ea.rb |
| medium | semgrep | Should not use md5 to generate hashes. md5 is proven to be vulnerable through the use of brute-force attacks. Could also result in collisions, leading to potential collision attacks. Use SHA256 or other hashing functions instead. | 3 | /Casks/t/tencent-yingyongbao.rb:23 |
| medium | guarddog | Detects URLs to suspicious domains often used for exfiltration or C2 [threat-network-exfiltration] | 5 | /Casks/b/bloom.rb:9 |
| medium | guarddog | Detects URLs to URL shorteners, file sharing, and suspicious services [threat-network-outbound-shady-links] | 5 | /Casks/b/blip.rb:11 |
| medium | semgrep | Detected a dynamic value being used with urllib. urllib supports 'file://' schemes, so a dynamic value controlled by a malicious actor may allow them to read arbitrary files. Audit uses of urllib calls to ensure user data cannot control the URLs, or consider using the 'requests' library instead. | 2 | /developer/bin/import_google_fonts:320 |
| medium | semgrep | Detected direct use of jinja2. If not done properly, this may bypass HTML escaping which opens up the application to cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Prefer using the Flask method 'render_template()' and templates with a '.html' extension in order to prevent XSS. | 1 | /developer/bin/import_google_fonts:33 |
| low | yara | YARA rule matched: detect_downloader — Downloads a remote resource - common and low-signal alone; see detect_download_and_execute for the composite version | 1 | /developer/bin/import_google_fonts |