List of software behaviors discovered with static code analysis.
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Tampers with system environment variables.1
settings
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
25 packages
found in 
Top 100
 132 packages
found in 
Top 1k
 758 packages
found in 
Top 10k
 15309 packages
in community
Modifies file/directory permissions.1
permissions
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
34 packages
found in 
Top 100
 185 packages
found in 
Top 1k
 1062 packages
found in 
Top 10k
 25867 packages
in community
Encodes data using the Base64 algorithm.2
packer
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
39 packages
found in 
Top 100
 280 packages
found in 
Top 1k
 1754 packages
found in 
Top 10k
 67026 packages
in community
Decodes data using the Base64 algorithm.1
packer
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
40 packages
found in 
Top 100
 253 packages
found in 
Top 1k
 1433 packages
found in 
Top 10k
 53416 packages
in community
Contains URLs that link to raw files on GitHub.1
network
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
33 packages
found in 
Top 100
 207 packages
found in 
Top 1k
 1634 packages
found in 
Top 10k
 63910 packages
in community
Contains URLs that link to interesting file formats.6
network
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
75 packages
found in 
Top 100
 451 packages
found in 
Top 1k
 3488 packages
found in 
Top 10k
 109392 packages
in community
Creates a process.9
execution
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
68 packages
found in 
Top 100
 508 packages
found in 
Top 1k
 3570 packages
found in 
Top 10k
 165477 packages
in community
Creates a new process which executes a shell.2
execution
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
12 packages
found in 
Top 100
 40 packages
found in 
Top 1k
 255 packages
found in 
Top 10k
 14296 packages
in community
Creates a new process which executes a curl command.1
execution
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
0 packages
found in 
Top 100
 5 packages
found in 
Top 1k
 48 packages
found in 
Top 10k
 2259 packages
in community
Runs in the background as a system daemon.2
stealth
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
9 packages
found in 
Top 100
 61 packages
found in 
Top 1k
 229 packages
found in 
Top 10k
 4689 packages
in community
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