Top issues
Detected presence of software components that have low popularity or number of downloads.
hunting
Problem
Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. While a new software project is a welcome addition to the open source community, it is not always prudent to indiscriminately use the latest components when building a commercial application. Irrespective of the software quality, the danger of being the first to try out a new project lies in the fact that the software component may contain novel, currently undetected malicious code. Therefore, it is prudent to review software component behaviors and even try out software component in a sandbox, an environment meant for testing untrusted code.Prevalence in PyPI community
No prevalence information at this timeNext steps
Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.
Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.
Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.
Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.
Detected presence of software components that are rarely included by other public software packages.
hunting
Problem
Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. While a new software project is a welcome addition to the open source community. it is not always prudent to indiscriminately use the latest components when building a commercial application. Irrespective of the software quality, the danger of using components that are rarely used to build applications lies in the fact that the software component may contain novel, currently undetected malicious code. Therefore, it is prudent to review software component behaviors and even try out software component in a sandbox, an environment meant for testing untrusted code.Prevalence in PyPI community
No prevalence information at this timeNext steps
Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.
Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.
Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.
Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.
Top behaviors
Opens a TCP connection to a remote server.
network
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
16 packages
found in
Top 100
128 packages
found in
Top 1k
776 packages
found in
Top 10k
25965 packages
in community
Calculates the MD5 hash of data.
file
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
22 packages
found in
Top 100
157 packages
found in
Top 1k
996 packages
found in
Top 10k
29388 packages
in community
Queries the system time.
settings
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
75 packages
found in
Top 100
593 packages
found in
Top 1k
4478 packages
found in
Top 10k
229841 packages
in community
Converts binary data to its string representation, commonly used in obfuscation.
packer
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
68 packages
found in
Top 100
585 packages
found in
Top 1k
4048 packages
found in
Top 10k
149289 packages
in community
Uses concurrency functions.
execution
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
27 packages
found in
Top 100
178 packages
found in
Top 1k
1024 packages
found in
Top 10k
46477 packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
No vulnerabilities found.