List of software behaviors discovered with static code analysis.
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Executes files during installation or upon launch.1
execution
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
94 packages
found in
Top 100
834 packages
found in
Top 1k
6690 packages
found in
Top 10k
83799 packages
in community
Executes a file.22
execution
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
47 packages
found in
Top 100
282 packages
found in
Top 1k
936 packages
found in
Top 10k
4064 packages
in community
Creates a process.2
execution
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
82 packages
found in
Top 100
646 packages
found in
Top 1k
3580 packages
found in
Top 10k
19750 packages
in community
Creates a new process which executes a wget command.1
execution
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
2 packages
found in
Top 100
8 packages
found in
Top 1k
20 packages
found in
Top 10k
99 packages
in community
Creates a new process which executes a curl command.1
execution
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
Behavior commonly used by malicious software (Important)
3 packages
found in
Top 100
7 packages
found in
Top 1k
21 packages
found in
Top 10k
68 packages
in community
Detects presence of debuggers.33
evasion
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
51 packages
found in
Top 100
365 packages
found in
Top 1k
1242 packages
found in
Top 10k
5691 packages
in community
Writes data to the /etc/host.conf file, which contains configuration information specific to the resolver library.22
network
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
6 packages
found in
Top 100
17 packages
found in
Top 1k
45 packages
found in
Top 10k
135 packages
in community
Tampers with DNS configuration.22
network
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
11 packages
found in
Top 100
58 packages
found in
Top 1k
128 packages
found in
Top 10k
465 packages
in community
Sends or exfiltrates data over the network.22
network
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
33 packages
found in
Top 100
213 packages
found in
Top 1k
562 packages
found in
Top 10k
2080 packages
in community
Receives data over the network.22
network
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
34 packages
found in
Top 100
217 packages
found in
Top 1k
613 packages
found in
Top 10k
2416 packages
in community
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