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by ashishbijlani 978 days ago
Good to see more attempts at analyzing dependencies for malware.

Plug: we've been building Packj [1] to detect malicious Python/NPM/Ruby/Rust/Java/PHP packages. It carries out static/dynamic/metadata analysis to look for "suspicious” attributes such as spawning of shell, use of files, network communication, use of decode+eval, mismatch of GitHub code vs packaged code, and several more.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj