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AUR malware scanner written in Rust

14 hours ago (github.com)

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sohimaster

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sohimaster  14 hours ago

it checks for patterns derived from real AUR malware incidents:

    CHAOS RAT (2025) — browser impersonation packages, RAT distribution
    Google Chrome RAT (2025) — .install script, Python download+execute
    Acroread (2018) — orphan takeover, curl from paste service, systemd persistence

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