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MalDet · Static Security Report

chamilo-lms

github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms
Scanned 24 September 2026 at 06:09  ·  Report generated 29 October 2026  ·  PHP  ·  1,006 stars
Overall assessment
High
Combined score 104  ·  206 findings after filtering

Summary

The repository has a score of 0.0 for insecure coding patterns, which means there are no obvious bugs or unsafe code that an attacker could exploit right now. However, the scan also found a critical risk score of 104.0, indicating strong signs that the code might be intentionally malicious rather than just poorly written. The most concerning issues involve hidden malware techniques like base64 decoding and steganography used to hide dangerous payloads within files such as yarn-4.17.1.cjs and ViewerJS webodf.js. These patterns are often used by attackers to bypass security checks, so the code should be treated with extreme caution until it is thoroughly reviewed and cleaned by a professional security team. While some findings relate to suspicious dependencies or obfuscation tricks that could indicate past malicious activity, they do not necessarily mean the entire project is compromised.

Written by a language model running locally on the scanning machine, from the findings in this report. The risk levels above and below were decided by the scoring model, not by this summary.

Risk, by type

MalDet scores two different questions separately, because they call for different responses: code can be badly written without being hostile, and hostile code is not always badly written.

Vulnerability
Safe (0)
Insecure coding an attacker could exploit. Usually mistakes, and usually fixable in place.
Malicious pattern
Critical (104)
Signs the code may be trying to do harm: hidden payloads, credential access, persistence, exfiltration.

What each detector found

DetectorLooks for HighMediumLowTotal
dep_checker Vulnerable, unpinned or typosquatted dependencies 1 0 124 125
yara Signatures of malicious behaviour in source files 56 0 8 64
guarddog Malicious package and install-time behaviour 7 6 4 17

18 of 206 findings were rated more likely genuine than noise by the classifier.

Evidence

Identical findings are grouped, so a single rule firing many times takes one row. Ordered worst first. “Seen” is how many times that finding occurred.

SeverityDetectorFindingSeenExample location
high guarddog Detects a payload hidden by excessive whitespace or require aliased through a global to evade static analysis [threat-runtime-obfuscation-hidden-code] 1 /public/plugin/CStudio/editor/dist/js/grapes.js:4259
high guarddog Detects access to sensitive files (credentials, configs, keys) [threat-filesystem-read] 5 /.yarn/releases/yarn-4.17.1.cjs:4
high guarddog Detects download-and-execute patterns: fetching a remote file then executing it [threat-process-download-exec] 3 /.yarn/releases/yarn-4.17.1.cjs:140
high guarddog Detects steganography decode followed by code execution [threat-runtime-obfuscation-steganography] 1 /public/main/inc/lib/javascript/ViewerJS/webodf.js:31
high guarddog Detects base64 decoding followed by code execution [threat-runtime-obfuscation-base64exec] 1 /.yarn/releases/yarn-4.17.1.cjs:164
high dep_checker Typosquatting: 'vuex' is suspiciously similar to 'vue' 1 package.json
high yara YARA rule matched: detect_base64_exec — Encoded payload decoded and then executed 7 /public/plugin/CStudio/editor/jscss/oel-teachdoc.js
high yara YARA rule matched: detect_download_and_execute — Downloads a remote resource AND executes it - the actually dangerous combination, not just downloading alone 7 /public/plugin/ExtraMenuFromWebservice/lib/extramenufromwebservice_plugin.class.php
high yara YARA rule matched: detect_obfuscated_string_execution — Reconstructs a string character-by-character or from hex escapes, then immediately executes it - fromCharCode/chr() alone are common in ordinary text-processing code, so this requires both the reconstruction and an execution call together 41 /public/plugin/CStudio/resources/js/jquery1.8.2.min.js
high yara YARA rule matched: detect_persistence_mechanism — Modifies a startup/scheduling location - legitimate application code essentially never does this 1 /public/documentation/legacy/optimization.html
medium guarddog Detects unicode homoglyphs and uncommon characters used for obfuscation [threat-runtime-obfuscation-unicode] 1 /public/main/inc/lib/javascript/d3/d3.v3.5.4.js:1261
medium guarddog Detects log/console suppression combined with obfuscated code, a common malware evasion pattern [threat-runtime-obfuscation-log-suppress] 1 /public/main/inc/lib/javascript/ViewerJS/compatibility.js:408
low guarddog Detects heavy obfuscation techniques commonly used by malware [threat-runtime-obfuscation] 1 /.yarn/releases/yarn-4.17.1.cjs:191
low guarddog Detects reading of environment variables (credential access, often contains secrets) [threat-runtime-environment-read] 3 /.yarn/releases/yarn-4.17.1.cjs:398
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: '@uppy/file-input^4.2.2' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'webpack-dev-server^5.2.4' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'jspdf^4.2.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'js-cookie^2.2.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'jsplumb^2.15.6' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'leaflet^1.9.4' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'litepicker^2.0.12' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'lodash^4.18.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'luxon^2.5.2' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'mathjax^4.1.2' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'mediaelement^7.1.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'mini-css-extract-plugin^2.10.2' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'moment^2.30.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'multiselect-two-sides^2.5.7' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'nprogress^0.2.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'path^0.12.7' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'pinia^3.0.4' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'playwright-bdd^9.2.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'postcss-loader^8.2.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'postcss-prefix-selector^2.1.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'postcss^8.5.15' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'prettier-plugin-tailwindcss^0.7.4' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'pretty-bytes^5.6.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'primeicons^7.0.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'primevue^4.5.5' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'purgecss-webpack-plugin^8.0.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'qs^6.15.2' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'readmore-js^2.2.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'recordrtc^5.6.2' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'video.js^8.23.8' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'webpack^5.107.2' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'webpack-notifier^1.15.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'webpack-cli^6.0.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'vuex^4.1.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'vuex-map-fields^1.4.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'vuedraggable^4.1.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'vue^3.5.35' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'vue-toastification^2.0.0-rc.5' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'vue-perfect-scrollbar^0.2.1' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'vue-multiselect^3.5.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'vue-loader^17.4.2' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'vue-flatpickr-component^9.0.8' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'vue-eslint-parser^10.4.0' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'sweetalert2^11.26.25' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'sortablejs^1.15.7' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json
low dep_checker Loose version constraint: 'signature_pad^3.0.0-beta.4' — attacker could push malicious update 1 package.json

Showing the 60 most significant of 139 distinct findings. The counts in the previous section cover all of them.

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