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Summary
In many recent runs of Macaron, it is increasingly common for benign packages to use inline imports of the
os,sys, andbuiltinsmodules to perform actions such as reading theREADME.mdfile insetup.py, and perform other benign actions. To avoid detecting these, this revised rule now only checks for instances of inline importing these modules that spawn processes, write to files, or make modifications to the environment.Description of changes
The
obfuscation_inline-importsrule now only checks for process spawning and file writes forbuiltins, process execution and setting the recursion limit forsys, and process spawning, file writes, and environment modification foros. These operations may appear to be malicious when used with inline imports to obfuscate their use. Test files and expected results have been updated accordingly.Checklist
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