Documents Downloader

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Could be malicious

Supported Languages

🇲🇽Latin American Spanish

Extension Info & Metadata

Status
Removed
Version
2.0.1
Size
0.03 MB
Rating
4.4/5
Reviews
404
Users
50,000
Type
Extension
Updated
Oct 12, 2022
Category
Productivity Workflow
Price
Free
Featured
No
Visibility
Listed
Mature
No
By Google
No
Trusted
No

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Author
dialguiba1994View Profile
MX records exist
Yes
Domain exists
Yes
Is disposable
No
Is role-based
No
Mailbox exists
Yes
Total Extensions
3
Active
1
Obsolete
2
Listed
3
Unlisted
0
Total Users
50,008

Only for DOCUMENTS of a known page

Documentos de Scribd - Documents from Scribd IMPORTANT: ONLY FOR DOCUMENTS!

Item
Type
Severity
Description
activeTab
Permission
Medium
This permission grants temporary access to the current tab. Rated Medium because it can access current page content when invoked, though limited to user-initiated actions.
declarativeContent
Permission
Medium
This permission controls extension activation based on page content. Rated Medium because it can monitor page content matches and selectively activate extension features.

On click, the extension reads the active tab's full URL (a scribd.com document URL) and forwards it as a query parameter to a third-party Cloudflare Pages site (documents-downloader.pages.dev). The destination is on a free, unattributed hosting domain rather than a verified publisher domain, and the transmitted URL is not sanitized — any query string, fragment, or session-bearing token in the address would be exfiltrated alongside it.

background.js (Line 34)
chrome.action.onClicked.addListener(async (tab) => {  const {    url  } = await getCurrentTab();  chrome.tabs.create({    url: `https://documents-downloader.pages.dev/?documentUrl=${url}`,    active: true,  });});

Extension activates only on scribd.com document pages, then funnels the URL to an external service. This narrowly-scoped piggybacking on a content site to siphon document URLs is a common pattern for grey-area scrapers/affiliate redirectors, though here it is consistent with the extension's stated purpose of downloading scribd documents.

background.js (Line 4)
chrome.declarativeContent.onPageChanged.removeRules(undefined, async () => {        let exampleRule = {            conditions: [              new chrome.declarativeContent.PageStateMatcher({                pageUrl: {                  hostSuffix: ".scribd.com",                  urlContains: "doc",                },              }),            ],

By severity

Critical0
High0
Medium0
Low2

Versions scanned

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Extension VersionCode Review Findings
2.0.12

Files with findings

1 distinct path — top paths by unique finding count:

  • background.js2
S.No.
Category
Severity
File
Summary
Found in Version
1Tracking
low
background.js (line 4)Extension activates only on scribd.com document pages, then funnels the URL to an external service. This narrowly-scoped piggybacking on a content site to siphon document URLs is a common pattern for grey-area scraper…
2Unauthorized Data Collection
low
background.js (line 34)On click, the extension reads the active tab's full URL (a scribd.com document URL) and forwards it as a query parameter to a third-party Cloudflare Pages site (documents-downloader.pages.dev). The destination is on a…
URLs
3
IPv4
0
IPv6
0

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clients2.google.com/service/update2/crxhttps://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx
documents-downloader.pages.dev-https://documents-downloader.pages.dev/?documentUrl=${url}`,
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