Every code file in the 1.1.7 package has been read, and the extension is exactly what the listing says: a jQuery new-tab wallpaper page with a clock, user-editable shortcuts, and a search box that delegates to chrome.search.query (:126), so the user's own default provider is used — there is no hardcoded search endpoint, no chrome_settings_overrides, no host_permissions, no content scripts, and no The only outbound request is a bodyless GET to the publisher's own [domain withheld] (:224), fired only when the user clicks "More Extensions", and jquery-3.7.1. (the only file absent from the analysis bundle, 84% of total_js_size_bytes) is byte-identical to the canonical [domain withheld] build (sha256 fc9a93dd241f6b045cbff0481cf4e1901becd0e12fb45166a8f17f95823f0b1a), so no payload is hiding in the library. Contradicting the ML score: nothing in the code collects or transmits any user data, which matches the "none declared" CWS disclosure; the bundled manifest's permissions match the published manifest exactly (["search"]), and the newtab override absent from the published summary is independently corroborated by the chrome-stats permission-override-newtab reason, so it is not a mismatch. The corroborating signals are weak and non-code: the publisher's flagged rate and the "classification: malware" internal note both originate from the same bulk malext-feed import, which its own basis text admits is "not an independent code review" and supplied no affected version; the 33%-flagged permhash cluster is driven by search-hijacking new-tab extensions, and this one implements the inverse pattern. Hygiene issues only, not findings: manifest author "Owhit" differs from the listing publisher "themevisual", the publisher privacy URL is Google's generic policy page, shortcut are interpolated into an HTML template in createShortcuts (self-XSS at worst, neutered by the MV3 CSP), a leftover YOUR_EXTENSION_ID placeholder at:190, dead code at:130 (chrome.search.query's callback receives no arguments), and shortcut domains being sent to Google's service.