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What our analysis found
ParrotTalks抄筆記, used by 30,000 people, showed no malicious code in Extension Auditor's review. Its permissions mean it can inject scripts into pages and can observe network requests. It comes from a trusted publisher and was last updated in July 2026.
Analyst notes
ParrotTalks抄筆記 is exactly what it advertises: a Chinese-language click-to-lookup tool with a bundled viewer. Every network destination in the bundle is first-party ([domain withheld] —,,,, /) or a lookup service the product's purpose justifies ([domain withheld] dictionary, [domain withheld], nlp.stanford.edu CoreNLP POS tagger, [domain withheld] for the optional FB); there is no third-party analytics or unknown host anywhere, and the ACTION_SEGMENT_RPC analytics wrapper (:459-480) has no handler in the message switch and no endpoint, i.e. it is dead code. The bundled manifest matches the published CWS manifest field-for-field. The heavy surface that drove the ML score is verbatim Mozilla extension plumbing (:11600-11760: getFrameId GIF trick, PDF main_frame redirects to the local viewer) plus the Google Translate `tk` signing routine (:470-507) — and the extension_pages CSP contains no 'unsafe-eval', so the MV2-leftover `eval(data)` at: throws inside its own and `window.eval` at 10784 references a `window` that does not exist in a service worker. Contradicting signals I weighed: the internal IoC notes attribute this to a [domain withheld] WhatsApp-spamware cluster and a Pulsedive compromised-extension feed, but `grep -rni whatsapp` over the whole bundle returns zero hits and nothing resembles spam automation; the permhash cluster is 'malicious' but both members are this same extension's own versions carrying that same feed label, so it is circular rather than independent. chrome-stats (impact, likelihood, trusted publisher) and the Google trusted-publisher badge corroborate benign. Two genuine weaknesses that do not change intent and so are not logged as findings: (1) injects HTML fetched from [domain withheld] into the page via jQuery `$(...)` on action click — first-party, HTTPS, user-triggered, but a supply-chain single point of failure; (2) accepts window.postMessage with no origin check and proxies it to ACTION_BG_XHR (arbitrary) then posts the reply back with targetOrigin "*" — a confused-deputy hole, though it is limited to [domain withheld] frames and MV3 gives the service worker no host_permissions, so no credentialed cross-origin read is possible. Also worth noting for the listing record: the CWS data-collection disclosure is 'none declared' while the extension clearly transmits user-selected text and account identity to its own API — a disclosure gap, not covert exfiltration. I chose likely_benign over false_positive only because the bundle is partial (28 files vs. the model's counts; the viewer, Angular libs and are absent) and because of the remote-HTML channel, not because anything in the code reads as hostile.
ParrotTalks抄筆記 Chrome extension security report
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Extension Info & Metadata
Publisher Contextual Analysis
- Author
- https://parrottalks.com/
- Privacy
- Privacy Policy
- Help
- Help Center
- MX records exist
- Yes
- Domain exists
- Yes
- Is disposable
- No
- Is role-based
- Yes
- Mailbox exists
- Yes
- Website
- Visit
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Data Exfiltration
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Unauthorized Data Collection
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Network Interception
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Code Injection
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Credential Theft
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Obfuscation
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Tracking
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Privilege Escalation
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Phishing
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Remote Code Loading
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Other
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----- 與抄筆記有關的重要小事 ❤ ----- ➤ 經實際測試,查一個單字快 400 倍 ➤ 有效促進大量閱讀(歡迎自行嘗試) ➤ 也支援看 PDF 檔案 - 網友們叫它:論文神器 ----- 為什麼抄筆記? ----- 單字連同文本原句 作成專屬你的筆記 然後 用腦科學記憶法複習 這是一套 不可分開的流程 帶你走向 抄筆記美好未來 因為 單字默默記住 就再也不用查了 ----- 預設快速鍵 ----- e ─ 啟用「抄筆記」/ 快速查詢選取範圍 r ─ 單字發音 R ─ 句子發音 z ─ 啟用/關閉 功能:「斷開超連結功能」 q ─ 切換「抄筆記」視窗大小 esc ─ 關閉「抄筆記」 w ─ 「抄筆記」視窗上移 s ─ 「抄筆記」視窗下移 a ─ 「抄筆記」視窗左移 d ─ 「抄筆記」視窗右移 ----- 版本記錄 ----- 1.16.6 - 後台程式最佳化 1.16.5 - 重新上架 - 查詢介面邊緣顯示微調 1.16.1 - 修正無法啟動的錯誤 (Manifest v3 相關) 1.16.0 - 更新支援 Manifest v3 1.15.3 - 改進翻譯流暢度 1.15.2 - 修正部分UI顯示 1.15.1 - 修正 Chrome 76 後在 Windows 下 PDF 無法開啟 - 修正部分UI顯示 1.15.0 - 查詢速度增強
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