AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra

Name: vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra — C Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
Creator: AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

hydra

1.3 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra, a C project with 12,454 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 32,087 lines of code across 94 source files, recording 41 pattern matches distributed across 2 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.3 (Low pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.

Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.

1.3

Adjusted Signal

1.3

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-30

Last Push

12.5K

Stars

Language

32.1K

Lines of Code

Files

Pattern Hits

2026-10-31

Scan Date

0.00

HC Hit Rate

Risk Review · Payload v1

Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.

Payload schema: 1.0.0 · Engine: 2.0.0 · Scoring: heuristic-density-v1 · Scan date: 2026-10-31.

Cognitive Ownership Risk 6.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 41 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.0/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 6.2/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 41 finding(s).

What These Metrics Mean

Adjusted Signal: Legacy pattern score normalized per 1,000 scanned lines and multiplied by the repository-level time factor. It is not an estimate of AI authorship.
Raw Pattern Score: Sum of severity- and context-weighted pattern findings before applying the time factor.
Time Factor: A coarse multiplier based on repository last-push metadata. It does not identify when individual code was written.
Pattern Hits: Count of configured pattern findings. Review each location and surrounding code before acting.
HC Hit Rate: High- and critical-severity findings per scanned file. Severity is a configured detector weight, not proof of a vulnerability or authorship.
Lines / Files: Scan coverage denominators used by the legacy normalized score.

Pattern-Signal History

This chart tracks the legacy adjusted pattern score across scan runs. Changes can reflect source changes, scan coverage, or detector/scoring versions; they do not measure AI adoption or prove that a team refactored code. Compare runs only when their scoring versions are compatible. The dashed line tracks the raw pattern-hit count.

Severity Breakdown

Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.

CRITICAL 0HIGH 0MEDIUM 0LOW 41

Directory Score Breakdown

This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.

Pattern Findings

The scanner identified 41 distinct pattern matches across 2 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.

Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.

Over-Commented Block40 hits · 40 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	hydra-rexec.c	101	// called before the childrens are forked off, so this is the function	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-pcnfs.c	201	// performed once only.	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-rtsp.c	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-ssh.c	161	#error "You are not using v0.4.x. Download from http://www.libssh.org and add -DWITH_SSH1=On in cmake to enable SSH v1 s	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-mongodb.c	1	// This plugin was written by <david dot maciejak at gmail D O T com>	COMMENT
LOW	ntlm.c	221		COMMENT
LOW	ntlm.c	281	#define PIVALS(buf, pos, val, len) SMBMACRO(IVALS, buf, pos, val, len, 4)	COMMENT
LOW	ntlm.c	301	#define RSIVAL(buf, pos, val) SIVAL(buf, pos, IREV(val))	COMMENT
LOW	hydra.h	1	#ifndef _HYDRA_H	COMMENT
LOW	hydra.h	21	#include <fcntl.h>	COMMENT
LOW	hydra.h	41	#ifdef HAVE_SSL	COMMENT
LOW	hydra.h	61	#endif	COMMENT
LOW	hydra.h	81	#define PORT_SMBNT_SSL 445	COMMENT
LOW	hydra.h	101	#define PORT_MYSQL_SSL 3306	COMMENT
LOW	hydra.h	121	#define PORT_CVS_SSL 2401	COMMENT
LOW	hydra.h	141	#define PORT_IRC_SSL 6697	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-telnet.h	1	#ifndef HYDRA_TELNET_DEFS_H	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-telnet.h	21	#define ABORT 238 /* Abort process */	COMMENT
LOW	sasl.h	1		COMMENT
LOW	sasl.h	21	#define AUTH_LMv2 13	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-smtp-enum.c	121	// we should report command not identified by the server	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-mod.c	1	#include "hydra-mod.h"	COMMENT
LOW	postgres_ext.h	61	#define PG_DIAG_MESSAGE_HINT 'H'	COMMENT
LOW	bfg.c	1		COMMENT
LOW	hydra-smb2.c	141	// probably password ok, nominal case when connecting to a windows	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-socks5.c	181	// fill if needed.	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-http.h	1	#ifndef _HYDRA_HTTP_H	COMMENT
LOW	hydra.c	221	#define MAXENDWAIT 20	COMMENT
LOW	hydra.c	2441	#endif	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-icq.c	221	}	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-adam6500.c	101	hydra_child_exit(0);	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-afp.c	181	//	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-svn.c	1	// This plugin was written by <david dot maciejak at gmail D O T com>	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-smb.c	81	#define ENCRYPTED 11	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-ftp.c	181	void service_ftps(char ip, int32_t sp, unsigned char options, char miscptr, FILE fp, int32_t port, char hostname) {	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-vnc.c	241	}	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-oracle-sid.c	141	// performed once only.	COMMENT
LOW	crc32.h	1	#ifndef CRC32_H	COMMENT
LOW	pw-inspector.c	1	#include <ctype.h>	COMMENT
LOW	hydra-gtk/src/interface.c	1		COMMENT

Slop Phrases1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	hydra-ldap.c	495	"So don't forget to set empty string as user/pass to test all modes.\n"	CODE