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Lack of project info is insufficient to label this widely used Google Protobuf library as malware.
The evidence presented only indicates a lack of readily available source project information for the package google.golang.org/protobuf version 1.36.6. This is insufficient to classify it as malware. The package name strongly suggests it's a legitimate Protobuf library from Google. The absence of project information could be due to several benign reasons: the project metadata might be incomplete in our database, the project might be hosted in a way that's not readily indexed by our tools, or there might be a temporary delay in updating the project information. Without further evidence such as suspicious code behavior, malicious file contents (as identified by LLM analysis if available), or a known association with malicious activity, it's premature and inaccurate to label this package as malware. The low confidence level of the available evidence further reinforces this conclusion.