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Web Search Rules

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed web-research and knowledge-base intake workflow with clear confirmation requirements for writes, uploads, deletions, and migrations.

Before installing, understand that this skill can guide web searches and, when you explicitly approve, write research records to local or cloud knowledge bases. Review the target platform and confirmation prompts carefully, especially for cloud uploads, browser automation, deletion, or migration.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (1)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The skill enables implicit invocation with no visible activation constraints, so the agent may invoke web-search and knowledge-base actions in response to loosely related prompts. Because this skill can research, verify, stage, archive, and migrate information across local and cloud knowledge bases, unintended invocation could cause unnecessary external access, data propagation, or policy bypass in workflows that did not explicitly request those operations.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.