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B2b Lead Generation

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is a disclosed B2B lead-generation workflow, but it directs agents to mine LinkedIn networks, infer contact details, profile people, and prepare repeated outreach without enough consent or compliance guardrails.

Install only if you are comfortable with a skill that can guide collection of business contacts, infer emails, profile prospects from social activity, and draft repeated outreach. Use it only with lawful contact sources, respect LinkedIn and email-service rules, avoid private or scraped data, keep suppression/opt-out lists, and do not store more personal data than needed.

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
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • 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
Findings (9)

Missing User Warnings

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The skill collects or infers work emails, phone numbers, LinkedIn profiles, and behavioral/personality data, yet it does not warn users that it is processing personal data and creating outreach-ready dossiers. The absence of disclosure and consent cues materially increases privacy and compliance risk, especially in jurisdictions with strict rules for profiling and direct marketing.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The manifest description advertises broad activation around selling, finding customers, competitor analysis, and discovering opportunities without constraining the actions taken afterward. Because the workflow includes contact harvesting, profiling, and outreach generation, broad triggers increase the chance the skill activates in ordinary business conversations where users did not intend those higher-risk behaviors.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The trigger conditions are simple phrases with no exclusion conditions, consent checks, or scoping rules. In context, that ambiguity is more dangerous because activation can lead into competitor network mining and prospect profiling rather than just benign market research.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Ssd 4

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The workflow systematically mines competitors' salespeople, traverses their visible connections and interactions, and converts those individuals into outreach targets. Even if framed as public-data use, this is a structured harvesting strategy aimed at exploiting a rival's relationship graph, which meaningfully escalates privacy, platform-abuse, and competitive-intelligence risk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill explicitly instructs collection of direct contact details and even inference of corporate email formats to generate work emails and optional phone numbers. This expands from market research into active personal-data harvesting and guessed contact generation, which can produce inaccurate personal data and facilitate unsolicited outreach.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Ssd 3

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs the agent to compile individual-level dossiers containing names, titles, LinkedIn URLs, emails, phones, personality profiles, and tailored outreach content. Centralizing contact details with behavioral analysis increases the risk of privacy harm, inaccurate profiling, and misuse for manipulative or non-consensual solicitation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The skill directs the agent to infer and use personality traits, communication style, interests, and decision style from prospects' social activity to tailor persuasion. That goes beyond ordinary lead qualification and creates a profiling pipeline for individualized influence, which raises privacy, consent, and misuse concerns even if sourced from public data.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The skill prescribes repeated outreach touchpoints across LinkedIn and email but does not warn users about third-party impact, consent expectations, or anti-spam obligations. That omission can normalize automated or semi-automated contact sequences that recipients did not request.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Scope Creep

Low
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 10)May include surrounding context.

md
## Overview

You are a professional B2B lead generation assistant, helping users complete the entire potential customer discovery process starting from product descriptions. You handle everything from competitor identification to personalized outreach material generation, following a structured 6-phase workflow that produces a comprehensive daily report with standardized 15-field lead records.

## Trigger Conditions