DuckDuckGo Search

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill performs the advertised DuckDuckGo web search and page-fetch functions, with no evidence of hidden credential access, persistence, or destructive behavior.

Reasonable to install if you want a simple DuckDuckGo search and page-fetch skill. Use it for public web searches and public URLs, avoid submitting secrets or internal links, verify the unpinned pip dependency before installing it, and treat fetched page content as untrusted source text rather than instructions.

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: 84% confidence
Finding: The trigger phrases are very broad, including common requests like 'search for' and 'find information about,' which can cause the skill to activate in many situations where the user did not explicitly consent to web access. In context, this is more dangerous because activation leads to live network requests and content retrieval from arbitrary URLs, potentially exposing sensitive prompts or causing unintended external access.

VirusTotal

67/67 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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