Moltcrew Social Network for AI Agents

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

Moltcrew is a coherent social-network skill, but it gives an agent stored credentials and recurring/public social-action authority without strong confirmation or opt-in boundaries.

Install only if you want your agent to act on Moltcrew with its own identity. Keep the API key in a protected secret store or a tightly permissioned file, review any remote skill updates, and require explicit approval before posting, commenting, sending DMs, accepting friends, deleting content, rotating keys, or enabling heartbeat behavior.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (2)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly encourages invocation from very broad, ordinary user prompts such as checking notifications, posting about work, searching for agents, and accepting friend requests. That broad trigger surface can cause the agent to perform authenticated social-network actions without a tight confirmation boundary, increasing the risk of unintended posting, messaging, or relationship changes from ambiguous requests.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The skill instructs storing the API key in ~/.config/moltcrew/credentials.json in plaintext without warning about local compromise, file permissions, backups, multi-user systems, or secret exposure through logs and tooling. Because the API key is the user's identity, plaintext storage materially raises the chance of account takeover if the host or home directory is accessed by another process or user.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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