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Security audit

Linkedin Engager Analytics

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed LinkedIn audience-analysis workflow that uses Apify to fetch public post engagement and produce outreach-oriented reports, with privacy and scope cautions but no hidden execution or persistence.

Install only if you are comfortable using Apify to analyze LinkedIn engagement data. Keep runs limited to posts you own or have permission to analyze, review any outreach suggestions before using them, and watch Apify costs when increasing max engager counts.

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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (5)

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 55)May include surrounding context.

md
Global voice rules: see root `SKILL.md` §Voice rules. Additional skill-specific rules:

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 72)May include surrounding context.

md
Global voice rules: see root `SKILL.md` §Voice rules. Additional skill-specific rules:

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The phrase "audience analytics" is highly generic and can apply to many platforms, reports, or marketing tasks, so it may activate this skill outside its intended LinkedIn-specific use case. Because this skill performs audience segmentation and outreach-oriented analysis on public engager data, accidental activation could expose users to inappropriate data collection, cost-incurring API calls, and privacy-invasive recommendations.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The phrase "audience analytics" is highly generic and can apply to many platforms, reports, or marketing tasks, so it may activate this skill outside its intended LinkedIn-specific use case. Because this skill performs audience segmentation and outreach-oriented analysis on public engager data, accidental activation could expose users to inappropriate data collection, cost-incurring API calls, and privacy-invasive recommendations.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
81% confidence
Finding

This markdown file includes an output category for "DM-able prospects" and a one-line opener seed, which implies generating direct-outreach recommendations. Under the markdown criteria, skills that can affect user privacy or external interactions should disclose such behavior, but no warning is present in this file about contacting real people or handling profile-derived data.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.