Sportsbet Advisor

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is a disclosed sports-betting research aid with no credential access, exfiltration, automatic execution, or privileged persistence, but its recommendation script is low-rigor and should not be trusted as reliable betting advice.

Before installing, treat this as casual research only. The included script may produce confidence-scored betting picks from shallow web-search heuristics and may save them locally, so verify odds and facts from authoritative sources and do not rely on it for gambling decisions.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • 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 (3)

Lp3

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
81% confidence
Finding
The skill appears to perform file-write operations despite declaring no permissions. Hidden or undeclared write capability breaks least-privilege expectations and can be abused to persist data, alter local state, or create artifacts without user awareness. In a betting-advice skill, this behavior is not necessary for the stated purpose, which makes it more suspicious rather than contextually justified.

Tp4

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The skill's implemented behavior materially differs from its declared purpose: it reportedly performs generic searches, generates unsolicited broad betting suggestions, uses shallow heuristics, and writes recommended bets to a local JSON file. This mismatch is dangerous because users and platform controls rely on the description to understand scope and risk; undisclosed persistence and autonomous recommendation generation can manipulate users, bypass review expectations, and increase harm in a gambling-related context.

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The skill advertises Sportsbet-specific bet analysis, but the implementation relies on generic web search snippets and then produces recommendations using simplistic heuristics, including defaulting to the first listed team. This creates a trust and integrity issue: users may believe the recommendations are grounded in Sportsbet market data when they are not, leading to misleading or unsafe advice in a gambling context.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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