skills/aeondave/malskill/binwalk/Gen Agent Trust Hub

binwalk

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Nov 10, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The installation instructions utilize sudo apt install to acquire system-level libraries and extraction utilities (e.g., mtd-utils, squashfs-tools). In an autonomous agent context, this requires elevated permissions.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill relies heavily on shell command execution for its core functionality, including binwalk, find, grep, dd, and strings to perform binary analysis and file system extraction.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill downloads the Binwalk v3 tool using cargo install (Crates.io) and provides links to official GitHub releases. These are well-known services used for legitimate tool acquisition.
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to process untrusted external data (firmware blobs). This creates a vulnerability surface where an attacker could embed malicious text or instructions within a binary's strings or metadata. If the agent parses the output of tools like strings or grep without proper boundary markers or sanitization, it could be influenced by the embedded data.
  • Ingestion points: Binary firmware files (e.g., firmware.bin) processed in SKILL.md.
  • Boundary markers: Absent; commands do not wrap tool output in delimiters or instructions to ignore embedded content.
  • Capability inventory: Includes subprocess execution of binwalk, find, grep, dd, strings, and file across SKILL.md and references/firmware-analysis.md.
  • Sanitization: Absent; the skill does not suggest escaping or filtering the content extracted from binaries before presentation to the agent.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Nov 10, 2026, 09:45 AM