misc-ctf
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 15, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICALPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONPERSISTENCEDATA_EXFILTRATIONDYNAMIC_EXECUTIONCREDENTIALS_UNSAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill provides extensive methodologies for gaining unauthorized privileges, including:
- Exploiting sudo wildcard parameter injection via fnmatch to bypass argument restrictions.
- Utilizing polkit integer overflows (CVE-2018-19788) to execute commands as root.
- Abusing SUID binaries and capabilities on Linux systems, including using PostgreSQL to create root-owned SUID shells.
- Escalating privileges within containers using privileged mounts, capability abuse, and exploiting BuildKit daemons.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Instructions describe how to spawn interactive shells from highly restricted environments:
- Spawning a bash shell using the
\$$#expansion in restricted shells. - Using Python decorator chains to invoke
os.systemwhenast.Callnodes are blocked. - Escaping rvim (restricted vim) jails via the K (man) command, netrw file browser, or Python3 script execution.
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill includes patterns for executing code from remote or untrusted sources:
- Piping curl or wget output directly into shell interpreters (curl|bash).
- Injecting malicious payloads via Python's marshal serialization and code object deserialization.
- Exploiting exposed BuildKit daemons via gRPC to submit nested build requests that read host secrets.
- [PERSISTENCE]: The documentation includes techniques for maintaining access across sessions, specifically by appending malicious commands to shell profiles such as
~/.bashrc. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: Provides methods for identifying and exfiltrating sensitive data from the environment:
- Scanning
/proc/*/cmdlineto discover and connect to internal services serving sensitive data. - Using
/dev/tcpbuilt-ins for exfiltration when standard networking tools are missing. - Implementing DNS tunneling and exfiltration via subdomains and TXT records.
- [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]: Extensively uses dynamic code execution primitives for exploitation:
- Using
eval()andexec()calls in multiple Python jailbreak contexts. - Deserialization of untrusted code objects via
marshal.loads(). - Exploiting Turing-complete template languages like XSLT to build computational oracles.
- [CREDENTIALS_UNSAFE]: Documents the harvesting and decryption of sensitive credentials:
- Explicit instructions for accessing
~/.aws/credentials,~/.ssh/id_rsa, and.envfiles. - Extracting password hashes from PostgreSQL
pg_authidfiles for offline cracking. - Decrypting stored SSH credentials from desktop clients like WinSSHTerm by reversing PBKDF2-based encryption schemes.
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill possesses a significant attack surface for indirect prompt injection:
- Ingestion points: Interacts with external CTFd platforms via API to download challenge descriptions and files.
- Boundary markers: None identified; instructions do not warn the agent to ignore instructions embedded in the challenge data.
- Capability inventory: Full subprocess control, network operations, file writing, and credential handling.
- Sanitization: No evidence of sanitization for data retrieved from external platforms before processing.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: Includes patterns for downloading external scripts and binaries (e.g.,
hook.so,buildctl) from remote servers for use in exploitation.
Recommendations
- CRITICAL: 1 infected file(s) detected - DO NOT USE
- CRITICAL: 1 file(s) identified as malware by FileRep - DO NOT USE
- AI detected serious security threats
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