skills/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/analyzing-bootkit-and-rootkit-samples/Gen Agent Trust Hub
analyzing-bootkit-and-rootkit-samples
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 14, 2026
Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONDYNAMIC_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONMETADATA_POISONING
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- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The script
scripts/agent.pyutilizessubprocess.runto execute thevol3forensics tool. While the plugin list is hardcoded, the memory dump path is a variable provided at runtime. - [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The workflow documentation in
SKILL.mdprovides commands for raw disk access (dd) and firmware dumping (flashrom) that necessitate administrative or root-level privileges. - [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]:
SKILL.mdincludes an embedded Python script within a bash heredoc that is executed dynamically during the analysis workflow to parse MBR data. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill ingests untrusted binary samples (MBR/VBR/UEFI modules) from disk and firmware dumps. It lacks explicit boundary markers or sanitization while maintaining powerful capabilities like subprocess execution and raw hardware access, creating a surface for indirect prompt injection attacks.
- [METADATA_POISONING]: There is a discrepancy between the author name 'mahipal' in the frontmatter and the copyright holder 'mukul975' in the license, which may lead to confusion regarding the skill's origin.
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