skills/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/analyzing-windows-prefetch-with-python/Gen Agent Trust Hub
analyzing-windows-prefetch-with-python
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 17, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [SAFE]: The skill performs local forensic analysis of Windows Prefetch files using the
windowsprefetchlibrary to identify execution timelines, run counts, and potential malware masquerading. - [SAFE]: The provided Python script,
scripts/agent.py, operates entirely on the local filesystem. It contains no network communication code, data exfiltration logic, or hidden credential harvesting patterns. - [SAFE]: The external library
windowsprefetchand the referenced documentation (e.g., SANS, Eric Zimmerman's tools) are well-regarded and standard resources in the digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) community. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill ingests untrusted system metadata from Prefetch files, which creates a theoretical surface for indirect prompt injection, though the risk is assessed as safe given the tool's intended forensic context.
- Ingestion points:
scripts/agent.pyreads file metadata and execution parameters from.pffiles located in a user-provided directory. - Boundary markers: The findings are exported in a structured JSON format; however, the skill does not wrap the output in specific LLM delimiters or instruction-ignore warnings.
- Capability inventory: The script's capabilities are restricted to local file read operations and writing analysis reports to a local directory.
- Sanitization: No sanitization is performed on the extracted executable names or volume paths, as the tool is designed to provide raw forensic data for analyst review.
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