conducting-pass-the-ticket-attack
Audited by Socket on Sep 14, 2026
3 alerts found:
SecurityMalwarex2SUSPICIOUS/HIGH-RISK skill. Its behavior is internally consistent with a red-team Pass-the-Ticket objective, but that objective is itself an offensive credential-theft and lateral-movement capability for an AI agent. No confirmed malware or covert exfiltration is shown in the skill text, yet the guidance enables direct abuse of stolen Kerberos tickets and LSASS-derived secrets.
This module is strongly indicative of malicious/offensive intent and capability. While it does not itself execute external offensive tools, it generates copy/paste-ready Pass-the-Ticket extraction/injection/lateral movement instructions and can convert ticket formats into reusable credential artifacts. The presence of sensitive ticket parsing and credential cache conversion significantly increases operational usefulness for real attacks, making it a high security risk dependency.
This fragment is a highly malicious, offensive Pass-the-Ticket and forged Kerberos ticket workflow. It instructs extracting Kerberos tickets from LSASS, purging and injecting tickets into authentication sessions, and using them for authenticated admin-share access, remote command execution, and secrets dumping. If included in a software package, it represents a severe supply-chain security risk with strong indicators of credential abuse and lateral movement capability.