detecting-malicious-scheduled-tasks-with-sysmon

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 22, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONDYNAMIC_EXECUTIONMETADATA_POISONING
Full Analysis
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The analysis script scripts/agent.py processes external XML files provided by the user. A crafted input file could theoretically be used to influence the output of the analysis or cause processing errors. \n
  • Ingestion points: The parse_evtx_xml function in scripts/agent.py accepts a file path for XML event data via the --evtx-xml argument.\n
  • Boundary markers: None present; the script assumes the integrity of the provided log file.\n
  • Capability inventory: The script is limited to local file reading and writing results; it has no network or shell execution capabilities.\n
  • Sanitization: No XML entity sanitization is performed on the input file.\n- [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]: The script uses the standard xml.etree.ElementTree.parse method to process event logs. While necessary for the skill's function, it is a form of dynamic data processing that lacks specific protections against XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerabilities.\n- [METADATA_POISONING]: There is a minor inconsistency between the author name 'mahipal' in the YAML frontmatter and the copyright holder 'mukul975' in the license file. This appears to be a documentation artifact and is not considered deceptive.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Sep 22, 2026, 06:32 AM