hunting-for-process-injection-techniques

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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 15, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUMMETADATA_POISONINGINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [METADATA_POISONING]: Deceptive metadata identified in the skill documentation and license.
  • The author field in SKILL.md is listed as "mahipal", while the LICENSE file attributes copyright to "mukul975".
  • The LICENSE file contains a post-dated copyright year of "2026", which is deceptive regarding the creation date of the work.
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes external log data which creates a potential vulnerability surface.
  • Ingestion points: The scripts/agent.py script reads and parses user-supplied Sysmon JSON logs via the log-file argument.
  • Boundary markers: No boundary markers or "ignore" instructions are present to prevent the agent from potentially obeying instructions embedded within log fields such as SourceImage, TargetImage, or StartFunction if the output is processed by an LLM.
  • Capability inventory: The skill possesses file system read and write capabilities to process logs and generate reports.
  • Sanitization: The script performs standard JSON parsing but includes no validation, filtering, or sanitization of the textual content within the log entries.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Sep 15, 2026, 12:27 AM