performing-threat-emulation-with-atomic-red-team

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Audited by Socket on Sep 14, 2026

2 alerts found:

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SecurityMEDIUM
SKILL.md

SUSPICIOUS: the skill’s purpose and capabilities are internally consistent, but it equips the agent with offensive threat-emulation execution. Install sources are legitimate, yet reliance on unpinned upstream content plus optional credentialed remote execution makes this a high-risk cybersecurity skill rather than benign documentation.

Confidence: 86%Severity: 74%
SecurityMEDIUM
scripts/agent.py

No clear malware or data-theft behavior is present. The code is a threat-emulation tool whose intended functionality requires executing Atomic Red Team commands. However, treating the atomics directory as trusted is essential: a modified or malicious YAML file can execute arbitrary shell commands with the user's privileges through shell=True. The provided fragment also contains syntax errors and incomplete action handling.

Confidence: 98%Severity: 72%
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Analyzed At
Sep 14, 2026, 05:50 PM
Package URL
pkg:socket/skills-sh/mukul975%2Fanthropic-cybersecurity-skills%2Fperforming-threat-emulation-with-atomic-red-team%2F@70fbf080e5340db09e3175939d42bf25b3c6b0bcc34a367ced3060df5325f5bb