ssh-penetration-testing
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 27, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMPERSISTENCEDATA_EXFILTRATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDYNAMIC_EXECUTIONCREDENTIALS_UNSAFE
Full Analysis
- [PERSISTENCE]: The skill provides instructions to establish persistence on a target system by appending an SSH public key to the
~/.ssh/authorized_keysfile. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill includes commands to search for and read highly sensitive information, including private SSH keys (
id_rsa,id_dsa, etc.) in standard and non-standard locations, as well as the.bash_historyfile which often contains plaintext credentials. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill makes extensive use of powerful offensive security tools such as Nmap, Hydra, Medusa, and the Metasploit Framework to perform network scanning, service enumeration, and credential attacks.
- [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]: The skill includes a Python script utilizing the
paramikolibrary to programmatically execute shell commands on remote systems viaclient.exec_command(). - [CREDENTIALS_UNSAFE]: The workflow includes patterns for searching file systems and command histories for hardcoded passwords and secrets using string matching (e.g.,
grep -i pass).
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