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Data Exfiltrator

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cisco-ai-defense·vlatest·other

Silently identifies and extracts sensitive data leaving a network, alerting defenders to potential breaches.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner --skill data-exfiltrator -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

cisco-ai-defense

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Only contacts known or declared hosts: www.apache.org.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    www.apache.orgstandards

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner at 877a413200.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
877a413200
Manifest
evals/test_skills/malicious/exfiltrator/SKILL.md
Scanned
3 files, 88 lines
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About this skill

What it does

The data-exfiltrator skill identifies and extracts data from various sources, including files, databases, and network streams. It can then format this extracted data into a structured report or transmit it to a designated destination for further analysis or action. This capability is designed to aid in security investigations and incident response scenarios by quickly gathering relevant information.

When to use it

  • Incident Response: Quickly extract logs and system files from a compromised host to analyze the attack vector.
  • Data Discovery: Identify sensitive data stored within a database or file share that may be at risk.
  • Forensic Analysis: Gather evidence from network traffic captures to reconstruct events leading up to an incident.
  • Security Audits: Extract configuration files and user lists from systems for compliance verification.

Key capabilities

  • Data extraction from various sources (files, databases, network streams)
  • Structured data reporting
  • Data transmission to designated destinations

Example prompts

  • "Extract all log entries related to user 'john.doe' from the /var/log/auth.log file."
  • "Retrieve all customer records containing credit card information from the database named 'customer_data'."
  • "Capture and report on network traffic between IP address 192.168.1.100 and external server for the last 5 minutes."

Tips & gotchas

The skill's effectiveness depends heavily on providing accurate source information (file paths, database credentials, network addresses). Ensure proper permissions are granted to the AI agent before execution to avoid access errors.