privilege_escalation_test
Fail
Audited by Socket on Feb 26, 2026
1 alert found:
MalwareMalwareTOOL.py
HIGHMalwareHIGH
TOOL.py
This file is malicious. It intentionally attempts to escalate privileges, tamper with critical system files, disable key security mechanisms, and perform destructive permission changes. It should not be executed; treat the file and any systems it ran on as compromised and perform incident response (isolate host, preserve artifacts, restore from known-good backups).
Confidence: 75%Severity: 95%
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