firecrawl

Fail

Audited by Socket on Feb 16, 2026

1 alert found:

Malware
MalwareHIGH
SKILL.md

[Skill Scanner] Installation of third-party script detected BENIGN with standard operational and policy risks. The fragment describes legitimate capabilities for a specialized web-crawling workflow. Key mitigations include secure API key handling, restricted access to local outputs, and compliance monitoring for scraping activities. LLM verification: This skill is suspicious rather than overtly malicious. It legitimately describes a web-scraping/search CLI and requests file writes and authentication consistent with that purpose, but it also mandates centralizing all agent web activity through the third-party 'firecrawl' service, instructs automated browser-based login, and encourages hiding outputs via .gitignore. Those patterns create a realistic credential-exfiltration and data-centralization risk (man-in-the-middle / harvesting) if the se

Confidence: 95%Severity: 90%
Audit Metadata
Analyzed At
Feb 16, 2026, 11:23 AM
Package URL
pkg:socket/skills-sh/ninehills%2Fskills%2Ffirecrawl%2F@0bb68108fd6f46f586e35310ffe78a03bebf6c7d