reverse-engineering-firmware-analysis
reverse-engineering-firmware-analysis is a Penetration testing & red team skill for AI agents, published by DNYoussef in the context-cascade repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates reverse-engineering-firmware-analysis F (45/100) and the safety scan rated it risky; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Risky. This skill has patterns associated with unsafe behaviour. Read the source carefully before running it.
Firmware extraction and IoT security analysis (RE Level 5) for routers and embedded systems. Use when analyzing IoT firmware, extracting embedded filesystems (SquashFS/JFFS2/CramFS), finding hardcoded credentials, performing CVE scans, or auditing embedded system security. Handles encrypted firmware with known decryption schemes. Completes in 2-8 hours with binwalk+firmadyne+QEMU emulation.
- Grade
- F
- Quality
- 45 / 100
- Safety
- Risky
- GitHub stars
- 32
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 74 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- High-risk patterns
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 2 collections
What the scanner flagged
- accesses sensitive system files
- mentions secrets in text
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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