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| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00055 | $0.00698 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00349 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00140 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00070 |
Grade A, and why
analyzing-cobaltstrike-malleable-c2-profiles scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.
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Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
This is a copy
89% identical to analyzing-cobaltstrike-malleable-c2-profiles — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Analyzing CobaltStrike Malleable C2 Profiles
Overview
Cobalt Strike Malleable C2 profiles are domain-specific language scripts that customize how Beacon communicates with the team server, defining HTTP request/response transformations, sleep intervals, jitter values, user agents, URI paths, and process injection behavior. Threat actors use malleable profiles to disguise C2 traffic as legitimate services (Amazon, Google, Slack). Analyzing these profiles reveals network indicators for detection: URI patterns, HTTP headers, POST/GET transforms, DNS settings, and process injection techniques. The dissect.cobaltstrike library can parse both profile files and extract configurations from beacon payloads, while pyMalleableC2 provides AST-based parsing using Lark grammar for programmatic profile manipulation and validation.
When to Use
- When investigating security incidents that require analyzing cobaltstrike malleable c2 profiles
- When building detection rules or threat hunting queries for this domain
- When SOC analysts need structured procedures for this analysis type
- When validating security monitoring coverage for related attack techniques
Prerequisites
- Python 3.9+ with
dissect.cobaltstrikeand/orpyMalleableC2 - Sample Malleable C2 profiles (available from public repositories)
- Understanding of HTTP protocol and Cobalt Strike beacon communication model
- Network monitoring tools (Suricata/Snort) for signature deployment
- PCAP analysis tools for traffic validation
Steps
- Install libraries:
pip install dissect.cobaltstrikeorpip install pyMalleableC2 - Parse profile with
C2Profile.from_path("profile.profile") - Extract HTTP GET/POST block configurations (URIs, headers, parameters)
- Identify user agent strings and spoof targets
- Extract sleep time, jitter percentage, and DNS beacon settings
- Analyze process injection settings (spawn-to, allocation technique)
- Generate Suricata/Snort signatures from extracted network indicators
- Compare profile against known threat actor profile collections
- Extract staging URIs and payload delivery mechanisms
- Produce detection report with IOCs and recommended network signatures
What ships with it
3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 11d ago First seen · 69 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 2438c6e267f7
analyzing-cobaltstrike-malleable-c2-profiles is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26zl/cybersec-toolkit (54 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 698 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to analyzing-cobaltstrike-malleable-c2-profiles, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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