analyzing-network-traffic-for-incidents

analyzing-network-traffic-for-incidents is a skill for Claude Code from 26zl/cybersec-toolkit. It costs 91 tokens per session (2,653 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of analyzing-network-traffic-for-incidents, MIT.

A guide to examining captured network traffic and flow records during a security incident. It uses tools such as Wireshark, Zeek, and NetFlow to find suspicious communications and activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate unusual traffic, confirm intrusion-detection alerts, trace lateral movement, identify command-and-control traffic, and measure possible data theft.
Why use it?
It helps turn large amounts of network evidence into clues about how an attacker communicated, moved between systems, exploited weaknesses, or removed data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the cybersec-toolkit plugin — 197 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate unusual traffic, confirm intrusion-detection alerts, trace lateral movement, identify command-and-control traffic, and measure possible data theft.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/analyzing-network-traffic-for-incidents
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add 26zl/cybersec-toolkit --skill analyzing-network-traffic-for-incidents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/26zl/cybersec-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersec-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,653 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00091 $0.02653
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01326
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00531
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00265

Measured 11d ago against content hash b5467621b7bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-network-traffic-for-incidents 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to analyzing-network-traffic-for-incidents — 0 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.

.claude/skills/analyzing-network-traffic-for-incidents/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Network Traffic for Incidents

When to Use

  • SIEM alerts on anomalous network traffic patterns requiring deeper investigation
  • C2 beaconing is suspected and needs confirmation through packet-level analysis
  • Data exfiltration volume or destination must be quantified from network evidence
  • Lateral movement between systems needs to be traced through network connections
  • An IDS/IPS alert requires packet-level validation to confirm or dismiss

Do not use for host-based forensic analysis (process execution, file system artifacts); use endpoint forensics tools instead.

Prerequisites

  • Full packet capture (PCAP) infrastructure or on-demand capture capability (network tap, SPAN port)
  • Wireshark installed on the analysis workstation with appropriate display filters knowledge
  • Zeek (formerly Bro) deployed for network metadata generation (conn.log, dns.log, http.log, ssl.log)
  • NetFlow/IPFIX collection from network devices for traffic flow analysis
  • Network architecture diagram showing VLAN layout, firewall placement, and monitoring points
  • Threat intelligence feeds for correlating observed network indicators

Workflow

Step 1: Capture or Acquire Network Traffic

Obtain the relevant traffic data for the investigation:

Live Capture (if incident is active):

# Capture on specific interface filtering by host
tcpdump -i eth0 -w capture.pcap host 10.1.5.42

# Capture C2 traffic to specific external IP
tcpdump -i eth0 -w c2_traffic.pcap host 185.220.101.42

# Capture with rotation (1GB files, keep 10)
tcpdump -i eth0 -w capture_%Y%m%d%H%M.pcap -C 1000 -W 10

From Existing Infrastructure:

  • Export PCAP from full packet capture appliance (Arkime/Moloch, ExtraHop, Corelight)
  • Pull Zeek logs from the Zeek cluster for the investigation timeframe
  • Export NetFlow data from network devices for high-level traffic analysis

Step 2: Identify C2 Communications

Detect command-and-control traffic patterns:

Beaconing Detection (Zeek conn.log):

# Extract connections to external IPs with regular intervals
cat conn.log | zeek-cut ts id.orig_h id.resp_h id.resp_p duration orig_bytes resp_bytes \
  | awk '$4 ~ /^185\.220/' | sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 lines

Files

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.

Changes

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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 267 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A b5467621b7bf

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analyzing-network-traffic-for-incidents is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26zl/cybersec-toolkit (54 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 2,653 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to analyzing-network-traffic-for-incidents, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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