building-ioc-defanging-and-sharing-pipeline

building-ioc-defanging-and-sharing-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code from 26zl/cybersec-toolkit. It costs 49 tokens per session (3,602 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for safely processing and sharing indicators of compromise, such as suspicious URLs, IP addresses, domains, email addresses, and file hashes. It makes indicators harder to activate accidentally, converts them to STIX format, and distributes them through threat-sharing systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ingest indicators, remove duplicates, create safe human-readable versions, convert them to STIX 2.1, and publish them through TAXII, MISP, or reports.
Why use it?
It lets analysts share malicious indicators without someone accidentally opening or running one. Normalising and deduplicating the data also makes shared threat information more consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

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

Good fit Use it to ingest indicators, remove duplicates, create safe human-readable versions, convert them to STIX 2.1, and publish them through TAXII, MISP, or reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/building-ioc-defanging-and-sharing-pipeline
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add 26zl/cybersec-toolkit --skill building-ioc-defanging-and-sharing-pipeline
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 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,602 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 328
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00049 $0.03602
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01801
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00720
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00360

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2951a706bfb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-ioc-defanging-and-sharing-pipeline scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

from urllib.parse import urlparse, unquote
.claude/skills/building-ioc-defanging-and-sharing-pipeline/SKILL.md · 379 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 379 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building IOC Defanging and Sharing Pipeline

Overview

IOC defanging modifies potentially malicious indicators (URLs, IP addresses, domains, email addresses) to prevent accidental clicks or execution while preserving readability for analysis and sharing. This skill covers building an automated pipeline that ingests raw IOCs from multiple sources, normalizes and deduplicates them, applies defanging for safe human consumption, converts them to STIX 2.1 format for machine consumption, and distributes through TAXII servers, MISP instances, and email reports.

When to Use

  • When deploying or configuring building ioc defanging and sharing pipeline capabilities in your environment
  • When establishing security controls aligned to compliance requirements
  • When building or improving security architecture for this domain
  • When conducting security assessments that require this implementation

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.9+ with defang, ioc-fanger, stix2, requests, validators libraries
  • MISP instance or TAXII server for automated sharing
  • Understanding of IOC types: IPv4/IPv6, domains, URLs, email addresses, file hashes
  • Familiarity with STIX 2.1 Indicator patterns and TLP marking definitions
  • Access to threat intelligence feeds for IOC ingestion

Key Concepts

IOC Defanging Standards

Defanging replaces active protocol and domain components to prevent execution: http:// becomes hxxp://, https:// becomes hxxps://, dots in domains/IPs become [.], @ in emails becomes [@]. This is critical for sharing IOCs in reports, emails, Slack channels, and paste sites where auto-linking could trigger network connections to malicious infrastructure.

IOC Normalization

Raw IOCs from different sources come in inconsistent formats. Normalization involves converting to lowercase, removing trailing slashes and whitespace, extracting domains from URLs, resolving URL encoding, validating format correctness, and deduplicating across sources.

STIX 2.1 Indicator Patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 379 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. 9d ago First seen · 379 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 2951a706bfb8

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building-ioc-defanging-and-sharing-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26zl/cybersec-toolkit (54 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,602 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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