building-threat-actor-profile-from-osint

building-threat-actor-profile-from-osint is a skill for Claude Code from 26zl/cybersec-toolkit. It costs 41 tokens per session (3,564 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research method for building profiles of threat-actor groups from publicly available information, known as OSINT. The profiles document motives, capabilities, infrastructure, and attack methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps collect and correlate information from vendor reports, forums, social media, and code repositories, then map related infrastructure and techniques.
Why use it?
It organizes scattered public reports and technical clues into dossiers that can guide defensive planning.

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 It helps collect and correlate information from vendor reports, forums, social media, and code repositories, then map related infrastructure and techniques.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/building-threat-actor-profile-from-osint
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add 26zl/cybersec-toolkit --skill building-threat-actor-profile-from-osint
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 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,564 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. 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 128
    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 $0.00041 $0.03564
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01782
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00713
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00356

Measured 9d ago against content hash b179b5f51f83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-threat-actor-profile-from-osint scanned grade A with 2 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 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.

resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=300)
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/building-threat-actor-profile-from-osint/SKILL.md · 383 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 383 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building Threat Actor Profile from OSINT

Overview

Threat actor profiling using OSINT systematically gathers and analyzes publicly available information to build comprehensive profiles of adversary groups. This skill covers collecting intelligence from public sources (security vendor reports, paste sites, dark web forums, social media, code repositories), correlating indicators across platforms, mapping adversary infrastructure using tools like Maltego and SpiderFoot, and producing structured threat actor dossiers that inform defensive strategies and attribution assessments.

When to Use

  • When deploying or configuring building threat actor profile from osint 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 shodan, requests, beautifulsoup4, maltego-trx, stix2 libraries
  • SpiderFoot (https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot) or SpiderFoot HX
  • Maltego CE or Maltego XL for link analysis
  • API keys: Shodan, VirusTotal, AlienVault OTX, PassiveTotal/RiskIQ
  • MITRE ATT&CK knowledge for TTP mapping
  • Understanding of STIX 2.1 Intrusion Set, Threat Actor, and Identity SDOs

Key Concepts

OSINT Sources for Threat Actor Profiling

Primary intelligence sources include vendor threat reports (Mandiant, CrowdStrike, Recorded Future, Talos), government advisories (CISA, NSA, FBI joint advisories), academic research papers, malware repositories (VirusTotal, MalwareBazaar, Malpedia), paste sites (Pastebin, GitHub Gists), code repositories, social media accounts, dark web forums, and certificate transparency logs.

Structured Analytical Techniques

Profiling uses the Diamond Model (adversary, infrastructure, capability, victim), Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) for attribution confidence, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping for TTP documentation. Link analysis tools like Maltego visualize relationships between indicators, infrastructure, and actors.

Read the full file on GitHub · 383 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 · 383 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A b179b5f51f83

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building-threat-actor-profile-from-osint is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26zl/cybersec-toolkit (54 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,564 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (makes network calls, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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