analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia

analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from autohandai/community-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,559 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for researching malware families through Malpedia, a shared catalogue of malware families, aliases, detection rules, and threat-actor links.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps map family relationships, track variant changes, associate families with threat actors, retrieve YARA detection rules, and build malware intelligence.
Why use it?
It helps connect different names and versions of malware so an analyst can understand how samples are related and who may use them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps map family relationships, track variant changes, associate families with threat actors, retrieve YARA detection rules, and build malware intelligence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/autohandai/community-skills/analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add autohandai/community-skills --skill analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/autohandai/community-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,559 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.
Origin 86% 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 $0.00048 $0.02559
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01280
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00512
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00256

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7b1f50ea447f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia 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 12d 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(f"{self.BASE_URL}/list/families",
Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia — 37 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.

analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Malware Family Relationships with Malpedia

Overview

Malpedia is a collaborative platform maintained by Fraunhofer FKIE that catalogs malware families with their aliases, YARA rules, threat actor associations, and reference reports. With over 2,600 malware families documented, it serves as the definitive resource for understanding malware lineages, tracking variant evolution, and linking malware to specific threat groups. This skill covers querying the Malpedia API, mapping malware family relationships, extracting YARA rules for detection, and building intelligence on malware ecosystems used by adversaries.

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.9+ with requests, yara-python, stix2 libraries
  • Malpedia API key (register at https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/)
  • Understanding of malware classification and naming conventions
  • Familiarity with YARA rule syntax for detection
  • Access to malware samples for validation (optional)

Key Concepts

Malpedia Data Model

Malpedia organizes malware into Families (e.g., "win.cobalt_strike"), each containing: aliases (vendor-specific names like "Beacon", "CobaltStrike"), YARA rules (community and vendor-contributed), actor associations (threat groups using the family), reference reports (CTI reports documenting the family), and sample hashes (representative samples for each variant).

Malware Family Naming

Malpedia uses the format platform.family_name (e.g., win.emotet, elf.mirai, apk.flubot). Platforms include win (Windows), elf (Linux), apk (Android), osx (macOS), and py (Python). This standardized naming resolves the "many names" problem where different vendors assign different names to the same malware.

Family Relationships

Malware families have relationships including: parent-child (code reuse, forks), loader-payload (Emotet loads TrickBot loads Ryuk), shared authorship (same threat actor develops multiple tools), and infrastructure sharing (common C2 frameworks).

Practical Steps

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 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. 12d ago First seen · 260 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 7b1f50ea447f

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analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia is a skill published in the GitHub repository autohandai/community-skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,559 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 86% identical to analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia, differing in 37 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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