analyzing-powershell-script-block-logging

analyzing-powershell-script-block-logging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from autohandai/community-skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (451 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for reading Windows PowerShell Script Block Logs, which record PowerShell code that was run, including scripts split across multiple log entries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to parse EVTX log files, rebuild multi-part scripts, detect suspicious patterns, score findings, and map them to MITRE ATT&CK.
Why use it?
It helps uncover obfuscated commands, encoded payloads, download activity, and other signs of malicious PowerShell use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to parse EVTX log files, rebuild multi-part scripts, detect suspicious patterns, score findings, and map them to MITRE ATT&CK.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/autohandai/community-skills/analyzing-powershell-script-block-logging
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add autohandai/community-skills --skill analyzing-powershell-script-block-logging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/autohandai/community-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 451 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 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 $0.00088 $0.00451
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00045

Measured 4d ago against content hash b495e61aeefc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-powershell-script-block-logging 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 4d 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.

analyzing-powershell-script-block-logging/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Instructions

  1. Install dependencies: pip install python-evtx lxml
  2. Collect PowerShell Operational logs: Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell%4Operational.evtx
  3. Parse Event ID 4104 entries using python-evtx to extract ScriptBlockText, ScriptBlockId, and MessageNumber/MessageTotal for multi-part script reconstruction.
  4. Apply detection heuristics:
    • Base64-encoded commands (-EncodedCommand, FromBase64String)
    • Download cradles (DownloadString, DownloadFile, Invoke-WebRequest, Net.WebClient)
    • AMSI bypass patterns (AmsiUtils, amsiInitFailed)
    • Obfuscation indicators (high entropy, tick-mark insertion, string concatenation)
  5. Generate a report with reconstructed scripts, risk scores, and MITRE ATT&CK mappings.
python scripts/agent.py --evtx-file /path/to/PowerShell-Operational.evtx --output ps_analysis.json

Examples

Detect Encoded Command Execution

import base64
if "-encodedcommand" in script_text.lower():
    encoded = script_text.split()[-1]
    decoded = base64.b64decode(encoded).decode("utf-16-le")

Reconstruct Multi-Block Script

Scripts split across multiple 4104 events share a ScriptBlockId. Concatenate blocks ordered by MessageNumber to recover the full script.

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. 4d ago First seen · 44 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A b495e61aeefc

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analyzing-powershell-script-block-logging is a skill published in the GitHub repository autohandai/community-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 451 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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