analyzing-prefetch-files-for-execution-history

analyzing-prefetch-files-for-execution-history is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from autohandai/community-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (3,137 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of analyzing-prefetch-files-for-execution-history, Apache-2.0.

A method for reading Windows Prefetch files, which record information about programs that have run on a Windows computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find executed programs, run counts, timestamps, referenced files, and possible anti-forensic tools in a forensic image.
Why use it?
It provides execution evidence when investigating malware, unauthorized software, or the timeline of an incident.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to find executed programs, run counts, timestamps, referenced files, and possible anti-forensic tools in a forensic image.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/autohandai/community-skills/analyzing-prefetch-files-for-execution-history
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-prefetch-files-for-execution-history
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/autohandai/community-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,137 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 89% 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 $0.00034 $0.03137
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01569
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00627
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00314

Measured 8d ago against content hash ce1a8afdd607, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-prefetch-files-for-execution-history 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 8d 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

89% identical to analyzing-prefetch-files-for-execution-history — 23 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-prefetch-files-for-execution-history/SKILL.md · 312 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 312 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Prefetch Files for Execution History

When to Use

  • When determining which programs were executed on a Windows system and when
  • During malware investigations to confirm execution of suspicious binaries
  • For establishing a timeline of application usage during an incident
  • When correlating program execution with other forensic artifacts
  • To identify anti-forensic tools or unauthorized software that was run

Prerequisites

  • Access to Windows Prefetch directory (C:\Windows\Prefetch) from forensic image
  • PECmd (Eric Zimmerman), WinPrefetchView, or python-prefetch parser
  • Understanding of Prefetch file format (versions 17, 23, 26, 30)
  • Windows system with Prefetch enabled (default on client OS, disabled on servers)
  • Knowledge of Prefetch naming conventions (APPNAME-HASH.pf)

Workflow

Step 1: Extract Prefetch Files from Forensic Image

# Mount the forensic image
mount -o ro,loop,offset=$((2048*512)) /cases/case-2024-001/images/evidence.dd /mnt/evidence

# Copy all prefetch files
mkdir -p /cases/case-2024-001/prefetch/
cp /mnt/evidence/Windows/Prefetch/*.pf /cases/case-2024-001/prefetch/

# Count and list prefetch files
ls -la /cases/case-2024-001/prefetch/ | wc -l
ls -la /cases/case-2024-001/prefetch/ | head -30

# Hash all prefetch files for integrity
sha256sum /cases/case-2024-001/prefetch/*.pf > /cases/case-2024-001/prefetch/pf_hashes.txt

# Note: Prefetch filename format is EXECUTABLE_NAME-XXXXXXXX.pf
# The hash (XXXXXXXX) is based on the executable path
# Same executable from different paths creates different prefetch files

Step 2: Parse Prefetch Files with PECmd

# Using Eric Zimmerman's PECmd (Windows or via Mono/Wine on Linux)
# Download from https://ericzimmerman.github.io/

# Parse a single prefetch file
PECmd.exe -f "C:\cases\prefetch\POWERSHELL.EXE-A]B2C3D4.pf"

# Parse all prefetch files and output to CSV
PECmd.exe -d "C:\cases\prefetch\" --csv "C:\cases\analysis\" --csvf prefetch_results.csv

# Parse with JSON output
PECmd.exe -d "C:\cases\prefetch\" --json "C:\cases\analysis\" --jsonf prefetch_results.json

# Output includes for each file:
# - Executable name and path
# - Run count
# - Last run time (up to 8 timestamps in Windows 10)
# - Files and directories referenced during execution
# - Volume information (serial number, creation date)
# - Prefetch file creation time

Read the full file on GitHub · 312 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. 8d ago First seen · 312 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A ce1a8afdd607

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analyzing-prefetch-files-for-execution-history is a skill published in the GitHub repository autohandai/community-skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 3,137 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to analyzing-prefetch-files-for-execution-history, differing in 23 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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