hunting-for-webshell-activity

hunting-for-webshell-activity is a skill for Claude Code from balsm-health/Balsm-AI. It costs 39 tokens per session (794 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A security investigation guide for finding web shells, which are malicious server files that attackers use to run commands remotely.

In plain words
What is it for?
It examines file creation in web directories, processes started by web servers, and unusual HTTP patterns.
Why use it?
It helps identify suspicious server activity that may indicate a web shell was installed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the balsm-ai plugin — 66 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 2 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It examines file creation in web directories, processes started by web servers, and unusual HTTP patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/balsm-health/balsm-ai/hunting-for-webshell-activity
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 balsm-health/Balsm-AI --skill hunting-for-webshell-activity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/balsm-health/Balsm-AI

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install balsm-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 2 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 794 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 unknown 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 $0.00039 $0.00794
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00397
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00079

Measured 12d ago against content hash 12165b087b9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunting-for-webshell-activity 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/agent.py, scripts/process.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.

plugin/skills/hunting-for-webshell-activity/SKILL.md · 105 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

7 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 · 105 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 12165b087b9f

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hunting-for-webshell-activity is a skill published in the GitHub repository balsm-health/Balsm-AI (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 794 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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