netflows

A network-flow extractor that reads PCAP or PCAPNG packet-capture files and lists the destinations a device contacted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list TCP and UDP destinations, filter traffic by source IP, map addresses to hostnames, and identify external services an IoT device uses.
Why use it?
It turns low-level packet data into a destination summary and resolves IP addresses to hostnames when DNS information is available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brownfinesecurity/iothackbot/netflows
Any agent
npx skills add BrownFineSecurity/iothackbot --skill netflows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BrownFineSecurity/iothackbot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 958 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.00958
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00479
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00096

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9235756f4b5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

netflows 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 2d ago.

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.

skills/netflows/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NetFlows - Network Flow Extractor with DNS Resolution

You are helping the user extract and analyze network flows from packet capture files using the netflows tool.

Tool Overview

NetFlows analyzes pcap/pcapng files to:

  • Extract unique TCP and UDP flows (destination IP:port pairs)
  • Build a DNS resolution table from DNS responses in the capture
  • Automatically resolve IP addresses to hostnames where possible
  • Filter flows by source IP address
  • Generate a summary of all network destinations contacted

This is particularly useful for IoT device analysis to understand what external services a device communicates with.

Instructions

When the user asks to analyze network flows, extract destinations, or identify what hosts a device talks to:

  1. Gather requirements:

    • Get the pcap/pcapng file path(s)
    • Ask if they want to filter by a specific source IP (e.g., the IoT device's IP)
    • Determine preferred output format
  2. Execute the analysis:

    • Use the netflows command from the iothackbot bin directory
  3. Interpret results:

    • Explain resolved hostnames and their significance
    • Note any unresolved IPs that may need further investigation
    • Highlight interesting patterns (cloud services, P2P connections, etc.)

Usage

Basic Analysis

Analyze a pcap file showing all flows:

netflows capture.pcap

Filter by Source IP

Extract flows from a specific device:

netflows capture.pcap --source-ip 192.168.1.100

Multiple Files

Analyze multiple capture files:

netflows capture1.pcap capture2.pcapng

Output Formats

# Human-readable colored output (default)
netflows capture.pcap --format text

# Machine-readable JSON
netflows capture.pcap --format json

# Minimal output - just hostname:port list
netflows capture.pcap --format quiet

Parameters

Input:

  • pcap_files: One or more pcap/pcapng files to analyze (required)

Filtering:

  • -s, --source-ip: Filter flows originating from this IP address

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 130 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 9235756f4b5b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

netflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository BrownFineSecurity/iothackbot (819 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 958 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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