hunt-credential-access

hunt-credential-access is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dandye/ai-runbooks. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,166 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A security investigation workflow for finding signs that attackers are trying to steal credentials, such as passwords stored in browsers or secrets held by Windows processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate credential-access techniques such as LSASS memory dumping, browser credential theft, Windows Credential Manager access, or DCSync, with optional case tracking.
Why use it?
It turns selected MITRE ATT&CK techniques into searches across security logs, helping investigators look for evidence of credential theft within a chosen time period and scope.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate credential-access techniques such as LSASS memory dumping, browser credential theft, Windows Credential Manager access, or DCSync, with optional case tracking.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dandye/ai-runbooks/hunt-credential-access
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 dandye/ai-runbooks --skill hunt-credential-access
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dandye/ai-runbooks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,166 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high YARA Match · line 66
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00043 $0.01166
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00117

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8edd3232b612, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunt-credential-access 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.

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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • skill-044 — 89% identical, 11 lines differ
skills/hunt-credential-access/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Credential Access TTP Hunt Skill

Proactively hunt for MITRE ATT&CK Credential Access techniques (T1003, T1555, etc.) based on threat intelligence or hypothesis.

Inputs

  • TECHNIQUE_IDS - Comma-separated MITRE technique IDs (e.g., "T1003.001,T1555.003")
  • TIME_FRAME_HOURS - Lookback period (default: 72)
  • (Optional) TARGET_SCOPE_QUERY - UDM query to narrow scope
  • (Optional) HUNT_HYPOTHESIS - Reason for the hunt
  • (Optional) HUNT_CASE_ID - SOAR case for tracking

Common Techniques

Technique Description
T1003.001 LSASS Memory
T1003.002 Security Account Manager
T1003.003 NTDS
T1003.004 LSA Secrets
T1003.005 Cached Domain Credentials
T1003.006 DCSync
T1555.001 Keychain
T1555.003 Credentials from Web Browsers
T1555.004 Windows Credential Manager

Workflow

Step 1: Research Techniques

For each technique in TECHNIQUE_IDS:

gti-mcp.get_threat_intel(query="Explain MITRE ATT&CK technique T1003.001")

Understand:

  • What the technique does
  • Common procedures/tools
  • Detection methods

Step 2: Develop Hunt Queries

T1003.001 - LSASS Memory Access:

metadata.event_type = "PROCESS_LAUNCH" AND
target.process.file.full_path = "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe"

Look for suspicious parent processes accessing lsass.exe.

T1003.001 - Known Dumping Tools:

metadata.event_type = "PROCESS_LAUNCH" AND
(principal.process.command_line CONTAINS "mimikatz" OR
 principal.process.command_line CONTAINS "procdump" OR
 principal.process.command_line CONTAINS "sekurlsa")

T1555.003 - Browser Credential Files:

metadata.event_type = "FILE_OPEN" AND
(target.file.full_path CONTAINS "Login Data" OR
 target.file.full_path CONTAINS "Web Data" OR
 target.file.full_path CONTAINS "cookies.sqlite") AND
principal.process.file.full_path NOT IN ("chrome.exe", "firefox.exe", "msedge.exe")

T1003.006 - DCSync:

metadata.event_type = "DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_REPLICATION" AND
principal.hostname NOT IN @known_domain_controllers

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 12d ago First seen · 160 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 8edd3232b612

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hunt-credential-access is a skill published in the GitHub repository dandye/ai-runbooks (124 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,166 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 2026-08-30.

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