yara-sigs

yara-sigs is a skill for Claude Code from dariushoule/x64dbg-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,073 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debugging tool that scans a saved snapshot of a program's memory using YARA rules, which are pattern-matching checks for identifying suspicious code or data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for examining a paused program's saved memory and checking it against signatures for packers, malware families, crypto constants, and related indicators.
Why use it?
It helps find signs of malware, packing, anti-debugging tricks, or embedded cryptographic values without manually searching a large memory dump.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the x64dbg-skills plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for examining a paused program's saved memory and checking it against signatures for packers, malware families, crypto constants, and related indicators.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add dariushoule/x64dbg-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install x64dbg-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install x64dbg-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,073 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 $0.00028 $0.01073
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00536
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00107

Measured 13d ago against content hash 16c458a925e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yara-sigs 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (yara_scan.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.

skills/yara-sigs/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

yara-sigs

Scan debuggee memory (via a state snapshot) against a large YARA signature database to identify packers, crypto constants, anti-debug tricks, malware families, and more.

Instructions

Follow these steps exactly:

1. Check prerequisites

Run pip show yara-python via Bash. If not installed, tell the user to run pip install yara-python and stop. Run git --version via Bash. If not installed, tell the user to install Git and stop.

2. Ensure the YARA signature database is available

Check if the directory ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\yarasigs exists (use dir). If it does not exist, clone it:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/x64dbg/yarasigs "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\yarasigs"

If the directory exists but looks incomplete (missing Yara-Rules or citizenlab subdirectories), update submodules:

git -C "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\yarasigs" submodule update --init --recursive

3. Determine what to scan for

The YARA database contains many rule categories. If the user specified what they want to scan for in their invocation, use that. Otherwise, ask the user what they want to scan for using AskUserQuestion with these options:

  • Packers & compilers — Detect packers (UPX, Themida, etc.) and compiler signatures
  • Crypto constants — Find cryptographic algorithm constants (AES S-boxes, RSA, MD5, etc.)
  • Anti-debug / anti-VM — Detect anti-debugging and anti-virtualization techniques
  • All signatures — Scan with every available rule (slower, more noise)

Map the selection to rule category paths:

Selection Rule paths (relative to yarasigs/)
Packers & compilers packer.yara, packer_compiler_signatures.yara, Yara-Rules/packers/
Crypto constants crypto_signatures.yara, Yara-Rules/crypto/
Anti-debug / anti-VM Yara-Rules/antidebug_antivm/
All signatures All .yar and .yara files recursively

4. Obtain a snapshot to scan

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 13d ago First seen · 85 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 16c458a925e4

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yara-sigs is a skill published in the GitHub repository dariushoule/x64dbg-skills (206 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,073 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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