binary-protection-bypass

binary-protection-bypass is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DorianGallo/hack-skills-local. It costs 52 tokens per session (3,265 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of binary-protection-bypass, MIT.

A playbook for examining security protections in ELF executable files, the common binary format on Linux and other Unix-like systems, and planning ways around them during exploitation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for authorised binary-security research, capture-the-flag exercises, and analysing how ELF protections interact with techniques such as ROP, format-string attacks, and heap exploitation.
Why use it?
It explains how protections such as address randomisation, non-executable memory, stack canaries, and read-only linking affect an attack and which weaknesses may still be usable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for authorised binary-security research, capture-the-flag exercises, and analysing how ELF protections interact with techniques such as ROP, format-string attacks, and heap exploitation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doriangallo/hack-skills-local/binary-protection-bypass
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 DorianGallo/hack-skills-local --skill binary-protection-bypass
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DorianGallo/hack-skills-local

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,265 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 100% 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 $0.00052 $0.03265
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01632
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00653
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00327

Measured 9d ago against content hash 90765916f7a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

binary-protection-bypass 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 9d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to binary-protection-bypass — 0 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.

skills/binary-protection-bypass/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Binary Protection Bypass — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert binary protection identification and bypass techniques. Covers ASLR, PIE, NX, RELRO, canary, FORTIFY_SOURCE, stack clash, CET shadow stack, and ARM MTE. Each protection is paired with its bypass methods and required primitives. Distilled from ctf-wiki mitigation sections and real-world exploitation. Base models often confuse which protections block which attacks and miss the combinatorial effect of multiple protections.

Advanced Reference

Load PROTECTION_BYPASS_MATRIX.md for comprehensive protection × bypass × primitive matrix.


1. PROTECTION IDENTIFICATION

$ checksec ./binary
[*] '/path/to/binary'
    Arch:     amd64-64-little
    RELRO:    Full RELRO          ← GOT read-only
    Stack:    Canary found        ← stack canary enabled
    NX:       NX enabled          ← stack not executable
    PIE:      PIE enabled         ← position-independent code
    FORTIFY:  Enabled             ← fortified libc functions

Quick Identification Table

Protection Check Command Binary Indicator
ASLR cat /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space OS-level (0=off, 1=partial, 2=full)
PIE checksec or readelf -h (Type: DYN) Binary compiled with -pie
NX checksec or readelf -l (no RWE segment) gcc -z noexecstack (default on)
Canary checksec or look for __stack_chk_fail@plt gcc -fstack-protector-all
Partial RELRO readelf -l (GNU_RELRO segment, .got.plt writable) gcc -Wl,-z,relro
Full RELRO readelf -l + .got section read-only gcc -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now
FORTIFY Presence of __printf_chk, __memcpy_chk etc. gcc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 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. 9d ago First seen · 296 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 90765916f7a2

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binary-protection-bypass is a skill published in the GitHub repository DorianGallo/hack-skills-local (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 3,265 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to binary-protection-bypass, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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