malware-triage

malware-triage is a skill for Claude Code from gl0bal01/malware-analysis-claude-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (3,595 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rapid first assessment of a suspected malware file, including its type, likely family, risk, indicators, and analysis priority. Malware is software designed to harm systems, steal data, or gain unauthorized access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to hash and classify samples, check reputation, identify initial indicators of compromise, and prepare the next malware-analysis steps.
Why use it?
It helps security teams decide quickly which samples need deeper analysis and what to examine first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT variable.

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 malware-analysis plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to hash and classify samples, check reputation, identify initial indicators of compromise, and prepare the next malware-analysis steps.

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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 gl0bal01/malware-analysis-claude-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install malware-analysis

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install malware-analysis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,595 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 $0.00074 $0.03595
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01798
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00719
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00360

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0b17fefe2501, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

malware-triage 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 6d ago.

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

malware-triage/SKILL.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Malware Triage

First phase for every sample. You run static tools on the host, interpret the output, classify the sample, and decide the next phase. Target: 5-15 minutes per sample.

Execution Model

  • You run the commands. You have Bash. Execute every command in this skill yourself and interpret the output. Do not ask the user to run tools or paste results unless a tool is missing and cannot be installed.
  • Locate skill files. Scripts and reference files ship in this skill's directory. Set R="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-<dir containing this SKILL.md>}" once (when installed as a plugin $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is set; otherwise it is this skill folder). Your working directory is the user's analysis workspace, so prefix every script path below with $R, e.g. python3 "$R"/scripts/ioc_extract.py.
  • Never execute the sample. Only static tools touch it: file, strings, pe_info.py, upx -d, 7z l, hashing. No chmod +x, no wine, no ./sample.
  • Never upload the sample to any service without explicit consent. Hash lookups are fine; file uploads are not.
  • Script paths are relative to this skill directory. From the repo/skill root: malware-triage/scripts/pe_info.py, malware-triage/scripts/hash_calculator.py, scripts/ioc_extract.py. Resolve them from wherever this SKILL.md lives.
  • Tool check first. Run once per session; note what is missing and degrade rather than stop:
    command -v file strings upx 7z yara; python3 -c "import pefile" 2>&1 | tail -1
    # pefile missing -> pip install pefile   (needed by pe_info.py)
    
  • Big outputs: never cat a strings dump. Save to a file, wc -l, then grep/head.
  • Ask the user only for: the sample path, context (where it came from, incident ID, anything already known), and reputation results if no MCP server is available.

Workflow

Step 1 — Identify and hash

S=/path/to/sample
file "$S"; ls -l "$S"
python3 malware-triage/scripts/hash_calculator.py "$S"

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 6d ago Changed · -287 lines · +23 tokens per session 0b17fefe2501
  2. 12d ago First seen · 516 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A f27cebdb69a7

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malware-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository gl0bal01/malware-analysis-claude-skills (46 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 3,595 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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