dma-attack-techniques

dma-attack-techniques is a skill for Claude Code from gmh5225/awesome-game-security. It costs 45 tokens per session (347 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security research guide about DMA, a method that lets hardware access computer memory directly. It covers PCIe devices, FPGA-based cards, memory access, and protections such as IOMMU or Intel VT-d.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study PCIe DMA attacks, page-table walking, device impersonation, firmware mimicry, virtual environments, and ways to detect or reduce these threats in game security.
Why use it?
It explains how a hostile device can bypass some operating-system protections and what software-based game anti-cheat can and cannot detect. This helps define the limits of the threat model.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to study PCIe DMA attacks, page-table walking, device impersonation, firmware mimicry, virtual environments, and ways to detect or reduce these threats in game security.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gmh5225/awesome-game-security/dma-attack
About the project

awesome-game-security is a curated collection focused on security research for games and game software, including cheating, anti-cheat systems, debugging, and anti-debugging. It is intended for security researchers and developers studying or building game-protection tools. The catalogue entries provide skills for AI coding agents related to the repository’s security workflows.

gmh5225/awesome-game-security · 3,656 stars · on GitHub · gs.awesome.rip

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 gmh5225/awesome-game-security --skill dma-attack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gmh5225/awesome-game-security

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 347 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 medium

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 →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 1162
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00045 $0.00347
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00139
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00035

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b6664c9e1bea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dma-attack-techniques 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/dma-attack/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

DMA attack techniques

Identify the memory initiator, transport, required privilege, isolation boundary, and observable artifacts before classifying a technique as DMA.

Topic routing

Use windows-kernel-security for host driver and kernel internals. Apply game-security-research-rigor before turning architecture claims into findings.

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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines b6664c9e1bea
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -1,648 lines · -59 tokens per session 53f9a6f1794c
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -114 lines · +34 tokens per session 37e884f7def0
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 1,782 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 4c6f8ee00a51

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dma-attack-techniques is a skill published in the GitHub repository gmh5225/awesome-game-security (3,656 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 347 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.