analyzing-command-and-control-communication

analyzing-command-and-control-communication is a skill for Claude Code from killvxk/cybersecurity-skills-zh. It costs 101 tokens per session (3,996 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for examining how malware communicates with its command-and-control server, the system that sends it instructions and receives data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analysing HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, UDP, ICMP, WebSocket, cloud-service, or email traffic from malware; creating detection rules; and mapping command-and-control infrastructure.
Why use it?
It helps turn captured network traffic and malware code into an understanding of communication patterns, message formats, and related infrastructure.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cybersecurity-skills-zh plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Analysing HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, UDP, ICMP, WebSocket, cloud-service, or email traffic from malware; creating detection rules; and mapping command-and-control infrastructure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/killvxk/cybersecurity-skills-zh/analyzing-command-and-control-communication
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add killvxk/cybersecurity-skills-zh --skill analyzing-command-and-control-communication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/killvxk/cybersecurity-skills-zh

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersecurity-skills-zh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,996 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00101 $0.03996
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01998
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00799
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00400

Measured 10d ago against content hash a862927b6dbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-command-and-control-communication scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

resp = requests.get(f"https://api.shodan.io/shodan/host/{ip}?key={api_key}")
skills/analyzing-command-and-control-communication/SKILL.md · 386 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 386 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

分析命令与控制通信

适用场景

  • 对恶意软件样本的逆向工程揭示了需要协议分析的网络通信
  • 为特定 C2 框架(Cobalt Strike、Metasploit、Sliver)构建网络级检测签名
  • 绘制 C2 基础设施图,包括主服务器、备用域名和投弃站
  • 分析加密或编码的 C2 流量以了解命令集和数据格式
  • 基于 C2 基础设施模式和工具对恶意软件进行威胁行为者溯源归因

不适用于一般网络异常检测;本技能专门用于从恶意软件分析中了解已知或疑似 C2 协议。

前置条件

  • 恶意软件网络流量的 PCAP 捕获(来自沙箱、网络分流或全包捕获)
  • Wireshark/tshark 用于数据包级分析
  • 逆向工程工具(Ghidra、dnSpy)用于了解恶意软件二进制文件中的 C2 代码
  • Python 3.8+,安装 scapydpktrequests 用于协议分析和重放
  • 威胁情报数据库用于 C2 基础设施关联(VirusTotal、Shodan、Censys)
  • JA3/JA3S 指纹数据库用于基于 TLS 的 C2 识别

工作流程

步骤 1:识别 C2 通道

确定用于 C2 通信的协议和传输方式:

C2 通信通道:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
HTTP/HTTPS:    最常见;使用标准 Web 流量进行混入
                指标:定期 POST/GET 请求、特定 URI 模式、自定义请求头

DNS:           通过 DNS 查询和响应进行数据隧道传输
                指标:大量 TXT 查询、长子域名、高熵值

自定义 TCP/UDP:使用非标准端口的私有二进制协议
                指标:高端口上的非 HTTP 流量、未知协议

ICMP:          编码在 ICMP 回显/回复载荷中的数据
                指标:具有大型或非标准载荷的 ICMP 数据包

WebSocket:     用于实时 C2 的持久双向连接
                指标:WebSocket 升级后跟随二进制帧

云服务:        使用合法 API(Telegram、Discord、Slack、GitHub)
                指标:非预期进程向云服务进行 API 调用

电子邮件:      使用 SMTP/IMAP 进行 C2 命令和数据外泄
                指标:非电子邮件进程的自动化邮件操作

步骤 2:分析 Beacon 模式

对周期性通信模式进行特征分析:

from scapy.all import rdpcap, IP, TCP
from collections import defaultdict
import statistics
import json

packets = rdpcap("c2_traffic.pcap")

# 按目标分组 TCP SYN 数据包
connections = defaultdict(list)
for pkt in packets:
    if IP in pkt and TCP in pkt and (pkt[TCP].flags & 0x02):
        key = f"{pkt[IP].dst}:{pkt[TCP].dport}"
        connections[key].append(float(pkt.time))

# 分析每个目标的 beacon 行为
for dst, times in sorted(connections.items()):
    if len(times) < 3:
        continue

    intervals = [times[i+1] - times[i] for i in range(len(times)-1)]
    avg_interval = statistics.mean(intervals)
    stdev = statistics.stdev(intervals) if len(intervals) > 1 else 0
    jitter_pct = (stdev / avg_interval * 100) if avg_interval > 0 else 0
    duration = times[-1] - times[0]

    beacon_data = {
        "destination": dst,
        "connections": len(times),
        "duration_seconds": round(duration, 1),
        "avg_interval_seconds": round(avg_interval, 1),
        "stdev_seconds": round(stdev, 1),
        "jitter_percent": round(jitter_pct, 1),
        "is_beacon": 5 < avg_interval < 7200 and jitter_pct < 25,
    }

    if beacon_data["is_beacon"]:
        print(f"[!] 检测到 BEACON:{dst}")
        print(f"    间隔:{avg_interval:.0f}s +/- {stdev:.0f}s({jitter_pct:.0f}% 抖动)")
        print(f"    会话:{len(times)} 次,持续 {duration:.0f}s")

Read the full file on GitHub · 386 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 386 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A a862927b6dbe

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analyzing-command-and-control-communication is a skill published in the GitHub repository killvxk/cybersecurity-skills-zh (44 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 3,996 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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