analyzing-malware-persistence-with-autoruns

analyzing-malware-persistence-with-autoruns is a skill for Claude Code from killvxk/cybersecurity-skills-zh. It costs 53 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Windows malware-analysis procedure that uses Sysinternals Autoruns to find programs configured to start automatically. Autoruns lists startup locations such as registry entries, services, scheduled tasks, drivers, and other system extensions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan Windows systems or forensic disk images, filter signed entries, compare startup data with a baseline, and check suspicious file hashes with VirusTotal.
Why use it?
Malware often survives a restart by adding itself to one of these startup locations. Comparing results with a clean baseline and checking signatures can help highlight suspicious additions.

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 Use it to scan Windows systems or forensic disk images, filter signed entries, compare startup data with a baseline, and check suspicious file hashes with VirusTotal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/killvxk/cybersecurity-skills-zh/analyzing-malware-persistence-with-autoruns
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add killvxk/cybersecurity-skills-zh --skill analyzing-malware-persistence-with-autoruns
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 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 998 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 $0.00053 $0.00998
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00499
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00100

Measured 11d ago against content hash 02b8bcac989d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-malware-persistence-with-autoruns 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 11d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

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

result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=600)
skills/analyzing-malware-persistence-with-autoruns/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

使用 Autoruns 分析恶意软件持久化

概述

Sysinternals Autoruns 从 Windows 上的数百个自动启动扩展点(ASEP)提取数据,扫描 18 个以上类别,包括 Run/RunOnce 键、服务、计划任务、驱动程序、Winlogon 条目、LSA 提供程序、打印监视器、WMI 订阅和 AppInit DLL。数字签名验证过滤 Microsoft 签名条目。比较功能通过基线差异识别新增的持久化机制。VirusTotal 集成检查哈希信誉。通过 -z 标志进行离线分析,支持取证磁盘镜像检查。

前置条件

  • Sysinternals Autoruns(GUI)和 Autorunsc(CLI)
  • 目标系统上的管理员权限
  • Python 3.9+,用于自动化分析
  • VirusTotal API 密钥,用于信誉检查
  • 干净的基线导出,用于比对

操作步骤

步骤 1:自动化持久化扫描

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""自动化基于 Autoruns 的持久化分析。"""
import subprocess
import csv
import json
import sys


def scan_and_analyze(autorunsc_path="autorunsc64.exe", csv_path="scan.csv"):
    cmd = [autorunsc_path, "-a", "*", "-c", "-h", "-s", "-nobanner", "*"]
    result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=600)
    with open(csv_path, 'w') as f:
        f.write(result.stdout)
    return parse_and_flag(csv_path)


def parse_and_flag(csv_path):
    suspicious = []
    with open(csv_path, 'r', errors='replace') as f:
        for row in csv.DictReader(f):
            reasons = []
            signer = row.get("Signer", "")
            if not signer or signer == "(Not verified)":
                reasons.append("未签名的二进制文件")
            if not row.get("Description") and not row.get("Company"):
                reasons.append("缺少元数据")
            path = row.get("Image Path", "").lower()
            for sp in ["\temp\\", "\appdata\local\temp", "\users\public\\"]:
                if sp in path:
                    reasons.append(f"可疑路径")
            launch = row.get("Launch String", "").lower()
            for kw in ["powershell", "cmd /c", "wscript", "mshta", "regsvr32"]:
                if kw in launch:
                    reasons.append(f"LOLBin:{kw}")
            if reasons:
                row["reasons"] = reasons
                suspicious.append(row)
    return suspicious


if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        results = parse_and_flag(sys.argv[1])
        print(f"[!] {len(results)} 个可疑条目")
        for r in results:
            print(f"  {r.get('Entry','')} - {r.get('Image Path','')}")
            for reason in r.get('reasons', []):
                print(f"    - {reason}")

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 11d ago First seen · 93 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 02b8bcac989d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

analyzing-malware-persistence-with-autoruns is a skill published in the GitHub repository killvxk/cybersecurity-skills-zh (44 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 998 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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