analyzing-golang-malware-internals

analyzing-golang-malware-internals is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 65 tokens per session (679 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A static-analysis guide for investigating malware compiled from Go, a programming language. It recovers function names, the Go version, and package paths even when ordinary symbol names were removed from the binary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to confirm a binary was built with Go, recover names from its internal function table, list embedded modules, and document suspicious components.
Why use it?
It helps explain a large or stripped Go executable without running it. Embedded package names and recovered functions can reveal what the program contains and which libraries it uses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to confirm a binary was built with Go, recover names from its internal function table, list embedded modules, and document suspicious components.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill analyzing-golang-malware-internals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 679 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.
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 $0.00065 $0.00679
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00340
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00068

Measured 11d ago against content hash b9e61805c3e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-golang-malware-internals 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 11d ago.

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

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.

skills/analyzing-golang-malware-internals/SKILL.md · 89 lines

What it actually says

Analyzing Golang Malware Internals

When to Use

  • You have a Go-compiled binary (often large, statically linked) and standard symbol recovery fails because user symbols are stripped.
  • You need function names from the pclntab, the Go version, and embedded package/module paths.

Do not use this for non-Go binaries — confirm the Go build signature first. This skill reads the binary statically and executes nothing.

Prerequisites

  • The Go binary (read inertly).

Safety & Handling

  • Read bytes statically; treat strings as untrusted data.

Workflow

Step 1: Confirm it is Go and get the version

python scripts/analyst.py info sample.bin

Looks for the Go build ID, the go1.x version string, and runtime. references.

Step 2: Recover function names from pclntab

The pclntab (preceded by a magic like \xfb\xff\xff\xff/\xf0\xff\xff\xff across Go versions) contains function name strings; extract main.*, package-qualified, and runtime.* names.

Step 3: Enumerate package paths

List embedded import/module paths (github.com/..., vendored deps) to fingerprint capabilities and third-party libraries.

Step 4: Map and document

Map suspicious packages (networking, crypto, exec) to behavior and ATT&CK.

Validation

  • The Go build signature/version is confirmed before deeper parsing.
  • Recovered names include plausible main.*/package-qualified functions.
  • Package paths are real module paths, not random strings.

Pitfalls

  • pclntab magic differs across Go versions; try the known set.
  • Obfuscators (garble) rename symbols and strip build info — names may be hashed.
  • Confusing vendored library code with the author's main package.

References

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. 11d ago First seen · 89 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A b9e61805c3e4

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analyzing-golang-malware-internals is a skill published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 679 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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