analyzing-java-jar-malware

analyzing-java-jar-malware is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 83 tokens per session (745 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to examining suspicious Java archive files, which are package files that can contain Java programs, without running them. It maps the archive, entry point, obfuscation, and signs of system, reflection, or network activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect JAR contents and manifests, find embedded payloads, detect obfuscators, identify suspicious APIs, and document possible capabilities.
Why use it?
It lets you triage a potentially malicious Java program while avoiding execution of the sample. The results show what the file may do before deeper decompilation or investigation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/analyzing-java-jar-malware
Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill analyzing-java-jar-malware
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 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 745 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00083 $0.00745
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00373
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00075

Measured 3d ago against content hash aa89f68360a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-java-jar-malware 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 3d 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-java-jar-malware/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Java/JAR Malware

When to Use

  • You have a malicious or suspicious .jar (often a cross-platform RAT) and need to map its structure, entry point, obfuscation, and capability surface before decompiling.
  • You want to triage a Java payload without running the JVM.

Do not use java -jar to run it — that executes the malware. Treat the JAR as a ZIP and read its contents statically.

Prerequisites

  • The JAR file, read inertly. Optional: a Java decompiler (CFR, Procyon) for the next stage.

Safety & Handling

  • Read the archive statically; never launch the JVM on the sample. Defang any URLs found.

Workflow

Step 1: Inventory the archive and entry point

python scripts/analyst.py inspect sample.jar

Lists .class files, embedded resources/payloads (nested JARs, scripts, encrypted blobs), and reads META-INF/MANIFEST.MF for Main-Class/Premain-Class.

Step 2: Detect obfuscation and packers

Flags obfuscator fingerprints (Allatori, ProGuard, Zelix), single-character class/package names, and string-decryption indicators.

Step 3: Flag capability classes

Surface dangerous API usage in strings/constant pools: Runtime.exec/ProcessBuilder, java.lang.reflect, URLClassLoader, javax.crypto, java.net.Socket, registry/persistence helpers.

Step 4: Route to decompilation

Hand the key classes to a decompiler (CFR/Procyon) for source recovery; record IOCs.

Validation

  • The manifest entry point is read and reported.
  • Embedded payloads/nested archives are enumerated.
  • Capability flags are backed by concrete class/string evidence.

Pitfalls

  • String-encrypted samples where capability strings appear only after decryption.
  • Multi-stage droppers that unpack a second JAR at runtime.
  • Benign obfuscated commercial JARs — corroborate with capability and delivery context.

References

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 3d ago First seen · 91 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A aa89f68360a6

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analyzing-java-jar-malware is a skill published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 745 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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