analyzing-malicious-iso-and-container-files

analyzing-malicious-iso-and-container-files is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 86 tokens per session (712 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A static-analysis guide for ISO, IMG, VHD, and similar disk-container files. These are image files that can hold several files, including hidden executables, shortcuts, or scripts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify the container format, list embedded entries, find hidden payloads, and map relationships such as a visible shortcut pointing to a concealed executable.
Why use it?
It helps inspect suspicious attachments without mounting or opening them, which could trigger the delivered lure or payload.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to identify the container format, list embedded entries, find hidden payloads, and map relationships such as a visible shortcut pointing to a concealed executable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/analyzing-malicious-iso-and-container-files
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill analyzing-malicious-iso-and-container-files
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 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 712 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 $0.00086 $0.00712
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00356
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00071

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7368745d8887, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-malicious-iso-and-container-files 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-malicious-iso-and-container-files/SKILL.md · 90 lines

What it actually says

Analyzing Malicious ISO and Container Files

When to Use

  • You have an ISO/IMG/VHD attachment suspected of smuggling a payload (LNK + hidden DLL/EXE/script) past MOTW and scanners.
  • You need to enumerate contents and flag hidden/executable entries without mounting the image.

Do not use mounting/auto-run to inspect — that can trigger the lure. Parse the container's directory records statically.

Prerequisites

  • The container file (read inertly). Optional: pycdlib for full ISO parsing (the script falls back to signature/string carving if absent).

Safety & Handling

  • Never mount or open the container interactively; carve statically. Defang any URLs found.

Workflow

Step 1: Identify the container type

python scripts/analyst.py inspect sample.iso

Detects ISO 9660 (CD001), UDF, FAT/VHD signatures and reports the format.

Step 2: Enumerate entries and flag payloads

Lists embedded file signatures (MZ, PK, LNK \x4C\x00\x00\x00, script headers) and flags hidden/executable/decoy entries.

Step 3: Assess the lure chain

A typical chain is a visible LNK pointing at a hidden DLL/EXE/script in the same image — document the relationship.

Step 4: Extract and route

Carve the hidden payload and route it to the appropriate analysis workflow; defang URLs.

Validation

  • The container format is identified by signature.
  • Hidden executables/LNKs/scripts are enumerated with offsets.
  • The lure→payload relationship is documented.

Pitfalls

  • Mounting the image and triggering the lure.
  • Missing payloads in less-common container formats (VHDX, UDF) without the right parser.
  • Overlooking hidden-attribute files that the file manager would not show.

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 · 90 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 7368745d8887

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analyzing-malicious-iso-and-container-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 712 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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