analyzing-position-independent-code

analyzing-position-independent-code is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 72 tokens per session (710 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A static-analysis guide for position-independent code, including shellcode that can run from different memory locations without fixed imports. It explains how the code finds itself and resolves system functions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify self-location methods, Windows process structures, API-hashing loops, architecture, and the code's address-resolution behavior.
Why use it?
It makes shellcode understandable enough to disassemble at the correct starting address without executing it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to identify self-location methods, Windows process structures, API-hashing loops, architecture, and the code's address-resolution behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/analyzing-position-independent-code
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.

Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill analyzing-position-independent-code
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 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 710 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 $0.00072 $0.00710
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00355
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00071

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7b0f12d1c5f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-position-independent-code 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 7d 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-position-independent-code/SKILL.md · 89 lines

What it actually says

Analyzing Position-Independent Code

When to Use

  • You have a PIC blob/shellcode that resolves its own addresses and APIs without imports, and you need to understand its technique before disassembly.
  • You want to identify the base-resolution (GetPC), PEB-walk, and API-hashing mechanics.

Do not use this to execute the code — analyze it statically (and emulate separately if needed). Treat the blob as malicious.

Prerequisites

  • The PIC/shellcode blob (read inertly).

Safety & Handling

  • Read bytes statically; store the blob password-protected and never execute it.

Workflow

Step 1: Identify PIC techniques

python scripts/analyst.py analyze shellcode.bin

Detects GetPC stubs (call $+5/fnstenv), PEB access (fs:[30]/gs:[60]), API-hash loops (lodsb + ror), and stack-string construction.

Step 2: Determine architecture and base behavior

Confirm 32- vs 64-bit PEB access and how the code computes its own base for relative addressing.

Step 3: Map API resolution

Note the hashing algorithm and that resolved APIs are obtained by walking the PEB→LDR→export tables (pair with the API-hash resolver skill).

Step 4: Disassemble at the right base

Load the blob at the inferred base/entry in a disassembler/emulator and proceed.

Validation

  • PIC technique hits reference real patterns (GetPC/PEB/API-hash), not arbitrary bytes.
  • Architecture is consistent with the PEB-access form detected.
  • The analysis points to a concrete entry/base for disassembly.

Pitfalls

  • Encoded/staged shellcode where the PIC patterns appear only after decoding.
  • Mixed 32/64-bit (WoW64) transitions.
  • Custom GetPC variants not matching common signatures.

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. 7d ago First seen · 89 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 7b0f12d1c5f7

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analyzing-position-independent-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 710 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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