analyzing-rat-command-and-control

analyzing-rat-command-and-control is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 72 tokens per session (656 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A static-analysis guide for examining how a remote access trojan communicates with its controller. A remote access trojan is malware that lets an operator control or monitor an infected computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map commands such as shell access, file transfer, screenshots, keylogging, webcam access, persistence, and proxying, then record the communication method and beacon details.
Why use it?
It helps document what the trojan can do and how it communicates without operating the malware or connecting to its server. This supports detection and impact assessment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to map commands such as shell access, file transfer, screenshots, keylogging, webcam access, persistence, and proxying, then record the communication method and beacon details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/analyzing-rat-command-and-control
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-rat-command-and-control
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 656 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 $0.00656
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00328
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00066

Measured 8d ago against content hash 725bcd56b4ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-rat-command-and-control 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 8d 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-rat-command-and-control/SKILL.md · 90 lines

What it actually says

Analyzing RAT Command and Control

When to Use

  • You have a RAT sample and need to map its command set (shell, file ops, screenshot, keylog, webcam, proxy), C2 transport, and beacon parameters.
  • You are cataloging operator capabilities for detection and impact assessment.

Do not use this to operate the RAT or connect to its C2 — characterize capabilities from inert static analysis.

Prerequisites

  • The RAT sample (read inertly), optionally with an extracted config.

Safety & Handling

  • Read bytes statically; defang C2 endpoints; never connect to the C2.

Workflow

Step 1: Map command handlers and capabilities

python scripts/analyst.py profile sample.bin

Matches command-keyword and API patterns for capability classes: remote shell, file transfer, screenshot/keylog/webcam, persistence, proxy/relay, and self-update.

Step 2: Identify the C2 transport

Detect HTTP(S), raw TCP, TLS, DNS, or messaging-platform transport from imports/strings, plus beacon intervals/user-agents where present.

Step 3: Build the capability matrix

Summarize capabilities and transport, mapping to ATT&CK.

Step 4: Defang and report

Defang endpoints and produce IOCs.

Validation

  • Capabilities are grouped into classes with the matched evidence.
  • The C2 transport is identified from concrete imports/strings.
  • Findings map to ATT&CK T1219/T1071.

Pitfalls

  • Generic API presence (e.g., gdi32) misread as screenshot capability — corroborate with command handlers.
  • Commodity RAT builders sharing strings across families — avoid over-attribution.
  • Encrypted command sets requiring config decryption first.

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. 8d ago First seen · 90 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 725bcd56b4ae

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analyzing-rat-command-and-control 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 656 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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