analyzing-rust-malware-internals

analyzing-rust-malware-internals is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 67 tokens per session (697 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A static-analysis guide for examining malware compiled from Rust, a programming language. It identifies Rust build clues, converts encoded symbol names into readable names, and lists embedded Rust packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to confirm the Rust toolchain, decode function names, identify package names and versions, and relate notable packages to possible malware behavior.
Why use it?
Rust binaries can have difficult-to-read names and may contain much code from bundled packages. This guide makes their structure and possible components easier to document without running the file.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to confirm the Rust toolchain, decode function names, identify package names and versions, and relate notable packages to possible malware behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/analyzing-rust-malware-internals
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-rust-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 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 697 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 $0.00067 $0.00697
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00349
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00070

Measured 8d ago against content hash d31270b2ae19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-rust-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 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-rust-malware-internals/SKILL.md · 90 lines

What it actually says

Analyzing Rust Malware Internals

When to Use

  • You have a Rust-compiled binary and need to confirm the toolchain, demangle symbol names, and enumerate crate dependencies.
  • Standard analysis is hampered by Rust's name mangling and large static linking.

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

Prerequisites

  • The Rust binary (read inertly).

Safety & Handling

  • Read bytes statically; treat strings as untrusted.

Workflow

Step 1: Confirm Rust and toolchain

python scripts/analyst.py info sample.bin

Looks for rustc/cargo markers, the rust panic/unwind strings, and embedded source paths (/rustc/<hash>/library/..., ~/.cargo/registry/...).

Step 2: Demangle symbol names

Detects v0 (_R...) and legacy (_ZN...17h<hash>E) mangled symbols and demangles them to readable paths.

Step 3: Enumerate crates

Extract crate names/versions from .cargo/registry/src/.../<crate>-<ver>/ paths to fingerprint capabilities (e.g., reqwest, tokio, aes, winapi).

Step 4: Map and document

Map notable crates to behavior and ATT&CK.

Validation

  • The Rust toolchain signature is confirmed before demangling.
  • Demangled names are readable module paths (not still-mangled).
  • Crate names/versions are plausible registry entries.

Pitfalls

  • Mixing v0 and legacy mangling in one binary — handle both.
  • Stripped binaries where only registry path strings remain.
  • Static crates inflating the symbol set; focus on the author's crate/main.

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 · 67 tokens per session scan A d31270b2ae19

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analyzing-rust-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 67 tokens to every session and 697 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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