analyzing-wiper-malware

analyzing-wiper-malware is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 75 tokens per session (724 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A static-analysis workflow for examining wiper malware, a type of malicious software designed to destroy data or disks rather than demand payment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect raw-disk and boot-record writes, mass file deletion, backup removal, recovery disabling, log clearing, and signs that a sample lacks ransomware behavior.
Why use it?
It helps identify destructive behavior safely without running the sample, and separates irreversible wiping from ransomware, which encrypts files to seek a ransom.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to inspect raw-disk and boot-record writes, mass file deletion, backup removal, recovery disabling, log clearing, and signs that a sample lacks ransomware behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/analyzing-wiper-malware
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill analyzing-wiper-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 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 724 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 $0.00075 $0.00724
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00072

Measured 9d ago against content hash e39e9f9cbcac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-wiper-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 9d 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-wiper-malware/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Wiper Malware

When to Use

  • You have a sample suspected of destructive intent and need to identify disk-overwrite, MBR/VBR tampering, and mass-deletion primitives.
  • You must distinguish a wiper (irreversible destruction) from ransomware (encryption for ransom).

Do not use this on a live host or by running the sample — destructive behavior is the threat. Analyze statically in isolation.

Prerequisites

  • The sample, read inertly.

Safety & Handling

  • Read bytes statically; never execute. A wiper run is unrecoverable — isolation is mandatory.

Workflow

Step 1: Detect destructive primitives

python scripts/analyst.py scan sample.bin

Flags raw-disk handles (\\.\PhysicalDrive, \\.\C:), DeviceIoControl, MBR/VBR write patterns, CreateFileMapping over the boot sector, and bulk DeleteFile/overwrite loops.

Step 2: Detect backup/recovery destruction

Surface vssadmin delete shadows, wbadmin delete, bcdedit /set recoveryenabled no, and wevtutil cl (log clearing) — common wiper recovery-denial steps.

Step 3: Distinguish wiper vs ransomware

Weigh destruction-without-crypto and absence of a ransom note / key exchange against encryption-and-extortion indicators to classify intent.

Step 4: Document

Record the destruction method (overwrite pattern, MBR vs file-level) and recovery-denial steps.

Validation

  • Destructive primitives reference real raw-disk/boot-record APIs, not generic file IO.
  • Recovery-denial commands are detected where present.
  • The wiper-vs-ransomware classification cites concrete evidence.

Pitfalls

  • Disk utilities and secure-erase tools share these primitives — context is essential.
  • Pseudo-ransomware wipers that display a note but cannot decrypt (intent is destruction).
  • Bootloader-only wipers needing boot-sector analysis (pair with the rootkit/bootkit skill).

References

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 9d ago First seen · 90 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A e39e9f9cbcac

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analyzing-wiper-malware is a skill published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 724 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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