bypassing-anti-vm-and-sandbox-checks

bypassing-anti-vm-and-sandbox-checks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 80 tokens per session (723 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for locating and neutralizing anti-virtual-machine and anti-sandbox checks in malware. These checks try to detect analysis environments and refuse to run in them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find artifact, timing, CPU, network-adapter, registry, and process checks, then plan targeted patches, API hooks, or isolated virtual-machine changes for controlled analysis.
Why use it?
It helps analysts study samples that hide their behavior in virtual machines or sandboxes, while limiting changes to the evasion gate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to find artifact, timing, CPU, network-adapter, registry, and process checks, then plan targeted patches, API hooks, or isolated virtual-machine changes for controlled analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/bypassing-anti-vm-and-sandbox-checks
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill bypassing-anti-vm-and-sandbox-checks
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 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 723 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 $0.00080 $0.00723
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00072

Measured 12d ago against content hash 624a8342142d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bypassing-anti-vm-and-sandbox-checks 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 12d 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/bypassing-anti-vm-and-sandbox-checks/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bypassing Anti-VM and Sandbox Checks

When to Use

  • An evasive sample refuses to detonate under analysis and you need to locate and neutralize its anti-VM/sandbox checks (artifact strings, timing stalls, CPUID hypervisor bit, MAC/registry checks).
  • You are planning patches or environment hardening to force execution.

Do not use patching as a shortcut that changes malicious logic — patch only the evasion gate. Run only in an isolated, instrumented VM with snapshots.

Prerequisites

  • The sample and a debugger/disassembler on an isolated VM.

Safety & Handling

  • The sample executes during bypass work; use a disposable, snapshotted, network-controlled VM.

Workflow

Step 1: Locate the evasion checks

python scripts/analyst.py locate sample.bin

Reports offsets of anti-VM artifact strings, timing APIs (GetTickCount, rdtsc), CPUID usage, and environment-fingerprint APIs to point you at the detection routines.

Step 2: Plan the bypass

For each check decide the approach: patch the conditional jump after the check, hook/stub the API to return benign values, or harden the VM (rename adapters, patch registry, add fake processes).

Step 3: Apply and verify

Patch the gate (e.g., force the "not detected" branch) and confirm the sample proceeds past the check.

Step 4: Document

Record each check, its offset, and the bypass applied for reproducibility.

Validation

  • Each located check maps to a real detection primitive (string/timing/CPUID/API).
  • The patched/hooked gate provably lets execution continue.
  • Only the evasion gate is altered, not the payload logic.

Pitfalls

  • Multiple layered checks — bypassing one is not enough.
  • Timing checks needing instruction-accurate handling (rdtsc deltas).
  • Anti-tamper detecting the patch; prefer hooking returns over byte patches when fragile.

References

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 12d ago First seen · 91 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 624a8342142d

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bypassing-anti-vm-and-sandbox-checks is a skill published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 723 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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