extracting-config-from-a-running-sample

extracting-config-from-a-running-sample is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 75 tokens per session (699 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A static workflow for recovering a malware program’s settings from a process memory dump captured after the program was run in an isolated sandbox. It searches decrypted memory for command-and-control servers, ports, campaign identifiers, mutexes, and keys, then decodes common obfuscation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract and sanity-check hosts, IP addresses, ports, identifiers, mutexes, and keys from a memory dump, while treating recovered endpoints as unsafe data.
Why use it?
Malware often hides its settings until it is running, so the original file may not show them clearly. Working from a captured dump can reveal the values without running the sample again.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to extract and sanity-check hosts, IP addresses, ports, identifiers, mutexes, and keys from a memory dump, while treating recovered endpoints as unsafe data.

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Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill extracting-config-from-a-running-sample
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 699 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 $0.00699
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00349
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00070

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4770dc57bf43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

extracting-config-from-a-running-sample 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 10d 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/extracting-config-from-a-running-sample/SKILL.md · 89 lines

What it actually says

Extracting Config From a Running Sample

When to Use

  • You have a process memory dump of a detonated sample whose config is decrypted in memory.
  • You need to recover C2 endpoints, ports, campaign/botnet IDs, mutexes, and keys.

Do not use this to detonate the sample — it consumes a dump already captured in an isolated sandbox. For static-only config decryption, use the dedicated config-decryptor workflow.

Prerequisites

  • A process memory dump (.dmp/raw region) captured after the config was decrypted.

Safety & Handling

  • Treat the dump as malicious data; read it inertly and defang recovered endpoints.

Workflow

Step 1: Hunt config indicators

python scripts/analyst.py hunt process.dmp

Scans for URLs, IPv4:port pairs, mutex-like tokens, base64 blobs, and printable key/value candidates in decrypted regions.

Step 2: Decode obfuscation layers

For candidate blobs, try common transforms (single-byte XOR brute force, base64) and re-scan the decoded output for endpoints.

Step 3: Structure and validate the config

Assemble recovered fields into a structured config and sanity-check (valid hosts, plausible ports, consistent campaign IDs).

Step 4: Defang and report

Defang hosts/URLs and document the offsets where the config was recovered.

Validation

  • Recovered endpoints are real, parseable hosts/ports — not random byte noise.
  • XOR/base64 decode is confirmed by the decoded output containing new endpoints/strings.
  • The final config is defanged before sharing.

Pitfalls

  • Mistaking unrelated in-memory URLs (browser, OS) for C2 — corroborate with the sample's region.
  • Single-byte XOR brute force producing coincidental strings; require multiple corroborating hits.
  • Reporting raw, live C2 endpoints without defanging.

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. 10d ago First seen · 89 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 4770dc57bf43

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extracting-config-from-a-running-sample 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 699 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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