hashing-and-fingerprinting-files

hashing-and-fingerprinting-files is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 80 tokens per session (741 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A file-analysis workflow that calculates cryptographic and similarity fingerprints for malware samples. Exact hashes identify the same file, while fuzzy and structural hashes help group related variants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify, share, deduplicate, or cluster malware files without running them.
Why use it?
A file changing by one byte gets a different exact hash, making simple matching miss related samples. Multiple fingerprint types support lookups, deduplication, and malware-family pivots.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to identify, share, deduplicate, or cluster malware files without running them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/hashing-and-fingerprinting-files
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 hashing-and-fingerprinting-files
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 741 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 $0.00741
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00074

Measured 9d ago against content hash ad541fe9c665, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hashing-and-fingerprinting-files 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/hashing-and-fingerprinting-files/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.

Hashing and Fingerprinting Files

When to Use

  • You need a stable identity for a sample to look up, deduplicate, or share as an IOC.
  • You want to cluster related variants that differ slightly using fuzzy/similarity hashes.
  • You are computing imphash or section hashes to pivot across a malware family.

Do not use cryptographic hashes alone to judge similarity — a single byte change yields a completely different SHA-256; use fuzzy/import hashing for relatedness.

Prerequisites

  • Python with hashlib (stdlib); optionally ssdeep/python-tlsh for fuzzy hashes and pefile for imphash.
  • Samples handled in the isolated lab per the safe-handling skill.

Safety & Handling

  • Treat every sample as live: never execute it during hashing; operate on the inert file only.
  • Store samples encrypted/password-protected and reference them by hash, not by original name.

Workflow

Step 1: Compute cryptographic hashes

Generate MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256. SHA-256 is the canonical identity for sharing; MD5/SHA-1 aid lookups in legacy feeds.

python scripts/analyst.py hash sample.bin

Step 2: Compute structural hashes (PE)

For PE files, compute imphash (hash of the import table) and per-section hashes to pivot across samples built from the same toolchain.

Step 3: Compute fuzzy/similarity hashes

Generate ssdeep and/or TLSH digests so near-duplicates can be matched even when bytes differ.

Step 4: Record and cross-reference

Store all digests with the sample metadata; query threat-intel feeds by SHA-256 and cluster by imphash/fuzzy hash.

Validation

  • The same input always yields identical cryptographic hashes (deterministic).
  • Imphash matches across known-related samples; fuzzy hashes score high similarity for variants.
  • Digests are recorded alongside sample metadata for later pivoting.

Pitfalls

  • Treating MD5 collisions as identity proof; use SHA-256 as canonical.
  • Assuming different cryptographic hashes mean unrelated files; check fuzzy/import hashes.
  • Computing imphash on packed samples (imports are stubbed) and over-trusting the result.

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. 9d ago First seen · 91 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A ad541fe9c665

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hashing-and-fingerprinting-files 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 741 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 2026-09-03.

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