performing-dynamic-analysis-in-a-sandbox

performing-dynamic-analysis-in-a-sandbox is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 68 tokens per session (811 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A sandbox-analysis guide for running a sample in an isolated, instrumented virtual machine and recording what it does. It covers processes, files, registry changes, network activity, and persistence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to detonate a sample safely, collect behavioral reports and indicators of compromise, and compare observed behavior with static-analysis assumptions.
Why use it?
Static inspection can miss behavior hidden by packing or obfuscation. A controlled run provides evidence of the sample's runtime actions while limiting exposure to the analyst's systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to detonate a sample safely, collect behavioral reports and indicators of compromise, and compare observed behavior with static-analysis assumptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/performing-dynamic-analysis-in-a-sandbox
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill performing-dynamic-analysis-in-a-sandbox
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 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 811 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 $0.00068 $0.00811
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00405
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00081

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8ac9ead8d045, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performing-dynamic-analysis-in-a-sandbox 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/performing-dynamic-analysis-in-a-sandbox/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performing Dynamic Analysis in a Sandbox

When to Use

  • Static analysis is blocked by packing/obfuscation and you need to observe runtime behavior.
  • You want a behavioral picture: spawned processes, dropped files, registry edits, and C2.
  • You are confirming capabilities hypothesized from static analysis.

Do not use dynamic analysis as the only method — evasive samples may sleep, detect the sandbox, or require arguments. Pair it with static/RE work.

Prerequisites

  • An isolated lab with a victim VM and simulated internet (see the lab-setup skill).
  • A sandbox stack (CAPE/Cuckoo) or manual instrumentation: Process Monitor, Process Explorer, Regshot, and a packet capture on the services guest.
  • A clean base snapshot to revert to.

Safety & Handling

  • Detonate only inside the isolated victim VM; revert the snapshot after each run.
  • Route all network through the simulated-internet guest; never allow live egress.
  • Defang any captured URLs/IPs before they leave the lab.

Workflow

Step 1: Prepare instrumentation

Start Process Monitor (filtered to the target), Regshot baseline, and packet capture on the services guest. Snapshot the victim as clean.

Step 2: Detonate with the right context

Many samples need a parent (Office, rundll32), an export (rundll32 dll,Export), or arguments. Match the original delivery context or the sample stalls.

Step 3: Observe for the full behavior window

Watch process creation, file drops, registry Run keys/services, scheduled tasks, and network beacons. Give it several minutes; some samples sleep first.

Step 4: Summarize the report

Feed the sandbox JSON (or your collected logs) to the summarizer to group events into capabilities and IOCs:

python scripts/analyst.py summarize report.json

Step 5: Diff the system state

Compare Regshot/file baselines pre- and post-run to capture persistence and dropped artifacts.

Validation

  • The observed process tree and network match the static-analysis hypothesis.
  • Persistence mechanisms found dynamically are confirmed in registry/task artifacts.
  • Re-running from the clean snapshot reproduces the core behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 8d ago First seen · 104 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 8ac9ead8d045

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performing-dynamic-analysis-in-a-sandbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 811 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 2026-09-03.

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