analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques

analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques is a skill for Claude Code from Mikaru0Mystic/sectinel. It costs 46 tokens per session (558 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques, Apache-2.0.

A guide for finding signs that malware detects or avoids analysis environments, such as virtual machines and automated sandboxes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect Cuckoo Sandbox or AnyRun reports for timing checks, virtual-machine artifacts, user-interaction checks, and environment fingerprinting.
Why use it?
Some malware changes its behavior when it notices analysis clues, making ordinary testing incomplete or misleading.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cybersecurity-skills plugin — 56 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps inspect Cuckoo Sandbox or AnyRun reports for timing checks, virtual-machine artifacts, user-interaction checks, and environment fingerprinting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mikaru0mystic/sectinel/analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques
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 Mikaru0Mystic/sectinel --skill analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mikaru0Mystic/sectinel

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersecurity-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 558 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 83% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00046 $0.00558
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00279
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00056

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5f7eb5351183, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.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.

Origin

This is a copy

83% identical to analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

arsenal/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills/skills/analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques/SKILL.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

Analyzing Malware Sandbox Evasion Techniques

Overview

Sandbox evasion (MITRE ATT&CK T1497) allows malware to detect analysis environments and alter behavior to avoid detection. This skill analyzes behavioral reports from Cuckoo Sandbox and AnyRun for evasion indicators including timing-based checks (GetTickCount, QueryPerformanceCounter, sleep inflation), VM artifact detection (registry keys, MAC address prefixes, process names like vmtoolsd.exe), user interaction checks (mouse movement, keyboard input), and environment fingerprinting (disk size, CPU count, RAM). Detection rules flag samples exhibiting these behaviors for deeper manual analysis.

When to Use

  • When investigating security incidents that require analyzing malware sandbox evasion techniques
  • When building detection rules or threat hunting queries for this domain
  • When SOC analysts need structured procedures for this analysis type
  • When validating security monitoring coverage for related attack techniques

Prerequisites

  • Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0+ or AnyRun account for behavioral analysis reports
  • Python 3.8+ with json library for report parsing
  • Behavioral report exports in JSON format

Steps

  1. Parse Cuckoo/AnyRun behavioral report JSON files
  2. Extract API call sequences for timing-related functions
  3. Identify VM artifact detection via registry queries and WMI calls
  4. Detect sleep inflation by comparing requested vs actual sleep durations
  5. Flag user interaction checks (GetCursorPos, GetAsyncKeyState patterns)
  6. Score evasion sophistication based on technique count and diversity
  7. Map detected techniques to MITRE ATT&CK T1497 sub-techniques

Expected Output

JSON report listing detected evasion techniques with MITRE ATT&CK mapping, API call evidence, evasion sophistication score, and classification of evasion categories (timing, VM detection, user interaction, environment fingerprinting).

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. 11d ago First seen · 64 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 5f7eb5351183

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analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mikaru0Mystic/sectinel (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 558 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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