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.
npx skills add miru-zero/zero-brain --skill code-obfuscation-deobfuscationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/miru-zero/zero-brainWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/code-obfuscation-deobfuscation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/code-obfuscation-deobfuscation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/code-obfuscation-deobfuscation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/code-obfuscation-deobfuscation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/code-obfuscation-deobfuscation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00051 | $0.03546 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.01418 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00709 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00355 |
Grade A, and why
code-obfuscation-deobfuscation 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 1mo ago.
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.
This is a copy
97% identical to code-obfuscation-deobfuscation — 6 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 390 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
SKILL: Code Obfuscation & Deobfuscation — Expert Analysis Playbook
AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert techniques for identifying, classifying, and defeating code obfuscation in native binaries. Covers junk code, opaque predicates, SMC, control flow flattening, movfuscator, VM protectors (VMProtect/Themida/Code Virtualizer), string encryption, import hiding, and anti-disassembly tricks. Base models often conflate packing with obfuscation and miss the distinction between static and dynamic deobfuscation strategies.
0. RELATED ROUTING
- anti-debugging-techniques when the obfuscated binary also has anti-debug layers
- symbolic-execution-tools when using angr/Z3 for automated deobfuscation
- vm-and-bytecode-reverse for deep VM protector bytecode analysis
Quick identification picks
| Symptom in IDA/Ghidra | Likely Obfuscation | Start With |
|---|---|---|
| Flat CFG, single giant switch | Control flow flattening | Symbolic execution to recover CFG |
Only mov instructions |
movfuscator | demovfuscation / trace-based lifting |
| pushad/pushfd → VM entry | VM protector | Handler table extraction |
| XOR loop before code execution | SMC / string encryption | Dynamic analysis, breakpoint after decode |
| Impossible conditions (opaque predicates) | Junk code insertion | Pattern-based removal |
| All strings unreadable | String encryption | Hook decryption routine, or emulate |
| No imports in IAT | Import hiding | Trace GetProcAddress / hash resolution |
1. JUNK CODE & OPAQUE PREDICATES
1.1 Junk Code Insertion
Dead code that never affects program output, added to increase analysis time.
Identification:
- Instructions that write to registers/memory never read afterward
- Function calls whose return values are discarded and have no side effects
- Loops with invariant bounds that compute unused results
Removal strategy:
- Compute def-use chains (IDA/Ghidra data flow analysis)
- Mark instructions with no downstream use as dead
- Verify removal doesn't change program behavior (trace comparison)
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 390 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 4368d64f9efd
code-obfuscation-deobfuscation is a skill published in the GitHub repository miru-zero/zero-brain (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 3,546 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to code-obfuscation-deobfuscation, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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