analyzing-malicious-url-with-urlscan

analyzing-malicious-url-with-urlscan is a skill for Claude Code from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (959 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to investigating suspicious web addresses with URLScan.io, a service that opens pages in an isolated browser and records what they do. It captures screenshots, page content, web requests, scripts, and connections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine phishing and credential-stealing pages, capture screenshots, inspect HTML and scripts, review HTTP activity, and analyze redirects.
Why use it?
It lets analysts inspect phishing and malicious redirect pages without opening them directly on their own computer. The recorded activity makes hidden page behavior easier to review.

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 Use it to examine phishing and credential-stealing pages, capture screenshots, inspect HTML and scripts, review HTTP activity, and analyze redirects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/analyzing-malicious-url-with-urlscan
About the project

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills is a library of structured cybersecurity procedures for AI agents, covering security domains and mappings to established security frameworks. It is for authorized security analysis, penetration testing, incident response, research, defense, and education across compatible AI platforms. The catalogue entries package parts of this library as agent skills, instructions, or a plugin.

mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills · 32,631 stars · on GitHub · mahipal.engineer

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 mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill analyzing-malicious-url-with-urlscan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

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 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 959 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 7 Apr 2026
  • Snyk fail 7 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high YARA Match · line 11
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00048 $0.00959
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00479
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00096

Measured 12d ago against content hash 82f4a952f988, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-malicious-url-with-urlscan 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/agent.py, scripts/process.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

Copies of this mod

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/analyzing-malicious-url-with-urlscan/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Malicious URL with URLScan

Overview

URLScan.io is a free service for scanning and analyzing suspicious URLs. It captures screenshots, DOM content, HTTP transactions, JavaScript behavior, and network connections of web pages in an isolated environment. This skill covers using URLScan's web interface and API to investigate phishing URLs, credential harvesting pages, and malicious redirects without exposing the analyst's system to risk.

When to Use

  • When investigating security incidents that require analyzing malicious url with urlscan
  • 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

  • URLScan.io account (free tier available, API key for automation)
  • Python 3.8+ with requests library
  • Understanding of HTTP protocols and web technologies
  • Familiarity with phishing URL patterns

Key Concepts

URLScan Capabilities

  1. Safe browsing: Renders URLs in isolated Chromium instance
  2. Screenshot capture: Visual snapshot of the rendered page
  3. DOM analysis: Full HTML content after JavaScript execution
  4. Network log: All HTTP requests made by the page (HAR format)
  5. Certificate analysis: SSL/TLS certificate details
  6. Technology detection: Identifies web frameworks and libraries
  7. IP/ASN mapping: Infrastructure intelligence
  8. Verdict: Community and automated classification

Phishing URL Red Flags

  • Newly registered domains (< 30 days)
  • Free hosting services (Wix, GitHub Pages, Firebase)
  • URL shorteners hiding final destination
  • Excessive subdomain depth (login.microsoft.com.evil.com)
  • Brand name in subdomain or path, not domain
  • Non-standard ports
  • Data URIs or base64-encoded content
  • JavaScript-heavy pages with minimal HTML

Workflow

Step 1: Submit URL to URLScan

Web: Navigate to https://urlscan.io and submit the suspicious URL
API: POST https://urlscan.io/api/v1/scan/
     Header: API-Key: your-api-key
     Body: {"url": "https://suspicious-url.com", "visibility": "private"}

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 12d ago First seen · 113 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 82f4a952f988

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analyzing-malicious-url-with-urlscan is a skill published in the GitHub repository mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills (32,631 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 959 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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