analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra

analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra is a skill for Claude Code from oyi77/1ai-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (3,385 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra, MIT.

A guide for examining malware compiled from Go, the programming language, in Ghidra, a tool for studying compiled programs. It covers recovering functions, extracting strings, and reconstructing types when the binary has been stripped of useful names.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during security-incident investigations, threat hunting, detection-rule development, or structured analysis of stripped Go malware in Ghidra.
Why use it?
Go malware often produces large, statically linked files with many functions and unusual string formats, which can make analysis difficult. The guide provides procedures for handling those Go-specific obstacles.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the 1ai-skills plugin — 209 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it during security-incident investigations, threat hunting, detection-rule development, or structured analysis of stripped Go malware in Ghidra.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,385 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00060 $0.03385
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01692
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00677
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00338

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1316bea32e4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra 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.

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

86% identical to analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra — 80 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.

cybersecurity/analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra/SKILL.md · 371 lines

How it starts

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Analyzing Golang Malware with Ghidra

Overview

Go (Golang) has become a popular language for malware authors due to its cross-compilation capabilities, static linking that produces self-contained binaries, and the complexity it introduces for reverse engineering. Go binaries contain the entire runtime, standard library, and all dependencies statically linked, resulting in large binaries (often 5-15MB) with thousands of functions. Ghidra struggles with Go-specific string formats (non-null-terminated), stripped function names, and goroutine concurrency patterns. Specialized tools like GoResolver (Volexity, 2025) use control-flow graph similarity to automatically deobfuscate and recover function names in stripped or obfuscated Go binaries.

When to Use

Trigger phrases:

  • "analyzing golang malware with ghidra"

  • "Reverse engineer Go-compiled malware using Ghidra with specialized scripts for f"

  • When investigating security incidents that require analyzing golang malware with ghidra

  • 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

  • Ghidra 11.0+ with JDK 17+
  • GoResolver plugin (for function name recovery)
  • Go Reverse Engineering Tool Kit (go-re.tk)
  • Python 3.9+ for helper scripts
  • Understanding of Go runtime internals (goroutines, channels, interfaces)
  • Familiarity with Go binary structure (pclntab, moduledata, itab)

Key Concepts

This section covers key concepts for analyzing golang malware with ghidra.

  • Ensure all prerequisites are met before proceeding
  • Follow the documented workflow steps in sequence
  • Record results and any anomalies encountered during this phase

Go Binary Structure

Go binaries embed rich metadata in the pclntab (PC Line Table) structure, which maps program counters to function names, source files, and line numbers. Even stripped binaries retain this metadata. The moduledata structure contains pointers to type information, itabs (interface tables), and the pclntab itself. Go strings are stored as a pointer-length pair rather than null-terminated C strings.

Read the full file on GitHub · 371 lines

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 · 371 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 1316bea32e4e

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analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra is a skill published in the GitHub repository oyi77/1ai-skills (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 3,385 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra, differing in 80 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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