analyzing-certificate-transparency-for-phishing

analyzing-certificate-transparency-for-phishing is a skill for Claude Code from plurigrid/asi. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,798 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of analyzing-certificate-transparency-for-phishing, MIT.

A certificate-monitoring workflow based on Certificate Transparency logs, which are public records of issued website security certificates. It uses crt.sh and Certstream to find suspicious certificates and lookalike domains.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor brand impersonation, investigate phishing infrastructure, and send suspicious certificate findings into threat-intelligence workflows.
Why use it?
It can reveal phishing sites or unauthorized certificates early, before they are used against an organization.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the asi plugin — 56 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to monitor brand impersonation, investigate phishing infrastructure, and send suspicious certificate findings into threat-intelligence workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plurigrid/asi/analyzing-certificate-transparency-for-phishing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add plurigrid/asi --skill analyzing-certificate-transparency-for-phishing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plurigrid/asi

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,798 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 84% 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 $0.00039 $0.02798
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01399
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00560
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00280

Measured 7d ago against content hash dd4193f9501e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-certificate-transparency-for-phishing scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

resp = requests.get(self.CRT_SH_URL, params=params, timeout=30)
Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to analyzing-certificate-transparency-for-phishing — 56 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.

plugins/asi/skills/analyzing-certificate-transparency-for-phishing/SKILL.md · 321 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 321 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Certificate Transparency for Phishing

Overview

Certificate Transparency (CT) is an Internet security standard that creates a public, append-only log of all issued SSL/TLS certificates. Monitoring CT logs enables early detection of phishing domains that register certificates mimicking legitimate brands, unauthorized certificate issuance for owned domains, and certificate-based attack infrastructure. This skill covers querying CT logs via crt.sh, real-time monitoring with Certstream, building automated alerting for suspicious certificates, and integrating findings into threat intelligence workflows.

When to Use

  • When investigating security incidents that require analyzing certificate transparency for phishing
  • 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

  • Python 3.9+ with requests, certstream, tldextract, Levenshtein libraries
  • Access to crt.sh (https://crt.sh/) for historical CT log queries
  • Certstream (https://certstream.calidog.io/) for real-time monitoring
  • List of organization domains and brand keywords to monitor
  • Understanding of SSL/TLS certificate structure and issuance process

Key Concepts

Certificate Transparency Logs

CT logs are cryptographically assured, publicly auditable, append-only records of TLS certificate issuance. Major CAs (Let's Encrypt, DigiCert, Sectigo, Google Trust Services) submit all issued certificates to multiple CT logs. As of 2025, Chrome and Safari require CT for all publicly trusted certificates.

Phishing Detection via CT

Attackers register lookalike domains and obtain free certificates (often from Let's Encrypt) to make phishing sites appear legitimate with HTTPS. CT monitoring detects these early because the certificate appears in logs before the phishing campaign launches, providing a window for proactive blocking.

Read the full file on GitHub · 321 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. 7d ago First seen · 321 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A dd4193f9501e

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analyzing-certificate-transparency-for-phishing is a skill published in the GitHub repository plurigrid/asi (62 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,798 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 84% identical to analyzing-certificate-transparency-for-phishing, differing in 56 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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