analyzing-heap-spray-exploitation

analyzing-heap-spray-exploitation is a skill for Claude Code from plurigrid/asi. It costs 46 tokens per session (493 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of analyzing-heap-spray-exploitation, MIT.

A memory-forensics guide for finding heap sprays in a captured computer memory image. Heap spraying is an attack technique that fills memory with repeated exploit data to make code execution more likely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine process memory with Volatility3, locate possible heap-spray regions, and extract suspicious code for further analysis.
Why use it?
It helps investigators recognize suspicious memory allocations, repeated instruction patterns, and embedded shellcode during a security investigation.

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 examine process memory with Volatility3, locate possible heap-spray regions, and extract suspicious code for further analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plurigrid/asi/analyzing-heap-spray-exploitation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add plurigrid/asi --skill analyzing-heap-spray-exploitation
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 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 493 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 95% 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 $0.00493
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00049

Measured 7d ago against content hash 06739c8e7136, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-heap-spray-exploitation 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 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.

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

95% identical to analyzing-heap-spray-exploitation — 22 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-heap-spray-exploitation/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Analyzing Heap Spray Exploitation

Overview

Heap spraying is an exploitation technique that fills large regions of a process's heap with attacker-controlled data (typically NOP sleds followed by shellcode) to increase the reliability of code execution exploits. This skill covers detecting heap spray artifacts in memory dumps using Volatility3's malfind, vadinfo, and memmap plugins, identifying suspicious contiguous memory allocations, scanning for NOP sled patterns (0x90, 0x0c0c0c0c), and extracting embedded shellcode for analysis.

When to Use

  • When investigating security incidents that require analyzing heap spray exploitation
  • 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 volatility3 framework installed
  • Memory dump file (.raw, .vmem, .dmp format)
  • Understanding of virtual memory layout and VAD (Virtual Address Descriptor) trees
  • Familiarity with common shellcode patterns and NOP sled encodings

Steps

Step 1: Identify Suspicious Processes

Use Volatility3 windows.malfind to scan for processes with executable injected memory regions.

Step 2: Analyze VAD Entries

Examine VAD tree entries using windows.vadinfo for large contiguous allocations with RWX permissions.

Step 3: Scan for NOP Sled Patterns

Search suspicious memory regions for NOP sled signatures (0x90 sequences, 0x0c0c0c0c patterns).

Step 4: Extract and Analyze Shellcode

Dump suspicious memory regions and identify shellcode using byte pattern analysis.

Expected Output

JSON report with suspicious processes, heap spray indicators, NOP sled locations, memory region sizes, and extracted shellcode hashes.

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 · 49 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 06739c8e7136

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analyzing-heap-spray-exploitation is a skill published in the GitHub repository plurigrid/asi (62 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 493 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to analyzing-heap-spray-exploitation, differing in 22 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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