mustang-panda-bronze-president

mustang-panda-bronze-president is a skill for Claude Code from PurpleAILAB/Decepticon. It costs 58 tokens per session (8,551 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A cyber-threat profile of Mustang Panda, a China-based state-sponsored espionage group also tracked under many other names. It describes the group's targets, malware, delivery methods, and regions of activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research Mustang Panda, study spearphishing, USB propagation, and DLL side-loading, or support threat detection and adversary emulation.
Why use it?
It brings information about the group's aliases and common attack patterns into one reference for security analysis.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to research Mustang Panda, study spearphishing, USB propagation, and DLL side-loading, or support threat detection and adversary emulation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/purpleailab/decepticon/mustang-panda
About the project

Decepticon is an autonomous red-team agent that coordinates AI agents, security tools, sandboxes, and supporting services for authorized cybersecurity assessments. Security researchers and red teams can run it through its Docker stack, cloud service, command-line interface, or Python SDK, with the catalogue entries representing its available skills.

PurpleAILAB/Decepticon · 5,482 stars · on GitHub · decepticon.red

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 PurpleAILAB/Decepticon --skill mustang-panda
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PurpleAILAB/Decepticon

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,551 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to critical

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 →

  • critical YARA Match · line 41
    YARA rule matched a known webshell pattern (PHP, Python, JSP, or ASPX webshell).
    Fix: Remove the webshell code immediately. Webshells provide unauthorized remote command execution. Audit the skill for additional backdoors or persistence mechanisms.
  • critical YARA Match · line 73
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
  • high YARA Match · line 41
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
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 $0.00058 $0.08551
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.04276
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01710
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00855

Measured 11d ago against content hash a4a2ee634815, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

mustang-panda-bronze-president scanned grade C with 2 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 11d 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.

Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

- **T1003** — OS credential dumping. Used "Hdump" to dump credentials from memory.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- **T1567.002** — Exfiltration to cloud storage. Exfiltrated archived files to Dropbox using `curl`.
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/shared/adversary-emulation/mustang-panda/SKILL.md · 258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mustang Panda (Bronze President, Stately Taurus, RedDelta, TA416) — Adversary Emulation Profile

Mustang Panda (MITRE ATT&CK G0129) is a China-based cyber-espionage threat actor conducting operations since at least 2012. Tracked under a dozen aliases — Bronze President (Secureworks), Stately Taurus / FIREANT (Unit 42), RedDelta (Recorded Future), TA416 (Proofpoint), Earth Preta (Trend Micro), HIVE0154 (IBM X-Force), Camaro Dragon (Check Point), Twill Typhoon / TANTALUM (Microsoft), LUMINOUS MOTH, UNC6384 / TEMP.Hex (Mandiant/Google TAG), Red Lich (PwC), and ClumsyToad (Cloudflare) — the group is best known for its prolific use of PlugX/Korplug RAT variants delivered through DLL side-loading, themed spearphishing lures, and USB-based propagation. Mustang Panda targets government, diplomatic, military, NGO, think-tank, and religious entities across Southeast Asia, Europe, and beyond, with sustained focus on Myanmar, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, and — since 2022 — European diplomatic bodies and Russia-related targets.

Attribution & motivation

  • Sponsor / nation: People's Republic of China — assessed as a state-sponsored espionage actor with a Chinese nexus. CrowdStrike first attributed the group in 2017; subsequent reporting from Secureworks, Recorded Future, Proofpoint, Trend Micro, Unit 42, Check Point, IBM X-Force, and Google TAG consistently attribute operations to PRC interests. A December 2024 U.S. DOJ affidavit supported seizure of U.S.-based computers infected with Mustang Panda's PlugX malware, formally linking the tool to PRC state-sponsored activity.
  • Motivation: Primarily strategic intelligence collection (espionage) aligned with PRC foreign-policy interests — diplomatic, military, and political intelligence from Southeast Asian governments, European diplomatic bodies, and organizations involved in issues sensitive to Beijing (Tibet, Taiwan, South China Sea, religious organizations).
  • Attribution confidence: High. Backed by consistent multi-vendor reporting (CrowdStrike, Secureworks, Recorded Future, Proofpoint, Unit 42, Trend Micro, ESET, Check Point, IBM X-Force, Google TAG, Zscaler), U.S. DOJ law-enforcement action (2024 PlugX seizure warrant), and shared infrastructure/tooling overlap across campaigns spanning 10+ years.

Read the full file on GitHub · 258 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. 11d ago First seen · 258 lines · 58 tokens per session scan C a4a2ee634815

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mustang-panda-bronze-president is a skill published in the GitHub repository PurpleAILAB/Decepticon (5,482 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 8,551 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (harvests environment variables, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.