anti-debugging-techniques

anti-debugging-techniques is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge. It costs 46 tokens per session (3,845 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of anti-debugging-techniques, MIT.

A guide to detecting and bypassing anti-debugging checks in Linux and Windows programs. Anti-debugging means software tries to detect tools used to inspect or reverse engineer it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analyzing checks based on ptrace, Windows process flags, timing, signals, exceptions, and thread-local callbacks, with bypass methods for each.
Why use it?
It helps reverse engineers understand why a protected program behaves differently under a debugger and choose a corresponding bypass approach.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shulkwisec/bb-huge/anti-debugging-techniques
Any agent
npx skills add ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge --skill anti-debugging-techniques
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 3,845 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00046 $0.03845
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01922
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00769
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00384

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4f26ae837d36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anti-debugging-techniques 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 4d 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

100% identical to anti-debugging-techniques — 0 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.

skills/curated/anti-debugging-techniques/SKILL.md · 408 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 408 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Anti-Debugging Techniques — Detection & Bypass Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert anti-debug techniques across Linux and Windows. Covers ptrace, PEB flags, NtQueryInformationProcess, timing attacks, signal-based detection, TLS callbacks, VEH tricks, and all corresponding bypass methods. Base models often miss the distinction between user-mode and kernel-mode detection and the correct patching strategy for each.

Advanced Reference

Also load ANTI_DEBUG_MATRIX.md when you need:

  • Complete cross-reference matrix of technique × OS × detection method × bypass method
  • Per-technique reliability ratings and false-positive notes
  • Tool compatibility chart (GDB, x64dbg, WinDbg, Frida, ScyllaHide)

Quick bypass picks

Detection Class First Bypass Backup
ptrace-based (Linux) LD_PRELOAD hook ptrace() → return 0 Kernel module to hide tracer
PEB.BeingDebugged (Windows) Patch PEB byte at fs:[0x30]+0x2 ScyllaHide auto-patch
Timing check (rdtsc) Conditional BP after rdtsc, fix registers Frida hook rdtsc return
IsDebuggerPresent NOP the call / hook return 0 x64dbg built-in hide
INT 2D / UD2 exception Set VEH to handle gracefully TitanHide driver

1. LINUX ANTI-DEBUG TECHNIQUES

1.1 ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME)

The classic self-attach: a process calls ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, 0, 0). If a debugger is already attached, the call fails (returns -1).

if (ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, 0, 0) == -1) {
    exit(1); // debugger detected
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 408 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 408 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 4f26ae837d36

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anti-debugging-techniques is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 3,845 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to anti-debugging-techniques, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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