malware-analysis

malware-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from woohyun212/security-skill. It costs 33 tokens per session (4,078 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A multi-stage investigation of a suspicious file, such as a program, script, or document. It examines the file without running it, observes it in a controlled environment, and studies its code and behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during incident response or reverse engineering to produce indicators of compromise, YARA and Sigma detection rules, and MITRE ATT&CK mappings.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether a sample is malicious, what it does, how it communicates, and how defenders can recognize it.

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/woohyun212/security-skill/malware-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add woohyun212/security-skill --skill malware-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/woohyun212/security-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for malware-analysis

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/woohyun212/security-skill/malware-analysis"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/woohyun212/security-skill/malware-analysis.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,078 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00033 $0.04078
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.02039
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00816
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00408

Measured 5d ago against content hash a11e21d7ff4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

malware-analysis scanned grade A 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 5d 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- `DIE` (Detect It Easy): `sudo apt install detect-it-easy` or https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s --request GET \
malware-analysis/SKILL.md · 353 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 353 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What this skill does

Runs a five-phase malware analysis pipeline on a suspicious file: triage (file type, hashes, VirusTotal lookup, YARA), static analysis (PE/ELF headers, imports, strings, packer detection), dynamic analysis (sandbox detonation, process/network/filesystem monitoring), code analysis (disassembly, decompilation, algorithm/C2 identification), and classification (malware family, MITRE ATT&CK TTP mapping). Produces a structured report with IOCs, detection rules, and remediation guidance.

When to use

  • Analyzing a suspicious binary, script, or document during incident response
  • Performing malware reverse engineering for threat intelligence
  • Producing YARA/Sigma/Snort detection rules from a malware sample
  • Mapping an unknown sample to a known malware family or APT toolset

Prerequisites

  • file, sha256sum, md5sum, sha1sum, strings (standard Linux utilities)
  • python3 with yara-python: pip install yara-python
  • FLOSS (FireEye Labs Obfuscated String Solver): https://github.com/mandiant/flare-floss
  • DIE (Detect It Easy): sudo apt install detect-it-easy or https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
  • ssdeep: sudo apt install ssdeep
  • oletools for document analysis: pip install oletools
  • Ghidra or IDA Pro for code analysis (optional, for Phase 4)
  • x64dbg (Windows) for dynamic API tracing (optional)
  • ANY.RUN or Cuckoo sandbox access for dynamic analysis (optional)
  • Environment variable VT_API_KEY for VirusTotal lookups

Inputs

Variable Description Example
SAMPLE_PATH Path to the suspicious file /tmp/suspicious.exe
VT_API_KEY VirusTotal API key (optional) abc123...
YARA_RULES_DIR Directory containing YARA rule files (optional) /opt/yara-rules/
SANDBOX_URL Cuckoo sandbox API URL (optional) http://cuckoo.local:8090

Workflow

Phase 1: Triage

Step 1.1 – 1.2: Setup, file identification, and hash calculation

Read the full file on GitHub · 353 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. 5d ago First seen · 353 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A a11e21d7ff4f

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malware-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository woohyun212/security-skill (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 4,078 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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