traffic-analysis-pcap

traffic-analysis-pcap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yaklang/hack-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (3,082 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A guide to investigating PCAP files, which are recorded network-traffic captures. It covers common protocols, Wireshark and command-line analysis, file extraction, hidden channels, and damaged captures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect HTTP, DNS, FTP, email, USB, Wi-Fi, or ICMP traffic; extract files; investigate covert channels; and repair or convert capture files.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to understand what happened on a network and recover useful evidence from captured traffic.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to inspect HTTP, DNS, FTP, email, USB, Wi-Fi, or ICMP…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yaklang/hack-skills/traffic-analysis-pcap
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 · 2,098 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 traffic-analysis-pcap
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 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,082 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00064 $0.03082
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01541
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00616
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00308

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2bc48c779df9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

traffic-analysis-pcap scanned grade D 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 3d 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.

│ ├── Extract credentials (plaintext) (§3)

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

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

# Automated PCAP analysis: sudo apt install networkminer
Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/traffic-analysis-pcap/SKILL.md · 342 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 342 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Traffic Analysis & PCAP — Expert Analysis Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert traffic analysis and PCAP forensics techniques. Covers PCAP repair, Wireshark essential filters, protocol-specific analysis (HTTP, HTTPS/TLS, DNS, FTP, SMTP, USB HID, WiFi, ICMP), data extraction (file carving, credential harvesting, covert channels), NetworkMiner, and tshark CLI analysis. Base models miss USB keyboard decode patterns, DNS tunneling detection heuristics, and TLS decryption workflows.

Before going deep, consider loading:


1. PCAP REPAIR

pcapfix corrupted.pcap -o fixed.pcap           # repair corrupted PCAP
# Magic bytes: d4c3b2a1=pcap(LE), a1b2c3d4=pcap(BE), 0a0d0d0a=pcapng
editcap -F pcap capture.pcapng capture.pcap    # convert pcapng→pcap
mergecap -w merged.pcap file1.pcap file2.pcap  # merge captures

2. WIRESHARK ESSENTIAL FILTERS

IP / Host Filters

ip.addr == 10.0.0.1                  # source or destination
ip.src == 10.0.0.1                   # source only
ip.dst == 10.0.0.1                   # destination only
ip.addr == 10.0.0.0/24              # subnet
!(ip.addr == 10.0.0.1)              # exclude host

Protocol Filters

http                                  # all HTTP
dns                                   # all DNS
tcp                                   # all TCP
ftp                                   # all FTP
smtp                                  # all SMTP
tls                                   # all TLS/SSL
icmp                                  # all ICMP
arp                                   # all ARP

Read the full file on GitHub · 342 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. 3d ago First seen · 342 lines · 64 tokens per session scan D 2bc48c779df9

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traffic-analysis-pcap is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,098 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 3,082 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (harvests environment variables, asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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