analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra

analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,883 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra, MIT.

A guide to examining malware compiled from Go in Ghidra, a tool for inspecting compiled programs. It covers recovering function names and finding embedded dependency and type information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during security investigations to analyze Go malware, recover stripped or obfuscated code names, and support detection work.
Why use it?
Go programs often contain many compiled functions and may hide their original names, making ordinary reverse engineering harder.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it during security investigations to analyze Go malware, recover stripped or obfuscated code names, and support detection work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,883 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.
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 5.1 $0.00095 $0.02883
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01442
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00577
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00288

Measured 11d ago against content hash 36258341ae6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/agent.py, scripts/process.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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 analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra — 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.

cyber-security/ctf/analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra/SKILL.md · 321 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 321 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Golang Malware with Ghidra

Overview

Go (Golang) has become a popular language for malware authors due to its cross-compilation capabilities, static linking that produces self-contained binaries, and the complexity it introduces for reverse engineering. Go binaries contain the entire runtime, standard library, and all dependencies statically linked, resulting in large binaries (often 5-15MB) with thousands of functions. Ghidra struggles with Go-specific string formats (non-null-terminated), stripped function names, and goroutine concurrency patterns. Specialized tools like GoResolver (Volexity, 2025) use control-flow graph similarity to automatically deobfuscate and recover function names in stripped or obfuscated Go binaries.

When to Use

  • When investigating security incidents that require analyzing golang malware with ghidra
  • When building detection rules or threat hunting queries for this domain
  • When SOC analysts need structured procedures for this analysis type
  • When validating security monitoring coverage for related attack techniques

Prerequisites

  • Ghidra 11.0+ with JDK 17+
  • GoResolver plugin (for function name recovery)
  • Go Reverse Engineering Tool Kit (go-re.tk)
  • Python 3.9+ for helper scripts
  • Understanding of Go runtime internals (goroutines, channels, interfaces)
  • Familiarity with Go binary structure (pclntab, moduledata, itab)

Key Concepts

Go Binary Structure

Go binaries embed rich metadata in the pclntab (PC Line Table) structure, which maps program counters to function names, source files, and line numbers. Even stripped binaries retain this metadata. The moduledata structure contains pointers to type information, itabs (interface tables), and the pclntab itself. Go strings are stored as a pointer-length pair rather than null-terminated C strings.

Function Recovery in Stripped Binaries

Despite stripping symbol tables, Go binaries retain function names within the pclntab. However, obfuscation tools like garble rename functions to random strings. GoResolver addresses this by computing control-flow graph signatures of obfuscated functions and matching them against a database of known Go standard library and third-party package functions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 321 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 321 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 36258341ae6c

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analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,883 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to analyzing-golang-malware-with-ghidra, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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