Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis

Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by mukul975 in Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.

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Install Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis

Copy Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills/tree/main/skills/analyzing-cobalt-strike-beacon-configuration ~/.claude/skills/analyzing-cobalt-strike-beacon-configuration

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/analyzing-cobalt-strike-beacon-configuration/SKILL.md in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/analyzing-cobalt-strike-beacon-configuration
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis does

Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis extracts and decodes Cobalt Strike beacon configurations from PE files, shellcode, or memory dumps to reveal C2 servers, sleep intervals, jitter, watermark, and malleable C2 profile settings. Use it during incident response, threat hunting, or detection rule building.

Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, cloud-security, cybersecurity and devsecops.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Analyzing Cobalt Strike Beacon Configuration

Overview

Cobalt Strike is a commercial adversary simulation tool widely abused by threat actors for post-exploitation operations. Beacon payloads contain embedded configuration data that reveals C2 server addresses, communication protocols, sleep intervals, jitter values, malleable C2 profile settings, watermark identifiers, and encryption keys. Extracting this configuration from PE files, shellcode, or memory dumps is critical for incident responders to map attacker infrastructure and attribute campaigns. The beacon configuration is XOR-encoded using a single byte (0x69 for version 3, 0x2e for version 4) and stored in a Type-Length-Value (TLV) format within the .data section.

When to Use

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis

What else does mukul975 publish alongside Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis?
Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Gateway Log Analysis, Abusing DPAPI for Credential Access and Achieving CMMC Level 2 Compliance. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis does, and is maintained by mukul975 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills page.
How does Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis compare to other Data skills?
Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis ranks #66 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Cobalt Strike Beacon Config Analysis against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.