yara-rule-authoring
Guides authoring of high-quality YARA-X detection rules for malware identification. Use when writing, reviewing, or optimizing YARA rules. Covers naming conventions, string selection, performance optimization, migration from legacy YARA, and false positive reduction. Triggers on: YARA, YARA-X, malware detection, threat hunting, IOC, signature, crx module, dex module.
security
Advanced security validation for Clawdbot - pattern detection, command sanitization, and threat monitoring
perception-system
AI perception skill for sight, hearing, and threat detection systems.
siem-logging
Configure security information and event management (SIEM) systems for threat detection, log aggregation, and compliance. Use when implementing centralized security logging, writing detection rules, or meeting audit requirements across cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
detection-coverage-analysis
Analyzes detection coverage using Sigma, Splunk, and Elastic rules. Use when checking coverage for techniques, tactics, threat actors, or generating Navigator layers from detections.
analysing-attack
Analyse Mitre ATT&CK tactics, techniques and sub-techniques. Use when performing analysis of threat detections, threat models, security risks or cyber threat intelligence
cloud-security-configuration
Implement comprehensive cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP with IAM, encryption, network security, compliance, and threat detection.
YARA Rule Testing
Writing and testing YARA rules for malware detection, threat hunting, and file classification with rule validation and false-positive rate testing.
forensics-osquery
SQL-powered forensic investigation and system interrogation using osquery to query operating systems as relational databases. Enables rapid evidence collection, threat hunting, and incident response across Linux, macOS, and Windows endpoints. Use when: (1) Investigating security incidents and collecting forensic artifacts, (2) Threat hunting across endpoints for suspicious activity, (3) Analyzing running processes, network connections, and persistence mechanisms, (4) Collecting system state during incident response, (5) Querying file hashes, user activity, and system configuration for compromise indicators, (6) Building detection queries for continuous monitoring with osqueryd.
ir-velociraptor
Endpoint visibility, digital forensics, and incident response using Velociraptor Query Language (VQL) for evidence collection and threat hunting at scale. Use when: (1) Conducting forensic investigations across multiple endpoints, (2) Hunting for indicators of compromise or suspicious activities, (3) Collecting endpoint telemetry and artifacts for incident analysis, (4) Performing live response and evidence preservation, (5) Monitoring endpoints for security events, (6) Creating custom forensic artifacts for specific threat scenarios.
detection-sigma
Generic detection rule creation and management using Sigma, the universal SIEM rule format. Sigma provides vendor-agnostic detection logic for log analysis across multiple SIEM platforms. Use when: (1) Creating detection rules for security monitoring, (2) Converting rules between SIEM platforms (Splunk, Elastic, QRadar, Sentinel), (3) Threat hunting with standardized detection patterns, (4) Building detection-as-code pipelines, (5) Mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK tactics, (6) Implementing compliance-based monitoring rules.
security-compliance
Implement security scanning, vulnerability detection, and compliance checks. Use when working with security audits, dependency vulnerabilities, secret detection, CodeQL scanning, SAST/DAST tools, or security best practices. Handles threat modeling and security hardening.
Security Reviewer
Use when reviewing code for security vulnerabilities, conducting threat modeling, ensuring SLSA compliance, or performing security assessments. Invoked for security analysis, vulnerability detection, and compliance verification.
detection-engineer
Create detection rules and hunting queries from malware analysis findings. Use when you need to write Sigma rules for SIEM, Suricata rules for network IDS, defang IOCs for safe sharing, or convert analysis findings into actionable detection content for SOC teams and threat hunters.
Security & Vulnerability Testing
Production-grade security testing with agentic vulnerability detection, SAST/DAST tools, OWASP Top 10 coverage, threat modeling, and AI-powered security analysis achieving 92% detection accuracy (OpenAI Aardvark benchmark 2024)
commit-security-scan
Analyze code changes for security vulnerabilities using LLM reasoning and threat model patterns. Use for PR reviews, pre-commit checks, or branch comparisons.
security-analysis
This skill should be used when the user asks to "audit security", "check for vulnerabilities", "scan for malicious code", "analyze security risks", "detect data exfiltration", or mentions security patterns, threat detection, or codebase safety assessment.
detection-engineering
Expert Detection Engineer assistant for creating and testing D&R rules in LimaCharlie. Guides through understanding threats, researching event data (Schema, LCQL, Timeline), generating detection logic, testing rules against sample and historical data, and deploying validated rules. Use for building detections, writing D&R rules, testing detection logic, or when user wants to detect specific behaviors or threats.
ticket-investigation
Investigate security tickets from the LimaCharlie Ticketing extension. Performs HOLISTIC investigations - not just process trees, but initial access hunting, org-wide scope assessment, lateral movement detection, and full host context. Enriches tickets with telemetry references, entities/IOCs, analyst notes, and investigation summary/conclusion. Use for SOC triage, incident investigation, threat hunting, alert triage, or building SOC working reports. Supports ticket lifecycle management (acknowledge, classify, escalate, resolve).
pt-lotl-techniques
Demonstrates Living-off-the-Land (LotL) techniques using native OS tools to simulate realistic threat actor behavior during authorized penetration tests. Use when proving attack feasibility without custom malware, testing detection coverage, and validating what a real adversary could achieve with only built-in system capabilities.
performing-user-behavior-analytics
Performs User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) to detect anomalous user activities including impossible travel, unusual access patterns, privilege abuse, and insider threats using SIEM-based behavioral baselines and statistical analysis. Use when SOC teams need to identify compromised accounts or insider threats through deviation from established behavioral norms.
detecting-insider-threat-behaviors
Detect insider threat behavioral indicators including unusual data access, off-hours activity, mass file downloads, privilege abuse, and resignation-correlated data theft.
hunting-for-data-exfiltration-indicators
Hunt for data exfiltration through network traffic analysis, detecting unusual data flows, DNS tunneling, cloud storage uploads, and encrypted channel abuse.
detecting-pass-the-hash-attacks
Detect Pass-the-Hash attacks by analyzing NTLM authentication patterns, identifying Type 3 logons with NTLM where Kerberos is expected, and correlating with credential dumping.
hunting-for-suspicious-scheduled-tasks
Hunt for adversary persistence and execution via Windows scheduled tasks by analyzing task creation events, suspicious task properties, and unusual execution patterns that indicate T1053.005 abuse.
detecting-email-forwarding-rules-attack
Detect malicious email forwarding rules created by adversaries to maintain persistent access to email communications for intelligence collection and BEC attacks.
analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia
Use the Malpedia platform and API to research malware family relationships, track variant evolution, link families to threat actors, and integrate YARA rules for detection across malware lineages.
detecting-process-injection-techniques
Detects and analyzes process injection techniques used by malware including classic DLL injection, process hollowing, APC injection, thread hijacking, and reflective loading. Uses memory forensics, API monitoring, and behavioral analysis to identify injection artifacts. Activates for requests involving process injection detection, code injection analysis, hollowed process investigation, or in-memory threat detection.
mindfulness
Cultivate defensive situational awareness, threat assessment, and mental clarity under pressure. Covers the Cooper color code awareness system, body language reading and intent detection, verbal de-escalation, moving mindfulness in public spaces, combat focus and the OODA loop, rapid grounding techniques for acute stress, context-specific integration, and ongoing review and refinement of awareness skills. Use when entering unfamiliar or potentially hostile environments, needing to assess a situation for safety, de-escalating a verbal confrontation, or integrating awareness practice into daily movement.
mapping-mitre-attack-techniques
Maps observed adversary behaviors, security alerts, and detection rules to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and sub-techniques to quantify detection coverage and guide control prioritization. Use when building an ATT&CK-based coverage heatmap, tagging SIEM alerts with technique IDs, aligning security controls to adversary playbooks, or reporting threat exposure to executives. Activates for requests involving ATT&CK Navigator, Sigma rules, MITRE D3FEND, or coverage gap analysis.
building-attack-pattern-library-from-cti-reports
Extract and catalog attack patterns from cyber threat intelligence reports into a structured STIX-based library mapped to MITRE ATT&CK for detection engineering and threat-informed defense.
defend-colony
Implement layered collective defense using alarm signaling, role mobilization, and proportional response. Covers threat detection, alert propagation, immune response patterns, escalation tiers, and post-incident recovery for distributed systems and organizations. Use when designing defense-in-depth where no single guardian covers all threats, building incident response that scales with severity, or when current defense is over-reactive to every alert or under-reactive to genuine threats.
detecting-fileless-malware-techniques
Detects and analyzes fileless malware that operates entirely in memory using PowerShell, WMI, .NET reflection, registry-resident payloads, and living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins) without writing traditional executable files to disk. Activates for requests involving fileless threat detection, in-memory malware investigation, LOLBin abuse analysis, or WMI persistence examination.
correlating-threat-campaigns
Correlates disparate security incidents, IOCs, and adversary behaviors across time and organizations to identify unified threat campaigns, attribute them to common threat actors, and extract shared indicators for improved detection. Use when multiple incidents exhibit overlapping indicators, when sector-wide attack campaigns require cross-organizational analysis, or when building campaign-level intelligence products. Activates for requests involving campaign analysis, incident clustering, cross-organizational IOC correlation, or MISP correlation engine.
detecting-kerberoasting-attacks
Detect Kerberoasting attacks by monitoring for anomalous Kerberos TGS requests targeting service accounts with SPNs for offline password cracking.
hunting-for-persistence-mechanisms-in-windows
Systematically hunt for adversary persistence mechanisms across Windows endpoints including registry, services, startup folders, and WMI subscriptions.
performing-threat-hunting-with-elastic-siem
Performs proactive threat hunting in Elastic Security SIEM using KQL/EQL queries, detection rules, and Timeline investigation to identify threats that evade automated detection. Use when SOC teams need to hunt for specific ATT&CK techniques, investigate anomalous behaviors, or validate detection coverage gaps using Elasticsearch and Kibana Security.
implementing-ot-network-traffic-analysis-with-nozomi
Deploy Nozomi Networks Guardian sensors for passive OT network traffic analysis to achieve comprehensive asset visibility, real-time threat detection, and vulnerability assessment across industrial control systems without disrupting operations, leveraging behavioral anomaly detection and protocol-aware monitoring.
implementing-threat-modeling-with-mitre-attack
Implements threat modeling using the MITRE ATT&CK framework to map adversary TTPs against organizational assets, assess detection coverage gaps, and prioritize defensive investments. Use when SOC teams need to align detection engineering with threat landscape, conduct threat assessments for new environments, or justify security tool procurement.
detecting-compromised-cloud-credentials
Detecting compromised cloud credentials across AWS, Azure, and GCP by analyzing anomalous API activity, impossible travel patterns, unauthorized resource provisioning, and credential abuse indicators using GuardDuty, Defender for Identity, and SCC Event Threat Detection.
mindfulness
Cultivate defensive situational awareness, threat assessment, and mental clarity under pressure. Covers the Cooper color code awareness system, body language reading and intent detection, verbal de-escalation, moving mindfulness in public spaces, combat focus and the OODA loop, rapid grounding techniques for acute stress, context-specific integration, and ongoing review and refinement of awareness skills. Use when entering unfamiliar or potentially hostile environments, needing to assess a situation for safety, de-escalating a verbal confrontation, or integrating awareness practice into daily movement.
hunting-for-webshell-activity
Hunt for web shell deployments on internet-facing servers by analyzing file creation in web directories, suspicious process spawning from web servers, and anomalous HTTP patterns.
analyzing-dns-logs-for-exfiltration
Analyzes DNS query logs to detect data exfiltration via DNS tunneling, DGA domain communication, and covert C2 channels using entropy analysis, query volume anomalies, and subdomain length detection in SIEM platforms. Use when SOC teams need to identify DNS-based threats that bypass traditional network security controls.
detecting-s3-data-exfiltration-attempts
Detecting data exfiltration attempts from AWS S3 buckets by analyzing CloudTrail S3 data events, VPC Flow Logs, GuardDuty findings, Amazon Macie alerts, and S3 access patterns to identify unauthorized bulk downloads and cross-account data transfers.
hunting-for-lolbins-execution-in-endpoint-logs
Hunt for adversary abuse of Living Off the Land Binaries (LOLBins) by analyzing endpoint process creation logs for suspicious execution patterns of legitimate Windows system binaries used for malicious purposes.
building-detection-rule-with-splunk-spl
Build effective detection rules using Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) correlation searches to identify security threats in SOC environments.
hunting-for-registry-persistence-mechanisms
Hunt for registry-based persistence mechanisms including Run keys, Winlogon modifications, IFEO injection, and COM hijacking in Windows environments.
hunting-for-shadow-copy-deletion
Hunt for Volume Shadow Copy deletion activity that indicates ransomware preparation or anti-forensics by monitoring vssadmin, wmic, and PowerShell shadow copy commands.