anti-reversing-techniques SKILL.md skillA
anti-reversing-techniques from wshobson/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wshobson/agents/anti-reversing-techniques@git:20260522.be57c0bPins git:20260522.be57c0b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wshobson/agents
- Path
plugins/reverse-engineering/skills/anti-reversing-techniques/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260522.be57c0b, committed May 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 9, 2026
- Size
- 3,931 bytes
- Repository stars
- 42,320
- License
- MIT
Understand anti-reversing, obfuscation, and protection techniques encountered during software analysis. Use this skill when analyzing malware evasion techniques, when implementing anti-debugging protections for CTF challenges, when reverse engineering packed binaries, or when building security research tools that need to detect virtualized environments.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
> **AUTHORIZED USE ONLY**: This skill contains dual-use security techniques. Before proceeding with any bypass or analysis: > > 1. **Verify authorization**: Confirm you have explicit written permission from the software owner, or are operating within a legitimate security context (CTF, authorized pentest, malware analysis, security research) > 2. **Document scope**: Ensure your activities fall within the defined scope of your authorization > 3. **Legal compliance**: Understand that unauthorized bypassing of software protection may violate laws (CFAA, DMCA anti-circumvention, etc.) > > **Legitimate use cases**: Malware analysis, authorized penetration testing, CTF competitions, academic security research, analyzing software you own/have rights to # Anti-Reversing Techniques Understanding protection mechanisms encountered during authorized software analysis, security research, and malware analysis. This knowledge helps analysts bypass protections to complete legitimate analysis tasks. For advanced techniques, see [references/advanced-techniques.md](references/advanced-techniques.md) --- ## Input / Output **What you provide:** …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wshobson/agents/anti-reversing-techniques@sha256:fd203065f4eec2c2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.be57c0b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3ho6ue6je7i4pvv2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jan 9, 2026 and May 22, 2026, about one every 44 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260522.be57c0b latest | 2026-05-22 | be57c0b | 3,931 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260326.e341bb4 | 2026-03-26 | e341bb4 | 15,090 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260119.5684887 | 2026-01-19 | 5684887 | 12,426 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260109.2d769d4 | 2026-01-09 | 2d769d4 | 12,413 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3931 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
wshobson/agents · 42,320 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3ho6ue6je7i4pvv2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wshobson/agents/anti-reversing-techniques GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fd203065f4eec2c2021e9a019e02129fa780a0d668a8ac9e4724e18cb8fd996d
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