Show HN: AnalystAIPack – 118 runnable agent skills for malware analysis and RE
AnalystAIPack is a collection of 118 runnable agent skills designed to assist with malware analysis and reverse engineering tasks, providing automated capabilities for security researchers.
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- **AnalystAIPack** is a collection of 118 pre-built "agent skills" — modular AI prompts and scripts — designed to automate parts of malware analysis and reverse engineering (RE) using large language models (LLMs).
- Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of taking apart software (often malicious) to understand how it works, find vulnerabilities, or detect threats. Malware analysts do this manually, which is slow and labor-intensive.
- The pack aims to offload repetitive or pattern-based tasks (e.g., extracting indicators of compromise, deobfuscating strings, summarizing assembly code) to an AI assistant, letting human analysts focus on harder judgment calls.
- This sits at the intersection of two trends: (a) the security industry's growing use of LLMs for code analysis, and (b) the "agentic AI" movement, where models don't just answer questions but execute multi-step workflows autonomously.
- For context: most security tools help detect malware; fewer help analyze it after the fact. This project targets that post-detection, deep-analysis gap.