Agent skill

Profiling Threat Actor Groups

by mukul975 in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

Develops comprehensive threat actor profiles for APT groups, criminal organizations, and hacktivist collectives by aggregating TTP documentation, historical campaign data, tooling fingerprints, and…

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Install Profiling Threat Actor Groups

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill profiling-threat-actor-groups -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills profiling-threat-actor-groups --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups .claude/skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
profiling-threat-actor-groups
GitHub stars
34k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
710 words
Files
4 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
644
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Develops comprehensive threat actor profiles for APT groups, criminal organizations, and hacktivist collectives by aggregating TTP documentation, historical campaign data, tooling fingerprints, and…

  • Works in 5 steps: Identify Relevant Threat Actors → Collect Profile Data → Map TTPs to ATT&CK → …
  • Briefing executives on sector-specific threats
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, Prerequisites, Workflow and Key Concepts, plus 2 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

Profiling Threat Actor Groups is an agent skill from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills. Develops comprehensive threat actor profiles for APT groups, criminal organizations, and hacktivist collectives by aggregating TTP documentation, historical campaign data, tooling fingerprints, and attribution indicators from multiple intelligence sources. Use when briefing executives on sector-specific threats, updating threat model assumptions, or prioritizing defensive controls against specific adversaries. Activates for requests involving MITRE ATT&CK Groups, Mandiant APT profiles, CrowdStrike adversary…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/api-reference.md` and `scripts/agent.py`).

It sits in Security, covering Threat modeling. The repository describes itself as: 817 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents · Mapped to 6 frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND, NIST AI RMF & MITRE F3 (Fight Fraud) · agentskills.io…. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Briefing executives on sector-specific threats
  • Updating threat model assumptions
  • Prioritizing defensive controls against specific adversaries

Example prompts

  • “Use the profiling-threat-actor-groups skill to develop comprehensive threat actor profiles for APT groups, criminal organizations, and hacktivist…”
  • “/profiling-threat-actor-groups”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Identify Relevant Threat Actors
  2. Collect Profile Data
  3. Map TTPs to ATT&CK
  4. Assess Detection Coverage Against Profile
  5. Package Profile for Distribution

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 54a7988. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • attack.mitre.org

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Profiling Threat Actor Groups loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 147 tokens; SKILL.md has 710 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~147
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills at commit 54a7988, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© mukul975). 710 words, ~1,818 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
profiling-threat-actor-groups
description
Develops comprehensive threat actor profiles for APT groups, criminal organizations, and hacktivist collectives by aggregating TTP documentation, historical campaign data, tooling fingerprints, and attribution indicators from multiple intelligence sources. Use when briefing executives on sector-specific threats, updating threat model assumptions, or prioritizing defensive controls against specific adversaries. Activates for requests involving MITRE ATT&CK Groups, Mandiant APT profiles, CrowdStrike adversary naming, or sector-specific threat briefings.
domain
cybersecurity
subdomain
threat-intelligence
tags
MITRE-ATT&CK, threat-actor, APT, CrowdStrike, Mandiant, attribution, kill-chain, NIST-CSF
version
1.0.0
author
mahipal
license
Apache-2.0
nist_csf
ID.RA-01, ID.RA-05, DE.CM-01, DE.AE-02
mitre_attack
T1591, T1592, T1593, T1589, T1566

Profiling Threat Actor Groups

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Updating the organization's threat model with profiles of adversary groups recently observed targeting your sector
  • Preparing an executive briefing on APT groups that align with geopolitical events affecting your business
  • Enabling SOC analysts to understand attacker objectives and TTPs to improve detection tuning

Do not use this skill for real-time incident attribution — attribution during active incidents should be deprioritized in favor of containment. Profile refinement occurs post-incident.

Prerequisites

  • Access to MITRE ATT&CK Groups database (https://attack.mitre.org/groups/)
  • Commercial threat intelligence subscription (Mandiant Advantage, CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence, or Recorded Future)
  • Sector-specific ISAC membership for targeted intelligence (FS-ISAC, H-ISAC, E-ISAC)
  • Structured profile template (see workflow below)

Workflow

Step 1: Identify Relevant Threat Actors

Cross-reference your organization's sector, geography, and technology stack against known adversary targeting patterns. Sources:

  • MITRE ATT&CK Groups: 130+ documented nation-state and criminal groups with TTP mappings
  • CrowdStrike Annual Threat Report: adversary naming by nation-state (BEAR=Russia, PANDA=China, KITTEN=Iran, CHOLLIMA=North Korea)
  • Mandiant M-Trends: annual report with sector-specific targeting statistics
  • CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: identifies vulnerabilities actively exploited by specific threat actors

Shortlist 5–10 groups most likely to target your organization based on sector alignment and recent activity.

Step 2: Collect Profile Data

For each adversary, document across standard dimensions:

Identity: ATT&CK Group ID (e.g., G0016 for APT29), aliases (Cozy Bear, The Dukes, Midnight Blizzard), suspected nation-state sponsor

Motivations: Espionage, financial gain, disruption, intellectual property theft

Targeting: Sectors, geographies, organization sizes, technology targets (OT/IT, cloud, supply chain)

Capabilities: Custom malware (e.g., APT29's SUNBURST, MiniDuke), exploitation of 0-days vs. known CVEs, supply chain attack capability

Campaign History: Notable operations with dates (SolarWinds 2020, Exchange Server 2021, etc.)

TTPs by ATT&CK Phase: Document top 5 techniques per tactic phase

Step 3: Map TTPs to ATT&CK

Using mitreattack-python:

python
from mitreattack.stix20 import MitreAttackData

mitre = MitreAttackData("enterprise-attack.json")
apt29 = mitre.get_object_by_attack_id("G0016", "groups")
techniques = mitre.get_techniques_used_by_group(apt29)

profile = {}
for item in techniques:
    tech = item["object"]
    tid = tech["external_references"][0]["external_id"]
    tactic = [p["phase_name"] for p in tech.get("kill_chain_phases", [])]
    profile[tid] = {"name": tech["name"], "tactics": tactic}
Step 4: Assess Detection Coverage Against Profile

Compare the adversary's technique list against your detection coverage matrix (from ATT&CK Navigator layer). Identify:

  • Techniques used by this group where you have no detection (critical gaps)
  • Techniques where you have partial coverage (logging but no alerting)
  • Compensating controls where detection is not feasible (network segmentation as mitigation for lateral movement)
Step 5: Package Profile for Distribution

Structure the final profile for different audiences:

  • Executive summary (1 page): Who, motivation, recent campaigns, top risk to our organization, recommended priority actions
  • SOC analyst brief (3–5 pages): Full TTP list with detection status, IOC list, hunt hypotheses
  • Technical appendix: YARA rules, Sigma detections, STIX JSON object for TIP import

Classify TLP:AMBER for internal distribution; seek ISAC approval before external sharing.

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Key Concepts

TermDefinition
APTAdvanced Persistent Threat — well-resourced, sophisticated adversary (typically nation-state or sophisticated criminal) conducting long-term targeted operations
TTPsTactics, Techniques, Procedures — behavioral fingerprint of an adversary group, more durable than IOCs which change frequently
AliasesThreat actors receive different names from different vendors (APT29 = Cozy Bear = The Dukes = Midnight Blizzard = YTTRIUM)
AttributionProcess of associating an attack with a specific threat actor; requires multiple independent corroborating data points and carries inherent uncertainty
ClusterA group of related intrusion activity that may or may not be attributable to a single actor; used when attribution is uncertain
Intrusion SetSTIX SDO type representing a grouped set of adversarial behaviors with common objectives, even if actor identity is unknown

Tools & Systems

  • MITRE ATT&CK Groups: Free, community-maintained database of 130+ documented adversary groups with referenced campaign reports
  • Mandiant Advantage Threat Intelligence: Commercial platform with detailed APT profiles, malware families, and campaign analysis
  • CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence: Commercial feed with adversary-centric profiles and real-time attribution updates
  • Recorded Future Threat Intelligence: Combines OSINT, dark web, and technical intelligence for adversary profiling
  • OpenCTI: Graph-based visualization of threat actor relationships, tooling, and campaign linkages

Common Pitfalls

  • IOC-centric profiles: Building profiles around IP addresses and domains rather than TTPs means the profile becomes stale within weeks as infrastructure rotates.
  • Vendor alias confusion: Conflating two different threat actor groups due to shared malware or infrastructure leads to incorrect threat model assumptions.
  • Binary attribution: Treating attribution as certain when it is probabilistic. Always qualify attribution confidence level (Low/Medium/High).
  • Neglecting insider and criminal groups: Overemphasis on nation-state APTs while ignoring ransomware groups (Cl0p, LockBit, ALPHV) which represent higher probability threats for most organizations.
  • Profile staleness: Adversary TTPs evolve. Profiles not updated quarterly may miss technique changes, new malware, or targeting shifts.

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Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (scripts, references) in skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups of mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • LICENSE
  • references/api-reference.md
  • scripts/agent.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 54a7988

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Questions about Profiling Threat Actor Groups

What does Profiling Threat Actor Groups do?

Develops comprehensive threat actor profiles for APT groups, criminal organizations, and hacktivist collectives by aggregating TTP documentation, historical campaign data, tooling fingerprints, and…. Profiling Threat Actor Groups is an agent skill from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills. Develops comprehensive threat actor profiles for APT groups, criminal organizations, and hacktivist collectives by aggregating TTP documentation, historical campaign data, tooling fingerprints, and attribution indicators from multiple intelligence sources.

When should I use Profiling Threat Actor Groups?

Profiling Threat Actor Groups fits situations like: briefing executives on sector-specific threats; updating threat model assumptions; prioritizing defensive controls against specific adversaries.

How do I install Profiling Threat Actor Groups in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill profiling-threat-actor-groups -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills) into .claude/skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Profiling Threat Actor Groups in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill profiling-threat-actor-groups -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills) into .agents/skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Profiling Threat Actor Groups in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill profiling-threat-actor-groups -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups, .gemini/skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups, .github/skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups and .opencode/skills/profiling-threat-actor-groups in your project.

What does Profiling Threat Actor Groups need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Profiling Threat Actor Groups needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Profiling Threat Actor Groups access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: attack.mitre.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Profiling Threat Actor Groups safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Profiling Threat Actor Groups use?

Profiling Threat Actor Groups is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Profiling Threat Actor Groups use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 556 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Profiling Threat Actor Groups?

mukul975 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills, which has 33,993 GitHub stars. The repository holds 644 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 31, 2026.

Source: mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.