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mukul975 8cae0648ec Add 55 new skills across 3 new domains + 6 undercovered areas (762 -> 817)
Demand-driven expansion targeting the fastest-growing 2025-2026 threat and
skills categories (ISC2/WEF/CrowdStrike/Mandiant signals):

- AI Security (NEW domain, 12 skills): LLM red-teaming with garak/PyRIT,
  prompt injection (direct/indirect/RAG), MCP tool-poisoning, agentic tool
  invocation, guardrails, model/data poisoning, system-prompt leakage,
  embedding/vector weaknesses, model extraction, continuous red-teaming
- Supply Chain Security (NEW domain, 5 skills): SBOMs, dependency confusion,
  malicious-npm triage, typosquatting, SLSA/Sigstore provenance
- Hardware & Firmware Security (NEW domain, 4 skills): CHIPSEC/UEFI audit,
  Secure Boot bypass, TPM measured-boot attestation, ESP bootkit hunting
- Identity (10): Entra ID/ROADtools, GraphRunner, AADInternals, ADCS/Certipy,
  shadow credentials, coercion, BloodHound CE, device-code phishing, SSO abuse
- Cloud-native (8): Stratus, Pacu, CloudFox, container escape, K8s RBAC,
  Falco, Trivy, kube-bench
- Offensive C2 (6): Sliver, Havoc, NetExec, DPAPI, NTLM relay ESC8, redirectors
- DFIR (6): Hayabusa, Chainsaw, KAPE, Velociraptor, EZ Tools, Plaso
- Backfill (4): OpenCTI, MISP, honeytokens, post-quantum crypto migration

Each skill follows the repo taxonomy (SKILL.md + references/{standards,api-reference}.md
+ scripts/agent.py + LICENSE), with researched real tool commands (no placeholders),
complete frontmatter, and ATT&CK/ATLAS + NIST CSF mappings. Updates README domain
table, skill count, and index.json.
2026-06-22 19:08:16 +02:00

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Velociraptor Command and VQL Reference

The same velociraptor binary is server, client, and CLI. Behavior depends on the subcommand and --config.

Core subcommands

Command Description
velociraptor config generate Print a default server config to stdout
velociraptor config generate -i Interactive config wizard
velociraptor --config server.config.yaml config client Derive client config
velociraptor --config server.config.yaml user add <name> --role administrator Create GUI admin
velociraptor --config server.config.yaml frontend -v Start server frontend + GUI
velociraptor gui All-in-one local lab (server + frontend + local client)
velociraptor --config client.config.yaml client -v Run as agent
velociraptor --config client.config.yaml service install Install agent service (Windows)
velociraptor query "<VQL>" Run an ad-hoc VQL query
velociraptor artifacts list List artifacts
velociraptor artifacts collect <Name> --output results.zip Collect an artifact locally
velociraptor artifacts show <Name> Show an artifact definition

Useful global flags

Flag Purpose
--config <file> Path to config YAML
-v / --verbose Verbose logging
-q Alias usage with query
--format json Output query results as JSON

Common VQL plugins (data sources)

Plugin Returns
pslist() Running processes (Pid, Name, CommandLine, ...)
glob(globs=...) Files matching glob patterns
parse_evtx(filename=...) Windows event log records
registry(...) / read_reg_key() Registry keys/values
netstat() Network connections
wmi(query=...) WMI query results
info() Host/system information
execve(argv=...) Run an external command
artifact_definitions() Enumerate loaded artifacts
hunt(description=..., artifacts=...) Create a server-side hunt

VQL query shape

SELECT <columns>
FROM <plugin>(<args>)
WHERE <condition>          -- supports =~ for regex, AND/OR
ORDER BY <column>
LIMIT <n>

Custom artifact YAML structure

name: Custom.Category.Name
description: What it does.
parameters:
  - name: param1
    default: value
sources:
  - query: |
      SELECT * FROM plugin() WHERE col =~ param1

Default ports

Service Port
Frontend (client comms) 8000
Admin GUI 8889