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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.
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Command Reference — ESP Bootkit Hunting

ESP discovery and mounting

Command Purpose
lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,PARTTYPENAME,MOUNTPOINT List partitions with type names to find the ESP
fdisk -l | grep -i "EFI System" Identify the ESP partition device
mount -o ro,umask=077 /dev/sdXN /mnt/esp Mount the ESP read-only (evidence-safe)
umount /mnt/esp Unmount after analysis

sbverify (sbsigntool) — Secure Boot signatures

Command Purpose
sbverify --list <binary.efi> List all embedded signatures on an EFI binary
sbverify --cert <ca.pem> <binary.efi> Verify a binary against a known-good signing certificate
sbverify --detached <sig> <binary.efi> Verify a detached signature

pesign — PE/COFF signature inspection

Command Purpose
pesign -S -i <binary.efi> Show signatures / certificate chain on a PE binary
pesign -h -i <binary.efi> Print the PE authenticode hash

efitools / efibootmgr / mokutil — Secure Boot state

Command Purpose
efi-readvar -v db -o db.esl Dump the Secure Boot allow-list (db)
efi-readvar -v dbx -o dbx.esl Dump the Secure Boot revocation list (dbx)
efibootmgr -v List boot entries and boot order with loader paths
mokutil --sb-state Report whether Secure Boot is enabled
mokutil --list-enrolled List enrolled Machine Owner Keys

YARA — bootkit scanning

Command Purpose
yara -r -w <rules.yar> /mnt/esp/ Recursively scan the ESP, suppress warnings
yara -r -s <rules.yar> /mnt/esp/EFI/ Scan with matched-string output

tpm2-tools — measured boot

Command Purpose
tpm2_pcrread sha256:0,2,4,7 Read firmware/boot-loader/Secure-Boot PCRs
tpm2_eventlog /sys/kernel/security/tpm0/binary_bios_measurements Parse the TCG measured-boot event log

Hashing and baseline diff

Command Purpose
find /mnt/esp -type f \( -iname '*.efi' -o -iname '*.sys' \) -print0 | xargs -0 sha256sum Inventory and hash all boot binaries
comm -23 live.sha256 base.sha256 Show hashes present live but absent from baseline
dd if=/dev/sdXN of=esp.img bs=4M conv=noerror,sync Forensically image the ESP

Velociraptor artifacts (fleet hunting)

Artifact Purpose
Windows.Forensics.UEFI Parse the ESP partition table and FAT to enumerate files
Windows.Detection.Yara.UEFI YARA-scan ESP contents at scale
Generic.System.EfiSignatures Collect EFI signature data
Windows.Forensics.UEFI.BootApplication Parse Measured Boot TCG logs