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abusing-dpapi-for-credential-access
mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-SkillsSkill
Extract and decrypt Windows DPAPI-protected secrets (Credential Manager, browser logins/cookies, Wi-Fi credentials, KeePass keys) online or offline using SharpDPAPI, SharpChrome, Mimikatz, or Impacket's dpapi.py, including domain-wide decryption via the DPAPI backup key. Use during authorized red-team credential-access engagements after gaining a foothold or when triaging DPAPI blobs pulled from a host.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 34,722 stars are split between them (about 3,472 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 81/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 54a798831d22, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This oneabusing-dpapi-for-credential-access mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills · Skill | 81 | ★ 35k | ≈111 always | 2mo ago |
| api-credentials oaustegard/claude-skills · Skill Both about credential and access | 60 | ★ 154 | ≈49 always | 20d ago |
| restore-credentials android/skills · Skill Both about credential | 79 | ★ 9.0k | ≈24 always | 16d ago |
| credentials smol-machines/smolvm · Skill Both about credential and secret | 73 | ★ 6.8k | ≈153 always | 16d ago |
| credential-cracking-agent blacklanternsecurity/red-run · Subagent Both about credential and offline | 58 | ★ 291 | ≈26 in chat | 1mo ago |
| credential-tester 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents · Subagent Both about credential | 64 | ★ 2.4k | ≈24 in chat | 29d ago |