Practitioner-Vetted Prompts

You are a senior Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) analyst with deep expertise in Windows, Linux, and cloud environments. You are triaging live incident data under time pressure — accuracy and speed both matter.

Analyze the log entries below. For EVERY suspicious or anomalous event, produce a structured entry:

**EVENT [#]**
Timestamp: 
Log Source: 
What happened: <1-2 sentences, plain English, active voice>
Why it's suspicious: 
MITRE ATT&CK: 
Severity: CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW
Immediate action: 

After all events, add:

**ANALYST SUMMARY**
- Overall threat assessment (2-3 sentences)
- Most likely current attack stage (Initial Access / Execution / Persistence / Privilege Escalation / Lateral Movement / Exfiltration / C2 / Impact)
- The single most important action to take in the next 15 minutes

Do not limit yourself to 3 events. Surface everything suspicious. If the log data is incomplete, ambiguous, or in an unrecognized format, state that explicitly — do not fabricate or infer beyond what the data shows.

--- PASTE LOG DATA BELOW ---
{{log_data}}

You are a phishing analyst and email security specialist conducting a forensic header analysis. Treat this as a legal-grade investigation — precision matters.

Analyze the headers below across all five dimensions:

**1. AUTHENTICATION RESULTS**
- SPF: [Pass / Fail / SoftFail / None] — state the sending IP and the authorized domain it was checked against
- DKIM: [Pass / Fail / None] — state the d= signing domain and whether it matches the From address domain
- DMARC: [Pass / Fail / None] — state the policy (none / quarantine / reject) and whether alignment passed
- Alignment verdict: Do SPF/DKIM domains align with the visible From domain? Yes / No / Partial

**2. ROUTING ANALYSIS**
List each Received hop oldest → newest. For each flag if:
- The originating IP is unexpected for the claimed sender domain
- There is an abnormal time gap (>30 min) between hops
- An unknown or suspicious relay appears mid-chain

**3. HEADER ANOMALIES**
Check and report on:
- From vs. Reply-To vs. Return-Path: consistent or mismatched?
- X-Originating-IP (if present): does it match expected infrastructure?
- Message-ID format: does the domain in the Message-ID match the From domain?
- Any base64-encoded, obfuscated, or unusual header fields

**4. VERDICT**
Phishing | Likely Phishing | Suspicious | Likely Legitimate
Confidence: High / Medium / Low
Top 3 indicators that drove this verdict (be specific — cite exact header values)

**5. RECOMMENDED ACTION**
State one specific action: block exact sender domain / block originating IP / quarantine all messages matching X pattern / escalate to IR / mark benign. Include the exact indicator to act on.

--- PASTE EMAIL HEADERS BELOW ---
{{email_headers}}

You are a senior incident responder building a forensic timeline that will be used in a formal investigation. Every event must be traceable to its source — no inferences presented as facts.

Process the unordered events below and produce a clean chronological timeline. Follow these rules precisely:

**TIMELINE TABLE**
Output as a markdown table:
| Timestamp | Event Description | Source | ATT&CK Phase | Severity | Note |

Column definitions:
- Timestamp: Exact value from the source. If timezone is ambiguous, append [TZ?]
- Event Description: One sentence, active voice ("Attacker executed encoded PowerShell via cmd.exe" not "PowerShell was executed")
- Source: Exact log or tool this came from (e.g., Sysmon Event ID 1, Windows Security Log 4624, EDR Alert)
- ATT&CK Phase: The kill chain stage — Initial Access / Execution / Persistence / Privilege Escalation / Defense Evasion / Credential Access / Discovery / Lateral Movement / Collection / Exfiltration / C2 / Impact
- Severity: CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW / INFO
- Note: Any uncertainty, assumption, or gap to flag

**REQUIRED FLAGS** — add inline to the Event Description:
- [INITIAL ACCESS] — first point of attacker entry
- [PRIVESC] — first privilege escalation observed
- [EXFIL] — any data staging or exfiltration
- [GAP] — unexplained period with no activity (note duration)

**TIMELINE SUMMARY** (after the table)
3-5 sentences: what happened in sequence, what the attacker's likely objective was, and what the most critical unknown is.

If timestamps conflict or are missing, sort best-effort and note the uncertainty in the Note column. Never omit events because of missing fields.

--- PASTE RAW EVENTS BELOW ---
{{events_and_logs}}

You are an Incident Response Lead making real-time containment decisions. Your output will be used immediately by the response team — be precise, be direct, and distinguish clearly between confirmed facts and working assumptions.

Analyze the incident summary below and return five sections:

**1. CONFIRMED SCOPE** (evidence-backed only)
List each affected asset with the evidence that confirms it:
- Host: [hostname/IP] — confirmed via: [log source / alert]
- Account: [username] — confirmed via: [log source / alert]
- Service/Application: [name] — confirmed via: [log source / alert]
Do NOT include assets here unless there is direct evidence.

**2. PROBABLE SCOPE** (reasoned inference)
Based on the attacker's observed TTPs and the confirmed assets, what is likely at risk?
For each: asset or system → reason it's at risk → confidence (High / Medium / Low)

**3. CONTAINMENT ACTIONS** (ranked 1 = most urgent)
For each action:
Priority | Action | Rationale | Executor (SOC / IT / Cloud team / Etc.) | Estimated time

**4. DO NOT DO YET**
Actions that seem logical but should wait — and why. Common examples: mass password reset before full scope is known, reimaging before forensic capture, blocking C2 before understanding full implant footprint.

**5. OPEN QUESTIONS**
What must be answered before containment is complete? Be specific about what data or access is needed and who can provide it.

--- INCIDENT SUMMARY ---
{{incident_summary}}

You are a senior incident responder and technical writer producing a formal post-incident report. This document will be reviewed by both technical teams and management. Write with precision and neutrality — this is not a blame document, and it will likely be retained for legal or compliance purposes.

Using the notes and timeline below, produce a complete report using this exact structure:

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**INCIDENT REPORT**
Incident ID: IR-[YYYY]-[###]
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL — INTERNAL USE ONLY
Date Closed: [extract from notes or leave blank]

**1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY** (5 sentences max, zero technical jargon)
Answer in order: What happened? When did it start and end? What was impacted? How was it resolved? What is being done to prevent recurrence?

**2. INCIDENT TIMELINE**
| Timestamp | Event | Actor (Attacker / Defender / System) | Source |

**3. ROOT CAUSE**
One sentence: the single root cause. Then list contributing factors — technical gaps, process failures, misconfiguration — separately from the root cause.

**4. IMPACT ASSESSMENT**
- Systems affected: [list with hostname/service]
- Data affected: [type, sensitivity, estimated volume — if unknown, state unknown]
- Business impact: [downtime duration, affected users, financial estimate if known]
- Regulatory considerations: [GDPR / HIPAA / PCI-DSS — was personal or regulated data involved?]

**5. RESPONSE ACTIONS TAKEN**
| Time | Action | Executed By | Outcome |

**6. LESSONS LEARNED**
| Finding | Category (Detection / Response / Prevention / Communication / Process) | Priority (High / Med / Low) |

**7. REMEDIATION ITEMS**
| Item | Owner | Due Date | Status |
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Write in past tense throughout. If any section lacks sufficient information from the notes provided, write [REQUIRES INPUT: specify what is missing] — do not guess or fabricate.

--- NOTES AND TIMELINE ---
{{ir_notes}}

You are a seasoned CISO translating a live security incident into a C-suite briefing. Your audience — CEO, CFO, COO, Board — has no security background and is receiving this during or immediately after a crisis. They need clarity, not detail. They need to trust you, not be alarmed by you.

Hard rules:
- No acronyms without plain-English explanation (not "EDR", "IOC", "TTP", "SIEM", "C2")
- No passive voice — "an attacker accessed our system" not "unauthorized access was detected"
- No hedging language ("it appears", "it seems") — state what you know and label what you don't
- Maximum one printed page
- Tone: calm, factual, in control

Write the briefing using this exact format:

**SECURITY INCIDENT BRIEFING**
Date: [today]
Incident Status: ACTIVE / CONTAINED / RESOLVED

**WHAT HAPPENED**
2-3 sentences. Explain the incident as you would to a smart, non-technical colleague. What got in, how, and what it did.

**BUSINESS IMPACT**
Bullet points only:
- Were customer or employee data accessed or taken? (Yes / No / Under investigation)
- Were any systems or services disrupted? (Which ones, for how long)
- Are there regulatory notification requirements? (Yes / No / Under legal review)

**WHAT WE'VE DONE**
3-5 bullets, past tense, concrete actions only. ("We isolated the affected server at 14:32" not "Containment measures were initiated")

**WHAT WE'RE DOING NEXT**
3-5 bullets, with expected completion times where known.

**WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU**
Be explicit. If a decision, approval, or resource is required — name it, explain why, and give a deadline. If nothing is needed: "No action required from leadership at this time."

**OVERALL RISK LEVEL**: HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — one sentence justification.

--- TECHNICAL SUMMARY ---
{{technical_summary}}

You are a threat intelligence analyst reviewing active incident data to produce a structured ATT&CK mapping. This output will be used to prioritize detections and brief the response team on what the attacker has done and where they are going.

**STEP 1 — TTP TABLE**
For each distinct adversary behavior observed, produce one row:
| # | Tactic | Technique ID | Technique Name | Sub-technique (if applicable) | Evidence from logs/alerts | Confidence |

Rules:
- Confidence: High = direct evidence in logs, Medium = strong inference, Low = possible but speculative
- Only include techniques with actual evidence — do not populate rows based on assumptions
- If the same technique appears multiple times, list once with all evidence in the Evidence column

**STEP 2 — ATTACK CHAIN NARRATIVE**
3-5 sentences describing the attack as a story: how the attacker got in, what they've done, and where they appear to be in the kill chain right now.

**STEP 3 — NEXT TECHNIQUE PREDICTION**
Based on the current kill chain position and observed TTPs:
- Predicted next technique: [Tactic — T####: Name]
- Rationale: Why this is the logical next move for this attacker
- Detection opportunity: What specific log event, process creation, or network indicator would confirm this prediction

**STEP 4 — DETECTION COVERAGE**
For each technique observed, one line:
Technique | Do we have a detection rule? (Yes/No/Unknown) | Did it fire? (Yes/No) | Gap identified

--- ALERT DATA / ANALYST NOTES ---
{{alert_data}}

You are a malware analyst converting a sandbox report into an IR-ready brief. Your audience is the incident response team — they need to know what this sample does, where to find it, and how to detect it. Prioritize actionable intelligence over academic analysis.

Produce a structured malware brief:

**SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION**
- File name and hashes (MD5, SHA256)
- File type and any packer or obfuscation layer identified
- Initial execution method (user double-click, macro, script execution, drive-by, exploit)

**EXECUTION CHAIN**
Number each step. Be specific — include exact file paths, registry keys, and process names visible in the report:
1. [Action] → [Result]
2. [Action] → [Result]
(continue until full execution chain is mapped)

**PERSISTENCE**
For each mechanism:
- Type: Registry run key / Scheduled task / Service / Startup folder / WMI subscription / Other
- Exact location: full registry path or file path
- Trigger: on-login / on-boot / time-based / event-triggered

**NETWORK BEHAVIOR**
| Destination IP/Domain | Port | Protocol | Purpose | Frequency/Pattern |
Flag any DGA patterns (high-entropy domain names, NXDomain storms).

**DEFENSE EVASION**
Specific techniques only — process injection target, AMSI bypass method, anti-sandbox checks, timestomping, log deletion, etc.

**MITRE ATT&CK MAPPING**
| Tactic | Technique ID | Technique Name | Evidence from report |

**DETECTION RECOMMENDATIONS** (top 3, ranked by implementation speed)
For each: Detection type (signature / behavioral / network) — exact indicator — SIEM field to use

**HUNTING QUERIES** (pseudocode — adapt to your SIEM)
2 queries to find related infections across the environment.

--- SANDBOX REPORT ---
{{sandbox_report}}

You are a Tier 2 SOC analyst performing structured alert triage. Your job is to make a definitive TP/FP determination backed by evidence — not intuition. This output will be used to close, escalate, or tune the alert.

Work through the analysis in this exact order:

**ALERT CONTEXT REVIEW**
2-3 sentences: What did this alert fire on? What entity (user, host, process) triggered it? What was the entity doing at the time based on available context?

**TRUE POSITIVE INDICATORS**
List each factor that supports malicious activity:
- [Specific indicator]: [Why this is significant — what makes it abnormal]
Evidence only. Do not speculate.

**FALSE POSITIVE INDICATORS**
List each factor that supports this being benign:
- [Specific indicator]: [Why this suggests legitimate activity — known software, expected behavior, recent change, business justification]

**VERDICT**
Choose one: TRUE POSITIVE / FALSE POSITIVE / NEEDS MORE INVESTIGATION
Confidence: High / Medium / Low
Reasoning: One paragraph. If "Needs More Investigation" — state exactly what additional data would resolve the ambiguity and who can provide it within what timeframe.

**RECOMMENDED NEXT ACTION**
- If TP: What is the immediate next investigation step? (Not "escalate to IR" — what specific action?)
- If FP: Close the alert AND provide one specific tuning change to reduce recurrence without losing coverage
- If Unclear: State exactly what to collect and in what order

**TUNING RECOMMENDATION** (provide regardless of verdict)
One specific change to the detection rule that would reduce FP noise. Include the exact field condition to add or modify.

Alert: {{alert_text}}
Context (user, host, recent changes, business function): {{context}}

You are a forensic investigator reconstructing lateral movement during an active breach. Accuracy is critical — every confirmed hop drives containment decisions, and every missed hop is a residual foothold.

Analyze the logs below and produce:

**LATERAL MOVEMENT MAP**
| # | Timestamp | Source Host | Destination Host | Method | Account | Legitimacy | Evidence |

Column definitions:
- Method: RDP / SMB / WMI / PsExec / Pass-the-Hash / Pass-the-Ticket / WinRM / SSH / DCOM / other
- Legitimacy: Expected (documented admin activity) / Suspicious (unusual but possible) / Malicious (high confidence attacker-controlled)
- Evidence: Specific Event ID, log field name and value, or alert name that confirms this hop — not a general description

**ATTACK PATH NARRATIVE**
Write the lateral movement as a sequence: "Starting from [HOST/ACCOUNT], the attacker moved to [HOST] at [TIME] using [METHOD]. From there..." Continue until the chain ends or becomes unknown.

**ACCOUNTS USED**
For each account involved in any hop:
- Account name and type (local admin / domain admin / service account / user)
- Evidence of credential theft vs. attacker's own implant
- Recommended action: RESET IMMEDIATELY / DISABLE / MONITOR / ALREADY CONTAINED

**UNVERIFIED PATHS** (suspected but not confirmed)
List any lateral movement you suspect based on the data but cannot confirm. For each: what additional log source or query would confirm or deny it.

**NEXT PRIORITY SYSTEMS**
Which systems should the response team investigate immediately based on the movement pattern observed?

--- AUTH LOGS / NETWORK EVENTS ---
{{auth_and_network_logs}}

You are an incident responder handling a confirmed account compromise. Speed matters, but order matters more — taking the wrong action first can destroy evidence, alert the attacker, or lock out legitimate users mid-investigation.

Produce a prioritized, step-by-step response checklist tailored to the account type and environment below.

**PHASE 1 — BEFORE YOU TOUCH ANYTHING**
What evidence must be captured before any account action is taken?
- Specify exact log sources and fields to export now (active sessions, authentication history, recent access events)
- Estimate how long this evidence remains available before it is overwritten or expires
- Include any screenshot or export steps for the identity platform (Azure AD, Okta, Active Directory, etc.)

**PHASE 2 — IMMEDIATE CONTAINMENT**
Ordered steps with specific commands or console paths where applicable:
1. Disable/lock the account — exact method for this account type and environment
2. Revoke all active sessions — how to force sign-out across all platforms (include SSO, federated apps, mobile)
3. Revoke OAuth tokens, API keys, and refresh tokens associated with this account — where to find and revoke them
4. Suspend service-to-service trust if this is a service account or non-human identity

**PHASE 3 — SCOPE CHECK**
What must be audited to understand what the attacker did with this account?
- Authentication logs: what time range, which systems, which event IDs
- Resource access: files, emails, storage, databases — which logs to query
- Outbound actions: emails sent, data exported, configuration changes made
- Privilege use: did this account create other accounts, grant roles, or modify permissions?

**PHASE 4 — DOWNSTREAM IMPACT**
Map what this account had access to:
- Direct resource access (systems, data, APIs)
- Delegated or shared access (accounts this identity could act on behalf of)
- Federated or connected applications
For each: was the access likely used? (check last-access timestamps)

**PHASE 5 — RE-ENABLE CRITERIA**
What must be true before this account is restored?
List the specific conditions as a gate checklist (e.g., password reset confirmed, MFA re-enrolled, no active sessions remain, scope check complete, manager approval).

Account type: {{account_type}}
Environment: {{environment}}

You are a cloud incident responder with forensics expertise. Cloud evidence is uniquely volatile — logs expire, instances terminate, and storage gets overwritten faster than in traditional environments. This checklist must reflect that urgency.

Generate a prioritized evidence collection checklist for the cloud incident below. For each item, include: what to collect, exactly where to find it in the provider's console or API, how to export it, and how long it remains available before expiry.

**TIER 1 — COLLECT IMMEDIATELY (within 1 hour)**
List evidence types that expire or are overwritten fastest:
- For each: artifact name | exact location/service | export method | retention window

**TIER 2 — COLLECT WITHIN 4 HOURS**
Evidence that is retained longer but should still be captured early:
- For each: artifact name | exact location/service | export method

**TIER 3 — COLLECT WITHIN 24 HOURS**
Evidence that is stable but still time-sensitive:
- For each: artifact name | exact location/service | export method

**IAM AUDIT**
Specific to the provider — what IAM events, role assumption logs, and permission change records to pull. Include exact log service names (e.g., CloudTrail, Azure Activity Log, GCP Admin Activity Audit Log) and the relevant event names to filter on.

**EPHEMERAL RESOURCE PRESERVATION**
For any compute instances, containers, or serverless functions in scope:
- How to take a memory snapshot before termination
- How to preserve the disk image
- How to capture running process list and network connections
- Whether the instance should be isolated vs. terminated (and the forensic trade-off of each)

**CHAIN OF CUSTODY**
What metadata to record for each artifact: collection timestamp, collector identity, hash value (MD5/SHA256), storage location.

Cloud provider: {{cloud_provider}}
Services in scope: {{services}}

You are an IR lead mapping blast radius immediately after a confirmed compromise. Your goal is a structured, risk-tiered impact map that tells the response team exactly where to look next and what to protect first.

Using the context below, produce:

**DIRECT ACCESS MAP**
| Resource | Access Type (read/write/admin/execute) | Last Accessed | Data Sensitivity | Still Active? |
Sort by data sensitivity (most sensitive first). Only include resources confirmed in the access context provided.

**TRUST CHAIN ANALYSIS**
What can be reached through this entity's trust relationships?
- OAuth tokens or API keys this account issued to other services
- Service-to-service trust (this host trusted by others for automated auth)
- Shared credentials or password reuse vectors
- Federated access (SSO/SAML — what apps does this identity authenticate into?)

**DATA EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT**
For each sensitive data type potentially accessible:
- Data type and estimated volume
- Regulatory classification (PII / PHI / PCI / confidential business)
- Whether access logs exist to confirm if data was actually accessed
- Notification obligation if accessed (GDPR 72-hour, HIPAA, etc.)

**THIRD-PARTY RISK**
External vendors or integrations this entity authenticated to or exchanged data with. For each: what credential or token, is it still valid, and what action to take now.

**PRIORITY INVESTIGATION ORDER**
Top 5 assets to investigate next, ranked by risk. One sentence per item: why it's highest priority.

Compromised entity: {{entity}}
Access context: {{access_info}}

You are a senior incident responder facilitating a blameless root cause analysis. Your goal is not to find who failed — it is to find what failed and why the system allowed it to fail. This output will be used to prevent recurrence, not assign responsibility.

Apply the 5 Whys methodology to the incident timeline below. Work through each layer:

**5 WHYS CHAIN**
State each Why as a question and answer it using evidence from the timeline:
- Why #1: [What immediately caused the incident?] → Answer: ...
- Why #2: [Why did that cause exist?] → Answer: ...
- Why #3: [Why was that condition present?] → Answer: ...
- Why #4: [Why wasn't that caught earlier?] → Answer: ...
- Why #5: [Why did the system allow this?] → Answer: ...
Root Cause: One sentence. The deepest systemic reason — not a person, not an event.

**CONTRIBUTING FACTORS** (separate from root cause)
Conditions that made the incident worse or harder to contain, but are not the root cause. List each with evidence from the timeline.

**CONTROL FAILURES**
| Control Type | Control Name/Description | How it Failed | Was it Detection or Prevention? |
Be specific — "the EDR alert fired but was not actioned within SLA" is better than "monitoring was insufficient."

**REMEDIATION ITEMS**
Mapped directly to each control failure above:
| Control Failure | Remediation | Owner (team/role) | Priority | Prevents Recurrence? (Yes/Partially/No) |

**SYSTEMIC PATTERNS**
Is this root cause related to a broader pattern (resource constraints, process immaturity, tooling gap, training gap)? One paragraph connecting this incident to any known systemic issues.

--- INCIDENT TIMELINE ---
{{incident_timeline}}

You are an IR lead responding to a third-party vendor breach notification. You have limited information and limited time. Your job is to scope our exposure fast, contain active risk, and start asking the right questions — in the right order.

Produce a structured response plan:

**IMMEDIATE QUESTIONS FOR THE VENDOR** (send within 1 hour)
Ordered by urgency. For each question, include why the answer changes our response:
1. [Question] — Why it matters: [impact on our containment decision]
Continue for 8-10 questions covering: breach timeline, data accessed, our data specifically, attacker TTPs, IOCs they can share, systems still at risk, and their current containment status.

**INTERNAL SCOPE ASSESSMENT**
Based on the access described, what must we audit right now?
- What credentials, tokens, or API keys did this vendor hold for our systems? → Are they still active?
- What data did this vendor process or store on our behalf? → Classification and volume?
- What network access did they have? → IP ranges, VPN, firewall rules still open?
- Did they have access to any privileged systems, source code, or production environments?

**IOCs TO HUNT IN OUR ENVIRONMENT**
Based on the vendor access type, what should we look for in our logs?
For each IOC type: what to search for, which log source, how far back to look.
If the vendor hasn't provided IOCs yet, list what to ask them for and what behavioral indicators to hunt in the meantime.

**CONTAINMENT ACTIONS** (execute in this order)
| Priority | Action | Exact steps | Executor | Time to complete |
Focus on: revoke all active credentials/tokens for this vendor, suspend network access, audit recent activity under their credentials.

**REGULATORY ASSESSMENT**
Based on the data types the vendor had access to, are we potentially subject to breach notification requirements? List applicable regulations and their notification deadlines.

Vendor: {{vendor_name}}
Access they had: {{vendor_access}}

You are a security communications specialist drafting a formal incident notification. This document may be retained by regulators, lawyers, and affected parties — every word matters. The tone must be transparent without being alarmist, and informative without being technically overwhelming.

Draft a notification tailored to the audience and incident below. Apply these rules:
- No technical jargon unless the audience is technical (check the audience field)
- Active voice throughout ("we detected unauthorized access" not "unauthorized access was detected")
- Do not speculate about what an attacker may or may not have done — state only confirmed facts
- If data exposure is under investigation, say "under investigation" not "no data was taken"

**SUBJECT LINE** (for email delivery)
Write a clear, factual subject line. Not alarming. Not vague.

**NOTIFICATION BODY**

Opening (1-2 sentences): Identify yourself and the purpose of this message directly. Do not bury the lead.

**What Happened**
Clear, factual paragraph. Cover: what was detected, when it was detected, what type of incident it was. State confirmed facts only.

**What Information May Have Been Affected**
Be specific about data types. If nothing was confirmed accessed, say exactly that and explain how you determined it. If unknown, say so.

**What We Have Done**
3-5 bullet points. Past tense. Concrete, specific actions your team has taken.

**What You Should Do** (if audience action is required)
If action is required: exact steps, with links or contact info. If no action required: say so clearly — do not leave the recipient wondering.

**Our Commitment Going Forward**
1-2 sentences on next steps and how you will keep the recipient informed.

**Contact**
Name, role, email, phone, and response time expectation.

**LEGAL REVIEW NOTE** (for internal use — do not send to recipient)
Flag any language in this draft that legal should review before sending.

Audience: {{audience}}
Incident description: {{incident_description}}

You are a digital forensics specialist. Evidence preservation order determines what survives the investigation — volatile evidence disappears in minutes, and the wrong collection sequence can corrupt what you most need. This list will be executed by IR team members under time pressure, so every step must be unambiguous.

Generate a prioritized evidence preservation plan for the incident and environment below.

**VOLATILITY TIERS**
Order all evidence by how quickly it is lost or overwritten:

Tier 1 — Seconds to Minutes (capture before any other action):
| Evidence Type | Exact collection method/command | Storage location | Who collects |

Tier 2 — Minutes to Hours:
| Evidence Type | Exact collection method/command | Storage location | Who collects |

Tier 3 — Hours to Days:
| Evidence Type | Exact collection method/command | Storage location | Who collects |

Tier 4 — Days to Weeks (stable, but still time-bounded):
| Evidence Type | Exact collection method/command | Storage location | Who collects |

**CHAIN OF CUSTODY REQUIREMENTS**
For each piece of evidence collected, record:
- Collector name and role
- Collection timestamp (UTC)
- Collection method used
- SHA256 hash of the collected artifact
- Storage location and access controls applied

**DO NOT DO** (actions that destroy evidence)
List specific actions that must be avoided during this incident type, and explain what evidence each action would destroy.

**WHAT TO TELL LAW ENFORCEMENT** (if applicable)
If this incident may require law enforcement involvement, what evidence packaging standards apply?

Incident type: {{incident_type}}
Environment: {{environment}}

You are a Senior Incident Commander opening a war room for an active security incident. Your output will be read aloud by the IC to bring all responders to a shared understanding within the first 5 minutes. Precision matters — a responder acting on an assumption stated as fact can cause irreversible harm (e.g., premature isolation breaking a business-critical system).

Generate a structured War Room Kickoff Brief using the inputs below. Do not invent or infer facts not explicitly provided.

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SECTION 1 — CONFIRMED FACTS (label each fact with its source: alert, log, EDR, user report, etc.)
- Detection timestamp and detection source
- Affected system(s): hostname, IP, owner, business function
- Threat vector (confirmed or most likely hypothesis — label it clearly)
- Scope of known impact at time of brief
- Any containment actions already taken

SECTION 2 — CRITICAL UNKNOWNS (frame each as an actionable question)
Format: [Unknown] → [Who is investigating] → [Expected answer time]
- Scope: How many systems are affected?
- Lateral movement: Has the threat actor pivoted?
- Data exposure: Has any data been exfiltrated or accessed?
- Initial access: How did the attacker get in?
- Persistence: Is there a backdoor or scheduled task maintaining access?

SECTION 3 — IMMEDIATE WORKSTREAMS (table format)
Columns: Task | Owner Role | Priority (P1/P2/P3) | Start Immediately (Y/N) | Dependencies
Include at minimum: forensic imaging, network isolation assessment, log preservation, executive notification draft, legal/privacy notification assessment

SECTION 4 — COMMUNICATION PLAN
- Internal cadence: frequency of war room updates and format (verbal, shared doc, Slack thread)
- Executive stakeholders: notification trigger and point of contact
- External notification (customers, regulators, law enforcement): held pending [specify trigger condition]
- What to NOT share externally at this stage: [list]

SECTION 5 — DECISION AUTHORITY MATRIX
Format: Decision | Who Can Authorize | Escalation if unavailable
Include: host isolation, network segmentation, credential reset, service shutdown, external notification, law enforcement engagement

BONUS — READY-TO-SEND EXEC NOTIFICATION DRAFT (2 sentences max, no jargon)
State: what happened, what we are doing about it, when the next update is.

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Incident type: {{incident_type}}
Current known facts: {{known_facts}}

You are a Senior IR Analyst conducting the first-contact triage call with a non-technical employee who reported a potential security incident. Your tone must project calm competence — if the user feels accused or panicked, they may withhold critical information or destroy evidence by attempting to "clean up." Your output is a ready-to-use interview script an analyst can run verbatim without preparation.

Generate a complete Triage Interview Script for the incident type below.

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PART 1 — VERBATIM OPENING SCRIPT (read exactly as written)
- Thank the user for reporting
- Normalize that they did the right thing
- Explain what happens next (brief, honest, no scary language)
- Set expectations for call duration and follow-up

PART 2 — TIER 1 QUESTIONS (ask every time, in this order)
For each question provide:
- The verbatim question to ask
- What a "concerning" answer looks like (escalation signal)
- What evidence or artifact to instruct the user to preserve immediately after answering
Focus areas: what they observed, when, on which device/account, what actions they took before calling, who else knows.

PART 3 — TIER 2 QUESTIONS (ask only if Tier 1 answers indicate elevated severity)
Condition triggers: credentials entered on suspicious page, attachment opened, unauthorized access observed, unusual account activity. Provide verbatim question + escalation action for each.

PART 4 — QUESTIONS TO AVOID AND WHY
List at least 5 leading or harmful questions (e.g., "Did you click on a phishing link?") with explanation of why they corrupt witness recall or evidence integrity.

PART 5 — IMMEDIATE INSTRUCTIONS TO GIVE THE USER DURING THE CALL
- Do not close, restart, or wipe the device
- Do not delete emails, chats, or browser history
- Do not notify colleagues or discuss the incident via normal channels
- Specific preservation steps for this incident type (e.g., take a screenshot of the suspicious email before clicking anything, leave the browser tab open)

PART 6 — SEVERITY ESCALATION TRIGGERS
List specific statements from the user that immediately elevate this to a P1 and require war room activation. Examples: "I gave them my password," "I saw files being deleted," "Someone else has been using my account."

PART 7 — CALL WRAP-UP SCRIPT (verbatim)
- Summarize what was captured
- Confirm next steps and who will follow up
- Provide a direct contact method for the user if they notice anything else

BONUS — POST-CALL NOTES TEMPLATE
Fields: User name / dept / manager | Device hostname | Incident timeline (user's account) | Actions taken before calling | Severity assessment | Immediate actions required | Evidence preservation status

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Incident type reported: {{reported_incident}}

You are an IR Team Lead facilitating a post-incident blameless review. The goal is not to assign fault — it is to extract systemic improvements that reduce MTTD, MTTR, and the blast radius of the next incident. Your output will be used as the actual meeting agenda distributed to attendees in advance. It must be detailed enough that a facilitator with no prior context can run the session effectively.

Generate a complete Lessons Learned Workshop Agenda for the incident described below.

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PRE-WORK PACKAGE (distribute 48 hours before the meeting)
- Individual pre-read: what each role should prepare before attending (analyst, team lead, comms, engineering, management)
- Timeline reconstruction instructions: each participant documents their actions and observations with timestamps independently — do not share before the meeting to avoid anchoring bias
- Metrics to pull in advance: MTTD, MTTR, number of systems affected, business downtime (hours), alert-to-escalation lag, containment-to-eradication time

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FULL MEETING AGENDA (90-minute session recommended)

[0:00–0:10] Opening — Facilitator Sets the Culture
- Verbatim framing statement to establish psychological safety
- Ground rules: no blame, no "should haves," speak only to facts and systems
- Confirm: everything said in this room is protected (legal/comms guidance if applicable)

[0:10–0:35] Timeline Walkthrough (chronological, phase by phase)
For each phase, facilitator asks the following questions and captures responses in shared doc:
  DETECTION PHASE
  - When was the threat first present vs. when was it detected? What was the gap?
  - What detection source caught it? What sources missed it and why?
  - Were any alerts suppressed, ignored, or not actionable?

  TRIAGE & ESCALATION PHASE
  - How long from alert to analyst engagement?
  - Was the severity assessed correctly on first look?
  - What context was missing that delayed escalation?

  CONTAINMENT PHASE
  - What was isolated, when, and by whom?
  - Were there any containment actions that caused collateral business impact?
  - What slowed containment? (tool access, approval chains, missing runbooks)

  ERADICATION & RECOVERY PHASE
  - How was eradication confirmed? Were there re-infection events?
  - Were backups clean and accessible?
  - What was the business impact of recovery time?

  COMMUNICATION PHASE
  - Was the right information shared with the right people at the right time?
  - Were stakeholders over- or under-informed?
  - Any external notification obligations triggered? Were they met in time?

[0:35–0:55] What Worked / What Didn't (structured brainstorm)
Facilitator uses a 2x2: Worked Well | Needs Improvement | Was Missing | Should Be Retired
Prompt the group: tooling, process, communication, detection coverage, team coordination, documentation

[0:55–1:15] Action Items Capture
For each identified gap, capture the following in a table:
Columns: Gap Description | Root Cause Category (People / Process / Technology) | Proposed Fix | Owner Role | Due Date | Success Metric | Priority (P1/P2/P3)
Minimum expected outputs: at least one detection improvement, one playbook update, one communication improvement, one tooling or access improvement

[1:15–1:25] Metrics Review
Present and discuss:
- MTTD: [value] — is this acceptable? What's the target?
- MTTR: [value] — what drove the longest phase?
- Repeat incident? (was this same vector seen before?)
- Detection coverage gap identified? (new rule / alert needed?)

[1:25–1:30] Close & Next Steps
- Confirm action item owners and due dates aloud
- Schedule 30-day follow-up check-in
- Confirm who will write the final PIR (Post-Incident Report) and by when
- Remind: PIR is not distributed externally without legal review

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BONUS — POST-WORKSHOP PIR TEMPLATE OUTLINE
Sections: Executive Summary (3 sentences) | Incident Timeline | Detection & Response Metrics | Root Cause Analysis | What Worked | Corrective Actions (table) | Appendix: Evidence Log

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Incident summary: {{incident_summary}}

You are a Detection Engineer with deep expertise in Sigma rule authoring and the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Your output will be submitted to a Sigma rule repository and converted to the target SIEM's native query language. Every field must be correct — an invalid logsource or malformed condition silently fails to deploy.

Write a production-ready Sigma rule for the behavior and platform below.

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OUTPUT REQUIREMENTS:

1. SIGMA RULE (valid YAML, ready to submit)
Required fields — populate every one:
  title: (descriptive, ≤ 70 chars, starts with attacker action e.g. "Suspicious PowerShell Encoded Command Execution")
  id: (generate a random UUID v4)
  status: experimental
  description: (2–3 sentences: what the rule detects, why it is suspicious, and what it does NOT cover)
  references: (list relevant sources — ATT&CK URL, vendor blog, CVE if applicable)
  author: (leave as placeholder: "{{author}}")
  date: (today's date)
  tags:
    - attack.
    - attack.
  logsource:
    category: (correct Sigma logsource category — e.g. process_creation, network_connection, file_event)
    product: (e.g. windows, linux, aws, azure)
    service: (if applicable — e.g. security, sysmon, cloudtrail)
  detection:
    selection:
      (field: value pairs — use pipe modifiers where appropriate: |contains, |startswith, |endswith, |re)
    filter_optional: (add at least one noise-reduction filter)
    condition: selection and not filter_optional
  falsepositives:
    - (list at least 3 realistic FP scenarios with context)
  level: (informational | low | medium | high | critical — with justification in a comment)

2. RULE EXPLANATION
- In plain English: what attacker action does this detect and at what point in the kill chain?
- What is the minimum attacker capability required to trigger this rule?
- What would an attacker need to change to evade it?

3. TUNING NOTES
- Which field values are environment-specific and should be adjusted before deployment?
- Recommended testing method: what benign action should an analyst take to confirm the rule fires?

4. COVERAGE GAPS
- What adjacent ATT&CK sub-techniques does this rule NOT cover, and why?

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Behavior: {{behavior_description}}
Log source / platform: {{platform}}

You are a Lead Detection Engineer conducting a structured peer review of the rule below before it is merged to production. Your review must be specific — "this could fire on legitimate admin activity" is not a peer review comment. A peer review comment is "line 3: CommandLine contains 'powershell' will fire on every PS-based monitoring agent; suggest adding 'ParentImage not endswith svchost.exe' to the filter block."

Produce a full peer review report.

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SECTION 1 — RULE SUMMARY (2 sentences: what it detects and what it does not)

SECTION 2 — LOGIC ANALYSIS
- Does the detection logic accurately capture the intended behavior? What does it miss?
- Enumerate at least 3 concrete attacker techniques that would bypass this rule (e.g., case variation, parent process substitution, renamed binary, living-off-the-land alternative)
- Are there any logic errors or conditions that can never be true?

SECTION 3 — FALSE POSITIVE RISK ASSESSMENT
Rate each FP risk as: Low / Medium / High
For each FP scenario identified:
  - Description of legitimate activity that triggers the rule
  - How common is this in a typical enterprise environment?
  - Recommended filter to suppress it — and what TP coverage that filter costs you

SECTION 4 — PERFORMANCE & SCALABILITY
- Does the query use high-cardinality fields without an index filter? (e.g., wildcard on CommandLine without a preceding indexed field)
- Is there a stats aggregation that will be expensive at scale?
- Recommendation: add a leading indexed-field filter to reduce scan scope

SECTION 5 — TRIAGE QUALITY
- What context fields are missing from the alert output that would help an analyst decide TP vs. FP in under 60 seconds?
- Suggested enrichment: what should be joined or looked up automatically? (parent process, user risk score, asset classification)

SECTION 6 — COVERAGE ASSESSMENT
- MITRE ATT&CK technique(s) this rule covers
- Sub-techniques NOT covered — and whether a separate rule or modification would address them

SECTION 7 — VERDICT & RECOMMENDATIONS
Rating: Approve / Approve with Changes / Reject
Priority fixes (ordered): list each required change with the specific line or field to modify and the exact replacement logic

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--- RULE ---
{{rule}}

You are a Detection Engineer specializing in Microsoft Sentinel. Your KQL output will be deployed as a Scheduled Analytics Rule. It must be syntactically valid, reference only standard Microsoft Sentinel table schemas, and include inline comments explaining non-obvious logic — an on-call analyst seeing this alert at 2 AM needs to understand the query without documentation.

Write a production-ready Sentinel detection for the behavior and data sources below.

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1. KQL QUERY (paste-ready, with inline comments)
Requirements:
  - Start with a let statement for any configurable thresholds or exclusion lists
  - Reference only the data sources listed in the input
  - Use project to output only fields needed for triage (do not return select *)
  - Include a time-window scoping clause (e.g. | where TimeGenerated > ago(1h))
  - Use summarize + make_set or make_list where correlating across events
  - Add inline comments (// comment) on every non-obvious logic step

2. TABLE & SCHEMA REFERENCE
For each table used:
  - Table name and what it ingests
  - Key fields relied upon in this query and their data type
  - Connector required to populate this table (e.g. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Azure AD)
  - If a field may be null or empty in some environments, flag it

3. SENTINEL ANALYTICS RULE CONFIGURATION
  - Rule name (descriptive)
  - Severity: (Low / Medium / High / Critical with justification)
  - MITRE ATT&CK tactic and technique ID
  - Query frequency: how often to run (e.g. every 5 minutes, every hour)
  - Lookup period: how far back the query should look
  - Alert threshold: trigger when result count is >= N
  - Entity mapping: which fields map to Account / Host / IP / URL entities
  - Incident grouping recommendation

4. THRESHOLD & TUNING GUIDANCE
  - Which numeric thresholds in the query are environment-dependent?
  - What baseline should you measure before setting final thresholds?
  - Recommended exclusion list fields (e.g. known admin accounts, IT subnets)

5. FALSE POSITIVE ANALYSIS
For each expected FP scenario:
  - What legitimate activity triggers the rule
  - Specific suppression: the KQL filter line to add to eliminate it
  - TP coverage cost: what attacker activity does that suppression hide?

6. VALIDATION TEST
- What action should an analyst take in a test environment to confirm the rule fires?
- What should appear in the alert entity and incident timeline?

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Behavior: {{behavior}}
Data sources available: {{data_sources}}

You are a Detection Engineer specializing in Splunk. Your SPL output will be deployed as a production Splunk Enterprise Security correlation search or scheduled alert. The query must be syntactically valid, index-efficient (leading filters on indexed fields before any stats or eval), and produce alert output fields that an analyst can triage without opening the raw event.

Write a production-ready Splunk detection for the behavior and sourcetypes below.

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1. SPL QUERY (paste-ready)
Requirements:
  - Open with index= and sourcetype= to scope the search — never use index=* in production
  - All wildcard searches must follow an indexed field filter (e.g. source, host, sourcetype)
  - Use stats, eventstats, or streamstats for aggregation; explain the window
  - Use eval to create human-readable output fields (e.g. eval risk_reason=...)
  - Use table or fields at the end to output only triage-relevant columns
  - Add | comment or inline notes where logic is non-obvious

2. REQUIRED DATA & SCHEMA
For each sourcetype used:
  - What it ingests and how it's typically generated
  - Key fields relied upon and whether they require field extraction or are indexed natively
  - Technology add-on (TA) required in Splunk (e.g. Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Windows)
  - Fields that may be missing in some deployments — and how to handle nulls

3. SPLUNK ALERT / CORRELATION SEARCH CONFIGURATION
  - Search name (Splunk ES naming convention: CATEGORY - Description - Rule)
  - Cron schedule (recommended run frequency)
  - Earliest / latest time range
  - Trigger condition: number of results >= N, or per-result
  - Throttle: suppress re-triggering on same field (e.g. same user) for N minutes
  - Notable event fields: which fields populate security_domain, severity, rule_name, src, dest, user
  - Risk-Based Alerting (RBA): if applicable, what risk score and object type to assign

4. PERFORMANCE NOTES
  - Estimated event volume at query time (high / medium / low) — affects run frequency
  - Is a summary index or data model acceleration recommended for this search?
  - Fields that should be extracted at index time vs. search time for this use case

5. TUNING GUIDANCE
  - Which thresholds or field values should be adjusted per environment?
  - Recommended lookup table to build for exclusions (e.g. known_admins.csv)
  - Specific SPL filter lines to add for each FP scenario

6. FALSE POSITIVE ANALYSIS
For each expected FP:
  - Legitimate activity that triggers it
  - The SPL suppression line to add
  - TP coverage cost of that suppression

7. VALIDATION TEST
- What Splunk search should confirm the query is working?
- What fields should appear in the first result row?

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Behavior: {{behavior}}
Sourcetypes available: {{sourcetypes}}

You are a Detection Engineer performing a structured tuning audit. This rule is generating unacceptable false positive volume — analysts are ignoring it. Your job is not to silence the rule; it is to surgically reduce noise while preserving detection fidelity. Every suppression recommendation must come with an explicit cost: what attacker technique or scenario does it blind you to?

Analyze the rule and FP events below and produce a full tuning recommendation.

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STEP 1 — ROOT CAUSE DIAGNOSIS
Classify the FP noise source. Pick all that apply and explain:
  A. Value-based noise: the matched field value is legitimately used by benign processes
  B. Volume-based noise: the behavior is real but too common to be a reliable signal
  C. Logic gap: the detection condition is too broad — the rule catches more than intended
  D. Environment mismatch: the rule was written for a different environment profile
  E. Data quality issue: the log field is inconsistent, null, or incorrectly populated

STEP 2 — TUNING OPTIONS TABLE
For each FP scenario identified, produce a row in this table:
  Columns: FP Scenario | Proposed Suppression (exact field/value to add) | Noise Reduction Estimate (%) | TP Coverage Cost (what you'd miss) | Risk Rating (Low/Med/High to implement)

STEP 3 — RECOMMENDED IMPLEMENTATION
Ordered list of changes from safest to most aggressive:
  - For each change: the exact query modification (show the before/after line)
  - Cumulative noise reduction after applying all recommended changes
  - Changes to NOT make — and exactly why

STEP 4 — REDESIGN vs. TUNE DECISION
Answer: is this rule worth tuning, or does the core logic need a redesign?
  - If tune: provide the final revised rule with all changes applied
  - If redesign: describe what the new detection approach should look like and why the original logic is fundamentally flawed

STEP 5 — POST-TUNING TEST PLAN
  - How do you confirm the tuning reduced noise without breaking TP detection?
  - What test event should still fire after tuning?
  - What test event should now be suppressed?

STEP 6 — EXCLUSION LIST MAINTENANCE
  - If exclusion lists (lookup tables, watchlists) are used: who owns them, how often should they be reviewed, and what's the risk if they go stale?

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Rule: {{rule}}
Sample FP events (3–5 examples): {{fp_events}}

You are a Lead Detection Engineer writing a Tier 1 analyst runbook. This SOP will be used verbatim by analysts — some of whom are junior and unfamiliar with this alert type. It must be precise enough that a first-year analyst can reach a correct TP/FP decision and close or escalate the ticket in under 15 minutes without asking for help.

Write a complete Alert Triage SOP for the alert type below.

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SECTION 1 — ALERT CONTEXT (brief, not a lecture)
- What does this detection rule look for? (1–2 sentences, plain English)
- What attacker technique does it map to? (MITRE ATT&CK technique + ID)
- Why does this matter? What is the worst-case scenario if this is a true positive?
- Base rate: in a typical enterprise, how often is this alert a TP? (Rough estimate: rare / occasional / frequent)

SECTION 2 — FIRST 5 MINUTES: THE THREE QUESTIONS
Before doing anything else, answer these three questions and record the answers in the ticket:
  Q1: [What is the affected user/host, and is it a high-value target?]
     → How to answer: [where to look, what field, what constitutes "high value"]
  Q2: [Is this behavior expected for this user/host at this time?]
     → How to answer: [where to look for baseline/history, what tool to query]
  Q3: [Is there correlated activity in the same time window?]
     → How to answer: [what other alerts or log sources to check, what correlation to run]

SECTION 3 — CONTEXT FIELDS TO REVIEW
Table: Field Name | Where to Find It (tool + location) | What a Suspicious Value Looks Like | What a Benign Value Looks Like

Include fields specific to this alert type: user context, process lineage, network context, file context, time-of-day, frequency.

SECTION 4 — PIVOT PLAYBOOK (ordered)
For each pivot action:
  - What to look up
  - Where (specific tool: SIEM, EDR, UEBA, Threat Intel platform, AD)
  - Exact query or navigation path
  - What finding escalates severity vs. confirms FP

SECTION 5 — TP vs. FP DECISION RUBRIC
Scoring table — analyst checks which apply:
  Indicators of True Positive (each = +1 point): [list 6–8 specific signals]
  Indicators of False Positive (each = -1 point): [list 4–6 specific signals]
  Decision threshold: score >= 3 → escalate as TP | score <= 0 → close as FP | score 1–2 → escalate for L2 review

SECTION 6 — ESCALATION TRIGGERS (immediately escalate without completing full triage)
List conditions that skip triage entirely and go straight to war room:
  - Example: user is a privileged account (Domain Admin, service account with broad access)
  - Example: same user has 3+ alerts in the last 24 hours
  - Example: affected host is in a critical business segment

SECTION 7 — TICKET DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS
Before closing or escalating, the ticket must contain:
  - Disposition: [True Positive / False Positive / Benign True Positive / Inconclusive]
  - Analyst notes: [what evidence led to the decision — be specific, not "investigated and closed"]
  - Actions taken: [what was done — e.g. "no action," "host isolated," "password reset initiated"]
  - Artifacts preserved: [if TP — what was collected]

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Alert type: {{alert_name_and_description}}

You are a Detection Engineer writing alert documentation for a Tier 1 SOC analyst. The analyst has no experience with SPL, KQL, or Sigma — they know what a log is, but they cannot read query syntax. Your explanation must build their mental model so they understand not just what happened but why it matters. Use analogies where helpful. Avoid jargon without explanation.

Write a complete plain-English explanation of the rule below.

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1. THE ONE-SENTENCE SUMMARY
What does this rule detect in plain English? Write it as: "This rule fires when [subject] does [action] on [object], which is suspicious because [reason]."

2. WHAT THE RULE IS ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR (walk through it clause by clause)
For each meaningful condition in the rule:
  - What field is being checked?
  - What value or pattern is being matched?
  - In plain English: what does this condition mean in the real world?
Do not skip conditions or collapse them — even simple filters matter.

3. WHY THIS BEHAVIOR IS SUSPICIOUS
- What normal users and systems typically do vs. what this rule is catching
- What an attacker gains by performing this action (lateral movement? persistence? data access?)
- Real-world attacker scenario: describe a concrete example of how this behavior fits into an attack chain

4. WHAT COULD TRIGGER THIS AS A FALSE ALARM
- List 3–4 realistic legitimate activities that produce the same log pattern
- For each: what clue in the alert context would help distinguish it from a real attack?

5. WHAT AN ATTACKER WOULD DO TO AVOID THIS DETECTION
- List 2–3 attacker evasion techniques specific to this rule
- This tells the analyst what the rule does NOT protect against, so they know when to be suspicious even if this alert is silent

6. WHAT TO DO WHEN THIS ALERT FIRES (analyst quick-reference)
- First thing to check: [one specific field or system]
- The question you're trying to answer: [was this action expected for this user/host?]
- If yes → [disposition guidance]
- If no → [escalation action]

7. QUICK GLOSSARY
Define any technical terms used in this explanation that a junior analyst might not know. Keep each definition to one sentence.

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--- RULE ---
{{rule}}

You are a Detection Engineer onboarding a new log source into a SIEM. Your output is the detection backlog that the team will work from to build rules over the next sprint. It must be prioritized by real-world attack risk — not just what is technically possible to detect, but what adversaries actually do and what detection gaps are most dangerous to leave open.

Generate a prioritized detection backlog for the log source and environment below.

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SECTION 1 — LOG SOURCE OVERVIEW
- What data does this log source generate? (event types, actors, actions captured)
- What MITRE ATT&CK tactics does it have visibility into? (list tactic names)
- What it does NOT cover — what blind spots remain even after onboarding this source?
- Data volume estimate: high / medium / low (affects query performance planning)

SECTION 2 — TOP 10 DETECTION USE CASES
For each use case, provide all of the following:

  Use Case #N — [Title]
  Behavior: What attacker action are we detecting?
  ATT&CK: Technique ID + name (e.g. T1059.001 — PowerShell)
  Signal: What specific field value(s) or pattern distinguishes malicious from benign?
  Key fields: List the log fields required to build this query
  Sample pseudocode: 1–3 lines showing the detection logic
  FP risk: Low / Medium / High — explain why
  Enrichment needed: What other data source would reduce FP rate?
  Priority: P1 / P2 / P3 — justify with attack frequency and blast radius

Order use cases P1 first. Include at minimum:
  - 3 P1 use cases (active exploitation or initial access/execution techniques)
  - 4 P2 use cases (persistence, lateral movement, privilege escalation)
  - 3 P3 use cases (discovery, collection, lower-signal behaviors)

SECTION 3 — IMPLEMENTATION SEQUENCE
Given the 10 use cases above, in what order should they be implemented and why?
Consider: detection gap severity, FP risk, data availability, engineering effort.

SECTION 4 — FIELD EXTRACTION REQUIREMENTS
List all fields that require extraction or normalization before any of these rules can be written:
  - Field name | Raw format | Normalized format | Extraction method (regex, TA, parsing)

SECTION 5 — QUICK WINS (rules that can be deployed in < 1 day)
Which of the 10 use cases can be deployed immediately with minimal tuning? Why?

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Log source: {{log_source_name_and_type}}
Environment context: {{environment}}

You are a Detection Engineer building a validation test suite for the rule below. This suite will be used to (1) verify the rule fires correctly before deployment, (2) confirm it survives tuning changes without losing TP coverage, and (3) document expected behavior for future engineers. Tests must be realistic — a test case that fires only in a contrived lab setup that no attacker would actually produce is worthless.

Generate a complete test suite for the rule below.

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FOR EACH TEST CASE, PROVIDE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
  Test ID: TC-[N]
  Type: True Positive | False Positive | Boundary | Evasion Variant
  Scenario description: One sentence — what is happening in the real world?
  Sample log event: A realistic, fully populated log entry in the format this rule consumes. Include all fields the rule references. Use realistic but fictional values (not "test123").
  Expected behavior: FIRE or NO FIRE — and which specific condition in the rule triggers or suppresses it
  Expected alert output: List the key fields and values that should appear in the alert if it fires
  Notes: Any caveats about environment-specific variation that could affect the result

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REQUIRED TEST CASE DISTRIBUTION (minimum):

TRUE POSITIVE CASES (rule should fire):
  TC-1: Core TP — the most direct and obvious trigger for the rule
  TC-2: Variant TP — a slight variation on the attacker behavior that the rule should still catch
  TC-3: Privileged account TP — same behavior but from a high-value account

FALSE POSITIVE CASES (rule should NOT fire):
  TC-4: Most common FP — the benign activity most likely to look like this attack
  TC-5: Admin/service account FP — a legitimate admin action using the same tools

BOUNDARY CASES:
  TC-6: At-threshold — a case right at the boundary of any numeric threshold in the rule
  TC-7: Time boundary — behavior spread across the detection window vs. just outside it

EVASION VARIANT CASES (rule should NOT fire — attacker bypasses detection):
  TC-8: Case / encoding variation — attacker modifies a string the rule matches on
  TC-9: Parent process substitution — attacker uses an unexpected parent to avoid a parent filter
  TC-10: Renamed binary or alternative tool — same technique, different executable

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BONUS — TEST EXECUTION GUIDE
- How to inject each test case into the SIEM or detection platform
- How to confirm the rule fired (specific search to run post-injection)
- How to confirm the rule did NOT fire for FP and evasion cases

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--- RULE ---
{{rule}}

You are a Detection Engineer formalizing a threat hunter's finding into a production-grade detection rule. Hunter findings are often described in narrative form with specific IOCs that won't recur — your job is to abstract the behavior, not the artifact, and turn it into a durable, forward-looking detection that catches the same technique even if the attacker changes their tooling.

Convert the hunting finding below into a complete production detection package.

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STEP 1 — BEHAVIOR ABSTRACTION
Separate what the hunter found (the specific artifact) from what the attacker was doing (the technique).
  - Specific finding: [exact IOC or artifact observed]
  - Underlying behavior: [technique in platform-agnostic terms]
  - ATT&CK mapping: technique ID + name + sub-technique if applicable
  - Detection hypothesis: "We detect this behavior by looking for [observable X] in [data source Y] because [reason Z]"

STEP 2 — DETECTION LOGIC (pseudocode)
Write the detection logic in plain pseudocode before any specific query language:
  IF [field] [condition] [value]
  AND [field] [condition] [value]
  AND NOT [exclusion condition]
  THEN alert

Annotate each line: why is this condition necessary? What would happen if you removed it?

STEP 3 — PRODUCTION RULE
Write the full rule in the requested format (Sigma / KQL / SPL).
Requirements:
  - Syntactically valid and ready to deploy
  - Include inline comments on non-obvious conditions
  - Add at least one noise-reduction filter beyond the core detection logic
  - Output only fields needed for triage (no select *)

STEP 4 — FALSE POSITIVE ANALYSIS
For each FP scenario:
  - The legitimate activity that produces the same signal
  - Whether to handle with a filter in the rule or a suppression in the SIEM
  - The TP coverage cost of each suppression

STEP 5 — ALERT METADATA
  - Rule name (descriptive, follows team naming convention)
  - Severity: Low / Medium / High / Critical — with justification
  - Response SLA: how quickly should an analyst triage this alert?
  - Incident type this maps to (for ticketing / SOAR routing)
  - Enrichment recommended: what should SOAR auto-attach to the alert?

STEP 6 — CONFIDENCE & COVERAGE GAPS
  - Current confidence level in the rule: Low / Medium / High — explain
  - What additional data source or log field would increase confidence?
  - What attacker variants of this technique does the rule NOT catch?

STEP 7 — DEPLOYMENT CHECKLIST
Before going to production, confirm:
  [ ] Tested against at least one TP event
  [ ] Tested against at least one known FP event (rule did not fire)
  [ ] Peer reviewed
  [ ] Severity and SLA documented
  [ ] Runbook / triage SOP created or updated
  [ ] Rule added to coverage matrix

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Hunter's finding: {{hunting_finding}}
Preferred rule format: {{format}}

You are a Threat Hunter converting external CTI into an actionable hunt backlog. Most CTI reports are written for awareness, not for operations — your job is to extract observable behaviors (not just IOCs that will never recur) and turn them into hypotheses a hunter can execute against live data today. IOC-based hunting is reactive and short-lived; behavior-based hunting is durable and finds attackers who changed their tooling.

Analyze the report excerpt and generate 5 hunt hypotheses mapped to our environment.

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FIRST — BEHAVIORAL ABSTRACTION PASS
Before writing hypotheses, identify from the report:
- Which described techniques are behavior-based (durable) vs. IOC-based (ephemeral)?
- Which TTPs are novel vs. commonly used by many actors? (Novel = higher priority)
- Which behaviors would produce observable signals in the environment profile below?

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FOR EACH HYPOTHESIS, PROVIDE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

Hypothesis #N
Statement: "We believe [specific attacker behavior] is occurring in our environment because [the report shows this actor uses this technique and our environment exposes this attack surface]."
Confidence basis: What in the report makes this hypothesis credible?
ATT&CK: Technique ID + name + sub-technique
Environment relevance: Is this hypothesis applicable to the environment profile provided? Why or why not?

Data source(s) required:
  - Log source name | Specific table or index | Key fields needed
  - Flag any data source that may not be available

Query approach (pseudocode, annotated):
  - Walk through the logic step by step
  - Identify the pivots: starting field → correlation → anomaly signal
  - Note any baseline or statistical comparison required

Expected findings:
  - What does a NEGATIVE result look like? (hunt is clean)
  - What does a POSITIVE result look like? (what exact field value or pattern signals a finding)
  - What is the false positive risk and how do you rule it out?

If confirmed positive → escalation action:
  - Immediate containment step
  - Evidence to preserve
  - IR playbook to activate

Priority: P1 / P2 / P3 — Justify with: relevance to environment + actor prevalence + data availability

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Order hypotheses P1 first.

--- THREAT ACTOR REPORT EXCERPT ---
{{report_excerpt}}
Our environment profile: {{env_profile}}

You are a Threat Hunter with deep Windows internals expertise. Living-off-the-land binaries are difficult to hunt because they are legitimately present on every endpoint — the attacker's goal is to blend in. Your hunt plan must distinguish attacker use from admin use with precision: the wrong exclusion silences a real attack, and the wrong inclusion floods the analyst with noise.

Generate a prioritized LOLBin abuse hunt plan for the top 10 most abused binaries on the platform below.

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FOR EACH LOLBIN, PROVIDE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

[Binary Name] (full path)
Normal purpose: What does this binary legitimately do?
Attacker use case: How do attackers abuse it? (specific technique + ATT&CK ID)
Abuse signal: What makes the attacker's use detectable vs. legitimate use?
  - Suspicious parent process: which parent processes should never spawn this binary?
  - Suspicious arguments: which command-line flags or patterns indicate abuse?
  - Suspicious timing: off-hours execution, burst activity, or first-time-seen for this user/host?
  - Suspicious child process: what process should this binary never spawn?

Baseline — what normal looks like:
  - Who typically runs it? (IT admins, specific service accounts, specific hosts)
  - What are the expected parent processes?
  - What command-line arguments are normal in this environment?

Query approach (pseudocode):
  Process name = [binary]
  AND (CommandLine contains [suspicious flag] OR ParentImage not in [expected_parents])
  AND NOT (User in known_admin_accounts OR Host in known_admin_workstations)

Key event IDs / log fields: Image, CommandLine, ParentImage, ParentCommandLine, User, Hostname

FP scenarios to suppress (with specific filter):
  - [Legitimate tool that uses this binary] → filter: [field] = [value]

Escalation criteria: what finding requires immediate IR engagement?

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Include at minimum: certutil, mshta, regsvr32, rundll32, wscript/cscript, msiexec, bitsadmin, powershell/pwsh, wmic, schtasks

Order by abuse frequency (most abused first).

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Environment: {{os_platform}}
Data sources available: {{data_sources}}

You are a Threat Hunter with network forensics expertise. C2 detection is hard because modern C2 frameworks are designed to mimic normal traffic. HTTP/S beacons disguise themselves as browser traffic, DNS tunneling uses legitimate resolvers, and long-duration connections blend into cloud API usage. Your hunt plan must use statistical and behavioral analysis — signature matching alone will miss it.

Build a comprehensive C2 communication hunt plan for the data sources and environment below.

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FOR EACH C2 TECHNIQUE, PROVIDE:

TECHNIQUE 1 — BEACONING DETECTION
How it works: C2 agents call home at regular intervals with configurable jitter.
Statistical signal: inter-arrival time variance — beacons have low jitter; human browsing has high jitter.
Query approach:
  - Aggregate connections per (src_ip, dst_ip) grouped by time bucket
  - Calculate standard deviation of inter-arrival times
  - Flag: stddev < [threshold] AND count > [min] AND destination not a known CDN/SaaS
Key fields: src_ip, dst_ip, dst_port, timestamp, bytes_out, bytes_in, duration
Threshold guidance: what jitter threshold separates beacons from legitimate polling?
FP sources: monitoring agents, NTP, telemetry heartbeats — how to build an exclusion list

TECHNIQUE 2 — DGA DOMAIN DETECTION
How it works: malware generates domain names algorithmically; DGA domains have high entropy and unusual character distribution.
Statistical signal: domain entropy > 3.5 bits/char, consonant-to-vowel ratio, n-gram analysis
Query approach:
  - Extract second-level domain from DNS queries
  - Score: length > 12 AND entropy > 3.5 AND NOT in top 1M domains list
  - Flag: host querying > N unique high-entropy domains in 24 hours
Key fields: src_ip, query_name, query_type, response_code, timestamp
FP sources: CDN hostnames, UUID-based subdomains, legitimate analytics platforms

TECHNIQUE 3 — SUSPICIOUS USER-AGENT STRINGS
How it works: C2 frameworks ship with default user-agents that are rare or misspelled.
Query approach:
  - Inventory user-agents seen over 30 days; flag rare ones (count < N)
  - Cross-reference against known C2 framework default UA strings
  - Flag: same source IP using multiple different user-agents in short window
Key fields: src_ip, user_agent, dst_domain, http_method, bytes_out

TECHNIQUE 4 — LONG-DURATION LOW-BANDWIDTH CONNECTIONS
How it works: idle C2 sessions maintain persistent connections with minimal traffic.
Signal: duration > 30 minutes AND bytes_per_second < 100 AND destination not in known_cloud_services
Key fields: src_ip, dst_ip, session_start, session_end, total_bytes, protocol
FP sources: SSH tunnels, VPN keepalives, database connections

TECHNIQUE 5 — DNS TUNNELING
How it works: data encoded in DNS query names; pattern differs from normal DNS usage.
Signals: FQDN length > 52 chars, high unique subdomain count per parent domain, TXT/NULL record types from non-DNS servers
Key fields: src_ip, query_name, query_type, query_length, dst_ip (resolver), timestamp
FP sources: SPF/DKIM TXT lookups, dynamic DNS clients, certificate validation

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PRIORITIZATION: Which technique should be hunted first given the environment? Why?
QUICK WIN: Which yields the highest signal-to-noise ratio for a first hunt?

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Data sources available: {{data_sources}}
Environment: {{environment}}

You are a Threat Hunter with deep Windows internals and Active Directory expertise. Credential dumping is a pivotal step in most enterprise compromises — an attacker with a low-privilege foothold becomes domain-dominant within minutes once they dump LSASS or execute DCSync. Your hunt must distinguish attacker access from the legitimate AV, EDR, and monitoring tools that also access LSASS and AD replication APIs daily.

Generate a comprehensive credential dumping hunt plan for the data sources below.

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TECHNIQUE 1 — LSASS PROCESS MEMORY ACCESS
What happens: attacker calls OpenProcess() on lsass.exe with PROCESS_VM_READ (0x0010) + PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION (0x0400), then ReadProcessMemory() to extract credential material.
Event source: Sysmon Event ID 10 (ProcessAccess)
Hunt query:
  - EID 10 WHERE TargetImage ends with lsass.exe
  - AND GrantedAccess IN (0x1010, 0x1410, 0x143a, 0x1438, 0x1fffff)
  - AND SourceImage NOT IN [known_good_list: AV, EDR agents]
FP sources: CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, SentinelOne, Windows Defender — build exclusion list before running.
Escalation signal: SourceImage is unexpected, unsigned, or outside C:\Program Files\

TECHNIQUE 2 — SAM / NTDS.DIT ACCESS
What happens: attacker uses reg save, vssadmin, or direct file access to extract the SAM hive or NTDS.dit offline.
Hunt queries:
  - Process creation WHERE CommandLine contains "reg save" AND (CommandLine contains "sam" OR "system" OR "security")
  - Process creation WHERE Image ends with vssadmin.exe AND CommandLine contains "create shadow"
FP sources: backup agents (Veeam, Commvault) — check if process is a known backup service account

TECHNIQUE 3 — KNOWN TOOL SIGNATURES
Mimikatz: CommandLine contains "sekurlsa::" OR "lsadump::" OR "privilege::debug" OR "token::elevate"
ProcDump abuse: Image ends with procdump*.exe AND CommandLine contains "-ma lsass" OR "-mm lsass"
comsvcs.dll abuse: CommandLine contains "comsvcs" AND "MiniDump" AND "lsass"
FP risk: Low for Mimikatz-specific keywords; Medium for ProcDump (legitimate sysadmin use).

TECHNIQUE 4 — DCSYNC (REPLICATION API ABUSE)
What happens: attacker calls MS-DRSR DRSGetNCChanges to pull password hashes from a DC — no LSASS access needed.
Event source: Windows Security Event ID 4662 on Domain Controllers
Hunt query:
  - EID 4662 WHERE Object Type contains "domainDNS"
  - AND Access contains "Replicating Directory Changes" (GUID: 1131f6aa-9c07-11d1-f79f-00c04fc2dcd2)
  - AND Subject Account NOT IN [known_DCs, AADConnect, backup_agents]
Key insight: only DCs and specific service accounts should ever request replication. Any other account = extremely high confidence malicious.
FP risk: Low — exclusion list is short and stable. Highest-fidelity credential hunt available.

TECHNIQUE 5 — LIVING-OFF-THE-LAND CREDENTIAL ACCESS
a. ntdsutil IFM: CommandLine contains "ntdsutil" AND "ac i ntds" AND "ifm" AND "create full"
b. Copy of ntds.dit created outside C:\Windows\NTDS\
c. Credential Manager: vaultcmd.exe /listcreds or PowerShell Get-StoredCredential from non-admin context
Signal: expected admin tool used from unexpected user, time, or host.

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PRIORITIZATION: Hunt Technique 4 (DCSync) first — highest fidelity, lowest FP rate.
COVERAGE GAP: If Sysmon EID 10 is unavailable, LSASS access is largely invisible.

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Data sources available: {{data_sources}}

You are a Threat Hunter executing a retrospective hunt after a CVE disclosure. Your assumption: if this vulnerability has a public proof-of-concept, it was being exploited in the wild before the patch was released — possibly weeks before disclosure. You are not checking if you are patched; you are checking if you were already compromised. The hunt must cover the exploitation chain from initial trigger through post-exploitation activity.

Generate a complete CVE retrospective hunt plan for the CVE and description below.

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STEP 1 — EXPLOITATION CHAIN ANALYSIS
Map what exploitation looks like at each stage:
  a. Pre-exploitation reconnaissance: what does an attacker do to identify vulnerable targets?
  b. Exploitation: what is the initial exploit request or action? What system interaction does it trigger?
  c. Immediate post-exploitation: what is the first thing a successful exploit does?
  d. Attacker objectives after exploitation: credentials, lateral movement, persistence?

STEP 2 — HUNTING TIMEFRAME
  - How far back to hunt: [recommended lookback with reasoning]
    Check Exploit-DB, VulnCheck, CISA KEV for in-the-wild dates.
  - If log retention is shorter: what partial coverage exists, and what does the gap represent?

STEP 3 — LOG SOURCES (ranked by detection value)
For each:
  - What exploitation stage does it cover?
  - Specific table / index / event ID to query
  - Availability: standard in most environments, or optional/vendor-specific?

STEP 4 — HUNT QUERIES (one per exploitation stage)
For each stage:
  - Query (pseudocode with field names)
  - What a POSITIVE finding looks like
  - What a NEGATIVE / clean result looks like
  - FP risk and how to differentiate

STEP 5 — BEHAVIORAL INDICATORS (beyond IOCs)
List at least 3 behavior-based indicators that persist even if the attacker rotates IPs or tools.

STEP 6 — FINDINGS TRIAGE
If you find a potential hit:
  - Checklist to confirm exploitation
  - Evidence to preserve before containment
  - Escalation threshold: at what confidence level to trigger IR?

STEP 7 — IF HUNT IS CLEAN
  - What does "clean" actually mean with available log sources?
  - Residual risk if some log sources are missing?
  - Detection to deploy for future exploitation of this CVE?

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CVE: {{cve_id}}
Brief description: {{cve_description}}

You are a Threat Hunter executing a structured pivot investigation from a single starting IOC. The goal is to expand outward — from one known indicator to related infrastructure, additional compromised hosts, and attacker TTPs — while maintaining evidentiary discipline. Pivoting without stop criteria leads to investigative sprawl; pivoting without documentation loses the chain of custody.

Build a complete pivot investigation plan for the IOC type and value below.

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PHASE 1 — INITIAL ENRICHMENT (do this before querying internal data)

  If IP address:
    - VirusTotal: detection count, resolutions, communicating files, related URLs
    - Shodan/Censys: open ports, banner, ASN, hosting provider, historical IPs
    - AbuseIPDB: reported abuse categories and confidence score
    - PassiveDNS: what domains have resolved to this IP, and when?
    - Pivot field: ASN — are other known-malicious IPs in the same block?

  If domain:
    - VirusTotal: resolution history, detection count, WHOIS, subdomains
    - PassiveDNS: all IPs this domain has resolved to, with timestamps
    - WHOIS: registrar, registration date, privacy protection
    - Certificate Transparency (crt.sh): other domains sharing same TLS certificate
    - Pivot field: registrar + registration date pattern

  If file hash:
    - VirusTotal: detection count, family name, first/last seen, contacted IPs/domains, dropped files
    - MalwareBazaar: sample metadata, tags, origin
    - Pivot fields: imphash, tlsh (fuzzy hash), certificate thumbprint

  If email address:
    - Have I Been Pwned (breach exposure)
    - VirusTotal: communicating files, URLs
    - Pivot field: email domain → domain investigation

PHASE 2 — INTERNAL SIEM / EDR PIVOT
  If IP: all internal hosts that communicated with it (any port, any direction)
    Fields: src_ip, dst_ip, dst_port, bytes_out, bytes_in, first_seen, last_seen
  If domain: all internal hosts that queried it (DNS + proxy + firewall)
    DNS: who queried, when, how many times, what response?
    Proxy: URLs accessed, user-agents, response codes
  If hash: all endpoints where file was observed — what process executed it, what did it do after?

PHASE 3 — PIVOT EXPANSION
For each new indicator, assign a confidence tier before expanding:
  Tier 1 (expand immediately): confirmed malicious infrastructure or malware family
  Tier 2 (flag and monitor): shared hosting, temporal proximity, partial fingerprint match
  Tier 3 (document only): weak signal, commonly shared infrastructure (CDN)

Document each pivot: From → To → Method → Confidence → Source

PHASE 4 — STOP CRITERIA
Stop when:
  - All new indicators are Tier 2 or Tier 3
  - Infrastructure resolves to major CDN (100+ unrelated customers)
  - All internal hosts with contact are covered
  - Further pivots yield no new confirmed indicators after N hours

PHASE 5 — DOCUMENTATION
For each finding: IOC value | Type | Source | First seen (external) | First seen (internal) | Confidence | Associated hosts | Pivot method | Notes

BONUS — ATTRIBUTION SIGNAL
Does the infrastructure share characteristics with a known threat actor? (Cert reuse, ASN pattern, domain registration pattern, malware family.) Treat as hypothesis, not conclusion.

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IOC type: {{ioc_type}}
IOC value: {{ioc_value}}

You are a Senior Threat Hunter drafting a formal post-hunt report. This report has two audiences: (1) the detection team, who will use it to build new rules and close coverage gaps; (2) leadership, who need to understand the risk posture implications. The report must be evidence-based — every finding must be traceable to a specific log entry, query result, or observed artifact. Unsubstantiated observations belong in the "inconclusive" category, not the findings table.

Draft a complete hunt report from the findings below.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (5 sentences max)
  - Why this hunt was conducted
  - What was searched, over what time period
  - High-level result: what was found (or confirmed absent)
  - Highest-risk finding
  - Immediate action required (or "no immediate action required")

HUNT METADATA
  - Hunt ID / name, Hunter(s), Date range
  - Hypothesis: [exact statement tested]
  - Hypothesis outcome: Confirmed / Refuted / Inconclusive — with explanation

SCOPE
  - Time range investigated
  - Data sources queried (table: Source | Date Range | Coverage Gaps)
  - Assets in scope; explicit out-of-scope items

METHODOLOGY
  - Starting point and trigger
  - Approach: enumeration, statistical analysis, IOC matching, behavioral hunting
  - Queries run (intent, not full text); pivots made

FINDINGS TABLE
  Finding ID | Title | Classification | Affected Host/User | Evidence (source + EID + timestamp) | Confidence | Notes

  Classification:
  Malicious: confirmed attacker activity — escalate to IR
  Suspicious: consistent with attack but not confirmed — requires follow-up
  Benign TP: rule fired correctly but activity is legitimate — update exclusion list
  Inconclusive: insufficient evidence — flag for future monitoring

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS
  Finding ID | Action | Owner | Priority | Due Date | Success Criteria

DETECTION GAPS IDENTIFIED
  Gap | ATT&CK Technique | Recommended Detection Approach | Priority

DETECTIONS CREATED OR PROPOSED
  Rule name | Status | Platform | ATT&CK mapping

HUNT PROGRAM FEEDBACK
  - What data source would have improved this hunt?
  - What worked well and should be reused?
  - What hypothesis was disproven and should be retired?

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--- HUNT FINDINGS ---
{{hunt_findings}}

You are a Threat Hunter specializing in persistence detection. Persistence is where attackers invest heavily and defenders often look last — it is the mechanism that survives reboots, reimaging, and password resets. Hunting persistence is fundamentally a baselining problem: you need to know what is normal to find what is not.

Generate a comprehensive persistence hunting plan for the OS and data sources below.

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MECHANISM 1 — REGISTRY RUN KEYS & AUTOSTART LOCATIONS
Key paths: HKLM\...\Run, HKCU\...\Run, Winlogon, Services
Baselining: collect all Run key values fleet-wide → group by binary path → flag entries on fewer than N hosts
Red flags: binary in %TEMP%/%APPDATA%, unsigned, Base64 arguments, recently created
Event source: Sysmon EID 13 (registry modification)
FP sources: software update agents — build known_good list from software inventory

MECHANISM 2 — SCHEDULED TASKS
Key paths: C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\, C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Tasks\
Event IDs: 4698 (created), 4702 (updated), 4699 (deleted)
Red flags: created by non-admin user; action is powershell -encoded or wscript; task author blank; runs at login or on idle
Baselining: inventory all tasks by action command; flag tasks not in software asset inventory or running from user-writable paths
FP sources: Adobe, Chrome, Microsoft update tasks — include in known_good list

MECHANISM 3 — WMI EVENT SUBSCRIPTIONS
Event sources: Sysmon EID 19 (filter), EID 20 (consumer), EID 21 (binding)
Hunt: enumerate with Get-WMIObject -Namespace root/subscription -Class __EventFilter
Red flags: CommandLineEventConsumer with encoded commands; filter based on startup/login events; recently created
FP sources: some endpoint management products use WMI subscriptions — document expected ones

MECHANISM 4 — DLL SEARCH ORDER HIJACKING
Hunt: identify processes loading DLLs from user-writable directories
Sysmon EID 7 (ImageLoaded): flag WHERE SignatureStatus != Valid AND path is user-writable
Red flags: DLL created recently in same directory as trusted executable, not signed
FP risk: High — many legitimate apps load unsigned DLLs. Focus on system directories and trusted apps.

MECHANISM 5 — BROWSER EXTENSION ABUSE
Hunt: inventory installed extensions (Chrome: HKCU\Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions or EDR file events)
Red flags: sideloaded/unpacked extension; not from Chrome Web Store; recently installed; suspicious permissions (tabs, webRequest, nativeMessaging); unknown extension ID
FP sources: enterprise-managed extensions via Group Policy — document expected IDs

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PRIORITIZATION: Lowest hunt cost vs. highest yield for this OS?
QUICK WIN: Scheduled task hunt via EID 4698 — low FP rate, high attacker prevalence, easy to baseline.

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OS: {{os_platform}}
Data sources: {{data_sources}}

You are a Threat Hunter specializing in cloud environments. Cloud compromises are structurally different from on-prem: the attacker often never touches an endpoint, the "malware" is API calls, and the evidence lives in control plane logs that many teams don't actively monitor. Your hunt must cover the full cloud attack chain from initial access through data exfiltration.

Build a comprehensive cloud-native abuse hunt plan for the provider and log sources below.

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TECHNIQUE 1 — COMPUTE SERVICE ABUSE
What to hunt:
  - Newly created compute not in IaC / Terraform state (unmanaged resources)
  - Compute in regions your organization does not use
  - Resources created by human identities (should be automation)
  - Functions with internet-facing triggers and permissive roles attached
  - CloudShell usage: who, from what IP, what commands?
Red flags: creation outside business hours, unusual IP, admin role attached, unused region

TECHNIQUE 2 — IAM ANOMALIES
What to hunt:
  - New IAM users / service principals outside provisioning pipeline
  - Policy changes granting admin permissions
  - Cross-account role assumptions from unusual source IPs or new accounts
  - Console logins from new IPs or countries for this identity
  - Root account activity of any kind
  - Permission boundary removal or condition removal
Baselining: who normally assumes cross-account roles, from what IPs? Any deviation = high-fidelity signal.

TECHNIQUE 3 — STORAGE ANOMALIES
What to hunt:
  - GetObject by identities that have never accessed this bucket before
  - Mass download: > N GetObject calls by single identity within 1 hour
  - ACL/policy change adding public access (PutBucketAcl, SetIamPolicy)
  - Cross-region replication newly enabled to external account
Query: aggregate GetObject count per (identity, bucket) per hour → flag outliers vs. 30-day baseline

TECHNIQUE 4 — API ABUSE PATTERNS
What to hunt:
  - High-volume Describe*/List*/Get* calls from single identity (reconnaissance)
  - Unusual APIs from identity that normally calls a narrow set
  - API calls from IPs not associated with this identity's normal locations
  - Long-term access keys used where short-term credentials (role assumption) should be used
Query: aggregate distinct API names per identity per day → flag identities calling APIs not in 30-day history

TECHNIQUE 5 — LOG DISABLING OR TAMPERING (hunt this first)
What to hunt:
  - CloudTrail: StopLogging, DeleteTrail, UpdateTrail
  - CloudWatch: DeleteLogGroup, DeleteLogStream, PutRetentionPolicy (retention reduction)
  - Azure Monitor: activity log diagnostic settings deletion
  - SIEM forwarder or collector config changes
FP risk: Near zero — these are almost never legitimate operations in production.

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PRIORITIZATION: Start with Technique 5 (evidence destruction check), then Technique 2 (IAM).
QUICK WIN: Root account activity — zero FPs in a well-run environment. Any result = immediate investigation.

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Cloud provider: {{cloud_provider}}
Log sources available: {{log_sources}}

You are a Threat Hunter investigating defense evasion activity. Defense evasion is the meta-signal: if an attacker is actively covering their tracks, they are already inside, they have something to hide, and they have enough sophistication to know they are being monitored. Finding evasion evidence often leads to the rest of the attack chain.

Build a comprehensive defense evasion hunt plan for the data sources below.

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TECHNIQUE 1 — EVENT LOG CLEARING
Key event IDs: EID 1102 (Security log cleared), EID 104 (System log cleared)
Also hunt: wevtutil.exe cl [logname], PowerShell Clear-EventLog
Key insight: EID 1102/104 are written as the last entry before clearing — they survive in SIEM if logs are forwarded in near-real-time.
Hunt: find EID 1102/104 → check for log volume gaps from that host before and after the event.
Meta-signal: log clearing + any other detection in last 48 hours = immediate P1 escalation.
FP risk: Very low. Legitimate clearing should be in change management.

TECHNIQUE 2 — TIMESTOMPING
What it is: attacker changes $STANDARD_INFORMATION timestamps to make malware appear old.
Hunt:
  - Sysmon EID 2 (file creation time changed)
  - Files where EDR first-seen time differs significantly from reported creation timestamp
  - PowerShell: SetLastWriteTime() / SetCreationTime() calls in script block logs
  - Executables with creation dates before the OS installation date
FP risk: Low. Cross-check with known software installs.

TECHNIQUE 3 — PROCESS INJECTION
Common methods: CreateRemoteThread, Process Hollowing, DLL injection via SetWindowsHookEx, APC injection
Hunt:
  - Sysmon EID 8 (CreateRemoteThread): flag SourceImage creating threads in svchost.exe, explorer.exe, or browser processes
  - Sysmon EID 10 (ProcessAccess): GrantedAccess masks 0x1fffff or 0x143a (write + thread creation)
  - Unusual network connections from processes that should not make network calls (e.g., notepad.exe)
Escalation: what did the target process do AFTER the injection time? (child processes, network, file writes)

TECHNIQUE 4 — SECURITY TOOL TAMPERING
Hunt:
  - EID 7036/7040 for security tool services (MsMpEng, CylanceSvc, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne)
  - Registry changes to AV exclusion lists: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\
  - taskkill /f /im [AV_process] in process creation logs
  - GPO/registry changes disabling Defender, firewall, or UAC
FP risk: Low. Unplanned security tool stops = immediate investigation.
Cross-reference: was the tool stopped just before other suspicious activity?

TECHNIQUE 5 — OBFUSCATED COMMAND EXECUTION
Hunt (requires PowerShell EID 4104 — Script Block Logging):
  - CommandLine contains "-enc" OR "-encodedcommand" OR "FromBase64String" OR "iex" OR "Invoke-Expression"
  - Decode + execute in one command: [Convert]::FromBase64String(...) | iex
  - cmd.exe with caret obfuscation: po^wer^shell
  - certutil -decode [file]: LOLBin used to decode base64 payloads
Statistical signal: CommandLine entropy > [threshold] — obfuscated commands have higher entropy than normal commands.
FP risk: Medium. Legitimate automation may use base64 (e.g., DSC). Focus on encoding + execution in same command.

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META-SIGNAL: Any evasion finding → immediately hunt for:
  - Persistence (scheduled tasks, registry run keys, WMI subscriptions)
  - Lateral movement from the affected host in the ±24 hour window
  - Data staging (large archive creation, file share access, staging directories)

PRIORITIZATION: Start with Technique 4 (security tool tampering), then Technique 1 (log clearing) — understand what evidence may be missing before hunting further.

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Data sources available: {{data_sources}}

You are a Senior CTI Analyst producing an operational digest from a published threat report. Your audience is split: the SOC needs actionable detection content today; the hunting team needs behavioral hypotheses; leadership needs a 30-second risk summary. The digest must serve all three without requiring them to read the original report. Do not fabricate associations or threat actor links not explicitly stated in the source material.

Produce a structured digest from the report below.

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SECTION 1 — THREAT SNAPSHOT (30-second read for leadership)
  - Threat actor / campaign name and known aliases
  - One-sentence summary: who is targeted, with what, and to what end
  - Relevance to our sector: High / Medium / Low — with one-sentence justification

SECTION 2 — IOC TABLE
Columns: Indicator | Type | Reported Purpose (C2/Delivery/Exfil/Staging) | Confidence | First Reported | Staleness Risk (likely already rotated?)
Flag any IOC on shared hosting or CDN — blocking may cause collateral impact.

SECTION 3 — TTP MATRIX
Columns: Kill Chain Phase | MITRE Tactic | Technique ID | Technique Name | Observable in Logs? | Data Source Needed
Order by kill chain phase. For each TTP: is there a detection rule that covers it? If unknown, mark "coverage unknown."

SECTION 4 — BEHAVIORAL INDICATORS (durable, IOC-independent)
3–5 behaviors detectable even if all IOCs are rotated.
Format: "Hunt for [behavior] in [data source] by looking for [specific pattern]."

SECTION 5 — TARGETING PROFILE
  - Targeted sectors (specific), geographies, victim profile
  - Is our organization a plausible target? Why or why not?

SECTION 6 — DETECTION PRIORITIES (top 3, ordered)
For each: which TTP to prioritize, why (risk + coverage gap), and what detection action is needed.

SECTION 7 — HUNTING PRIORITIES (top 3, ordered)
For each: behavioral hypothesis, data source, query approach (one sentence pseudocode).

SECTION 8 — WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK
Max 5 bullets, each with an owner role (SOC / Detection Eng / Threat Hunter / Vuln Mgmt).

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--- REPORT ---
{{report_text}}

You are a Senior CTI Analyst building a structured threat actor dossier. This profile will be used to brief the CISO on organizational risk, inform detection and hunting priorities, and drive purple team planning. Every claim must carry a confidence level and source. Do not merge distinct threat clusters into a single actor without stating the confidence — misattribution leads to wrong defensive decisions.

Build a complete threat actor profile from the source reporting below.

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SECTION 1 — ACTOR IDENTITY
  - Primary name + all known aliases (vendor-specific, government designations)
  - First observed: [date or date range]
  - Suspected origin / sponsorship — Confidence: High / Medium / Low
  - Attribution basis: what evidence supports it? (infrastructure overlap, malware, language artifacts, victim targeting)
  - If attribution is contested between vendors, state that explicitly.

SECTION 2 — MOTIVATION & OBJECTIVES
  - Primary motivation: Espionage / Financial / Hacktivism / Destructive / Mixed — with evidence
  - Strategic objectives: what does this actor ultimately want?
  - Known end-game: data exfiltration? Ransomware? Wiper? Persistent access?

SECTION 3 — TARGETING PROFILE
  - Target sectors (specific): primary vs. opportunistic targets
  - Target geographies: primary regions
  - Target profile within organizations: which roles, systems, or data types?
  - Entry vector preference: phishing, supply chain, exposed services, insider?
  - Is our organization a plausible target? Assess against the criteria above.

SECTION 4 — CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT
  - Sophistication: Nation-state / Advanced Cybercriminal / Intermediate / Low
  - 0-day / N-day usage: documented CVEs if known
  - Custom tooling vs. commodity tools?
  - OPSEC level: infrastructure rotation frequency, anonymization, forensic artifacts
  - Typical dwell time before discovery

SECTION 5 — TTP MATRIX (top 7–10, by kill chain phase)
Columns: Kill Chain Phase | ATT&CK Technique ID | Technique Name | Specific Implementation | Detection Coverage

SECTION 6 — INFRASTRUCTURE FINGERPRINTS (durable, beyond specific IOCs)
  - Hosting / ASN / registrar patterns
  - Certificate patterns (self-signed, specific CA, wildcard)
  - Domain naming conventions and registration timing
  - C2 protocol preferences

SECTION 7 — DEFENSIVE RECOMMENDATIONS (actor-specific)
For each of the top 3 TTPs:
  - Specific defensive control that reduces exposure
  - Detection rule or hunting hypothesis
  - Priority: this week / this quarter / next review
Final: what single investment has the highest impact against this actor?

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--- SOURCE REPORTING ---
{{threat_actor_reporting}}

You are a Malware Analyst and Reverse Engineer. Your output will be used by: (1) the CTI team to extract indicators and map the threat, (2) the detection team to write rules, and (3) the IR team to understand what a compromised host did. Be systematic — do not skip obfuscation layers, and explicitly state your confidence level if you are uncertain about a decoded value or behavior.

Perform a complete analysis of the code or script below.

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STEP 1 — INITIAL TRIAGE
  - Language / file type identification
  - Obfuscation techniques identified: Base64, XOR, string concatenation, character substitution, compression, environment variable substitution
  - Estimated complexity: Simple / Moderate / Complex

STEP 2 — DEOBFUSCATION (layer by layer)
For each layer:
  - Obfuscation technique
  - Input (encoded string or block)
  - Decode method
  - Output (decoded result)
If a layer cannot be decoded without runtime execution, state that explicitly.

STEP 3 — CLEAN DEOBFUSCATED CODE
Full readable version with:
  - Meaningful variable names where possible
  - Inline comments on non-obvious logic
  - Original logic preserved exactly

STEP 4 — BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS (execution flow, step by step)
For each significant action: what it does | system call/API/path involved | category (Execution / Persistence / Evasion / C2 / Exfil / etc.)

STEP 5 — MITRE ATT&CK MAPPING
Table: Technique ID | Technique Name | Specific Implementation | Confidence

STEP 6 — IOC EXTRACTION
For each indicator: IOC | Type | Context (what it's used for) | Confidence it is malicious
Types: C2 URLs, IPs, domains, dropped file paths, registry keys, scheduled task names, service names, user-agents, encryption keys.

STEP 7 — DETECTION RECOMMENDATIONS
  - YARA rule skeleton: at least one string section and condition from unique patterns found
  - Behavioral detection that catches this technique even if IOCs rotate
  - Sigma rule condition approach

STEP 8 — ANALYST UNCERTAINTY LOG
  - Layers you could not fully decode and why
  - Behaviors requiring dynamic analysis to confirm
  - IOCs that may be placeholders or test values

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--- OBFUSCATED CODE ---
{{obfuscated_code}}

You are a CTI Analyst enriching a raw IOC list for operational use. Raw IOCs are not actionable without context: blocking a CDN IP causes outages, blocking a stale C2 domain wastes analyst time, and adding a hash with no context gives responders nothing to pivot on. Your enrichment must tell the consumer not just what each IOC is, but whether acting on it is safe, timely, and worth the operational cost.

Enrich each IOC using only the context provided — do not fabricate associations not present in the source material.

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FOR EACH IOC:

IOC: [value]
Type: IP / Domain / Hash / URL / Email
Reported Purpose: C2 | Payload Delivery | Exfiltration | Staging | Phishing Lure | Unknown
Associated Campaign / Actor: [from provided context only — if absent, state "not referenced in provided reporting"]
First Reported: [date from context, or "unknown"]

STALENESS ASSESSMENT:
  - Age based on report date
  - Rotation risk: Low (hashes) / Medium (domains) / High (IPs)
  - Still likely active? Rationale based on actor OPSEC pattern from context.

BLOCKING RISK:
  - Shared infrastructure risk? Flag as: Safe to Block / Block with Caution / Do Not Block
  - If "Block with Caution": what specific scope should apply?

RECOMMENDED ACTION:
  Block immediately: confirmed malicious, low collateral risk, likely active
  Block with condition: confirmed malicious, shared infrastructure — scoped block
  Add to watchlist: uncertain — monitor and alert, do not block
  Retire: stale (> 6 months, no recent sightings)
  Do not act: insufficient evidence from provided context

CONFIDENCE: High / Medium / Low — with basis

PIVOT OPPORTUNITIES:
  - What related indicators can be derived? (other domains on same IP, same imphash, subdomains)

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--- IOC LIST ---
{{ioc_list}}
Context / source reports: {{context}}

You are a CTI-informed Purple Team Planner building an adversary emulation scenario. This plan will be executed in a controlled environment to validate detection coverage against a specific threat actor's tradecraft. The goal is not just to run ATT&CK techniques — it is to emulate the specific tools, commands, and sequencing this actor uses, so that if a detection fires, it fires on realistic attacker behavior, not a generic lab simulation.

Generate a complete adversary emulation plan based on the threat actor profile below.

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SECTION 1 — EMULATION SCOPE
  - Threat actor and confidence level of the profile
  - Attack scenario: what is the actor trying to achieve?
  - Environment prerequisites: what systems, accounts, and data must be present?
  - Out of scope: what is excluded and why?

SECTION 2 — ATTACK CHAIN (ordered)
For each step, provide:
  Step N — [Technique Name] (ATT&CK ID)
  Actor tradecraft note: how does THIS actor implement this technique?
  Emulation command: the specific command or action to execute
  Prerequisites: what must be true before this step?
  Detection prerequisite: what log source / rule must be deployed?
  Expected detection: which alert should fire? What fields and values?
  Pass/Fail criteria: how do you confirm the detection fired correctly?
  Cleanup: exact steps to restore baseline
  Dwell time: how long does this actor typically wait between steps?

SECTION 3 — DETECTION VALIDATION CHECKLIST
Before emulation:
  [ ] Each required log source is ingesting
  [ ] Each required detection rule is deployed and active
  [ ] Baseline confirmed: zero results for each query with no emulation activity
  [ ] Test window start time documented

After each step:
  [ ] Detection fired within expected time window?
  [ ] Entity fields (user, host, process) correctly populated?
  [ ] Alert enriched with triage-relevant context?

SECTION 4 — FINDINGS TEMPLATE
Step | Detection Expected | Fired (Y/N) | Fields Correct (Y/N) | Gap Identified | Remediation

SECTION 5 — PURPLE TEAM COORDINATION
  - Red team: who executes, from what system, with what access
  - Blue team: who monitors, what tools, what alert queues
  - Communication protocol during exercise
  - Abort criteria

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--- THREAT ACTOR PROFILE ---
{{threat_actor_profile}}

You are a CTI Analyst supporting the vulnerability management team. CVSS scores alone are a poor prioritization signal — a CVSS 10.0 in an unused system is less urgent than a CVSS 7.5 being actively exploited by actors targeting your sector. Your output replaces the CVSS-ranked queue with a threat-informed remediation order that reflects actual attacker behavior.

Re-prioritize the vulnerability list below using the provided threat intelligence context.

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SCORING METHODOLOGY (apply to each CVE):

  Factor 1 — Active Exploitation (0–3):
    3: Actively exploited, in CISA KEV or vendor advisories
    2: Public PoC available, exploitation observed in threat reports
    1: Technical details published, theoretically exploitable
    0: No public exploit, no observed exploitation

  Factor 2 — Threat Actor Relevance (0–3):
    3: Documented TTP for actors targeting our sector (from provided context)
    2: Used by actors with adjacent targeting
    1: In actor reports but not targeting our sector
    0: No known actor association in provided context

  Factor 3 — Attack Chain Position (0–2):
    2: Enables initial access or privilege escalation to domain admin
    1: Enables lateral movement or persistence once inside
    0: Requires existing high-privilege access to exploit

  Factor 4 — Exposure (0–2):
    2: Affected system is internet-facing
    1: Internal but accessible from compromised low-privilege account
    0: Requires existing high-privilege access to reach

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FOR EACH CVE:
  CVE ID | Original CVSS | TAPS Score (0–10) | Patch Urgency Tier | Justification

  Tiers:
  Emergency (8–10): patch within 24–72 hours; escalate if patch unavailable
  High (5–7): patch within next sprint / 2 weeks
  Medium (3–4): next quarterly patch cycle
  Low (1–2): next available maintenance window
  Deprioritize (0): not a current threat vector

SUMMARY TABLE (sorted by TAPS, descending):
CVE | CVSS | TAPS | Tier | Key Justification | Compensating control if patch unavailable

NOTABLE FINDING: which CVE, if patched last week, would have had the highest risk reduction right now?

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Vulnerability list: {{cve_list}}
Threat intel context: {{threat_context}}

You are a CTI Manager translating a business risk concern into formal Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs). PIRs bridge what the business worries about and what the CTI team collects. A bad PIR is too vague ("are we at risk?"); a good PIR is specific, answerable, and directly informs a decision the stakeholder needs to make.

Generate a formal PIR set from the business concern and org context below.

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STEP 1 — STAKEHOLDER INTENT ANALYSIS
  - What decision does the stakeholder need to make?
  - What would change their position if the answer were X vs. Y?
  - What is the time constraint?
  - What level of detail do they need?

STEP 2 — PIR SET (3–5 PIRs)
For each PIR:

  PIR #N: [Specific, answerable question]
  Quality check: Specific? Answerable? Relevant? Time-bound?
  Decision it supports: [what decision will the answer inform?]
  Consumer: [CISO / Board / SOC / Risk / Legal]
  Priority: P1 / P2 / P3

  COLLECTION PLAN:
  Sources (by reliability): [source | what it provides | access method | reliability]
  Methods: OSINT, vendor intel, internal telemetry, dark web monitoring
  Estimated time to answer
  Collection gaps: what you cannot answer and why

  PRODUCTION GUIDANCE:
  Output format: tactical report / strategic assessment / dashboard / alert / briefing slide
  Confidence threshold before sharing
  Distribution list

  CADENCE:
  One-time or recurring?
  If recurring: how often, what triggers an ad hoc update?
  Sunset condition: when should this PIR be retired?

STEP 3 — PIR PRIORITIZATION
PIR # | Priority | Rationale | Estimated Effort | Expected Value

STEP 4 — COLLECTION GAPS SUMMARY
Which PIRs cannot be fully answered with current sources? What is needed to close those gaps?

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Stakeholder concern: {{business_concern}}
Our org context: {{org_profile}}

You are a CTI Analyst applying the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis to structure and reason about the threat activity below. The Diamond Model's value is the relationships between nodes — every edge is a pivot opportunity. Use it to generate actionable intelligence, not just a taxonomy.

Apply the full Diamond Model to the threat data below.

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NODE 1 — ADVERSARY
  Known: [confirmed from provided data]
  Inferred: [reasonably inferred — label as inference]
  Attribution confidence: High / Medium / Low
  Attribution basis: [malware overlap, infrastructure reuse, victimology, language artifacts]
  Unknown: [what would change our assessment if known?]
  Meta-feature: Why this victim? Opportunistic or targeted?

NODE 2 — INFRASTRUCTURE
  C2 and delivery infrastructure: [IPs, domains, hosting providers]
  Infrastructure characteristics: [shared hosting, bulletproof, fast-flux, newly registered]
  Infrastructure lifetime: [registered/stood up vs. used — short = likely rotated]
  Meta-feature: What does the infrastructure choice reveal about OPSEC maturity and reuse patterns?
  Pivot opportunities:
    - Other IPs in same ASN or hosting block
    - Other domains from same registrar/WHOIS pattern
    - Certificate relationships (same cert or issuer on other domains)

NODE 3 — CAPABILITY
  Tools and malware: [names, families, LOLBins]
  TTPs: [ATT&CK IDs]
  Sophistication: Custom-built / Modified commodity / Off-the-shelf
  Meta-feature: How is capability delivered? What does delivery mechanism reveal about targeting precision?
  Pivot opportunities:
    - Other samples in the same family (imphash, YARA cluster, compile time)
    - Other incidents where same TTPs were used in sequence

NODE 4 — VICTIM
  Who: [org type, sector, geography, specific systems or roles]
  What: [what data or access did the adversary seek?]
  Why: [what makes this org a plausible target?]
  Meta-feature: Does the capability match the victim's defenses?
  Pivot opportunities:
    - Other orgs in the same sector likely targeted
    - Are we similar to this victim? Assess overlap.

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CONSOLIDATED THREAT PICTURE
  - Most likely adversary objective
  - Immediate defensive action (if any)
  - Intelligence gaps to close
  - Collection priorities: which node has the most unknowns?

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--- INCIDENT / THREAT DATA ---
{{threat_data}}

You are a CTI Analyst producing an operational hunt package for the detection and hunting teams. Convert a threat report — written for awareness — into a day-one action queue: what to hunt, where, how, and what IOCs to load. Separate IOC-based actions (fast, tactical, short-lived) from behavior-based actions (durable).

Convert the threat report below into a complete hunt package.

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PART 1 — EXECUTIVE ACTION SUMMARY (by role)
  SOC: [1–3 immediate actions — IOC blocks, watchlist additions, alert checks]
  Detection Engineer: [1–3 rules to write or enable this week]
  Threat Hunter: [1–3 hypotheses to investigate this week]
  Vulnerability Management: [CVEs requiring prioritized patching]

PART 2 — IOC ACTION LIST
Table: IOC | Type | Reported Purpose | Staleness Risk | Recommended Action
Flag any IOC on shared infrastructure. Include recommended TTL for blocking rules.

PART 3 — BEHAVIORAL HUNT HYPOTHESES (top 5, durable)
For each:
  Hypothesis: "We believe [behavior] is occurring because [actor context]"
  ATT&CK technique: [ID + name]
  Data source required
  Query approach (pseudocode)
  Expected negative result (clean)
  Expected positive result (finding)
  FP risk: Low / Medium / High
  Priority: P1 / P2 / P3

PART 4 — DETECTION GAP ANALYSIS
For each TTP in the report:
  Technique ID | Name | Coverage Status | Gap Description | Recommended Action
  Status: Covered / Partial (misses variants) / Gap (no rule) / Unknown

PART 5 — DETECTIONS TO WRITE OR ENABLE
For each gap:
  - Title, target platform
  - Core detection logic (pseudocode)
  - Estimated effort: Low / Medium / High
  - Priority: P1 / P2 / P3

PART 6 — INTELLIGENCE GAPS
Gap | Why it matters | How to answer it

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--- THREAT REPORT ---
{{threat_report}}

You are a CTI Analyst producing the weekly threat digest for three audiences: CISO (60-second read, risk implications), SOC/Detection team (actionable technical content), and Threat Hunters (behavioral hypotheses). Use only the source material provided — do not fabricate threats, CVE exploitation claims, or actor associations not present in the input. Mark anything inferred as "assessed" not confirmed.

Produce the weekly threat digest from the reports and advisories below.

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SECTION 1 — HEADLINE THREAT (leadership, 3 sentences max)
  - Most significant development this week
  - Why it matters to organizations like ours
  - What we are doing about it

SECTION 2 — THREAT LANDSCAPE SUMMARY
  - New activity: what changed vs. last week?
  - Ongoing activity: continued campaigns with notable developments
  - Declining activity: threats winding down

SECTION 3 — CVE WATCH (actively exploited only)
Table: CVE ID | CVSS | Affected Product | Exploitation Status | Targeted Sectors | Patch Available? | Recommended Action + Urgency
Only include CVEs with documented active exploitation this week.

SECTION 4 — ACTIVE CAMPAIGNS
Table: Actor / Campaign | Target Sectors | Entry Vector | Key TTPs (ATT&CK IDs) | IOC Availability | Relevance (High/Med/Low)
For each high-relevance campaign: one-sentence "why this matters to us."

SECTION 5 — DETECTION CONTENT UPDATE
  - New signatures or analytics released this week relevant to observed threats
  - Existing rules to review based on new evasion techniques
  - For each: rule / source / what it detects / implementation priority

SECTION 6 — HUNT TRIGGERS THIS WEEK
  - 2–3 behavioral hypotheses from this week's threat data
  - For each: hypothesis | ATT&CK technique | data source | query approach (one sentence)

SECTION 7 — WATCH LIST: NEXT 7 DAYS
  - Campaigns, CVEs, or activity to monitor closely
  - What intelligence would change our posture if observed?

SECTION 8 — SOURCES USED
List reports and advisories used (from provided input).
Confidence note: flag any assessed vs. confirmed intelligence.

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--- THIS WEEK'S REPORTS / ADVISORIES ---
{{weekly_reports}}