Dissecting C2 Beacon Patterns in Modern RAT Frameworks
An examination of command-and-control communication patterns across widely deployed remote access tooling, with a focus on behavioral fingerprinting and detection opportunities.
Original Research
Practitioner-driven investigations into adversary behavior, infrastructure patterns, malware capabilities, and emerging threats. No vendor spin. No marketing fluff.
Research articles
Pivoting on TLS Certificates to Map Adversary Hosting Clusters
A practical walkthrough of certificate transparency log analysis as a pivot mechanism for uncovering threat actor infrastructure clusters at scale.
Writing Detection Rules That Survive Adversary Evasion
How to build behavioral detection logic that remains effective as adversaries adapt — a framework for detection durability over signature freshness.
Structuring Analytical Judgments in CTI Reporting
A framework for expressing confidence, sourcing, and analytical reasoning in finished intelligence products — reducing ambiguity and improving decision-maker utility.
Building a Structured OSINT Collection Plan for Threat Investigations
How to move from ad-hoc searching to disciplined, repeatable OSINT collection — including source selection, collection hygiene, and analytical workflow integration.
The Intelligence Analyst's Fieldcraft: Notes on Operational Security
Operational considerations for analysts conducting adversary research — covering infrastructure separation, attribution hygiene, and minimizing investigative footprint.
Passive DNS as a Threat Hunting Primitive
Techniques for leveraging passive DNS data to identify malicious domains, track infrastructure reuse, and build threat clusters — with annotated case examples.
Unpacking Techniques in Modern Commodity Malware
A survey of packing and obfuscation methods observed in commodity malware, with annotated approaches for extracting payloads and recovering meaningful code for analysis.
Tracking Threat Actor Infrastructure Across VPN Exit Nodes
How adversaries leverage commercial VPN infrastructure for operational security and how analysts can pierce that anonymity through behavioral and infrastructure correlation.