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Intelligence

Introduction

Looking for a Threat actor? A specific Malware? A report on a topic of interest? Or a URL that looks suspicious? The Intelligence page possesses a search engine with complex filtering capabilities to navigate through millions of data. This threat knowledge base is updated on a daily basis by Sekoia.io analysts to make sure all kinds of threats are covered.

Search bars

The two ways to find what you need in the knowledge base is to:

  1. Use the search bar embedded in the header. It’s accessible from any page of the Intelligence Center and enables a quick search in the database.
  2. Click Intelligence from the Intelligence Center menu and use the main search bar to browse the knowledge you need.

Intelligence-search

You can search for multiple items at the same time. To skip a line and paste multiple items, press Shift-Enter and paste your content.

Tip

You can easily open multiple search results in new tabs by right-clicking on an object and using your mouse, option+click (for Mac), or shift+click (for Windows).

Tabs

After you’ve typed your search and clicked on enter, two or three tabs appear under the search bar: one for objects, one for observables and one for unknown observables.

You can refer to this page to understand what objects and observables are and how our data model works.

Each tab has a counter that informs users about the number of items in the database for each category.

For instance, if you search for Google, you will find numerous objects (reports, Intrusion sets, Indicators…) but only two observables.

Tip

Always check all tabs to be sure to get all information needed on a topic. Observables may not be harmful but they can be helpful in an investigation.

Search for objects

How the search engine works

When searching for a term or multiple terms, Sekoia.io will list objects with fields that match the term(s).

The following fields are taken into consideration by the search engine:

  • Name
  • Description
  • Aliases
  • Content of a report
  • External references
  • The location’s country code (if the search term contains 2 characters)

By default, search results are sorted by pertinence, but you can choose to display them by the last edition date.

Tip

When the search contains multiple words, it can be useful to see the results matching exactly what has been entered. Putting the search between quotes (" ") will search for objects containing the exact term in one of their fields.

Note

The search bar is tokenized. It means that if the user searches for FLINT 2022-05 it will look for FLINT, 2022 and 05 and then apply scoring depending on the attribute the value was found in and the number of times it was found.

To get only the item where the name starts with FLINT 2022-05, this dork search can be performed: name:^"FLINT 2022-05"

Search for specific sectors

In the STIX format, a Sector is an Identity object that represents a broad business sector or industry. Sectors are used to contextualize threat actors, campaigns, and other CTI entities based on their targeting of specific sectors. For example, a Sector object could represent the Finance sector, Healthcare sector, or Government sector.

The table below lists all sectors present in Sekoia.io as well as their sub-types:

Sector Subtypes
Defence Defence-Military
Defence-Industry
Education Education-R&D
Education-Institutions
Energy Energy-Electricity
Energy-Renewable
Energy-Gas
Energy-Nuclear
Energy-Transportation
Energy-Oil
Entertainment Entertainment-Gaming
Entertainment-Culture
Entertainment-Gambling
Entertainment-Sport
Financial-Services Financial-Services-Real Estate
Financial-Services-Cryptocurrencies
Financial-Services-Insurance
Government Government-Education
Government-Interior
Government-Local
Government-Regional
Government-Foreign Affairs
Government-Justice
Government-Intelligence and Security Services
Government-National
Government-Defence
Healthcare Healthcare-Pharmaceuticals
Healthcare-R&D
Healthcare-Equipment
Healthcare-Hospital
Hospitality-Leisure
Industry Industry-Semiconductor
Industry-Food and beverage
Industry-Pharmacy
Industry-Agrobusiness
Industry-Agriculture
Industry-Wholesale
Industry-Manufacturing
Industry-Mining
Industry-Construction
Industry-Retail
Industry-Chemical
Industry-Automotive
Infrastructure Infrastructure-Critical
Legal
Media Media-Social network
Media-Individual
Media-TV channel
Media-Radio
Media-Newspaper
NGO/Civil-Society/Political NGO/Civil-Society/Political-Dissident
NGO/Civil-Society/Political-Activist
Professional services Professional services-Consulting
Professional services-Management
Professional services-Printing
Professional services-Marketing
Technology Technology-High-Tech
Technology-Services
Telecommunications Telecommunications-Satellite
Telecommunications-Phone
Telecommunications-Internet
Transportation Transportation-Shipping
Transportation-Air
Transportation-Road
Transportation-Maritime
Transportation-Rail

Note

Note that Media is a subtype of Entertainement.

Tip

Select the object type Identity in the filter By object type on top of the Intelligence table to refine your search and list only Identity objects.

Search for a country

In STIX format, a Country is a Location object that represents a geographical region (e.g., North America), civic address (e.g. New York, US), latitude and longitude. Countries are used to contextualize threat actors, campaigns, and other CTI entities based on their geographic targeting.

There are two ways to look for Intelligence related to a specific country:

  • Search for the country’s name in English
  • Use the location’s country code (2 letters) following the ISO 3166-1 referential. For instance, FR for France, AE for United Arab Emirates, NG for Nigeria...

Table Columns

Search results are listed in a table with multiple columns. These columns can be shown or hidden in the filters panel, and users can change their order by dragging them using the : icon.

By default, these columns are:

Column Description
TLP How sensitive is the information. Types of TLP in Sekoia.io: White, green, amber, red
Type Type of object. Hover on the object icon to see the type of object
Name Name of object. Hover on the name to read the full name
Sub-types Some objects have sub-types like indicators, malware, reports, tool
Confidence How confident Sekoia.io is about this object
Sources Where this object came from
Last edited Date of last edition
Created Date of creation

To show or hide these columns, click on Filters, then Select columns to show and choose the ones needed.

Pagination

Depending on your screen size, you can change the pagination of this data table. It is set to 10 results per page by default, but you can increase this number to 15, 25, 50 or 100.

Revoked objects

When a name is red in the table, it means that the object has been revoked.

Filters for objects

To filter results in the Intelligence table, multiple filters are available to users. When a filter is selected, a tag is added on top of the table.

This table lists all filters for objects in the Intelligence page.

Filter Description
Type Multiselect to choose types of object to show
Source Search in more than 200 sources available. This field has autocomplete to help you select sources.
Feed Show only objects matching a feed that was created in the Feeds page
Confidence level Show only objects equal to, higher than, below than, higher than or equal to, below or equal to a certain level of confidence
Observable type Restrict indicators to only the ones with a pattern containing the selected observable types
Is a source Display only identities that are sources of other objects
Last update Filter objects updated in the last hour, last 24h, last 7 days, last 30 days, this year, all time
Creation date Filter objects created in the last hour, last 24h, last 7 days, last 30 days, this year, all time.
TLP Show only object with a certain TLP

To remove a filter, just click on the cross inside the tag. To remove all filters, click on Clear filters next to the tags’ list or in the bottom of the filters’ panel.

Search for observables

How the search engine works

When searching for observables, Sekoia.io will investigate the field x_inthreat_short_display, a custom attribute that is equal to the main value of the observable (value for IP, name for organizations, ...).

If the search is a hash, the search engine will consider the number of characters and look for the right hashes.

Type of Hash Characters
MD5 32
SHA-1 40
SHA-256 64
SHA-512 128

If the search is an IP CIDR, the search engine will look for the IPs contained in it: 185.213.83.0/24 will return 185.213.83.102, 185.213.83.106, ...

Known and unknown observables

If you paste a list of observables in the search bar, chances are Sekoia.io will recognize some of them, but some may be unknown.

To differentiate between the two, a tab with Known and Unknown helps understand which observables are in the database and which ones are not.

Filters

Filter Description
By type A multiselect to choose types of observables to show in the listing
By tags An autocomplete to filter observables list by tags
By sources Search in more than 200 sources available. This field has autocomplete to help you select sources.

Bulk actions

When you have a list of observables in your search results, you can select two or more of them by ticking the checkbox on the left of the value. Once selected, you can copy their values using the copy button that appears next to the filters.