Map Threat Intel Coverage
DevOps & Securitymap-threat-intel-coverageMap Threat Intel Coverage is an Agent Skill for devops & security published in the DataDog/stratus-red-team repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.
Analyze a threat-intel blog post or report against Stratus Red Team coverage. Extract cloud TTPs, classify each as Covered / Partial / Open issue / Not covered, produce a markdown coverage report, and suggest GitHub issue drafts for the gaps. Use when the user pastes a threat-intel URL (Microsoft, Mandiant, CrowdStrike, Unit 42, etc.) and asks for a coverage report, gap analysis, TTP extraction, or "what does Stratus cover from this report". Also use when given a local report file (.md, .txt, .pdf) or pasted text.
How to use this skill
Bring this guide into your coding agent with a prompt tailored to the tool you use.
- Open your project in Codex.
- Copy and paste the prompt below.
- Review files and risks before approving any action.
Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/DataDog/stratus-red-team/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/map-threat-intel-coverage/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/map-threat-intel-coverage, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.
Copying this prompt does not install or run the skill. Review third-party files before use.
Overview
Turn a threat-intel article into a saved markdown coverage report plus a list of suggested (never auto-created) GitHub issue drafts for any uncovered cloud TTPs.
Inputs
- URL (primary): pass to
WebFetchwith prompt"Return the full article text verbatim, including any IOC/TTP tables and section headings.". - Local file path: read with
Read. - Pasted text: use as-is.
Derive a short slug from the title/URL (e.g. storm-2949) for the output filename.
Workflow
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Resolve input. Fetch / read as above.
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Extract TTPs in kill-chain order, inline. Build a table with columns
#,Phase(the source's narrative phase, not MITRE tactic),Technique,MITRE ATT&CK ID,Cloud/Surface, one-sentenceWhat the attacker did. Preserve the order described by the source. Do not delegate this step to a subagent — the article is already in context. -
Apply the scope filter (below). Move out-of-scope TTPs into a separate "Out of scope" appendix with a one-line reason each, so the user can sanity-check the filter.
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Enumerate Stratus techniques. Use paths relative to the repo root (find it with
git rev-parse --show-toplevelif cwd isn't the repo root):- Docs (canonical technique IDs):
ls docs/attack-techniques/{AWS,azure,GCP,entra-id,EKS,kubernetes}/— note the inconsistent casing. - Go source (implementation details):
v2/internal/attacktechniques/<platform>/<tactic>/<name>/main.go— directories here are all lowercase (aws,azure,eks,entra-id,gcp,k8s).
The doc files give a one-paragraph description; the Go code shows the exact SDK calls and resources touched. When verifying a candidate match, the subagent must read the Go file to confirm — the doc alone can be ambiguous.
- Docs (canonical technique IDs):
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Enumerate open
kind/new-techniqueissues.gh issue list --repo DataDog/stratus-red-team --state open --label kind/new-technique --limit 200 --json number,title,labels -
Delegate coverage matching to one Explore subagent (single batch call). Pass the in-scope TTP list, the technique-ID list from step 4, the open-issues JSON from step 5, and a pointer to
references/matching-heuristics.md. Ask for a JSON array[{ttp_index, status, evidence_id, other_platforms, justification}, ...]whereother_platformsis a list of{platform, technique_id}for same-concept techniques on other clouds (empty list if none). The subagent must:- Keyword-prefilter filenames first (≤ 5 doc reads per TTP).
- For every Covered / Partial verdict, Read the corresponding
v2/internal/attacktechniques/<platform>/<tactic>/<name>/main.goto confirm the implementation actually matches the TTP — doc descriptions are sometimes vague.
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Assemble the markdown report (skeleton below) and save to
coverage-<slug>-<YYYY-MM-DD>.mdin the current working directory. Print the absolute path. -
Generate suggested issue drafts for every
Not coveredrow usingreferences/issue-template.md. Run the approval flow (below). -
Stop. No auto-creation. No commits.
Scope filter
A TTP is in scope if and only if the attacker action is performed against a cloud-provider control plane (AWS, Azure, GCP, Entra ID, M365 admin, Kubernetes / EKS API server). On-host / endpoint actions inside a VM, container, or workstation are out of scope, even when the host runs in the cloud.
IN (cloud control plane):
- Invoked
microsoft.web/sites/publishxml/actionto retrieve publishing credentials (ARM API) - Requested an OAuth token from IMDS at
169.254.169.254/metadata/identity/oauth2/token(cloud identity surface) - Created an EKS access entry granting cluster-admin (EKS control plane)
- Used Azure VM Run Command to execute a PowerShell script — the invocation is control-plane even though the script runs on-host
OUT (endpoint / on-host):
- Disabled Defender real-time protection via PowerShell on the compromised VM (host-level)
- Cleared Windows event logs with
wevtutil cl(host-level) - Dumped LSASS with Mimikatz on a domain controller running in Azure (cloud host ≠ cloud action)
- Renamed the ScreenConnect service to masquerade as a Windows component (host-level)
Coverage statuses
- Covered — exact technique exists on the same platform (cite full ID).
- Partial — same platform, adjacent sub-action on the same service. Rare. Cross-cloud is not Partial.
- Open issue — tracked in an open
kind/new-techniqueissue (cite#NNN). - Not covered — no implementation, no tracking issue. Cross-cloud equivalents do not count as coverage — they surface in the
Other platformscolumn instead.
Full rubric and worked examples: references/matching-heuristics.md.
Output report skeleton
# Coverage report: <Report title>
- **Source:** <URL or file path>
- **Published:** <date if known>
- **Analyzed:** <YYYY-MM-DD>
- **Scope:** Cloud / cloud-identity TTPs only
## Summary
- In-scope TTPs: N
- Covered: X · Partial: X · Open issue: X · Not covered: X
## Kill chain
<3–6 sentence prose summary in attacker order>
## Coverage table
| # | Phase | TTP | MITRE | Cloud | Status | Stratus reference | Other platforms | Notes |
- `Stratus reference` — for **Covered** / **Partial**, a markdown link to the technique page using `[<technique-id>](https://stratus-red-team.cloud/attack-techniques/<PLATFORM_DIR>/<technique-id>/)`. `<PLATFORM_DIR>` matches the docs directory casing (`AWS`, `azure`, `GCP`, `entra-id`, `EKS`, `kubernetes`). For **Open issue**, link `[#NNN](https://github.com/DataDog/stratus-red-team/issues/NNN)`. For **Not covered**, `—`.
Example: `[aws.credential-access.ec2-steal-instance-credentials](https://stratus-red-team.cloud/attack-techniques/AWS/aws.credential-access.ec2-steal-instance-credentials/)`
- `Other platforms` — same link format for same-concept techniques on other clouds, prefixed with the platform: e.g. `aws: [aws.credential-access.ec2-steal-instance-credentials](...)`. `—` if none. Informational only.
## Suggested new issues
### 1. New attack technique: <title>
**Labels:** `kind/new-technique`, `platform/<x>`, [`priority/seen-in-the-wild`]
<body using references/issue-template.md>
---
## Out of scope (endpoint-only)
- <TTP> — <one-line reason>
Suggesting issues
Issue title pattern, body template, and label rules: references/issue-template.md.
After saving the report, print a compact preview (numbered titles + labels), then ask the user via AskUserQuestion with four options:
- Create all — file every draft via
gh issue create --repo DataDog/stratus-red-team(HEREDOC body to preserve markdown). Print each created URL. - Review one by one — per-draft
AskUserQuestionwith Create / Skip / Edit-then-create. - Print drafts only — no creation; user files manually.
- Cancel — stop.
Don't
- Never call
gh issue createwithout explicit user approval. - Never invent labels. Pick from:
kind/new-technique,platform/aws,platform/azure,platform/gcp,platform/entra-id,platform/eks,platform/k8s,priority/seen-in-the-wild. - Never include endpoint-only TTPs in the coverage table — they belong in the "Out of scope" appendix.
- Never mark a TTP Covered without citing a full technique ID (e.g.
azure.execution.vm-run-command). - Never output an infographic, HTML, or image. Markdown only.