Report#

Tip

This entity is analogous to these STIX objects:

A report wraps around different pieces of threat intelligence to weave a common story into a consistent narrative.

During an analysis or an investigation, you may use a number of sources to gather many bits of information. Reports allow you to structure and to organize your research, and publish it.

Tip

You can add rich text content to reports. See Create content in reports.

Create a report by selecting:

  • In the side navigation bar + Create > Report.

Or:

Then, Configure this entity.

Configure#

The following sections the fields and options available.

Note

Required fields are marked with an asterisk (*).

General#

Field

EIQ JSON field

Description

Title*

data.title

Descriptive title for this entity. See Titles and aliases.

Summary

data.short_description

Summary of this report. You can add rich text here. See Rich text editor.

Analysis*

data.description

Main body of this report. You can add rich text here. See Rich text editor.

Recommendations*

data.description

Select + Section > Recommendations to add a “Recommendations” section to the Description field of this report. Appends the content set here to data.description.

You can add rich text here. See Rich text editor.

Confidence

data.confidence

See Confidence scale: High Medium low.

Intents#

Add one or more report intents.

Field

EIQ JSON field

Description

Intents*

data.types[]

One or more report intents. Analogous to ReportIntentVocab-1.0.

Possible values:

  • Collective Threat Intelligence

  • Threat Report

  • Indicators

  • Indicators - Phishing

  • Indicators - Watchlist

  • Indicators - Malware Artifacts

  • Indicators - Network Activity

  • Indicators - Endpoint Characteristics

  • Campaign Characterization

  • Threat Actor Characterization

  • Exploit Characterization

  • Attack Pattern Characterization

  • Malware Characterization

  • TTP - Infrastructure

  • TTP - Tools

  • Courses of Action

  • Incident

  • Observations

  • Observations - Email

  • Malware Samples

Observables#

You can create one or more new observables and link it to the currently open entity by selecting + Observable under the Observables section.

Note

If an observable you create here matches an observable rule with an ignore action, it does not appear when the you publish the entity.

In the Add observable view that appears, fill out these fields:

Field

EIQ JSON field

Description

Type*

extracts[].kind

See Observable types

Link name*

See Observable link types

See Observable link types

Values(s)*

extracts[].value

Enter one or more values. One observable is created per value.

Values must be comma-separated, or newline-separated, but not both.

Maliciousness*

See Observable maliciousness

See Observable maliciousness

Relationships#

Add relationships to this entity by selecting + Add relationship.

See Relationships.

Meta#

The Meta section contains configuration options that allow you to attach descriptive data to the entity.

Field

EIQ JSON field

Description

Estimated threat start time

meta.estimated_threat_start_time

Estimated start of threat. See Time values.

Estimated threat end time

meta.estimated_threat_end_time

Estimated end of threat. See Time values.

Estimated observed time

meta.estimated_observed_time

Estimated time threat was observed. See Time values.

Half-life

meta.half_life

See Half-life.

Select one of these options:

  • Use default value: When selected, half-life for this entity is set to 720 days.

  • Override value: Set a custom value for half-life, in number of days.

Tags

meta.tags[] and meta.taxonomy_paths[]

See tags and taxonomies.

Source*

sources[]

Select one source.

Source reliability

meta.source_reliability

See source reliability.

Options:

  • Inherit from source: This entity inherits source reliability from Source.

  • Custom override: Set a source reliability value for just this entity.

TLP

meta.tlp_color

Set a TLP color for this entity.

Information source#

Field

EIQ JSON field

Description

Description

data.information_source.description

Description of information source.

Identity

data.information_source.identity

Name of this information source

Roles

data.information_source.roles[]

One or more information source roles. Possible values:

  • Initial Author

  • Content Enhancer/Refiner

  • Aggregator

  • Transformer/Translator

References

data.information_source.references[]

One or more URLs.

Attachment#

Upload one or more attachments for this report.

Drag and drop files into the box here, or select Upload Upload to browse your local filesystem and select files to upload.

Tip

When exported to EIQ JSON, these attachments are base64-encoded and embedded in the attachments[] field of the entity object.

Tip

By default, the maximum size for file attachments is 50MB.

Data marking#

Descriptive metadata for entity.

Field

EIQ JSON field

Description

Terms of use

data.handling[].marking_structures[]

Free text field allowing you to attach terms of use to an entity. Analogous to TermsOfUseMarkingStructureType.

Simple

data.handling[].marking_structures[]

Free text field for attaching any text to an entity. Analogous to SimpleMarkingStructureType.

Workflow#

Use options here to apply workflow options to this entity.

Field

Description

Add to dataset

Select this option to add this entity to one or more datasets on Publish.

Manually enrich

Run one or more enrichers on this entity on Publish.

Save and publish#

Tip

For more information, see Draft and published entities.

Select Publish to create this entity, and make it available under + Create > Production > Published.

For more publishing options, select More Drop-down menu arrow and then one of these options:

  • Publish and new: Publish this entity, and start creating a new entity.

  • Publish and duplicate: Publish this entity, and start creating a new entity using all the values set for this entity.

Select Save draft to save this entity as a draft, and make it available under + Create > Production > Drafts. You must publish an entity to use it elsewhere on EclecticIQ Intelligence Center.

For more options while saving as a draft, select More Drop-down menu arrow and then one of these options:

  • Publish and new: Save this entity as a draft, and start creating a new entity.

  • Publish and duplicate: Save this entity as a draft, and start creating a new entity using all the values set for this draft entity.

Create content in reports#

You can create content in reports with the rich text editor, and then publish them.

Rich text editor#

The Summary, Description, and Recommendations fields allow you to create rich content using the rich text editor.

Editor features:

Feature

Description

AI Writing Assistant Generate with AI

Enter a prompt for the text you would like the assistant to generate and select the Right arrow run button.

AI Improvements Improve with AI

Select the improvement you’d like the assistant to carry out:

  • Summarise text

  • Improve writing

  • Simplify language

  • Change tone
    into:

    • Professional

    • Direct

    • Confident

  • Change style
    into:

    • Technical

    • Strategic

    • Operational

Insert relationship Insert relationship

Create a relationship to another entity, and insert a link to the selected entity here.

See Relationships.

Insert observable Insert observable

Create an observable and insert a link to it here.

When selected, brings up the Add observable view.

  1. Fill out these fields:

    • Type*: (extracts[].kind) See Observable types

    • Values(s)*: (extracts[].value) Enter one or more values. One observable is created per value. Values must be comma-separated, or newline-separated, but not both.

    • Maliciousness*: See Observable maliciousness

  2. Select Save to finish adding the observable.

Insert reference Insert reference

Insert a reference to an external URL at the bottom of the report, linked to text in the body of the report.

When selected, brings up the Add reference view.

  1. Fill out these fields:

  • Reference Url*: Enter a valid URL.

  • Text: Enter reference text.

  1. Select Insert to finish inserting the reference.

Insert link Insert link

Insert a link to an external URL at the in the body of the report.

When selected, brings up the Add link view.

  1. Fill out these fields:

  • Link Url*: Enter a valid URL.

  • Text: Enter reference text.

  1. Select Insert to finish inserting the reference.

Insert image Insert image

Insert an an inline image (max 10MB). When you attempt to insert an image larger than 10MB, you’ll be asked if you want to insert it as an attachment instead.

For more information about exports and inline images, see Export and distribute reports.

Insert table Insert table

Insert a table.

Insert date/time Insert date/time

Insert current date and time as plain text.

Select the down arrow Drop-down menu arrow on the right to select a date/time format to use.

Export and distribute reports#

Reports can be exported and distributed, manually or through outgoing feeds.

Inline images are embedded as attachments in the entity. When exported as EIQ JSON, images and attachments are base64 encoded and stored in the data.attachments[] field. In PDF exports, inline images are embedded and displayed.

Attachments and inline images are not supported for STIX 1.2 and STIX 2.1 exports.

STIX 2.1#

Report types#

The STIX 2.1 report_types field is mapped to tags in entities.

When a Report SDO is ingested, all values set in its report_types field are ingested as tags in the resulting report entity, with the format Report type - <report_type>.

When an EclecticIQ report entity is exported as STIX 2.1, Report type - <report_type> tags are set as members of the report_types field in the resulting Report SDO, where <report_type> is a valid report-type-ov value.