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"""Annotate MITRE ATT&CK descriptions with cybersecurity entity spans."""
import json
import re
import sys
INPUT = "/home/ubuntu/alkyline/data/raw/mitre_attack/mitre_descriptions.jsonl"
OUTPUT = "/home/ubuntu/alkyline/data/processed/llm_annotated_mitre_v2.jsonl"
# --- Markdown cleaning ---
def clean_markdown(text):
"""Remove markdown link syntax: [Name](url) -> Name. Returns (clean_text, mapping)."""
# We need to track offset shifts for span correction
result = []
old_to_new = [] # list of (old_start, old_end, new_start, new_end) for mapped regions
i = 0
new_i = 0
while i < len(text):
# Check for markdown link pattern [text](url)
if text[i] == '[':
m = re.match(r'\[([^\]]*)\]\(([^)]*)\)', text[i:])
if m:
link_text = m.group(1)
old_start = i
old_end = i + len(m.group(0))
new_start = new_i
new_end = new_i + len(link_text)
old_to_new.append((old_start, old_end, new_start, new_end))
result.append(link_text)
new_i += len(link_text)
i = old_end
continue
result.append(text[i])
new_i += 1
i += 1
return ''.join(result), old_to_new
# --- Known entity lists (curated from MITRE ATT&CK) ---
# These will be augmented by extracting linked names from each record
KNOWN_TOOLS = {
"Mimikatz", "PsExec", "PowerShell", "cmd", "cmd.exe", "Cobalt Strike", "Metasploit",
"Net", "netsh", "Netcat", "Nmap", "Wireshark", "BloodHound", "Empire", "Impacket",
"LaZagne", "CrackMapExec", "Responder", "John the Ripper", "Hashcat", "sqlmap",
"Burp Suite", "certutil", "bitsadmin", "cURL", "curl", "wget", "ssh", "scp",
"FTP", "Telnet", "tasklist", "ipconfig", "systeminfo", "whoami", "nltest",
"dsquery", "csvde", "ldifde", "ntdsutil", "vssadmin", "wmic", "WMI",
"PowerSploit", "Rubeus", "SharpHound", "ADFind", "PuTTY", "plink",
"7-Zip", "WinRAR", "RAR", "tar", "Reg", "at", "schtasks", "crontab",
"Windows Credential Editor", "gsecdump", "pwdump", "fgdump", "Windows Sysinternals",
"ProcDump", "Process Explorer", "Autoruns", "Sysmon", "tcpdump", "tshark",
"Net Crawler", "Tor", "HTRAN", "HTran", "NBTscan", "SDelete", "Timestomp",
"UPX", "Themida", "VMProtect", "nscd", "ifconfig", "arp", "route",
"traceroute", "ping", "nslookup", "dig", "netstat", "ss", "lsof",
"ps", "top", "kill", "chmod", "chown", "chattr", "mount", "umount",
"iptables", "ufw", "csc", "msbuild", "MSBuild", "InstallUtil", "Regsvr32",
"Rundll32", "Mshta", "CMSTP", "Regasm", "Regsvcs", "RegAsm",
"Compiled HTML File", "Control Panel Items",
"Koadic", "Pupy", "QuasarRAT", "Quasar RAT", "RemCom",
"PAExec", "Windows Remote Management", "WinRM",
"Remote Desktop Protocol", "RDP", "VNC", "TeamViewer", "AnyDesk",
"ngrok", "Plink", "socat", "Chisel",
"SharpView", "ADRecon", "Ping", "Tasklist",
"Nltest", "Dsquery",
}
KNOWN_SYSTEMS = {
"Windows", "Linux", "macOS", "Android", "iOS", "Unix", "FreeBSD",
"Solaris", "AIX", "HP-UX", "IRIX", "Chrome OS",
"Windows XP", "Windows 7", "Windows 8", "Windows 10", "Windows 11",
"Windows Vista", "Windows 2000", "Windows NT",
"Windows Server", "Windows Server 2003", "Windows Server 2008",
"Windows Server 2012", "Windows Server 2016", "Windows Server 2019",
"Windows Server 2022",
"Ubuntu", "Debian", "CentOS", "Red Hat", "Red Hat Enterprise Linux", "RHEL",
"Fedora", "Arch Linux", "Kali Linux", "Gentoo", "SUSE",
"Microsoft Office", "Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Excel", "Microsoft Outlook",
"Microsoft PowerPoint", "Microsoft Access",
"Office", "Word", "Excel", "Outlook", "PowerPoint", "Access",
"Active Directory", "Azure AD", "Azure Active Directory",
"Azure", "AWS", "Amazon Web Services", "Google Cloud", "GCP",
"Exchange", "Exchange Server", "SharePoint", "IIS",
"Internet Information Services",
"Apache", "Nginx", "nginx", "Docker", "Kubernetes", "VMware",
"Hyper-V", "VirtualBox", "QEMU", "KVM",
"Chrome", "Firefox", "Safari", "Edge", "Internet Explorer",
"Google Chrome", "Mozilla Firefox",
"SQL Server", "MySQL", "PostgreSQL", "Oracle", "MongoDB",
"Samba", "OpenSSH", "OpenSSL", "OpenVPN",
"Cisco", "Juniper", "MikroTik", "Fortinet", "FortiOS", "FortiGate",
"Palo Alto", "SonicWall", "Check Point",
"SNMP", "LDAP", "Kerberos", "NTLM", "SMB", "NFS", "DNS", "DHCP",
"HTTP", "HTTPS", "SSH", "TLS", "SSL",
"Group Policy", "GPO",
"WatchGuard", "Asus", "SOHO",
"macOS Gatekeeper", "Gatekeeper",
"Systemd", "systemd", "journald",
"SELinux", "AppArmor",
"Raspberry Pi", "Arduino",
"Telegram", "Signal", "WhatsApp", "Slack", "Discord", "Skype",
"Java", "JavaScript", "Python", "Perl", "Ruby", "PHP", "VBScript",
"JScript", "Visual Basic", "VBA", "VB.NET", "C#", ".NET",
"COM", "DCOM", "OLE", "DDE",
"PowerShell", "Bash", "cmd.exe", "Command Prompt",
"Registry", "Windows Registry",
"API", "Win32 API", "Native API",
"SAM", "LSASS", "lsass.exe",
"BIOS", "UEFI", "MBR", "GPT", "EFI",
"BitLocker", "FileVault", "LUKS",
"Windows Management Instrumentation",
"Component Object Model",
"Windows Defender", "Microsoft Defender",
"Security Accounts Manager",
"Local Security Authority Subsystem Service",
"Task Scheduler",
"Event Log", "Windows Event Log",
"CloudTrail", "S3", "EC2", "Lambda",
"Gmail", "Google Workspace", "Microsoft 365", "Office 365",
"Dropbox", "OneDrive", "Google Drive", "Box",
"GitHub", "GitLab", "Bitbucket",
"Jira", "Confluence",
"Splunk", "Elastic", "Elasticsearch",
"Snort", "Suricata", "YARA",
}
KNOWN_ORGS = {
"Microsoft", "Google", "Apple", "Amazon", "Facebook", "Meta",
"CISA", "NSA", "FBI", "CIA", "DHS", "NIST",
"FireEye", "Mandiant", "CrowdStrike", "Palo Alto Networks",
"Symantec", "Kaspersky", "ESET", "Trend Micro", "McAfee",
"Secureworks", "Recorded Future", "Proofpoint", "Cisco Talos",
"Dragos", "Volexity", "SentinelOne", "Carbon Black",
"Fortinet", "Sophos", "Avast", "Bitdefender", "Malwarebytes",
"US-CERT", "CERT", "MITRE", "ATT&CK",
"NATO", "United Nations", "UN",
"GRU", "FSB", "PLA", "MSS",
"Unit 42", "Unit42", "Talos", "X-Force",
"Accenture", "Deloitte", "PwC", "KPMG", "EY",
"SolarWinds", "Kaseya",
"Samsung", "Sony", "Intel", "AMD", "NVIDIA", "Qualcomm",
"Cloudflare", "Akamai", "Fastly",
"Adobe", "SAP", "Oracle", "IBM", "Dell", "HP", "Lenovo",
"GTsST",
}
# Build regex patterns for CVE, IP, hash, filepath, etc.
CVE_RE = re.compile(r'CVE-\d{4}-\d{4,}')
IP_RE = re.compile(r'\b(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\b')
HASH_MD5_RE = re.compile(r'\b[a-fA-F0-9]{32}\b')
HASH_SHA1_RE = re.compile(r'\b[a-fA-F0-9]{40}\b')
HASH_SHA256_RE = re.compile(r'\b[a-fA-F0-9]{64}\b')
EMAIL_RE = re.compile(r'\b[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}\b')
DOMAIN_RE = re.compile(r'\b(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+(?:com|net|org|io|gov|mil|edu|co|ru|cn|uk|de|fr|jp|kr|br|info|biz|xyz|top|cc|tk|pw|me|tv|ly|onion)\b')
URL_RE = re.compile(r'https?://[^\s)<>\"]+')
# Filepath patterns
FILEPATH_WIN_RE = re.compile(r'[A-Z]:\\(?:[^\s,;\"\'<>|*?]+)')
FILEPATH_UNIX_RE = re.compile(r'(?<!\w)/(?:etc|usr|var|tmp|opt|home|root|bin|sbin|proc|sys|dev|mnt|boot|lib|lib64|run|srv)/[^\s,;\"\'<>|*?]*')
FILEPATH_SPECIAL_RE = re.compile(r'(?:%[A-Za-z_]+%|\\\\[^\s,;\"\'<>|*?]+)')
def find_all_occurrences(text, entity, label):
"""Find all non-overlapping occurrences of entity in text."""
spans = []
start = 0
while True:
idx = text.find(entity, start)
if idx == -1:
break
# Word boundary check (relaxed for filepaths and special chars)
if label not in ("FILEPATH", "URL", "IP_ADDRESS", "HASH", "EMAIL", "DOMAIN", "CVE_ID"):
# Check word boundaries
if idx > 0 and text[idx-1].isalnum():
start = idx + 1
continue
end = idx + len(entity)
if end < len(text) and text[end].isalnum():
start = idx + 1
continue
spans.append([idx, idx + len(entity)])
start = idx + len(entity)
return spans
def annotate_record(record):
"""Annotate a single MITRE record."""
raw_text = record["text"]
# Step 1: Extract linked entity names before cleaning markdown
linked_names = []
for m in re.finditer(r'\[([^\]]+)\]\(https?://attack\.mitre\.org/([^)]+)\)', raw_text):
name = m.group(1)
url_path = m.group(2)
if 'software/' in url_path:
linked_names.append((name, "MALWARE_OR_TOOL"))
elif 'groups/' in url_path:
linked_names.append((name, "THREAT_ACTOR"))
elif 'campaigns/' in url_path:
linked_names.append((name, "THREAT_ACTOR"))
elif 'techniques/' in url_path:
pass # technique references, not entities
# Also extract non-MITRE markdown links
for m in re.finditer(r'\[([^\]]+)\]\(https?://(?!attack\.mitre\.org)[^)]+\)', raw_text):
linked_names.append((m.group(1), "REFERENCE"))
# Step 2: Clean markdown
clean_text, _ = clean_markdown(raw_text)
# Step 3: Build spans dict
spans = {} # "LABEL: entity_text" -> [[start, end], ...]
def add_spans(label, entity, offsets):
if not offsets:
return
key = f"{label}: {entity}"
if key in spans:
# Merge, avoiding duplicates
existing = set(tuple(s) for s in spans[key])
for s in offsets:
if tuple(s) not in existing:
spans[key].append(s)
existing.add(tuple(s))
else:
spans[key] = offsets
# Step 4: Regex-based entity extraction
# CVE IDs
for m in CVE_RE.finditer(clean_text):
add_spans("CVE_ID", m.group(), [[m.start(), m.end()]])
# IP addresses
for m in IP_RE.finditer(clean_text):
val = m.group()
# Validate it looks like a real IP (not version numbers)
parts = val.split('.')
if all(0 <= int(p) <= 255 for p in parts):
add_spans("IP_ADDRESS", val, [[m.start(), m.end()]])
# URLs (in cleaned text, most will be gone but some may remain)
for m in URL_RE.finditer(clean_text):
add_spans("URL", m.group(), [[m.start(), m.end()]])
# Emails
for m in EMAIL_RE.finditer(clean_text):
add_spans("EMAIL", m.group(), [[m.start(), m.end()]])
# Domains
for m in DOMAIN_RE.finditer(clean_text):
# Skip if part of a URL or email already captured
add_spans("DOMAIN", m.group(), [[m.start(), m.end()]])
# Hashes (SHA256 first, then SHA1, then MD5 to avoid substring matches)
for m in HASH_SHA256_RE.finditer(clean_text):
add_spans("HASH", m.group(), [[m.start(), m.end()]])
for m in HASH_SHA1_RE.finditer(clean_text):
# Skip if already captured as SHA256
val = m.group()
already = False
for k, v in spans.items():
if k.startswith("HASH:") and any(s[0] <= m.start() and s[1] >= m.end() for s in v):
already = True
break
if not already:
add_spans("HASH", val, [[m.start(), m.end()]])
# Filepaths
for pat in [FILEPATH_WIN_RE, FILEPATH_UNIX_RE, FILEPATH_SPECIAL_RE]:
for m in pat.finditer(clean_text):
add_spans("FILEPATH", m.group(), [[m.start(), m.end()]])
# Step 5: Dictionary-based entity extraction
# Linked MITRE entities (highest priority)
for name, etype in linked_names:
if etype == "MALWARE_OR_TOOL":
# Determine if it's malware or tool
if name in KNOWN_TOOLS:
label = "TOOL"
elif name in KNOWN_SYSTEMS:
label = "SYSTEM"
else:
label = "MALWARE" # Default for MITRE software
elif etype == "THREAT_ACTOR":
label = "THREAT_ACTOR"
else:
continue
offsets = find_all_occurrences(clean_text, name, label)
if offsets:
add_spans(label, name, offsets)
# Known tools
for tool in KNOWN_TOOLS:
if tool in clean_text:
offsets = find_all_occurrences(clean_text, tool, "TOOL")
if offsets:
# Don't override if already labeled as something else
add_spans("TOOL", tool, offsets)
# Known systems
for sys_name in KNOWN_SYSTEMS:
if sys_name in clean_text:
offsets = find_all_occurrences(clean_text, sys_name, "SYSTEM")
if offsets:
add_spans("SYSTEM", sys_name, offsets)
# Known organizations
for org in KNOWN_ORGS:
if org in clean_text:
offsets = find_all_occurrences(clean_text, org, "ORGANIZATION")
if offsets:
add_spans("ORGANIZATION", org, offsets)
# Step 6: Resolve conflicts - if same entity has multiple labels, prefer more specific
# MALWARE/TOOL from MITRE links should override dict matches
# Remove duplicate spans where one label subsumes another
# Step 7: Clean up - remove spans that are substrings of other spans of same label
# e.g., "Windows" inside "Windows Server 2012"
all_span_keys = list(spans.keys())
to_remove_entries = {} # key -> set of (start,end) to remove
for key1 in all_span_keys:
label1 = key1.split(": ", 1)[0]
entity1 = key1.split(": ", 1)[1]
for key2 in all_span_keys:
if key1 == key2:
continue
label2 = key2.split(": ", 1)[0]
entity2 = key2.split(": ", 1)[1]
# If entity1 is substring of entity2 with same or compatible label
if entity1 in entity2 and label1 == label2:
# Remove spans of entity1 that overlap with spans of entity2
for s2 in spans.get(key2, []):
for s1 in spans.get(key1, []):
if s1[0] >= s2[0] and s1[1] <= s2[1]:
if key1 not in to_remove_entries:
to_remove_entries[key1] = set()
to_remove_entries[key1].add(tuple(s1))
for key, removals in to_remove_entries.items():
if key in spans:
spans[key] = [s for s in spans[key] if tuple(s) not in removals]
if not spans[key]:
del spans[key]
# Also remove overlapping spans across different labels (keep more specific)
# Priority: CVE_ID > MALWARE > TOOL > THREAT_ACTOR > SYSTEM > ORGANIZATION > others
PRIORITY = {
"CVE_ID": 10, "IP_ADDRESS": 9, "HASH": 9, "EMAIL": 9, "URL": 9,
"DOMAIN": 8, "FILEPATH": 8,
"MALWARE": 7, "VULNERABILITY": 6, "TOOL": 5,
"THREAT_ACTOR": 4, "SYSTEM": 3, "ORGANIZATION": 2,
}
# Build flat list of (start, end, key, priority)
all_spans_flat = []
for key, offsets in spans.items():
label = key.split(": ", 1)[0]
pri = PRIORITY.get(label, 0)
for s in offsets:
all_spans_flat.append((s[0], s[1], key, pri))
# Sort by start, then by length desc, then by priority desc
all_spans_flat.sort(key=lambda x: (x[0], -(x[1]-x[0]), -x[3]))
# Remove lower-priority spans that overlap with higher-priority ones
kept = []
for span in all_spans_flat:
overlaps = False
for k in kept:
if span[0] < k[1] and span[1] > k[0]: # overlap
if k[3] >= span[3] or (k[1] - k[0]) > (span[1] - span[0]):
overlaps = True
break
if not overlaps:
kept.append(span)
# Rebuild spans dict from kept
new_spans = {}
for s0, s1, key, pri in kept:
if key not in new_spans:
new_spans[key] = []
new_spans[key].append([s0, s1])
spans = new_spans
return {
"text": clean_text,
"spans": spans,
"info": {"source": "mitre_attack_v2", "mitre_id": record["mitre_id"]}
}
def main():
with open(INPUT) as f:
records = [json.loads(line) for line in f]
print(f"Processing {len(records)} records...")
with open(OUTPUT, 'w') as out:
for i, rec in enumerate(records):
result = annotate_record(rec)
out.write(json.dumps(result, ensure_ascii=False) + '\n')
if (i + 1) % 100 == 0:
out.flush()
print(f" {i+1}/{len(records)} done")
print(f"Wrote {len(records)} records to {OUTPUT}")
# Verification
print("\nRunning verification...")
errors = 0
with open(OUTPUT) as f:
for i, line in enumerate(f):
rec = json.loads(line)
for key, offsets in rec["spans"].items():
entity = key.split(": ", 1)[1]
for start, end in offsets:
actual = rec["text"][start:end]
if actual != entity:
errors += 1
if errors <= 20:
print(f" Line {i}: expected '{entity}' got '{actual}' at [{start}:{end}]")
print(f"Total errors: {errors}")
# Stats
label_counts = {}
total_spans = 0
with open(OUTPUT) as f:
for line in f:
rec = json.loads(line)
for key, offsets in rec["spans"].items():
label = key.split(": ", 1)[0]
label_counts[label] = label_counts.get(label, 0) + len(offsets)
total_spans += len(offsets)
print(f"\nTotal spans: {total_spans}")
for label, count in sorted(label_counts.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]):
print(f" {label}: {count}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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