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Avertium Blog CDF

The web format of this guide reflects the most current release.  Guides for older iterations are available in PDF format.  

Integration Details

ThreatQuotient provides the following details for this integration:

Introduction

The Avertium Blog CDF enables analysts to automatically ingest posts from the Avertium blog, allowing analysts to stay up-to-date on news, vulnerabilities, and other threat research related articles that are published.

The integration provides the following feed:

  • Avertium Threat Reports - fetches reports from the Avertium blog.  

The integration ingests Report type system objects.

Installation

Perform the following steps to install the integration:

The same steps can be used to upgrade the integration to a new version.

  1. Log into https://marketplace.threatq.com/.
  2. Locate and download the integration yaml file.
  3. Navigate to the integrations management page on your ThreatQ instance.
  4. Click on the Add New Integration button.
  5. Upload the integration yaml file using one of the following methods:
    • Drag and drop the yaml file into the dialog box
    • Select Click to Browse to locate the integration yaml file on your local machine

    ThreatQ will inform you if the feed already exists on the platform and will require user confirmation before proceeding. ThreatQ will also inform you if the new version of the feed contains changes to the user configuration. The new user configurations will overwrite the existing ones for the feed and will require user confirmation before proceeding.

You will still need to configure and then enable the feed.

Configuration

ThreatQuotient does not issue API keys for third-party vendors. Contact the specific vendor to obtain API keys and other integration-related credentials.

To configure the integration:

  1. Navigate to your integrations management page in ThreatQ.
  2. Select the OSINToption from the Category dropdown (optional).

    If you are installing the integration for the first time, it will be located under the Disabled tab.

  3. Click on the integration entry to open its details page.
  4. Review any additional settings, make any changes if needed, and click on Save.

    Configuration Screen
  5. Click on the toggle switch, located above the Additional Information section, to enable it.

ThreatQ Mapping

Avertium Threat Reports

The Avertium Threat Reports feed periodically pulls threat reports from the Avertium blog, and ingests them into ThreatQ as Report Objects. 

GET https://www.avertium.com/resources/

The following request returns HTML. The HTML is parsed for the title, author, date, links, etc. The explore page for the blog is then fetched.

GET https://explore.avertium.com/resource/{{ uri }}

The following request returns HTML. The HTML is parsed for the direct link to the blog's content

GET https://www.avertium.com/blog/{{ uri }}

The mapping for this feed is based on the information parsed out of the blog's HTML content:

Feed Data Path ThreatQ Entity ThreatQ Object Type or Attribute Key Published Date Examples Notes
N/A Report.Value N/A N/A Everything You Need to Know About the Data Extortion Group, Snatch Parsed from HTML
N/A Report.Description N/A N/A N/A Parsed from HTML
N/A Report.Attribute External Reference N/A https://www.avertium.com/blog/
simplify-data-governance-healt
hcare-microsoft-purview-strategic-
guide-security-professionals		 Parsed from HTML
N/A Report.Attribute Published At N/A Feb 22, 2024 Parsed from HTML
N/A Report.Tag N/A N/A Threat Report Parsed from HTML

Average Feed Run

Object counts and Feed runtime are supplied as generalities only - objects returned by a provider can differ based on credential configurations and Feed runtime may vary based on system resources and load.

Metric Result
Run Time 1 minute
Reports 9
Report Attributes 18

Known Issues / Limitations

  • The feed utilizes since and until dates to make sure entries are not re-ingested if they haven't been updated.
  • If you need to ingest historical blog posts, run the feed manually by setting the since date back.

Change Log

  • Version 1.0.0
    • Initial release

PDF Guides

Document ThreatQ Version
Avertium Blog CDF Guide v1.0.0 5.25.0 or Greater