building-automated-malware-submission-pipeline

name	building-automated-malware-submission-pipeline
description	Builds an automated malware submission and analysis pipeline that collects suspicious files from endpoints and email gateways, submits them to sandbox environments and multi-engine scanners, and generates verdicts with IOCs for SIEM integration. Use when SOC teams need to scale malware analysis beyond manual sandbox submissions for high-volume alert triage.
domain	cybersecurity
tags	["soc","malware-analysis","sandbox","automation","virustotal","cuckoo","any-run","pipeline"]
subdomain	soc-operations
version	1.0
author	oyi77
license	Apache-2.0
nist_csf	["DE.CM-01","DE.AE-02","RS.MA-01","DE.AE-06"]

Building Automated Malware Submission Pipeline

Overview

Cybersecurity skill for building automated malware submission pipeline. Follows industry best practices and security standards.

When to Use

Trigger phrases:

• "building automated malware submission pipeline"
• "SOC teams face high volume of suspicious file alerts requiring sandbox analysis"
• "Manual sandbox submission creates bottlenecks in alert triage workflow"
• "Endpoint and email security tools quarantine files needing automated verdict det"

Use this skill when:

• SOC teams face high volume of suspicious file alerts requiring sandbox analysis
• Manual sandbox submission creates bottlenecks in alert triage workflow
• Endpoint and email security tools quarantine files needing automated verdict determination
• Incident response requires rapid malware family identification and IOC extraction

Do not use for analyzing live malware samples in production environments — always use isolated sandbox infrastructure.

When NOT to Use

• When you lack proper authorization for testing
• For production systems without change management
• When the task requires legal or compliance expertise beyond technical scope

Prerequisites

• Sandbox environment: Cuckoo Sandbox, Joe Sandbox, Any.Run, or VMRay
• VirusTotal API key (Enterprise for submission, free for lookup)
• MalwareBazaar API access for known malware lookup
• File collection mechanism: EDR quarantine API, email gateway export, network capture
• Python 3.8+ with requests, vt-py, pefile libraries
• Isolated analysis network with no production connectivity

Workflow

# Example: IOC detection
import re

IOC_PATTERNS = {
    "ip": r"\b(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\b",
    "domain": r"\b[a-z0-9-]+\.[a-z]{2,}\b",
    "hash_md5": r"\b[a-f0-9]{32}\b",
    "hash_sha256": r"\b[a-f0-9]{64}\b",
}

def extract_iocs() -> :
     {k: re.findall(v, text)  k, v  IOC_PATTERNS.items()}