| name | threat-hunt |
| description | Run a proactive threat hunt against historical Scanner logs using fresh threat intelligence. With no argument, picks the most environmentally relevant CVE from CISA KEV and hunts its IOCs across all available log sources. With an argument (CVE id, malware family, threat actor, IOC), hunts that specific topic. Use when the user types `/threat-hunt`, `/threat-hunt [topic]`, or asks Claude to "hunt", "do a threat hunt", "look for evidence of [CVE / malware / actor]", or "sweep logs for [IOC]". Requires Scanner MCP plus optionally OTX_API_KEY and ABUSECH_AUTH_KEY for richer threat-intel. |
threat-hunt
Workflow
Follow the full procedure in references/methodology.md. The 5 phases:
- Environment discovery — Scanner MCP
get_scanner_context. Identifies what's searchable.
- Threat-intel gathering — pick a hunt target, gather IOCs.
- Historical log analysis — IOC sweeps first, pivot only on hits. 3-6 queries total for a clean hunt.
- Correlation and assessment — only if hits.
- Final output — the structured report template at the bottom of
references/methodology.md.
Picking a hunt target
If the user passed a topic argument, use it directly. The topic might be:
- A CVE id (e.g.
CVE-2024-3400) — go straight to ThreatFox taginfo for IOCs.
- A malware family or threat actor name — go to OTX Pulse Search.
- A concrete indicator (IP, domain, hash) — invoke the
lookup-ioc skill first to get reputation, then sweep historical logs for the indicator using a **: "<value>" query.
If the user passed no topic, run:
scripts/cisa_kev_top.sh 5
The script prints the 5 most recently added CISA KEV entries as JSON. Pick the single most environmentally-relevant one based on what get_scanner_context told you. Skip CVEs whose vendor/product has no matching log source — there's nothing to hunt.
Scanner query syntax
Read references/scanner_query.md before composing log queries. The two most common gotchas:
- Group OR'd values for the same field in parentheses:
field: ("a" "b" "c"). Never use bare OR.
- For cheap IOC sweeps, use the all-fields wildcard:
**: "<IOC>".
Threat-intel resources
lookup-ioc skill (../lookup-ioc/scripts/lookup_ioc.sh) — fan-out across ThreatFox + OTX + Feodo for a single indicator. The simplest path when you already have a concrete IOC.scripts/cisa_kev_top.sh [N] — top N (default 5) recently-added CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Public feed, no auth.- ThreatFox
taginfo: POST https://threatfox-api.abuse.ch/api/v1/ with body {"query":"taginfo","tag":"<CVE-or-tag>","limit":50}, header Auth-Key: $ABUSECH_AUTH_KEY. Use to enumerate IOCs tied to a CVE / malware family.
- OTX Pulse Search: GET
https://otx.alienvault.com/api/v1/search/pulses?q=<keyword>&limit=10, header X-OTX-API-KEY: $OTX_API_KEY. Use for free-text keyword (campaign / actor names) — for concrete indicators use lookup-ioc instead.
- Feodo Tracker IP blocklist:
https://feodotracker.abuse.ch/downloads/ipblocklist.json, header Auth-Key: $ABUSECH_AUTH_KEY. Pull once for network-heavy environments and sweep against CloudTrail / VPC flow / firewall logs.
Required environment
- Scanner MCP configured.
- Optional:
OTX_API_KEY (OTX queries), ABUSECH_AUTH_KEY (ThreatFox + Feodo). If absent, fall back to CISA KEV + Scanner-only hunting.
Output
Terminal markdown only — see the template in references/methodology.md. Begin with 🔍 Threat Hunt Report. End with the final Next questions bullet (or with the Visibility gaps section if no follow-ups are worth listing).
Pre-flight briefing
Before the first tool call, emit 2-3 lines telling the user what's about to happen. This is a longer-running skill — give the user a chance to redirect early. Example:
Threat hunt: picking the most environmentally relevant CVE from CISA KEV, fanning out for IOCs (ThreatFox + OTX), then sweeping ~30d of historical logs across every source-type you ingest. Read-only.
If the user passed a topic argument, mention it in the briefing instead of CISA KEV ("hunting CVE-2024-3400 — pulling IOCs from ThreatFox then sweeping 30d of logs").
After emitting the report
After the hunt report is complete, ask the user:
Want this as an HTML report? (light theme by default — say "dark" for the Scanner-app theme.)
If yes, invoke /report-as-html with the report content and the slug hunt-<topic-slug>-<YYYY-MM-DD>. The renderer asks separately about opening in the browser. See ../report-as-html/SKILL.md for the contract.
