Published: March 2026 | Last reviewed: March 22, 2026

Hypothesis-Driven Hunting with Intelligence

Effective threat hunting follows a structured methodology. Threadlinqs provides the intelligence foundation for every phase.

01 Hypothesize
02 Investigate
03 Discover
04 Respond

Phase 1 — Hypothesize: Use the threat feed, actor attribution explorer, and daily debriefs to identify which campaigns are active and which techniques are trending. Form hypotheses like "APT29 may be using domain fronting in our environment based on the infrastructure overlap identified in TL-2026-0187."

Phase 2 — Investigate: Pivot across IOCs, MITRE techniques, and actor profiles. Use the correlation engine to find shared infrastructure between seemingly unrelated threats. Run attack simulations to understand the exact behavior you are looking for.

Phase 3 — Discover: Export detection rules and IOC watchlists into your SIEM. Cross-reference DNS enrichment data with your network logs. Use timeline reconstruction to understand campaign progression.

Phase 4 — Respond: Document findings, deploy new detections, and update your hypothesis backlog. The platform tracks which threats have coverage and which remain detection debt.

What Holds Threat Hunters Back

Problem 01

Intelligence is Scattered Across Vendors

Threat reports from CISA, vendor blogs, ISAC bulletins, and Twitter are consumed in isolation. Cross-referencing IOCs from one report against another requires manual spreadsheet work that does not scale.

Problem 02

Actor Attribution is Incomplete

You know the threat actor name, but not their aliases, tooling overlap, infrastructure patterns, or nation-state alignment. Without full actor profiles, hunting hypotheses remain shallow.

Problem 03

No Way to Test Hypotheses Safely

You suspect a specific attack chain, but cannot validate it without running a simulation. Red team engagements are expensive and infrequent. You need on-demand simulation data to refine your hunt queries.

Problem 04

C2 Infrastructure is a Black Box

Command-and-control infrastructure changes daily. Without real-time C2 beacon tracking, watermark analysis, and operator clustering, you are hunting with stale infrastructure data.

How Threadlinqs Powers Proactive Hunting

IOC Correlation Across Threats

Every IOC on the platform is linked to the specific threats that use it. Search for an IP address and immediately see every campaign it appears in, its DNS resolution history, and which other indicators share infrastructure.

IOC Enrichment

5,575+ Indicators with Full Cross-Referencing

Network indicators (IPs, domains, URLs), file hashes, and behavioral patterns. DNS enrichment with WHOIS data, resolution history, and ASN mapping. Pivot from any indicator to the full threat graph.

Actor Attribution Explorer

The radial mind-map visualization shows every dimension of an actor profile: MITRE techniques, IOCs, timeline events, CVE exploitation, tools, detections, targets, and related campaigns. Filter by nation-state, search by alias, and explore tool overlap between groups.

Actor Profiles

166 Threat Actor Profiles with Full Attribution

Nation-state flags, alias tracking, severity distributions, category breakdowns, and cross-actor shared entity analysis. Pan, zoom, and expand branches for deep investigation.

Attack Simulations for Hypothesis Testing

Threadlinqs provides structured attack simulations that map to real threat campaigns. Each simulation includes step-by-step attack procedures, expected telemetry, and corresponding detection rules so you can validate your hunting queries against known attack patterns.

Simulations

Structured Attack Procedures Mapped to Real Threats

Each simulation is tied to a specific threat ID with MITRE technique mapping. Use these to build and validate hunt queries before deploying them against production data.

Wild C2 Intelligence Center

The Wild C2 module tracks live command-and-control infrastructure across the internet. Seven tabs cover beacons, configurations, watermarks, operators, timelines, statistics, and cross-intel correlation.

Wild C2

Live C2 Beacon Tracking with 10 Correlation Types

IP match, domain match, tag match, actor tool match, watermark cluster, MITRE technique overlap, nation proximity, timeline proximity, domain fronting detection, and behavioral fingerprinting. Nine visualization sections for deep C2 analysis.

Timeline Reconstruction

Every threat includes a chronological timeline of campaign events with dated references. Reconstruct how a campaign evolved from initial access to impact, and identify which phases may still be active in your environment.

Threat Hunting Workflow

From hypothesis to detection deployment.

threat-hunter@threadlinqs
$ tl actors --nation-state russia --sort threat_count ACTOR THREATS TECHNIQUES NATION APT29 7 34 Russia Sandworm 5 28 Russia Midnight Blizzard 3 19 Russia   $ tl c2 --correlation domain_fronting --actor APT29 [MATCH] 3 domain fronting patterns detected cdn-azure.*.com → 185.220.101.* (confidence: 0.87) static-content.*.net → 91.215.85.* (confidence: 0.82) media-proxy.*.org → 45.155.205.* (confidence: 0.79)   $ tl simulate --threat TL-2026-0187 --phase lateral_movement Simulation: Akira Ransomware Lateral Movement Steps: 6 | MITRE: T1021.001, T1570, T1036.005 Expected telemetry: WinRM connections, PsExec service Matching detections: 4 available for export
5,575+ IOC Indicators
166 Actor Profiles
10 Correlation Types
465 MITRE Techniques

Features for Threat Hunters

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Export IOC watchlists and detection rules directly into your hunting stack. SPL hunt queries for Splunk, KQL analytics for Microsoft Sentinel, and Sigma rules for any compatible SIEM. The MCP server enables AI-assisted hunting workflows where your LLM can query the Threadlinqs API to enrich hypotheses in real time.

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Threadlinqs Intel Team
Security Engineer at Threadlinqs Intelligence. Researching active threats, building detection rules, and mapping adversary tradecraft across SPL, KQL, and Sigma.
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Start Hunting with Full Intelligence

Free tier includes the threat feed and MITRE coverage. Purple tier unlocks simulations, Wild C2, correlations, and the full hunting toolkit.

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