Indicator management

Create, manage, and search indicators in Cortex XSOAR 8.10 On-prem.

Indicators are artifacts associated with security incidents and are an essential part of the incident management and remediation process. They help correlate incidents, create hunting operations, and enable you to easily analyze incidents and reduce Mean Time to Response (MTTR).

If you have a TIM license, Cortex XSOAR Threat Intel includes access to the Unit 42 Intel service, enabling you to identify threats in your network and discover and contextualize trends. Unit 42 Intel provides data from WildFire (Palo Alto Networks’ cloud-based malware sandbox), the PAN-DB URL Filtering database, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence team, and third-party feeds (including both closed and open-source intelligence). Unit 42 Intel data is continually updated to include the most recent threat samples analyzed by Palo Alto Networks, enabling you to keep up with threat trends and take a proactive approach to securing your network.

The Threat Intel page is split into the following tabs:

• Indicators
• Threat Intel Reports

Note

If you don't have a TIM license, you can only view the Indicators tab. For more information, see Manage indicators.

Indicators

Displays a list of indicators added to Cortex XSOAR, where you can perform several indicator actions, including adding Unit 42 data.

Note

If you are unable to perform a specific action or view data, you may not have sufficient user role permissions. Contact your Cortex XSOAR administrator for more details.

You can perform the following actions on the Threat Intel page.

Action	Description
Investigate an indicator	Click on an indicator to view and take action on the indicator.
Create an indicator	Indicators are added to the Indicators table from incoming incidents, feed integrations, adding Unit 42 data, or manually creating a new indicator. When creating an indicator, in the Verdict field, you can either select a verdict or leave it blank to calculate it by clicking Save & Enrich, which updates the indicator from enrichment sources. After you select an indicator type, you can add any custom field data. Note In the CLI, you can run the !createNewIndicator command.
Create an incident	Create an incident from the selected indicator and populate relevant incident fields with indicator data.
Edit	Edit a single indicator or select multiple indicators to perform a bulk edit.
Delete and Exclude	Delete and exclude one or more indicators from all indicator types or a subset of indicator types. If you select the Do not add to exclusion list checkbox, the selected indicators are only deleted.
Export CSV	Export the selected indicators to a CSV file. By default, the CSV file is generated in UTF8 format. Administrator permission is required to update server configurations, including changing the format, see Export incidents and indicators to CSV using the UTF8-BOM format.
Export STIX	Export the selected indicators to a STIX file.
Upload a STIX file	To upload a STIX file, click the upload button (top right of the page) and add the indicators from the file.

Note

By default, when editing a list or text values in an incident/indicator, the changes are not saved until you confirm your changes (clicking the checkmark icon in the value field). These icons are designed to give you additional security when updating fields in incidents, indicators, and Threat Intel Reports.

You can change this default behavior by updating the server configuration. You need administrator permission to update server configurations. For more information, see Configure inline value fields.

Threat Intel Reports

Threat Intel Reports summarize and share threat intelligence research conducted within your organization by threat analysts and threat hunters. Threat Intel Reports help you communicate the current threat landscape to internal and external stakeholders, whether in the form of high-level summary reports for C-level executives, or detailed, tactical reports for the SOC and other security stakeholders. For more information, see Manage Threat Intel Reports.