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Papers

Technical papers on the methodologies and tools we publish. Analysis results are separate: those go into Reports.

3 published 1 unpublished 1 on request PDFs hosted here
ACDP
Actor-Centric Defensive Prioritization
Actor-Centric Defensive Prioritization (ACDP)
Released Full paper

Sits above ATT&CK, NIST CSF and FAIR: it takes their output and produces a reasoned order for which control comes first, against a specific actor. Four axes, ADV, IRR, CC and DDT, are weighted per actor rather than generically. A worked example against a Sandworm profile puts immutable backups in Tier 1 and awareness training in Tier 4, against that actor, not in general.

Dost, R. (2026). Actor-Centric Defensive Prioritization (ACDP). Malwarebox Research.
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KRAKEN
Observation platform
Kraken: an entity-graph observation platform
Whitepaper 1.0-eval "Hadal"

Describes the platform behind our tracking work: collection, processing, modeling and visualization in one continuous workflow instead of five tools passing data back and forth. Observations are stored as an entity graph in which every edge carries evidence, so repeated observations strengthen an existing entity rather than fragmenting the dataset with duplicates.

Dost, R. (2026). Kraken: an entity-graph observation platform for CTI. Malwarebox Research.
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