Viewing Actor Details

Summary

Summaries contain high-level information, such as the Actor's title, the user who created the Actor, publication status, publication date, and TLP setting.

Actions

  • Edit: Edit Actor details. For more information, see Editing Actors.
  • Publication workflow: Move the Actor through the publication review workflow. Possible actions include Assign User, Request Review, Complete Review, and Publish. For more information, see Reviewing Threat Model Entities for Publication.
  • Add to Investigation: Add the Actor to a new or existing investigation. When you add an Actor to an investigation you can additionally add any observables associated with the Actor to the investigation. See Managing Investigation Entities for more information.
  • Anonymize: Change the user and organization information anonymization setting. If enabled, users outside of your organization with access to the data will see "Analyst" in all fields that would otherwise display an organization or user name.
  • Delete: Delete the Actor. See Deleting Threat Model Entities for more information.
  • Clone: Create a private copy of the Actor. For more information, see Cloning Threat Model Entities.
  • Retrospective Search: Run a Forensics & Retrospective search on your Security Analytics instance to see the matches for the observables associated with the Actor.
Note: You must have an active Anomali Security Analytics subscription to enable Retrospective Search.

Attributes

Attributes may include Tags, Source Locations, Target Locations, Target Industry, Visibility, Intelligence Initiative, Feed, Aliases, Source Created, Source Modified, and Custom Fields.

For a complete list of fields and definitions, see Editing Actors.

To assign an intelligence initiative to an Actor:

  1. Click Add Intelligence Initiative.

  2. Select the intelligence initiatives with which you want to associate the Actor.

  3. Click Add.

Description

Full text description of the Actor.

Associations

Associated Observables, Threat Model entities, Import Sessions, and Sandbox Reports.

MITRE ATT&CK

MITRE heat map displaying all attack patterns or TTPs associated with the Actor. See Using MITRE ATT&CK Frameworks in Threat Models for details.

Investigations

Investigations in which the threat model entity appear. Click the Investigation Name to drill down on the investigation. For information on adding threat model entities to investigations, see Managing Investigation Entities.

Notes:

  • Investigations do not appear in this list until they are saved.

  • If a user has created an analyst note for a specific threat model entity inside of an investigation, the analyst icon is displayed in the Investigations tab for that threat model entity.

Attachments

External references relating to the Actor.

Notes

STIX 2.1 notes indicators associated with the Actor.

History

When a change is made to an Actor, a log entry of the change is created in this section for future reference. If the change is made by the owner of the Actor, the organization name is shown in the log entry; all other organization names are hidden.

Comments

View and add comments to the threat model entity. Posted comments are displayed in reverse chronological order based on the timestamp in the created_ts field, with the most recently added comments appearing first and the oldest comments appearing last.To add private comments visible to your organization only, assign the Private red color to them. Comments with the Public white color assigned to them are visible to any user with access to the threat model entity. If the Public white color is not available, your Organization Administrator has enabled the Restrict Public Comments setting to restrict users in your organization from posting public comments. This is done to prevent your organization’s comments from being shared publicly. 

Intelligence Actions

  • Watch: Receive notifications when the intelligence is updated.

  • Star: Bookmark the intelligence.

  • Views: Total view count of the intelligence by organization users. Additionally, you can track views of threat model entities for your organization by adding the standard Most Viewed Threat Models by my Org widget to a custom dashboard. To learn how to add standard widgets to a custom dashboard, see Adding Standard Widgets to Custom Dashboards.

  • Like: Tell the Anomali community if you like or dislike the intelligence.

  • Share: Send the intelligence to another ThreatStream user. Users receive in-app notifications when intelligence is shared with them. For more on in-app notifications, see Receiving In-App Notifications From ThreatStream.

Export

  • Create Report (PDF): Generate a PDF report using a template for sharing threat model entities outside of ThreatStream. See Creating PDF Reports for more information.
  • Share via Email: Share the Actor with ThreatStream users (within or outside your organization) or non-ThreatStream users through email. See Sharing Threat Model Entities via Email for more information.
  • Export IOCs to CSV: Export observables associated with the Actor in CSV format. You can select specific Fields to Export. You can export up to 1000 associated observables.
  • Export to STIX: Export the Actor in STIX format. See Exporting Threat Model Entities in STIX Format for more information.