mandiant / mandiant/capa-rules

find rule candidates from stackoverflow

Open
#772 0 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

rule idea
Dominant language
No language data
Stars
736
Forks
245
Avg merge
4d 53m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

Description

use the stackoverflow snapshot databases to extract MSDN API functions commonly (or not) recommended in answers but not yet referenced by any capa rule.

this can help suggest categories of rules not yet considered or address coverage in the existing rules.

create a script to dump the top recommendations, using things like question title, question tag, votes, etc. to rank.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by examining the Stack Overflow snapshot databases and the existing capa rule collection to understand how API functions are represented and referenced. Build the requested script around question titles, tags, and votes, then verify that its output ranks MSDN API recommendations absent from current rules and highlights potential rule categories or coverage gaps.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
data-engineering, reverse-engineering
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.