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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use the Malware Behavior Catalog, please cite it as below."
+authors:
+  - name: MITRE
+title: "Malware Behavior Catalog"
+version: 3.0
+url: "https://github.com/MBCProject/mbc-markdown"
+type: dataset
+abstract: The Malware Behavior Catalog (MBC) is a catalog of malware objectives and behaviors, created to support malware analysis-oriented use cases, such as labeling, similarity analysis, and standardized reporting.
+keywords:
+  - malware behavior
+  - malware objective
+  - malware analysis
+  - malware behavior catalog
+  - mbc
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 |**B0046**|DISCOVERY|**Code Discovery**|*none*|
 |**B0047**|DEFENSE EVASION, PERSISTENCE|**Install Insecure or Malicious Code**|*none*|
 
-**Copyright © 2021-2023, The MITRE Corporation.  [Terms of Use.](./tou.md)**
+## Citing MBC ##
+If you use MBC, please cite it as specified in the [CITATION](./CITATION.cff) file or by using GitHub's sidebar citation widget, which provides both APA and BibTeX formats.
 
+**Copyright © 2021-2023, The MITRE Corporation.  [Terms of Use.](./tou.md)**