{
    "update_check_enabled": true,
    "threat_intel": {
        // Configuration for custom threat intel feeds
        // Allowed format for the contents of both online feeds and custom file feeds is one IP or domain per line
        // Online feeds must be valid URLs
        "online_feeds": [
            "https://feodotracker.abuse.ch/downloads/ipblocklist.txt"
        ]
    },
    "filtering": {
        # These are filters that affect the import of connection logs. They
        # currently do not apply to dns logs.
        # A good reference for networks you may wish to consider is RFC 5735.
        # https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735#section-4

        // internal_subnets identifies the internal network, which will result
        // in any internal to internal and external to external connections being
        // filtered out at import time. Reasonable defaults are provided below,
        // but need to be manually verified before enabling. 
        "internal_subnets": [
            "10.0.0.0/8",
            "172.16.0.0/12",
            "192.168.0.0/16",
            "fd00::/8"
        ], # Private-Use Networks  RFC 1918 and ULA prefix
       
        // always_included_subnets overrides the never_included_* and internal_subnets section,
        // making sure that any connection records containing addresses from these arrays are kept and not filtered
        // Note: the IP address of a proxy must be included here if the proxy is internal
        "always_included_subnets": [
        ], // array of CIDRs
        "always_included_domains": [
        ], // array of FQDNs

        // connections involving ranges entered into never_included_subnets are filtered out at import time
        "never_included_subnets": [
        ], // array of CIDRs
        "never_included_domains": [
        ], // array of FQDNs
        "filter_external_to_internal": true // ignores any entries where communication is occurring from an external host to an internal host
    },
    "scoring": {
        "beacon": {
            // The default minimum number of unique connections used for beacons analysis.
            // Any two hosts connecting fewer than this number will not be analyzed. You can 
            // safely increase this value to improve performance if you are not concerned
            //  about slow beacons.
            "unique_connection_threshold": 4, // min number of unique connections to qualify as beacon
            
            // The score is currently comprised of a weighted average of 4 subscores.
            // While we recommend the default setting of 0.25 for each weight, 
            // these weights can be altered here according to your needs. 
            // The sum of all the floating point weights must be equal to 1.
            "timestamp_score_weight": 0.25,
            "datasize_score_weight": 0.25,
            "duration_score_weight": 0.25,
            "histogram_score_weight": 0.25,
            // The number of hours seen in a connection graph representation of a beacon must
            // be greater than this threshold for an overall duration score to be calculated.
            // Default value: 6
            "duration_min_hours_seen": 6,
            // This is the minimum number of hours seen in a connection graph representation
            // of a beacon for the consistency subscore of duration to score at 100%
            // Default value: 12 (half the day)
            "duration_consistency_ideal_hours_seen": 12,
            // The histogram score has a subscore that attempts to detect multiple 
            // flat sections in a connection graph representation of a beacon. The 
            // variable below controls the bucket size for grouping connections.
            // This is expressed as a percentage of the largest connection count. For example, 
            // if the max connection count is 400 and this variable is set to 0.05 (5%), 
            // the bucket size will be 20 (400*0.05=20). As you make this variable 
            // larger, the algorithm becomes more forgiving to variation. 
            // Default value 0.05
            "histogram_mode_sensitivity": 0.05,
            // This is the number of buckets that can be considered outliers and dropped
            // from the calculation.
            // Default value: 1
            "histogram_bimodal_outlier_removal": 1,
            // This is the minimum number of hours seen in a connection graph representation
            // of a beacon before the bimodal subscore score is used.
            // Default value: 11 (sets the minimum coverage to just below half of the day)
            "histogram_bimodal_min_hours_seen": 11,
            "score_thresholds": {
                // beacon score
                "base": 50,
                "low": 70,
                "medium": 90,
                "high": 100
            }
        },
        "long_connection_score_thresholds": {
            // duration, in seconds
            "base": 3600, // 1 hour
            "low": 14400, // 4 hours
            "medium": 28800, // 8 hours
            "high": 43200 // 12 hours
        },
        "c2_score_thresholds": {
            // number of subdomains
            "base": 100,
            "low": 500,
            "medium": 800,
            "high": 1000
        },
        "strobe_impact": {
            "category": "high" // any strobes will be placed in the high category
        },
        "threat_intel_impact": {
            "category": "high" // any threat intel hits will be placed in the high category
        }
    },
    "modifiers": {
        "threat_intel_score_increase": 0.15, // score +15% if data size >= 25 MB
        "threat_intel_datasize_threshold": 25000000, // 25MB (as bytes)
        "prevalence_score_increase": 0.15, // score +15% if prevalence <= 2%
        "prevalence_increase_threshold": 0.02,
        "prevalence_score_decrease": 0.15, // score -15% if prevalence >= 50%
        "prevalence_decrease_threshold": 0.5, // must be greater than the increase threshold
        // first seen scoring only applies to rolling datasets
        // ** a dataset should be imported as rolling only if the logs are current (within the past 24 hours) i.e: coming from a live zeek sensor **
        "first_seen_score_increase": 0.15, // score +15% if first seen <= 7 days ago
        "first_seen_increase_threshold": 7,
        "first_seen_score_decrease": 0.15, // score -15% if first seen >= 30 days ago
        "first_seen_decrease_threshold": 30, // must be greater than the increase threshold
        "missing_host_count_score_increase": 0.1, // +10% score for missing host header
        "rare_signature_score_increase": 0.15, // +15% score for connections with a rare signature
        "c2_over_dns_direct_conn_score_increase": 0.15, // +15% score for domains that were queried but had no direct connections
        "mime_type_mismatch_score_increase": 0.15 // +15% score for connections with mismatched MIME type/URI
    },
    "months_to_keep_historical_first_seen": 3,
    "batch_size": 100000
}