Pith Number

pith:TBJUIZ3P

pith:2025:TBJUIZ3PGFLQRP7UZXJGWTZDXO

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Striking Back At Cobalt: Using Network Traffic Metadata To Detect Cobalt Strike Masquerading Command and Control Channels

Cl\'ement Parssegny, Johan Mazel, Olivier Levillain, Pierre Chifflier

arxiv:2506.08922 v1 · 2025-06-10 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TBJUIZ3PGFLQRP7UZXJGWTZDXO}

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✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:19:15.094221Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

985344676f315708bff4cdd26b4f23bb8b34c2d8d2ae243b28f6b81012950a1d

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.08922 · arxiv_version: 2506.08922v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.08922 · pith_short_12: TBJUIZ3PGFLQ · pith_short_16: TBJUIZ3PGFLQRP7U · pith_short_8: TBJUIZ3P

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TBJUIZ3PGFLQRP7UZXJGWTZDXO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 985344676f315708bff4cdd26b4f23bb8b34c2d8d2ae243b28f6b81012950a1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b50a38afc568f765fcb0afe266e53e497f5f92744ed3d1184bad26e2a0f7628",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-10T15:47:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b08eff824c7f3763d3792155fe73ce491989d821655d857dd57fa80d0b5f550c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.08922",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}