<commit_before>Indicator Extraction 
============================
This page describes the premise behind the indicator extraction process used in
**maec-to-stix**, for extracting STIX Indicators from MAEC Packages.


Overview
~~~~~~~~

The diagram below highlights the overall process of extracting Indicators from
MAEC Packages, starting with the generation of the MAEC output from some dynamic
analysis tool (such as `Cuckoo Sandbox`_) and ending with inspection of the
resulting STIX Indicators by a human analyst. More details on the actual process
of extracting Indicators from MAEC is detailed in the sections below. 

.. figure:: images\maec_to_stix_process.png
   :scale: 60 %
   :alt: MAEC to STIX High-level Process

.. _Cuckoo Sandbox: http://www.cuckoosandbox.org/

MAEC Actions
~~~~~~~~~~~~
One of the fundamental MAEC entities captured in the MAEC Package is the MAEC Action.
MAEC Actions represent discrete abstractions of system-level API calls,
and thus are the types of activity recorded by dynamic analysis tools (sandboxes)
such as Cuckoo, ThreatExpert, Anubis, etc. 
<commit_msg>Minor update for clarity<commit_after>Indicator Extraction 
============================
This page describes the premise behind the indicator extraction process used in
**maec-to-stix**, for extracting STIX Indicators from MAEC Packages.


Overview
~~~~~~~~

The diagram below highlights the overall process of extracting Indicators from
MAEC Packages, starting with the generation of the MAEC output from some dynamic
analysis tool (such as `Cuckoo Sandbox`_) and ending with inspection of the
resulting STIX Indicators by a human analyst. More details on the actual process
of extracting Indicators from MAEC is provided in the sections below. 

.. figure:: images\maec_to_stix_process.png
   :scale: 60 %
   :alt: MAEC to STIX High-level Process

.. _Cuckoo Sandbox: http://www.cuckoosandbox.org/

MAEC Actions
~~~~~~~~~~~~
One of the fundamental MAEC entities captured in the MAEC Package is the MAEC Action.
MAEC Actions represent discrete abstractions of system-level API calls,
and thus are the types of activity recorded by dynamic analysis tools (sandboxes)
such as Cuckoo, ThreatExpert, Anubis, etc. 

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