Vortex

Fast, lightweight sandbox with automated triage, CI/CD gates, and live intel
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Open the dashboard, plug in your data sources, and start catching trouble within minutes. Connect email gateways, EDR, web proxies, cloud storage, and ticketing through prebuilt connectors or the REST API. Set policies that decide which files, URLs, and scripts are analyzed, choose OS targets, and cap run times to control cost. Pick network profiles (open internet, corporate egress, or dark), enable TLS interception and DNS sinkholing, and assign role-based access so teams see only what they need. Configure webhook endpoints, Slack/Teams channels, and email routing for immediate notifications. Define detonation budgets per business unit to keep usage predictable. Alerts and partial results stream in as the analysis unfolds, so you can take action before a sample finishes. Because the engine is lightweight, you can run high volumes without starving endpoints or servers.

When something suspicious lands—an invoice PDF, a zipped JS file, or a URL from a phish—send it to Vortex with one click or automatically via SIEM rules. The sandbox executes the item in isolated micro-VMs, tracks system calls, memory writes, registry changes, and network beacons, and resists evasion tactics. Within seconds you get a behavioral score, a timeline, mapped ATT&CK techniques, and ready-to-use indicators. Analysts can dive into stack traces, dropped files, mutexes, screenshots, and PCAP without leaving the case view. An investigation note-taking pane helps maintain context. From the same view, quarantine the original email, isolate the host, block domains and hashes at the firewall and EDR, and open an incident in Jira or ServiceNow. Results are searchable, with relevance-ranked hits across your historical detonations, so analysts can pivot fast and link activity to campaigns.

Developers wire Vortex into CI/CD to keep risky artifacts out of production. Build steps upload installers, container layers, and third‑party tools for detonation; verdicts gate merges and releases. The system generates SBOMs, flags vulnerable components, analyzes startup behavior for hidden persistence, and inspects infrastructure-as-code templates for outbound calls and secrets. Supply-chain checks cover private package feeds and vendor drops. Policies let you fail only on high-severity behaviors, while still surfacing medium findings for review. For air-gapped or regulated environments, an offline mode supports local verdicting with scheduled sync. Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android targets are available to match your fleet.

Operations teams get a live intelligence feed blended with your environment data. Campaign tagging, trending dashboards, and automated IOCs keep defenses updated across DNS, email, and endpoint tools. Export JSON, PCAP, and memory dumps to your SIEM or data lake; subscribe to webhooks or Slack/Teams for instant notices. Write custom YARA or Sigma rules, test them in the sandbox, and push them to production when they pass. Daily, weekly, and on-demand reports summarize top techniques, families, and impacted assets. Data residency options keep artifacts in your region. Every action is audited, retention is configurable, and KPIs like MTTD and MTTR are tracked so you can prove impact to leadership and regulators.

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Features

  • Threat Protection
  • Progressive Rendering
  • Search Relevance
  • Supply Chain Management
  • API-first integration
  • Multi-OS micro-VM detonation
  • Behavioral analytics and ML
  • Anti-evasion instrumentation
  • IOC extraction and ATT&CK mapping
  • One-click containment
  • SOAR/SIEM connectors
  • Memory forensics and PCAP export
  • SBOM generation and package scanning
  • CI/CD policy gates
  • TLS inspection and DNS sinkhole
  • Role-based access control
  • Webhooks and chat alerts
  • Audit logs and retention controls
  • Data residency options
  • Offline mode

How It’s Used

  • SOC triage of suspicious email attachments and links
  • Validating endpoint malware alerts before escalation
  • Rapid containment of ransomware precursors
  • Vetting third-party tools and vendor drops
  • Scanning container images during build and release
  • Screening installers and scripts in VDI environments
  • Hunting across historical detonations for campaign activity
  • Generating IOCs for firewall and EDR blocklists
  • Producing compliance evidence and executive reports
  • Training new analysts with real malware in a safe lab

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Slow and Inefficient Limited Visibility Easily Bypassed Costly False Positives Lack of Context

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