The Alter — Malware Research Knowledge Base

⚡ Quick Invocation

Grimoire	Purpose	Sigil
Incident Response Runbook	Contain, analyze, eradicate	🩸
Node Provisioning Runbook	Forge new chamber nodes	⚙️
Credential Rotation Runbook	Rotate the keys of binding	🔐
Threat Model	Map the attack surface	🎯
Audit Checklist	Verify the wards hold	✅
Disaster Recovery Plan	Survive the unsummoning	🛡️
Compliance	Satisfy the auditors	📜
Onboarding Grimoire	Initiate new acolytes	📖

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🏗️ Architecture Attestations (ADRs)

ADR	Title	Chamber
ADR-001	OverlayFS Chamber Isolation	Anti-Chamber
ADR-002	Tetragon eBPF Telemetry	Sensorium
ADR-003	Pool Orchestration	Chamber Pool
ADR-004	TPM2 Attestation Evidence	Evidence Locker

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🌑 The Alter’s Purpose

This knowledge base serves as the canonical grimoire for the Syn_OS Malware Research Alter — a hardened, reproducible environment for dynamic malware analysis, detonation, and threat intelligence generation.

Core Tenets

1. Isolation Above All — Every sample executes in a cryptographically attested, hardware-rooted chamber
2. Observability by Default — Full syscall, network, and filesystem telemetry via eBPF
3. Reproducibility as Ritual — GitOps-deployed, Nix-built, container-signed
4. Evidence Integrity — TPM2-signed attestations, immutable artifact storage
5. Operational Security — Air-gapped detonation, credential rotation, zero-trust networking

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🚀 Quick Start

# Enter the Alter
cd crates/labs/malware-research

# Provision a chamber node
./scripts/provision-node.sh --chamber-type=dynamic --sample=<hash>

# Detonate with full telemetry
./scripts/detonate.sh --sample=<hash> --profile=full

# Retrieve attestation evidence
./scripts/collect-evidence.sh --chamber-id=<id> --output=./evidence/

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📜 Lore & Lineage

• Project: Syn_OS v25 “CrashCart” Milestone
• Division: Red Team / Malware Research
• Classification: TLP:AMBER+STRICT
• Maintainers: The Keepers of the Alter

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⚠️ Warding Notice

This knowledge base contains operational procedures for handling live malware specimens.

Do not execute runbooks outside authorized, isolated environments.

All chambers must pass attestation verification before sample introduction.

The Alter remembers. The Alter enforces.

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🌐 Wiki Integration

This knowledge base is mirrored as a subwiki on synos-site (deployed via Cloudflare Pages). The canonical source remains this repository; synos-site pulls content via automated sync pipeline.

To add/update the subwiki on synos-site:

1. Content location: synos-site/src/content/docs/malware-research/
2. Sync trigger: Push to main in this repo triggers the synos-site agent to mirror docs
3. Navigation: Appears under “Wiki → Malware Research” in synos-site sidebar

The mkdocs.yml is retained for local development preview (mkdocs serve).