How IOC Feeds Streamline Response and Threat Hunting for Best SOC Teams 

When you’re in a SOC, speed is everything. The earlier you detect and confirm an intrusion, the faster you can contain it, and the less damage it does to your organization.

But raw indicators of compromise (IOCs) like hashes, IPs, or domains often fall short on their own.

They raise a flag, but without context, analysts are left asking: What does this really mean? 

Enriched IOC Feeds close that gap by adding the missing context and turning isolated data points into actionable intelligence. 

The Limitations of Raw IOCs 

While IOCs are important for detection, relying on them in their raw form creates major hurdles for SOC teams: 

• Ambiguity: A single hash might correspond to multiple files, making it difficult to confirm what’s actually in play. 
• Short lifespan: Domains and IPs often rotate quickly, leaving static indicators outdated by the time they’re spotted. 
• Lack of behavior context: Raw data doesn’t explain how the threat behaves, moves laterally, or persists inside a network. 
• Noise and false positives: Without enrichment, analysts spend hours chasing leads that turn out to be irrelevant. 

How Enriched IOC Feeds Solve These Challenges 

This is where ANY.RUN’s Threat Intelligence Feeds stand out. Instead of providing static data, they deliver up-to-date indicators enriched with context from real-world malware activity and sandbox sessions.

That transforms a raw IOC into a ready-to-use lead for both incident response and proactive hunting. 
 

For example, ANY.RUN’s Feed automatically extracts the malware’s configuration and network traffic, exposing C2 servers, registry changes, persistence mechanisms, and more.

All of this intelligence is linked into a single execution chain, so analysts see the full picture of TTPs instead of chasing isolated IOCs. 

Take a look at this sandbox session 

This saves hours of manual work: instead of stitching together scattered evidence, analysts can immediately pivot from an IOC in the feed to a complete sandbox session showing how the attack unfolds step by step. 

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Key Advantages of Enriched IOC Feeds for SOC Teams 

For SOC teams, the difference between keeping pace with threats and falling behind often comes down to the quality of intelligence at hand.

Raw IOCs raise alerts, but without context they force analysts to spend hours validating what matters and what doesn’t.  

Enriched IOC Feeds change that by providing the missing behavioral detail and scale SOC teams need to respond effectively. 

• Accelerated threat hunting: Continuously updated IOCs, enriched with sandbox context, help analysts move beyond isolated alerts and quickly uncover related activity across the environment. 
• Proactive defense: Instead of reacting to yesterday’s attacks, SOCs can track how threats evolve in real time and take preventive measures before they strike. 
• Smarter triage and faster response: With behavioral context tied to each IOC, analysts immediately see how a threat operates, allowing them to prioritize critical incidents and cut MTTR. 
• Reduced noise and false positives: Context-rich feeds minimize wasted effort by helping SOCs focus only on relevant, high-confidence indicators. 

A Trusted Source of Large-Scale Intelligence 

The strength of any feed depends on the quality of its data.  

ANY.RUN’s Threat Intelligence Feeds are built on a foundation of over 50 million threats in the database, with more than 16,000 new samples added every day.

The data is contributed by a global community of 500,000 analysts and 15,000 companies, ensuring it reflects the realities of active attacks across industries.

Feeds are refreshed every two hours, giving SOC teams a view of campaigns as they unfold, not after the fact. 

This constant stream of current, real-world intelligence gives analysts the clarity they need to tune defenses, validate alerts, and hunt for threats with confidence. 

Accelerate Response and Threat Hunting with IOC Feeds 

Keeping your SIEM, XDR, and TIP up to date with filtered malicious IPs, domains, and URLs is the difference between chasing noise and catching real threats.

Enriched IOC Feeds give SOC teams the context and coverage they need to respond faster, hunt smarter, and defend more effectively. 

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