What is a .STIX file?
STIX is a standard format for sharing cyber-threat intelligence.
- Did you know
- STIX lets security teams exchange details of attacks in a common language.
- STIX stands for Structured Threat Information Expression, originally developed by MITRE for the US Department of Homeland Security.
- Governance passed to OASIS, and the version 2 generation was rebuilt around JSON paired with the TAXII transport protocol.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify and read more security and forensics files: OpenPGP messages/keys/signatures (.pgp/.gpg/.sig - armor type, packet walk, key algorithm and user ID, secret-key warning), YARA rules, Snort/Suricata IDS rules, STIX/OpenIOC threat intel, Fiddler captures (.saz), 1Password exports (.1pux), Apple Keychain, KeePass 1.x (.kdb), Microsoft keys (.pvk) and AFF/AFF4 forensic images.
- Depth of analysis
- .STIX is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .STIX file
- Drag a .STIX file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.