Campaign Attribution

Validin supports campaign attribution by allowing teams to connect indicators through observed infrastructure relationships and long-term behaviour.

Rather than attributing activity based on individual domains or IPs, Validin enables teams to understand how infrastructure is assembled, reused, and operated across a campaign.

This supports attribution grounded in evidence rather than isolated signals.

Linking indicators into campaigns

Campaign attribution in Validin is based on correlation across datasets.

Teams use Validin to identify shared characteristics between indicators, including:

• Common DNS resolution or hosting over time
• Reuse of certificates across domains or IPs
• Similar host response behaviour or content
• Repeated registration patterns or timing

Indicators that appear unrelated in isolation can often be grouped once these relationships are examined.

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Note

Attribution in Validin is driven by observable infrastructure relationships, not threat names or scores.

Patterns and behaviour

Validin preserves historical state across DNS, host responses, certificates, and registration data. This allows teams to review how infrastructure appears, changes, and is retired across a campaign lifecycle.

Behavioural signals such as response headers, content structure, redirects, and TLS characteristics are often reused by operators and provide additional attribution confidence when combined with timing and infrastructure patterns.

Strategic context

Validin integrates selected open source intelligence into the platform to provide external context where available.

Public research and references can be reviewed alongside internally observed infrastructure to support alignment with known campaigns or threat actors.

Teams commonly manage attribution work using the Projects menu, grouping related infrastructure, and tracking changes as campaigns evolve.