The Digital Trust
Kill Chain

How adversaries attack your brand, people, locations, and products.

An Outtake Labs reference for practitioners fluent in MITRE ATT&CK®. Eight stages. Four zones. The same rigor, applied to where attacks live now: your brand, your people, your locations, your products. Stop it early and it costs little. Wait, and every stage costs more than the last.

Cheaper to disrupt
Costlier to absorb
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01
RECON
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02
INFRA
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03
TRUST
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04
ENGAGE
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05
CRED
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06
TAKEOVER
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07
IMPACT
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08
MONETIZE
01 · ReconnaissanceEight stages · One operation08 · Monetization
The eight stages, defined

What each stage means,
and what it means for you.

Each step costs more to stop than the one before it. Select a stage to open it.

Zone 01 · Discovery
Zone 02 · Exposure
Zone 03 · Compromise
Zone 04 · Harm
← Cheaper to stopCostlier to absorb →
Zone 01 · DiscoveryMITRE: TA0043 · direct match

01Reconnaissance

The attacker gathers intelligence before building anything. They profile executives, collect employee lists, monitor your brand across the open web and dark web, and identify your technology stack and vendors. None of it touches your systems, so nothing trips an alert.

This is the cheapest stage to disrupt. Nothing has been built yet, so acting now costs the least to prevent and gives the attacker the least to lose.

The full kill chain

Every technique, mapped
to the surface it targets.

Choose a trust surface. The techniques that target it turn orange. The rest stay in view, dimmed. One operation crosses them all. See how.

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● How OUTTAKE’S Next Generation Digital Risk Protection answers each zone.
Zone 01 · Discovery

Agentic Search + Entity Registry

Every place your brand, people, and products appear, mapped as one footprint.

Zone 02 · Exposure

Threat Graphing + Narrative Intelligence

One signal becomes the whole campaign. The operator behind it, named.

Zone 03 · Compromise

Remediation Agents

The operation removed at its choke point, in a single action. It cannot rebuild.

Zone 04 · Harm

Digital Trust Reservoir

Every takedown teaches the next. Defense sharpens as attackers accelerate.

Outtake, mapped to the chain

Every zone, met by a capability that shuts it down.

Discovery, Exposure, Compromise, Harm. Outtake meets each zone with a capability that works continuously across your brand, people, locations, and products. The whole operation removed, not just the artifact.

A living trust registry for the internet: your brands, people, locations, and products, kept current as they change.

Legacy tools stop at the artifact. Recon Agent follows the signal through the whole chain.

Recon brief

Recon Agent finds the whole chain.

One live investigation where Recon Agent traced a single signal through every stage.

How pig butchering maps to the chain
01 RECON
02 INFRA
03 TRUST
04 ENGAGE
05 CRED
06 TAKEOVER
07 IMPACT
08 MONETIZE
Case study · investment-fraud brand impersonation

One newly registered lookalike domain led Recon Agent to a cluster of 9 confirmed malicious domains sharing one WordPress backend, impersonating a global private-equity firm. The same fake trading-portal fingerprint runs on 7 sibling platforms. Campaign history: 2.5 years.

9
Confirmed domains, one backend
2.5yr
Campaign history on record
14.4hr
Outtake avg. takedown time*

*Platform-wide average, not specific to this case.

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