Use when about to take any outward or offensive action (request, payload, persistence, lateral movement, exfil, or feeding captured traffic to the model) — to decide detection footprint, cleanup, and secret redaction first.
Use when escalating privileges on a Windows host — SeImpersonate Potato chains (GodPotato/PrintNotifyPotato), service & DLL hijacking, UAC bypass (fodhelper/ICMLuaUtil), kernel EoP + BYOVD (CVE-2025-29824), token-rights abuse, LSASS/SAM/DPAPI credential harvesting.
Use when about to send a request to, scan, enumerate, exploit, or otherwise interact with any host, IP, URL, or asset — before the first packet reaches a target.
Use when writing position-independent shellcode or a loader — PEB walking, API hashing, null-byte avoidance, encoders, loaders, PE-to-shellcode conversion, cross-platform shellcode.
Use when hunting threats or engineering detections — ATT&CK Detection-Strategies, Sigma + correlation with Detection-as-Code CI, Windows endpoint hunting (Sysmon/ETW/LSASS/LOLBins), network C2 hunting (JA4+, beaconing, DNS tunneling), cloud-identity hunting, Atomic Red Team purple-team validation.