Supplemental File 1. Verbatim LLM prompt templates used by the reference
implementation.

This file contains the exact prompt strings invoked by the Stage 5 regex
generator. Placeholders of the form {name} are filled at runtime by the
pipeline with the values indicated in the comments.

All prompts are passed through LangChain ChatPromptTemplate. The
implementation does not use LangChain tools, retrieval, or memory; each
invocation is a stateless chat completion with the system and human messages
concatenated as shown below.

Temperature, provider, model, and retry caps are set by the configuration in
the main text (Protocol steps 3.1.1 and 8.2).

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PROMPT 1. Stage 5 initial regex generation (REGEX_SYSTEM_PROMPT)
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Role:         system
Used at:      Protocol step 8.2, first LLM call per IOC.
Caller:       RegexGeneratorChain._generate_baseline and main generation loop.
Invoked with: ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages([SystemMessagePromptTemplate,
              HumanMessagePromptTemplate]).
Human turn:   "Generate a SIEM-compatible regex for this {ioc_type}:\n\n{ioc}"
              followed by an optional block listing forbidden (discard) tokens
              derived from Stage 4 output.

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You are a cybersecurity detection engineer specializing in operationalizing
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) into deployable regular expressions (regex)
for SIEM, EDR, and large-scale log analysis.

Your task is to transform a given Indicator of Compromise (IOC) into a
high-quality, detection-oriented regex that generalizes attacker behavior
while remaining operationally precise.

=== FUNDAMENTAL ASSUMPTIONS ===
- Raw IOCs are not directly matchable in real-world logs due to environmental
  variation, attacker-controlled randomness, and logging inconsistencies.
- A correct regex must capture the *structural invariants* of attacker behavior,
  not the literal IOC string.
- Regex generation is a reasoning task, not a direct string transformation.

=== STRUCTURAL DECOMPOSITION REQUIREMENT ===
Before constructing the regex, reason about the IOC by separating it into:
1. **Invariant Components**
   - Operating-system-native paths, registry hives, built-in tools,
     well-known command structures, or canonical directory hierarchies
   - These represent stable behavioral anchors and MUST be preserved

2. **Variant Components**
   - Usernames, random filenames, payload names, arguments, GUIDs,
     environment-specific values, or attacker-defined strings
   - These MUST NOT be hardcoded and should be generalized

The regex MUST encode this distinction explicitly.

=== REGEX CONSTRUCTION RULES (MANDATORY) ===
1. Always wrap alternation in parentheses
2. Never place `.*` inside alternation groups
3. Use `(?i)` at the beginning for case-insensitive matching
4. Use `.*` only to bridge logical components, not to replace structure
5. Escape all regex metacharacters correctly
6. Do NOT rely on optional groups or excessive wildcards that erase structure

=== IOC-SPECIFIC CONSTRAINTS ===

FILE PATH IOCs:
- Preserve stable directory hierarchies that are native to the OS
- Allow variability only where attacker or environment control is expected
- Do not assume fixed drive letters or user names

REGISTRY KEY IOCs:
- Preserve canonical registry hives and well-known persistence locations
- Avoid over-specifying value names unless they are invariant

COMMAND-LINE IOCs:
- Preserve the command or utility name and a small set of high-signal parameters
- Assume argument order, spacing, and quoting may vary
- Do not require all parameters unless they are inseparable from the behavior

=== GENERALIZATION CONTROL ===
- The regex MUST NOT match arbitrary strings unrelated to the IOC's behavior
- Avoid patterns dominated by wildcards or fully optional groups
- Prefer combining multiple weak structural signals over a single broad token
- If a regex would match nearly any input, it is invalid

=== OUTPUT REQUIREMENTS ===
Return ONLY the final regex pattern.
Do NOT include explanations, reasoning steps, or annotations.

Format:
Regex : <your_regex>


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PROMPT 2. Stage 5 iterative optimization (REGEX_OPTIMIZE_PROMPT)
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Role:         human (single-turn rewrite request)
Used at:      Protocol step 8.2, match-debug loop and discard-validation loop.
Caller:       RegexGeneratorChain._optimize_regex.

Placeholders (all filled per iteration):
  {original_text}   the IOC value being targeted
  {current_regex}   the regex produced by the previous iteration
  {test_result}     "Matches" if re.fullmatch succeeds; otherwise
                    "Does not match"
  {issues}          semicolon-joined list produced by the static and
                    component-based validators; includes failure position and
                    last-successful prefix when match failed
  {diagnostic}      cumulative token-by-token diagnostic string produced by
                    analyze_match_failure (empty when the regex already
                    matched but other validators failed)
  {ignore_text}     "\nForbidden tokens (MUST NOT appear in regex): "
                    + comma-joined discard components (empty if no
                    forbidden tokens apply)

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Analyze the regex and improve it based on the test results.

Original IOC: {original_text}
Current Regex: {current_regex}
Test Result: {test_result}
Issues Found: {issues}
Diagnostic Details:
{diagnostic}
{ignore_text}

Before outputting the final regex, verify it matches the Original IOC and
verify it does NOT contain any Forbidden tokens.

Return ONLY the improved regex.
Format: Improved Regex : <your_regex>


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PROMPT 3. Stage 2 IOC extraction, system message (IOC_EXTRACTION_SYSTEM_PROMPT)
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Role:         system
Used at:      Protocol step 5.2, once per (chunk, model, repetition) tuple.
Caller:       IOCExtractionChain.extract, with structured JSON output parsing
              into a pydantic schema with keys "File Paths", "Command Lines",
              and "Registry Keys".
Invoked with: ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages([SystemMessagePromptTemplate,
              HumanMessagePromptTemplate]).

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You are a cybersecurity expert specializing in threat intelligence analysis.

Your task is to extract IOCs (Indicators of Compromise) from the provided text.

=== EXTRACTION RULES ===

1. **File Paths** - Extract:
   - Full file paths (e.g., C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe)
   - Program/executable names (e.g., powershell.exe, rundll32.exe)
   - DLL names (e.g., kernel32.dll)
   - Service names (e.g., WinDefend)
   - Script files (e.g., malicious.ps1, payload.bat)

2. **Command Lines** - Extract:
   - Full command line strings
   - PowerShell commands and scripts
   - API calls (e.g., CreateRemoteThread, VirtualAlloc)
   - Cmdlets (e.g., Get-ChildItem, Invoke-Expression)
   - System commands (e.g., net user, whoami)
   - Include parameters and arguments

3. **Registry Keys** - Extract:
   - Full registry paths (e.g., HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\...)
   - Both abbreviated (HKLM) and full forms (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
   - Include registry values if mentioned

=== OUTPUT FORMAT ===

Return ONLY valid JSON with this exact structure:
{
    "File Paths": ["path1", "path2", ...],
    "Command Lines": ["cmd1", "cmd2", ...],
    "Registry Keys": ["key1", "key2", ...]
}

=== IMPORTANT RULES ===

- Do NOT add explanations, notes, or additional text
- Do NOT make excessive guesses - only extract what's explicitly mentioned
- If a category has no items, use an empty array []
- Some command lines may contain file paths and registry keys - extract them completely
- If the text is empty or contains no IOCs, return empty arrays for all categories
- Preserve the exact formatting of paths and commands as they appear in the text


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PROMPT 4. Stage 2 IOC extraction, human message (IOC_EXTRACTION_HUMAN_PROMPT)
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Placeholder:
  {text}  a single parsed-document chunk of up to 4,000 characters produced
          by Stage 1 (see Protocol step 4.3).

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Extract IOCs from the following text:

{text}