GhostFrame Proofline / Private-pilot evaluation

Cyber extortion
evidence verification.

Know what they proved. Not what they claimed.Proofline helps incident-response teams examine ransomware and cyber-extortion claims against the material actually supplied and relevant reference information.

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01 / CAPABILITIES

What Proofline does

Separate claims
from evidence.

Threat actors often use screenshots, sample records, directory listings, filenames, or stolen documents as support for much larger claims.

Structured workspace

Compare every side of the claim.

Proofline gives analysts a structured workspace for traceable review without turning incomplete material into certainty.

  • What the threat actor claimed
  • What material was supplied
  • What victim-side reference data shows
  • What can be corroborated
  • What appears contradictory or incomplete
  • What remains unverified
02 / SEQUENCE

Evidence workflow

From claim
to report.

A deliberate sequence preserves the relationship between the original assertion, supplied material, reference data, and resulting assessment.

01 / CLAIMWhat the threat actor says happened
02 / EVIDENCEThe files, screenshots, records, or other material supplied
03 / REFERENCE DATAVictim-side information approved for comparison
04 / CORRELATIONAgreements, inconsistencies, and gaps
05 / FINDINGA traceable assessment of what is supported
06 / REPORTA careful summary for response stakeholders

Claim → Evidence → Reference Data → Correlation → Finding → Report

03 / SYNTHETIC EXAMPLE

Fictional workflow illustration

From unclear claim
to responsible finding.

This public-safe example is fictional. It is not a customer, incident, threat actor, or Proofline case result.

Synthetic example

“We exfiltrated 40,000 customer records.”

THREAT-ACTOR CLAIM

Evidence supplied

  • Screenshot of a directory
  • Fifty-row record sample
  • List of filenames
  • Claimed archive size

Authorized reference comparison

  • Several sample identifiers match a historical customer export
  • Directory names are consistent with one known system
  • The supplied material does not establish when the archive was created
  • The evidence does not prove the claimed record count
  • Successful exfiltration of the full dataset remains unverified
TRACEABLE FINDINGPartially supported

The supplied sample appears consistent with authorized reference data, but the claimed volume and complete exfiltration scope are not established by the available evidence.

Sample authenticity
Corroborated
System relationship
Partially corroborated
Claimed volume
Unverified
Full exfiltration
Unverified
Contradictions
None established from available evidence
04 / OUTPUT

Public-safe review output

Evidence that can be followed back to the claim.

Proofline keeps the assessment legible without publishing unsupported format or export claims.

01

Claim record

The original assertion and its stated scope remain connected to the review.

02

Evidence register

Supplied artifacts are organized with source and context information.

03

Correlation findings

Agreements, contradictions, incomplete support, and unresolved gaps are documented.

04

Controlled summary

Findings can be communicated to authorized response stakeholders without presenting uncertainty as fact.

05 / ASSESSMENT

What Proofline helps answer

Questions that
shape the response.

Each answer remains connected to what was available at the time of review.

01

Does the supplied material support the attacker’s claimed scope?

02

Is it consistent with approved victim-side information?

03

Does the material appear duplicated, outdated, incomplete, or contradictory?

04

Which claims are supported, partially supported, unsupported, or unresolved?

05

What can responsibly be communicated to executives, insurers, counsel, and response partners?

05A / RESPONSE TEAMS

Who it is for

Built for serious
response work.

Proofline is intended for teams handling ransomware and cyber-extortion response.

01Ransomware response firms
02Cyber-insurance teams
03Digital forensics and incident-response teams
04Breach counsel and response partners
05B / BOUNDARIES

Product boundaries

Evidence verification.
Clearly scoped.

Proofline is an analyst workspace. It is not an automated verdict engine or a replacement for professional response disciplines.

Proofline does not

Extend beyond the evidence.

  • Negotiate with threat actors
  • Scrape criminal leak sites
  • Attribute attacks
  • Replace forensic investigations
  • Provide legal conclusions
  • Automatically declare an entire extortion claim true or false

Analyst responsibility

The response team makes the final call.

Proofline organizes the review and makes its basis traceable. The response team remains responsible for final interpretation and decisions.

06 / Private Pilot

Examine a claim
against the evidence.

Proofline is being prepared for a limited number of private-pilot evaluations with ransomware-response, cyber-insurance, digital-forensics, and breach-response teams.

A pilot conversation should focus on

  • The team’s current evidence-review workflow
  • The types of extortion claims they regularly evaluate
  • How attacker-supplied material is currently documented
  • Where corroboration, contradiction, and uncertainty are recorded
  • What reporting outputs are needed by responders, insurers, counsel, and executives

Internally validated. External private pilot pending.
Internal workflow review used synthetic case material and structured analyst exercises.

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