Indicators

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title: Indicators
description: Indicators are artifacts observed on a network or operating system that are likely to indicate an intrusion. Typical IoCs are virus signatures and IP addresses, MD5 hashes of malware files or URLs, or domain names.
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product: Threat Intelligence Security Center
classification: threat-intelligence-security-center
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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keywords: [indicator, IOC, indicator of compromise, STIX indicator]
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# Indicators

Indicators are artifacts observed on a network or operating system that are likely to indicate an intrusion. Typical IoCs are virus signatures and IP addresses, MD5 hashes of malware files or URLs, or domain names.

-   **[Define an Indicator](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/threat-intelligence-security-center/define-an-indicator.md)**  
Define an Indicator.
-   **[Observable extraction from indicator patterns](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/threat-intelligence-security-center/tisc-extract-observables-from-indicators.md)**  
Threat Intelligence Security Center extracts observables from indicators that use the STIX pattern type and links the extracted observables back to the source indicator.

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