Stairwell preserves every executable it observes. It detects threats without relying on another tool to flag them first.
Stairwell analyzes the files themselves, so new variants can surface even when
signatures and behavioral detections
have never seen them before.
Detection is a single moment. Stairwell re-examines your full history as intelligence arrives, so a threat missed yesterday still gets caught tomorrow.
The industry optimizes for one thing: how fast you clear false positives.
Lower MTTR, more tickets closed, higher auto-triage rates.
It says nothing about the false negative still sitting in your environment.
The first AI investigator built on evidence
Every executable, kept forever, continuously re-examined.
Backstory continuously collects and preserves evidence, detects threats, runs full investigations, and directs your existing tools to comprehensively respond . Every new piece of intelligence starts the cycle again across your entire history in a dedicated environment.
Autonomous detection
Stairwell continuously analyzes every new executable. Definitive verdicts in seconds, independent of your other tools. Files your stack overlooks still get investigated.
Instant & continuous retro-hunt
Every new piece of intelligence automatically re-scans years of file history. Dormant malware gets caught.
Blast radius mapping
Every copy and every variant (renamed, recompiled, mutated) across all hosts and all time: what arrived, when, where it spread, which machines are affected.
Recommended actions
Backstory closes each investigation with a full campaign report, mapped to MITRE, and concrete actions for your other tools: containment, blocking, cleanup.
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BackStory returns a conclusive malicious-or-benign verdict in under 200 seconds.
This tool was designed for the analysis of executable files and scripts. Output quality may vary for other file formats.
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No signup, no sandbox, no waiting.
Stairwell Intelligent Analysis (SIA) supports nearly all file types,
with deep optimization for executables and scripts. Enhanced support for
archives, documents, and images is on the way.
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Surfaced from files published intel never flagged.
The whole investigation, re-run on your full history every time new intel lands.
From indicator to verdict: the full hunt, the full SOC workflow, the full forensic analysis.
A complete report with every verdict: what was found, how it spread, how to remediate.
Only one way to know for sure
Only one way to know for sure