feat: implement Pillars 2-4 and fix a production false-positive in Pillar 1

Pillar 1 v1.1 (shipped earlier) flagged benign browsing bursts as
beaconing: on short captures, grid periods longer than the observed
span never complete a cycle, so significance saturates to 1 and the
score sticks at exactly 0.5. v1.2 caps the grid at a third of the
observed span, requires a minimum number of completed cycles, and
excludes protocols that are periodic by nature (NTP, DNS, mDNS,
ICMP). Validated against 300 seeds per scenario: false positives on
bursty traffic drop from the 290-300/300 that v1.1 produced to 0/300,
with every beacon-detection scenario scoring unchanged.

Add Pillar 2 (persistent/long-lived sessions, with Zeek's fragmented
TCP sessions rejoined after a 5-minute gap), Pillar 3 (DNS tunneling
via Shannon-entropy information volume per subdomain per hour; the
Jensen-Shannon divergence was measured and does not separate tunnels
from benign CDN subdomains, so it stays in the evidence at zero
weight instead of in the score), and Pillar 4 (deterministic
noisy-OR fusion across the three pillars).

The fusion formula was validated against 8 labeled real-traffic
vectors (IoT-23, CTU-Normal) with tolerance <= 1e-4. A known
limitation is kept, not hidden: a benign Philips HUE bulb's strict
periodic polling and a 21.9h session score it above three real C2
hosts. No weight or threshold was tuned to mask this; it is
documented in the architecture docs instead.

Also fixes real bugs found along the way: ingest_dir's partition
count summed file names instead of distinct dates, DuckDB errors
were counted as bad rows, /api/alerts always returned an empty list
regardless of the last analysis, and the dashboard still claimed
every pillar was unimplemented.

Restores four design corrections that were missing from
docs/architecture.md (KL to Jensen-Shannon, the persistent-session
detector, the JA4 licensing boundary, and deterministic reduction
order), and catalogs the public datasets used for validation
(IoT-23, CTU-Normal, Mendeley DTQBC) with their licenses and SHA-256
checksums under research/validation/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VAyr8d7HuAdUGB6aA5xmDD
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Lucas RayanandClaude Sonnet 5 committed 2026-11-01 00:28:54 -03:00
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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use acaua_core::{doctor, fusion, pillar1, pillar2, pillar3, pillar4, storage, ze
fn pillar1_returns_a_skeleton_score() {
let input = pillar1::BeaconingInput {
timestamps: vec![1.0, 2.0, 3.0],
proto: "tcp".to_string(),
};
let score = pillar1::score(&input).unwrap();
assert_eq!(score.observations, 3);
@@ -13,33 +14,49 @@ fn pillar1_returns_a_skeleton_score() {
#[test]
fn pillar2_counts_long_connections_without_panicking() {
let input = pillar2::SessionInput {
durations_secs: vec![1.0, 400.0],
bytes: vec![10, 20],
sessions: vec![
pillar2::SessionCandidate {
start_ts: 1000.0,
end_ts: 1001.0,
duration: 1.0,
parts: 1,
orig_bytes: 10,
resp_bytes: 20,
},
pillar2::SessionCandidate {
start_ts: 2000.0,
end_ts: 2400.0,
duration: 400.0,
parts: 1,
orig_bytes: 100,
resp_bytes: 200,
},
],
failed_attempts: 0,
};
let score = pillar2::score(&input).unwrap();
assert_eq!(score.long_connections, 1);
assert_eq!(score.status, "skeleton");
assert_eq!(score.longest_session_seconds, 400.0);
assert_eq!(score.status, "ok");
}
#[test]
fn pillar3_handles_an_empty_protocol_list() {
let score = pillar3::score(&pillar3::ProtocolInput::default()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(score.distinct_protocols, 0);
assert_eq!(score.status, "skeleton");
fn pillar3_handles_empty_dns_input() {
let scores = pillar3::score(&pillar3::ProtocolInput::default()).unwrap();
assert!(scores.is_empty());
}
#[test]
fn pillar4_fuses_three_inputs() {
let score = pillar4::score(&pillar4::FusionInput::default()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(score.inputs, 3);
assert_eq!(score.status, "skeleton");
let score = pillar4::score("10.0.0.1", &pillar4::FusionInput::default()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(score.terms.len(), 3);
assert_eq!(score.formula_version, "1.0");
assert_eq!(score.score, 0.0);
}
#[test]
fn fusion_returns_no_alerts_yet() {
let report = fusion::fuse(&[0.1, 0.2]).unwrap();
assert!(report.alerts.is_empty());
assert_eq!(report.status, "skeleton");
let hosts = fusion::fuse(&[]).unwrap();
assert!(hosts.is_empty());
}
#[test]
@@ -67,5 +84,5 @@ fn zeek_classifies_known_logs() {
fn doctor_reports_checks() {
let report = doctor::run();
assert!(!report.checks.is_empty());
assert_eq!(report.status, "skeleton");
assert!(report.status == "ok" || report.status == "degraded");
}