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Subsequently, a Depth First Search (DFS) algorithm combined with Graph Attention Network (GAT) is proposed for kill chain search evaluation. The algorithm utilizes GAT to extract topological information and node attribute features from graph data to obtain node-embedding vectors, and optimizes the DFS algorithm process by computing the cosine similarity of node-embedding vectors. 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