Ecosyste.ms: Awesome

An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

Awesome Lists | Featured Topics | Projects

https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools

idstools: Snort and Suricata Rule and Event Utilities in Python (Including a Rule Update Tool)
https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools

ids intrusion-detection snort suricata unified2

Last synced: 5 days ago
JSON representation

idstools: Snort and Suricata Rule and Event Utilities in Python (Including a Rule Update Tool)

Awesome Lists containing this project

README 

        
py-idstools |docs|

==================



py-idstools is a collection of Python libraries for working with IDS

systems (typically Snort and Suricata).



Note for `rulecat` Users

------------------------

Rulecat development has stalled. Future rule management work is now done in

Suricata-Update which is bundled with Suricata. Please consider switching to

Suricata-Update.



Included Programs

-----------------

- rulecat - Basic Suricata rule management tool suitable as a

  replacement for for Oinkmaster and Pulled Pork.

- eve2pcap - Convert packets and payloads in eve logs to pcap.

- u2json - Convert unified2 files or spool directories to JSON.

- gensidmsgmap - Easily create a sid-msg.map file from rule files,

  directories or a rule tarball.

- dumpdynamicrules - Helper for dumping Snort SO dynamic rule stubs.

- u2eve - Convert unified2 files to EVE compatible JSON.



Library Features

----------------



- Snort/Suricata unified2 log file parsing.

- Continuous unified2 directory spool reading with bookmarking.

- Snort/Suricata rule parser.

- Parser and lookup maps for classification.config.

- Parser and lookup maps for gen-msg.map and sid-msg.map.



Requirements

------------



- Python 2.7 or newer.

- Currently only tested on Linux.



Installation

------------



Latest Release (Recommended)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



    pip install idstools



or on Fedora and CentOS (with EPEL):



    yum install python-idstools



Latest from Git

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



    pip install https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/archive/master.zip



Manually

~~~~~~~~



The idstools programs do not have to be installed to be used, they can

be executable directly from the archive directory::



  ./bin/idstools-rulecat



Or to install manually::



  python setup.py install



Examples

--------



Reading a Unified2 Spool Directory

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



The following code snippet will "tail" a unified log directory

returning each record as a dict-like object::



  from idstools import unified2



  reader = unified2.SpoolRecordReader("/var/log/snort",

      "unified2.log", follow=True)

  for record in reader:

      if isinstance(record, unified2.Event):

          print("Event:")

      elif isinstance(record, unified2.Packet):

          print("Packet:")

      elif isinstance(record, unified2.ExtraData):

          print("Extra-Data:")

      print(record)



See the `idstools unified2

`_

documentation for more information on read and parsing unified2 files.



Parse Suricata/Snort Rules

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



The following code snippet will parse all the rules in a rule file::



  from idstools import rule



  for rule in rule.parse_file(sys.argv[1]):

      print("[%d:%d:%d] %s" % (

          rule.gid, rule.sid, rule.rev, rule.msg))



In addition to parsing `files

`_,

`file objects

`_

and `strings

`_

containing individual rules can be parsed.



Update Suricata Rules

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



The following command will update your Suricata rules with the latest

Emerging Threats Open ruleset for the version of Snort you have

installed::



  idstools-rulecat -o /etc/suricata/rules



See the `idstools-rulecat documentation

`_ for

more examples and options.



Documentation

-------------



Further documentation is located at http://idstools.readthedocs.org.



Changelog

---------



0.6.5 - 2023-11-02

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- dumpdynamicrules: Python 3 fix, plus fix for handling directories:

  https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/pull/91

- rulecat: Fix placement of .md5 extension:

  https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/pull/82

- rules: allow config action to be used in local.rules:

  https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/pull/88

- rules: add more header elements into Rule object:

  https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/pull/87

- eve2pcap: ipv6 fix: https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/pull/86

- misc: replace warn with warning

- unified2: support for event type 3:

  https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/pull/74

- dumpdynamicrules: repack fix for directories:

  https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/pull/91



0.6.4 - 2020-08-02

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- eve2pcap: fix displaying of errors from libpcap

- eve2pcap: python3 fixes

- eve2pcap: print number of packets converted on exit

- rules: fix parsing of rules where the address or port list has a space

- `Commit log `_



0.6.3 - 2017-11-20

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- eve2pcap: fix segfault when calling libpcap functions.

- rulecat: for Emerging Threat rule URLs, use the Suricata version as found

- rulecat: default to Suricata 4.0 if it can't be found.

- rule parser: fix case where rule option does not end in ; and is

  last option (https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/issues/58)

- `Commit log `_



0.6.2 - 2017-08-09

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- rulecat: ignore *deleted.rules by default. Provide --no-ignore

  option to disable default ignores without having to add a new

  ignore.

- rulecat: suppress progress bar if quiet

- rulecat: fix output filenaming for downloads that are a single rule

  file

- rulecat: more python3/unicode fixes

- rule parser: if metadata is specified more than once, append to the

  existing metadata list instead of replacing it

  (https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/issues/57)

- `Commit log `_



0.6.1 - 2017-05-25

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- idstools-rulecat: handle zip archive files

- rules: handle msg with escaped semicolons

- rulecat: don't generate report summary if its not going to be logged

  anyways (https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/issues/49)

- rulecat: Python 3 fixes

- rules: speed up parsing

- `Commit log `_



0.6.0 - 2017-03-29

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- idstools-u2eve - output packet records

- idstools-rulecat: allow --local to be specified multiple times

- idstools-rulecat: --ignore option to ignore filenames

- More python 3 fixups.

- unified2 - deprecate event readers, use record readers instead

  (https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/issues/14)

- u2json: --packet-hex and --printable to print raw buffers as printable

  chars and hex in addition to base64.

- u2eve: --packet-printable to include a "packet_printable" field

- u2eve: include Snort extra-data with printable data.

- `Commit log `_



0.5.6

~~~~~

- idstools-rulecat: fix issue parsing Suricata version on Python 3

- idstools-rulecat: don't convert rules with noalert to drop

- idstools-rulecat: allow suricata version to be set on the command

  line (https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools/issues/38)

- `Commit log `_



0.5.5

~~~~~

- unified2: fix reading of ipv6 events

- idstools-u2json: option to sort the keys

- u2spewfoo: IPv6 printing fixes

- idstools-rulecat: use ET "enhanced" rules by default

- idstools-rulecat: suricata inspired colour logging

- idstools-rulecat: handle URLs ending with query parameters

- `Commit log `_



0.5.4

~~~~~



- idstools: handle rules with no msg in rule parser

- idstools-rulecat: support a drop.conf for setting rules to drop

- idstools-eve2pcap: allow link type to be set on command line

- unified2: handle large appid buffer in newer versions of Snort.

- `Commit log `_



0.5.3

~~~~~

- idstools-rulecat: better documentation

- idstools-rulecat: use ET Pro https URL

- `Commit log `_



0.5.2

~~~~~

- idstools-u2json: fix --delete

- idstools-u2json: add --verbose flag for debug logging

- idstools-rulecat: allow multiple urls

- `Commit log `_



0.5.1

~~~~~

- New tool: eve2pcap. Converts packets and payloads found in Suricata

  EVE logs to pcap files.

- Rule parser: handle multi-line rules.

- `Commit log `_



0.5.0

~~~~~

- New tool: idstools-dumpdynamicrules. A wrapper around Snort to dump

  dynamic rule stubs and optionally repack the tarball with the new

  stubs.

- New tool: idstools-u2eve. Basically a copy of the current u2json,

  but will aim to keep a compatible eve output style.  idstools-u2json

  will probably become more of a basic example program.

- A basic packet decoding module.

- New tool: rulecat. A basic Suricata rule management tool.

- `Commit log `_



0.4.4

~~~~~

- Fix reading of growing file on OS X.

- Fix error in parsing decoder rules introduced in 0.4.3.

- `Commit log `_



0.4.3

~~~~~

- Make the rule direction an accessible field of the rule object.

- `Commit log `_



0.4.2

~~~~~

- Fix issue loading signature map files (GitHub issue #2).

- `Commit log `_



0.4.1

~~~~~

- Fix IPv6 address unpacking.

- In u2json, if the protocol number can't be converted to a string,

  encode the number as a string for a consistent JSON data type.

- `Commit log `_



0.4.0

~~~~~

- New tool, u2json to convert unified2 files to JSON.

- `Commit log `_



0.3.1

~~~~~

- Support the new appid unified2 event types introduced in Snort

  2.9.7.0.alpha.

- `Commit log `_



.. |docs| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/idstools/badge/?version=latest

   :alt: Documentation Status

   :scale: 100%

   :target: https://idstools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest