SigmAIQ 0.4.2

Wrapper and tools for pySigma and Sigma rules

SigmAIQ: pySigma Wrapper & Utils

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Project Status
• LLM Support
• Installation & Usage
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Usage Quickstart
  • Usage Examples
• Supported Options
  • Backends
  • Pipelines
• Contributing
• License
• Maintainers

Introduction

SigmAIQ is a wrapper for pySigma and pySigma backends & pipelines. It allows detection engineers to easily convert Sigma rules and rule collections to SIEM/product queries without having to worry about the overhead of ensuring the correct pipelines and output formats are used by each pySigma supported backend. SigmAIQ also contains custom pipelines and output formats for various backends that are not found in the original backend source code. If you don't see a backend that's currently supported, please consider contributing to the Sigma/pySigma community by making it with this pySigma Cookiecutter Template

In addition, SigmAIQ contains pySigma related tools and scripts, including easy Sigma rule searching, LLM support, an automatic rule creation from IOCs.

This library is currently maintained by:

• Stephen Lincoln via AttackIQ

Project Status

SigmAIQ is currently in pre-release status. It is a constant work-in-progress and bugs may be encountered. Please report any issues here.

Feature requests are always welcome! pySigma tools/utils are currently not in the pre-release version, and will be added in future releases.

LLM Support

For LLM usage, see the LLM README

Installation & Usage

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• pip, pipenv, or poetry

Installation

SigmAIQ can be installed with your favorite package manager:

pip install sigmaiq
pipenv install sigmaiq
poetry add sigmaiq

Usage Quickstart

Create a backend from the list of available backends, then give a valid Sigma rule to convert to a query. You can find the list of available backends in this README, or SigmAIQBackend.display_available_backends().

from sigmaiq import SigmAIQBackend

sigma_rule = """
    title: Test Rule
    logsource:
        category: process_creation
        product: windows
    detection:
        sel:
            CommandLine: mimikatz.exe
        condition: sel
"""

# Create backend
backend = SigmAIQBackend(backend="microsoft365defender").create_backend()

# Convert Rule or Collection
output = backend.translate(sigma_rule)
print(output)

Output:

['DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine =~ "mimikatz.exe"']

Although you can pass a SigmaRule or SigmaCollection object to translate() like you would to convert() or convert_rule() for a typical pySigma backend, there is no need with SigmAIQ. As long as a valid Sigma rule is given as a YAML str or dictionary (or list of), SigmAIQ will take care of it for you.

Usage Examples

Backends

Typical usage will be using the SigmAIQBackend class from sigmaiq to create a customized pySigma backend, then use translate() to convert a SigmaRule or SigmaCollection to a query:

from sigmaiq import SigmAIQBackend
from sigma.rule import SigmaRule

sigma_rule = SigmaRule.from_yaml(
    """
    title: Test Rule
    logsource:
        category: process_creation
        product: windows
    detection:
        sel:
            CommandLine: mimikatz.exe
        condition: sel
    """
)

backend = SigmAIQBackend(backend="splunk").create_backend()
print(backend.translate(sigma_rule))

Output: ['CommandLine="mimikatz.exe"']

Specifying Output Formats

Passing the output_format arg will use an original output specified by the original backend, or a custom format implemented by SigmAIQ. You can find information about output formats specific to each backend via SigmAIQBackend.display_backends_and_outputs()The necessary processing pipelines are automatically applied, even if the original pySigma backend does not automatically apply it:

from sigmaiq import SigmAIQBackend
from sigma.rule import SigmaRule
from sigma.backends.splunk import SplunkBackend

sigma_rule = SigmaRule.from_yaml(
    """
    title: Test Rule
    logsource:
        category: process_creation
        product: windows
    detection:
        sel:
            CommandLine: mimikatz.exe
        condition: sel
    """
)
# Raises sigma.exceptions.SigmaFeatureNotSupportedByBackendError
orig_backend = SplunkBackend()
print("Original Backend:")
try:
    print(orig_backend.convert_rule(sigma_rule, output_format="data_model"))
except Exception as exc:
    print(exc)
print("\n")

# Necessary pipeline for output_format automatically applied
print("SigmAIQ Backend:")
sigmaiq_backend = SigmAIQBackend(backend="splunk", output_format="data_model").create_backend()
print(sigmaiq_backend.translate(sigma_rule))

Output:

Original Backend:
No data model specified by processing pipeline

SigmAIQ Backend:
['| tstats summariesonly=false allow_old_summaries=true fillnull_value="null" count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) 
as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.process="mimikatz.exe" by Processes.process 
Processes.dest Processes.process_current_directory Processes.process_path Processes.process_integrity_level 
Processes.parent_process Processes.parent_process_path Processes.parent_process_guid Processes.parent_process_id 
Processes.process_guid Processes.process_id Processes.user | `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)` 
| convert timeformat="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" ctime(firstTime) | convert timeformat="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" ctime(lastTime) ']

Pipelines

Specifying Pipelines

You can specify a specific pipeline to be applied to the SigmaRule by passing it to the backend factory. Generally, you want to only apply pipelines to a backend meant for that specific backend. You can use a name of a pipeline as defined in SigmAIQPipeline.display_available_pipelines(), or pass any pySigma ProcessingPipeline object. The pipeline can be passed directory to SigmAIQPipeline, or created with SigmAIQPipeline.

from sigmaiq import SigmAIQBackend, SigmAIQPipeline

# Directly to backend
backend = SigmAIQBackend(backend="elasticsearch",
                         processing_pipeline="ecs_zeek_beats").create_backend()

# Create pipeline first, then pass to backend
pipeline = SigmAIQPipeline(processing_pipeline="ecs_zeek_beats").create_pipeline()
backend = SigmAIQBackend(backend="elasticsearch",
                         processing_pipeline=pipeline).create_backend()

Combining Multiple Pipelines

The SigmAIQPipelineResolver class automates combining multiple pipelines together via pySigma's ProcessingPipelineResolver class. This results in a single ProcessingPipeline object that are applied in order of priority of each ProcessingPipeline's priority. You can pass any named available pipeline, ProcessingPipeline object, or callable that returns any valid combination of these two types:

from sigmaiq import SigmAIQPipelineResolver
from sigma.pipelines.sysmon import sysmon_pipeline
from sigma.pipelines.sentinelone import sentinelone_pipeline

# ProcessingPipeline Object
proc_pipeline_obj = sysmon_pipeline()

# Available Pipeline Name
pipeline_named = "splunk_windows"

my_pipelines = [sysmon_pipeline(),  # ProcessingPipeline type
                "splunk_windows",  # Available pipeline name
                sentinelone_pipeline  # Callable that returns a ProcessingPipeline type
                ]

my_pipeline = SigmAIQPipelineResolver(processing_pipelines=my_pipelines).process_pipelines(
    name="My New Optional Pipeline Name")

print(f"Created single new pipeline from {len(my_pipelines)} pipelines.")
print(f"New pipeline '{my_pipeline.name}' contains {len(my_pipeline.items)} ProcessingItems.")

Output:

Created single new pipeline from 3 pipelines.
New pipeline 'My New Optional Pipeline Name' contains 103 ProcessingItems.

Custom Fieldmappings

A dictionary can be used to create a custom fieldmappings pipeline on the fly. Each key should be the original fieldname, with each value being a new fieldname or list of new fieldnames:

from sigmaiq import SigmAIQPipeline
from sigma.rule import SigmaRule

sigma_rule = SigmaRule.from_yaml(
    """
    title: Test Rule
    logsource:
        category: process_creation
        product: windows
    detection:
        sel:
            CommandLine: mimikatz.exe
        condition: sel
    """
)

custom_fieldmap = {'CommandLine': 'NewCommandLineField'}
custom_pipeline = SigmAIQPipeline.from_fieldmap(custom_fieldmap).create_pipeline()
print(f"Original Fieldname: {list(sigma_rule.detection.detections.values())[0].detection_items[0].field}")
custom_pipeline.apply(sigma_rule)
print(f"New Fieldname: {list(sigma_rule.detection.detections.values())[0].detection_items[0].field}")

Output:

Original Fieldname: CommandLine
New Fieldname: NewCommandLineField

All-In-One Conversion

The create_all_and_translate() method for the backend factory will automatically create backends for all possible available backends, and create queries for all possible pipelines & output formats for each backend. If show_errors=False (default), any invalid queries due to pipeline errors, such as unsupported fields, will be left out of the results dictionary:

from sigmaiq import SigmAIQBackend
from sigma.rule import SigmaRule
from pprint import pprint

sigma_rule = SigmaRule.from_yaml(
    """
    title: Test Rule
    logsource:
        category: process_creation
        product: windows
    detection:
        sel:
            CommandLine: mimikatz.exe
        condition: sel
    """
)

output = SigmAIQBackend.create_all_and_translate(sigma_rule)
pprint(output)

Output:

{backend: {pipeline: {output_format: query} } }

{'carbonblack': {'carbonblack': {'default': ['os_type:windows '
                                             'cmdline:mimikatz.exe'],
                                 'json': [{'description': None,
                                           'id': None,
                                           'query': 'os_type:windows '
                                                    'cmdline:mimikatz.exe',
                                           'title': 'Test Rule'}]},
                 'carbonblack_enterprise': {'default': ['device_os:WINDOWS '
                                                        'process_cmdline:mimikatz.exe'],
                                            'json': [{'description': None,
                                                      'id': None,
                                                      'query': 'device_os:WINDOWS '
                                                               'process_cmdline:mimikatz.exe',
                                                      'title': 'Test Rule'}]}},
 'crowdstrike_splunk': {'crowdstrike': {'default': ['event_simpleName="ProcessRollup2" '
                                                    'CommandLine="mimikatz.exe"']}},
 'crowdstrike_logscale': {'crowdstrike': {'default': ['event_simpleName="ProcessRollup2" '
                                                    'CommandLine="mimikatz.exe"']}},
 'elasticsearch': {'ecs_windows': {'default': ['process.command_line:mimikatz.exe'],
 ...

Supported Options

Backends

Available Backends

Backend Option	Description	Associated Pipelines	Default Pipeline
carbonblack	Carbon Black EDR	carbonblack carbonblack_enterprise	carbonblack
cortexxdr	Palo Alto Cortex XDR	cortexxdr	cortexxdr
crowdstrike_splunk	Crowdstrike FDR Splunk Query	crowdstrike_fdr	crowdstrike_fdr
crowdstrike_logscale	Crowdstrike Logscale Query	crowdstrike_falcon	crowdstrike_falcon
elasticsearch	Elastic Elasticsearch SIEM	ecs_windows ecs_kubernetes ecs_windows_old ecs_zeek_beats ecs_zeek_corelight zeek_raw	ecs_windows
insightidr	Rapid7 InsightIDR SIEM	insightidr	insightidr
loki	Grafana Loki LogQL SIEM	loki_grafana_logfmt loki_promtail_sysmon loki_okta_system_log	loki_grafana_logfmt
microsoft_xdr	Microsoft XDR Advanced Hunting Query (KQL) (Defender, Office365, etc)	microsoft_xdr	microsoft_xdr
microsoft_sentinel_asim	Microsoft Sentinel ASIM Query (KQL)	sentinel_asim	sentinel_asim
microsoft_azure_monitor	Microsoft Azure Monitor Query (KQL)	azure_monitor	azure_monitor
netwitness	Netwitness Query	netwitness_windows	netwitness_windows
opensearch	OpenSearch Lucene	ecs_windows ecs_windows_old ecs_zeek_beats ecs_zeek_corelight zeek_raw	ecs_windows
qradar	IBM QRadar	qradar_fields qradar_payload	qradar_fields
sentinelone	SentinelOne EDR	sentinelone	sentinelone
splunk	Splunk SIEM	splunk_windows splunk_wineventlog splunk_windows_sysmon_acc splunk_cim_dm	splunk_windows
sigma	Original YAML/JSON Sigma Rule Output	sigma_default	sigma_default
stix	STIX 2.0 & STIX Shifter Queries	stix_2_0 stix_shifter	stix_2_0

Backend Output Formats

Backend Option	Output Format Option	Description
carbonblack	default json	Plain CarbonBlack queries CarbonBlack JSON query
cortexxdr	default json	Plain CortexXDR queries json output format
crowdstrike_splunk	default	Plain SPL queries
crowdstrike_logscale	default	CrowdStrike LogScale queries
elasticsearch	default kibana_ndjson dsl_lucene siem_rule siem_rule_ndjson	Plain Elasticsearch Lucene queries Kibana NDJSON import file with Lucene queries Elasticsearch query DSL with embedded Lucene queries Elasticsearch query DSL as SIEM Rules in JSON Format Elasticsearch query DSL as SIEM Rules in NDJSON Format
insightidr	default leql_advanced_search leql_detection_definition	Simple log search query mode Advanced Log Entry Query Language (LEQL) queries LEQL format roughly matching the 'Rule Logic' tab in ABA detection rule definition
loki	default ruler	Plain Loki queries Loki 'ruler' output format for generating alerts
microsoft_xdr	default	Kusto Query Language search strings
microsoft_sentinel_asim	default	Kusto Query Language search strings
microsoft_azure_monitor	default	Kusto Query Language search strings
netwitness	default	Plain netwitness queries
opensearch	default dashboards_ndjson monitor_rule dsl_lucene	Plain OpenSearch Lucene queries OpenSearch Dashboards NDJSON import file with Lucene queries OpenSearch monitor rule with embedded Lucene query OpenSearch query DSL with embedded Lucene queries
qradar	default	Plain QRadar queries
sentinelone	default json	Plaintext JSON format
splunk	default savedsearches data_model stanza	Plain SPL queries Plain SPL in a savedsearches.conf file Data model queries with tstats Enterprise Security savedsearches.conf stanza
sigma	default yaml json	Default output format Default Sigma Rule output format JSON style Sigma Rule Output
stix	default	Plain stix queries

Pipelines

Available Named Pipelines

Pipeline Option	Description	Display Name
splunk_wineventlog	SigmAIQ Custom combined windows_audit and splunk_windows pipelines to convert Sysmon fields to Windows Event Log fields for Splunk searches	Splunk WinEventLog
carbonblack	Uses Carbon Black EDR field mappings	CB
cortexxdr	Uses Palo Alto Cortex XDR field mappings	Palo Alto Cortex XDR
carbonblack_enterprise	Uses Carbon Black Enterprise EDR field mappings	CB
crowdstrike_fdr	Crowdstrike FDR Splunk Mappings	CrowdStrike FDR SPL
crowdstrike_falcon	Crowdstrike Falcon Logscale Mappings	CrowdStrike Falcon Logscale
ecs_kubernetes	Elastic Common Schema (ECS) Kubernetes audit log mappings	ECS Kubernetes
ecs_windows	Elastic Common Schema (ECS) Windows log mappings from Winlogbeat from version 7	ECS Winlogbeat
ecs_windows_old	Elastic Common Schema (ECS) Windows log mappings from Winlogbeat up to version 6	ESC Winlogbeat (<= v6.x)
ecs_zeek_beats	Elastic Common Schema (ECS) for Zeek using filebeat >= 7.6.1	ECS Zeek (Elastic)
ecs_zeek_corelight	Elastic Common Schema (ECS) mapping from Corelight	ESC Zeek (Corelight)
zeek_raw	Zeek raw JSON field naming	Zeek Raw JSON
insightidr	InsightIDR Log Entry Query Language (LEQL) Transformations	InsightIDR LEQL
loki_grafana_logfmt	Converts field names to logfmt labels used by Grafana	Logfmt Labels
loki_promtail_sysmon	Parse and adjust field names for Windows sysmon data produced by promtail	WinSysmon Promtail
loki_okta_system_log	Parse the Okta System Log event json, adjusting field-names appropriately	Okta System Event
microsoft_xdr	Mappings for Sysmon -> XDR Advanced Hunting Query Table Schema	Microsoft XDR KustoQL
sentinel_asim	Mappings for Sysmon -> Sentinel ASIM Query Table Schema	Sentinel ASIM KustoQL
azure_monitor	Mappings for Sysmon -> Azure Monitor Query Table Schema	Azure Monitor KustoQL
netwitness_windows	Netwitness Windows log mappings	Netwitness Windows
qradar_fields	Supports only the Sigma fields in the Field Mapping	Sigma Fields
qradar_payload	Uses UTF8(payload) instead of fields unsupported by the Field Mapping.	UTF8(payload) (Non-Sigma Fields)
sigma_default	Empty ProcessingPipeline placeholder	Sigma
sentinelone	Mappings for SentinelOne Deep Visibility Queries	SentinelOne Deep Visibility
splunk_windows	Splunk Query, Windows Mappings	Splunk Query (Windows)
splunk_windows_sysmon_acc	Splunk Windows Sysmon search acceleration keywords	Splunk Query (Sysmon)
splunk_cim_dm	Splunk Datamodel Field Mappings	Splunk Datamodel Query
stix_2_0	STIX 2.0 Mappings	STIX 2.0
stix_shifter	STIX Shifter Mappings	STIX Shifter
windows_sysmon	Sysmon for Windows	Sysmon
windows_audit	Windows Event Logs	Windows Event Logs
windows_logsource	Windows Logs, General	Windows Logs, General

Contributing

We welcome contributions to SigmAIQ! Here's how you can contribute:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix
3. Make your changes and commit them with a clear commit message
4. Push your changes to your fork
5. Submit a pull request to the main repository

Please ensure your code adheres to the project's coding standards and includes appropriate tests.

License

This project is licensed under the LGPL License.

Maintainers

This library is currently maintained by:

• Stephen Lincoln via AttackIQ