IDS Utility Library
Project description
py-idstools is a collection of Python libraries for working with IDS systems (typically Snort and Suricata).
Features
Snort/Suricata unified2 log file reading.
Continuous unified2 directory spool reading with bookmarking (a’la Barnyard2).
Parser and mapping for classification.config.
Parser and mapping for gen-msg.map and sid-msg.map.
Useful utility programs.
Programs
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.
rulecat - Basic Suricata rule management tool.
Requirements
Python 2.7; Python 3.3 works but is not as well tested.
Python 2.6 may work, but is not as well tested.
Currently only tested on Linux.
Examples
Reading a Unified2 Spool Directory
The following code snippet will “tail” a unified log directory aggregating records into events:
from idstools import unified2 reader = unified2.SpoolEventReader("/var/log/snort", "unified2.log", follow=True) for event in reader: print(event)
Documentation
Further documentation is located at http://idstools.readthedocs.org.
Changelog
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.
0.4.4
Fix reading of growing file on OS X.
Fix error in parsing decoder rules introduced in 0.4.3.
0.4.3
Make the rule direction an accessible field of the rule object.
0.4.2
Fix issue loading signature map files (GitHub issue #2).
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.
0.4.0
New tool, u2json to convert unified2 files to JSON.
0.3.1
Support the new appid unified2 event types introduced in Snort 2.9.7.0.alpha.
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