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Python package for finding and parsing indicators of compromise from text.

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Description: # IOC Finder

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Parse [indicators of compromise](https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/Indicators-of-Compromise-IOC) from text. You can test this project here: [http://ioc-finder.hightower.space/](http://ioc-finder.hightower.space/).

## Capabilities

Currently, this package can the following items in a given text:

- IP address (IPv4 and IPv6)
- Email addresses (both standard format (e.g. `test@example.com`) and an email with an IP address as the domain (e.g. `test@[192.168.0.1]`))
- Domain names (support for Unicode domain names (e.g. `ȩxample.com`) is coming soon)
- URLs (URLs with and without schemes)
- File hashes (md5, sha1, sha256, and sha512)
- Registry Key paths (e.g. `"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows`)
- Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) (in multiple formats such as `asn1234` and `as 1234`)
- CVEs (e.g. `CVE-2014-1234`)
- CIDR ranges (currently ipv4 ranges; ipv6 ranges coming soon)
- Google Adsense Publisher IDs
- Google Analytics Tracker IDs
- Bitcoin addresses (P2PKH, P2SH, and Bech32)
- XMPP addresses (basically, this captures email addresses whose domain names contain "jabber" or "xmpp")
- MAC addresses
- SSDeep Hashes
- Others... if you have any requests, [let me know](https://github.com/fhightower/ioc-finder) (or you can contact me [here](https://hightower.space/contact/) to make private suggestions)!

Also provides some helpful features like:

- Option to parse domain name from a URL
- Option to parse domain name from an email address
- Option to parse IP address from a CIDR range
- Option to parse URLs without a scheme (e.g. without `https://`)

## Installation

To install this package:

```
pip install ioc-finder
```

## Usage

This package can be used in [python](#Python) or via a [command-line interface](#Command-Line Interface).

### Python

The primary function in this package is the `ioc_finder.find_iocs()` function. A simple usage looks like:

```python
from ioc_finder import find_iocs
text = "This is just an example.com https://example.org/test/bingo.php"
iocs = find_iocs(text)
print('Domains: {}'.format(iocs['domains']))
print('URLs: {}'.format(iocs['urls']))
```

#### Inputs

You must pass some text into the `find_iocs()` function as string (the iocs will be parsed from this text). You can also provide the options detailed below.

##### Options

The `find_iocs` takes the following keywords (all of them default to `True`):

- `parse_domain_from_url` (default=True): Whether or not to parse domain names from URLs (e.g. `example.com` from `https://example.com/test`)
- `parse_domain_from_email_address` (default=True): Whether or not to parse domain names from email addresses (e.g. `example.com` from `foo@example.com`)
- `parse_address_from_cidr` (default=True): Whether or not to parse IP addresses from CIDR ranges (e.g. `0.0.0.1` from `0.0.0.1/24`)
- `parse_urls_without_scheme` (default=True): Whether or not to parse URLs without a scheme (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Generic_syntax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Generic_syntax)) (e.g. `hightower.space/projects`)

See [test_ioc_finder.py](https://github.com/fhightower/ioc-finder/blob/master/tests/test_ioc_finder.py) for more examples.

#### Output

The `find_iocs()` returns a dictionary in the following structure:

```json
{
"asns": [],
"bitcoin_addresses": [],
"complete_email_address": [],
"cves": [],
"domains": [],
"email_addresses": [],
"google_adsense_publisher_ids": [],
"google_analytics_tracker_ids": [],
"ipv4_cidrs": [],
"ipv4s": [],
"ipv6s": [],
"mac_addresses": [],
"md5s": [],
"registry_key_paths": [],
"sha1s": [],
"sha256s": [],
"sha512s": [],
"ssdeeps": [],
"urls": [],
"xmpp_addresses": []
}
```

For example, running the example code shown at the start of the [usage](#usage) section above produces the following output:

```json
{
"asns": [],
"bitcoin_addresses": [],
"complete_email_address": [],
"cves": [],
"domains": ["example.org", "example.com"],
"email_addresses": [],
"google_adsense_publisher_ids": [],
"google_analytics_tracker_ids": [],
"ipv4_cidrs": [],
"ipv4s": [],
"ipv6s": [],
"mac_addresses": [],
"md5s": [],
"registry_key_paths": [],
"sha1s": [],
"sha256s": [],
"sha512s": [],
"ssdeeps": [],
"urls": ["https://example.org/test/bingo.php"],
"xmpp_addresses": []
}
```

##### Output Details

There are two grammars for email addresses. There is a fairly complete grammar to find email addresses matching the spec (which is very broad). Any of these complete email addresses (e.g. `foo"bar@gmail.com`) will be sent as output to in `complete_email_addresses` key.

Email addresses in the simple form we are familiar with (e.g. `bar@gmail.com`) will be sent as output in the `email_addresses` key.

### Command-Line Interface

The ioc-finder package can be used from a command line like:

```
ioc-finder "This is just an example.com https://example.org/test/bingo.php"
```

This will return:

```json
{
"asns": [],
"bitcoin_addresses": [],
"complete_email_addresses": [],
"cves": [],
"domains": [
"example.com",
"example.org"
],
"email_addresses": [],
"google_adsense_publisher_ids": [],
"google_analytics_tracker_ids": [],
"ipv4_cidrs": [],
"ipv4s": [],
"ipv6s": [],
"md5s": [],
"registry_key_paths": [],
"sha1s": [],
"sha256s": [],
"sha512s": [],
"urls": [
"https://example.org/test/bingo.php"
],
"xmpp_addresses": [],
"mac_addresses": []
}
```

Here are the usage instructions for the CLI:

```
Usage: ioc-finder [OPTIONS] TEXT

CLI interface for parsing indicators of compromise.

Options:
--no_url_domain_parsing Using this flag will not parse domain names
from URLs
--no_email_addr_domain_parsing Using this flag will not parse domain names
from email addresses
--no_cidr_address_parsing Using this flag will not parse IP addresses
from CIDR ranges
--no_xmpp_addr_domain_parsing Using this flag will not parse domain names
from XMPP addresses
--help Show this message and exit.
```

## Credits

This project uses the [ioc_fanger](https://github.com/ioc-fang/ioc_fanger) package to make sure that all indicators in the text are properly [fanged](https://ioc-fang.hightower.space/).

This package was created with [Cookiecutter](https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter) and Floyd Hightower's [python-project-template](https://gitlab.com/fhightower-templates/python-project-template) project template.

Previous iterations of this package were inspired by [https://github.com/mosesschwartz/extract_iocs](https://github.com/mosesschwartz/extract_iocs).

### Other Helpful Projects

You may also be interested in [https://github.com/ioc-fang/ioc_fanger](https://github.com/ioc-fang/ioc_fanger), a project to fang and defang indicators of compromise. For example,

defanging:

```
example.com => example[.]com
https://example.com => hXXps://example[.]com
```

and fanging:

```
example[.]com => example.com
example(.)com => example.com
me AT example(.)com => me@example.com
```

### Similar Projects

There are a number of projects available to find Indicators of Compromise. Your mileage may vary with them. If there are things that another package can do that you would like to see in this package, [let me know](https://github.com/fhightower/ioc-finder/issues) (or [contact me](https://hightower.space/contact/)). Here are a few other ones:

- [https://github.com/InQuest/python-iocextract](https://github.com/InQuest/python-iocextract)
- [https://github.com/sroberts/cacador](https://github.com/sroberts/cacador)
- [https://github.com/armbues/ioc_parser](https://github.com/armbues/ioc_parser)

Keywords: iocs,indicators of compromise,parsing,finding,searching,threat intelligence,malware,threat hunting
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