network-pipeline 1.2.11

Distributed Network Packet Analysis Pipeline for Layer 2, 3 and 4 Frames

AntiNex - Network Data Analysis Pipeline

This is a distributed python 3 framework for automating network traffic capture and converting it into a csv file. Once you have a csv file you can build, train and tune machine learning models to defend your own infrastructure by actively monitoring the network layer.

It supports auto-publishing captured network traffic to the AntiNex REST API for using pre-trained Deep Neural Networks to make predictions on if this is an attack record or not using the AntiNex Core. Please refer to the Making Live Predictions using Pre-trained Neural Networks section for more details. Publishing to the REST API can run inside docker as well.

There are many choices to build a machine learning or AI model but for now I am using Jupyter Hub to build a pre-trained model for defending against OWASP Dynamic Analysis tools for finding vulnerabilities running in my owasp-jenkins repository.

• Django REST Framework + JWT + Swagger - run prepare-dataset and train-keras-deep-neural-network using a multi-tenant Django 2.0+ REST API server supporting JWT and Swagger

• Simulations directory - capturing simulated attacks using ZAP with Django, Flask, React, Vue, and Spring

• Prepare Dataset section - preparing training csvs from captured recordings

• Train Models section - training machine learning and AI models from prepared csvs and please check out the AntiNex Core which has accuracies over 99.8% and a Jupyter notebook

• Datasets repository - captured recordings if you want to see what some of the data will look like

Why?

After digging into how Internet Chemotherapy worked with a simple Nerfball approach, I wanted to see if I could train machine learning and AI models to defend this type of attack. Since the network is the first line to defend on the edge, on-premise or in the cloud, I wanted to start building the first line of defense and open source it. Also I do not know of any other toolchains to build defensive models using the network layer for free.

This repository automates dataset creation for training models by capturing network traffic on layers 2, 3 and 4 of the OSI model. Once a dataset has been Prepared it can be used to Train a Deep Neural Network. Pre-trained Deep Neural Networks can make live predictions on good or bad network traffic with the AntiNex Core.

How does it work?

This framework uses free open source tools to create the following publish-subscriber workflow:

1. Network traffic matches a capture tool filter

2. Capture tool converts packet layers into JSON

3. Capture tool publishes converted JSON dictionary to a message broker (Redis or RabbitMQ)

4. Packet processor consumes dictionary from message broker

5. Packet processor flattens dictionary

6. Packet processor periodically writes csv dataset from collected, flattened dictionaries (configurable for snapshotting csv on n-th number of packets consumed)

7. Flatten packets are published using JWT to a pre-trained Deep Neural Network for making predictions on if the network traffic is good or bad

Envisioned Deployment

• For on-premise and cloud environments, this framework would deploy capture tools to load balancers and application servers. These capture tool agents would publish to a redis cluster outside of the load balancers and application servers for analysis. By doing this, models could also be tuned to defend on the load balancer tier or application server tier independently.

• Remote edge machines would be running deployed, pre-trained, package-maintained models that are integrated with a prediction API. Periodic uploads of new, unexpected records would be sent encrypted back to the cloud for retraining models for helping defend an IoT fleet.

Detailed Version

The pipeline is a capture forwarding system focused on redundancy and scalability. Components-wise there are pre-configured capture tools that hook into the network devices on the operating system. If the capture tools find any traffic that matches their respective filter, then they json-ify the captured packet and forward it as a nested dictionary to a redis server (rabbitmq works as well, but requires setting the environment variables for authentication). Once the traffic packet dictionaries are in redis/rabbitmq, the packet processor consumes the nested dictionary and flattens them using pandas. The packet processors are set up to write csv datasets from the consumed, flattened dictionaries every 100 packets (you can configure the SAVE_AFTER_NUM environment variable to a larger number too).

Here are the included, standalone capture tools (all of which require root privileges to work):

1. capture_arp.py

2. capture_icmp.py

3. capture_ssh.py

4. capture_tcp.py

5. capture_telnet.py

6. capture_udp.py

AntiNex Stack Status

AntiNex Network Pipeline is part of the AntiNex stack:

Component	Build	Docs Link	Docs Build
REST API		Docs
Core Worker		Docs
Network Pipeline		Docs
AI Utils		Docs
Client		Docs

What packets and layers are supported?

Layer 2

• Ethernet

• ARP

Layer 3

• IPv4

• IPv6

• ICMP

Layer 4

• TCP

• UDP

• Raw - hex data from TCP or UDP packet body

Layer 5

• DNS

How do I get started?

1. Install from pypi or build the development environment

   pip install network-pipeline

   Or you can set up the repository locally

   mkdir -p -m 777 /opt/antinex
   git clone https://github.com/jay-johnson/network-pipeline.git /opt/antinex/pipeline
   cd /opt/antinex/pipeline
   virtualenv -p python3 /tmp/netpipevenv && source /tmp/netpipevenv/bin/activate && pip install -e .

2. Start Redis

   This guide assumes redis is running in docker, but as long as there’s an accessible redis server on port 6379 you can use that too. RabbitMQ works as well, but requires setting the environment variables for connectivity.

   # if you do not have docker-compose installed, you can try to install it with:
   # pip install docker-compose
   ./start.sh

3. Verify Redis is Working

   redis-cli

   or

   telnet localhost 6379

4. Start Packet Processor for Consuming Messages

   Activate the virtual environment

   source /tmp/netpipevenv/bin/activate

   Start it up

   ./network_pipeline/scripts/packets_redis.py

Making Live Predictions using Pre-trained Neural Networks

There are a few ways to make live predictions depending on how the pipeline and AntiNex assets are deployed:

1. Running the Full Django REST API stack using compose.yml (Co-located mode)

   This will start the Packet Processor using the default compose.yml file:

   https://github.com/jay-johnson/train-ai-with-django-swagger-jwt/blob/0d280216e3697f0d2cf7456095e37df64be73040/compose.yml#L105

   Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/jay-johnson/train-ai-with-django-swagger-jwt.git /opt/antinex/api
   cd /opt/antinex/api

   Start the co-located container stack with the compose.yml file:

   docker-compose -f compose.yml up -d

2. Running Only the Network Pipeline compose.yml (Distributed mode)

   This will just start the Network Pipeline container and assumes the REST API is running on another host.

   https://github.com/jay-johnson/network-pipeline/blob/master/compose.yml

   Use the command:

   docker-compose -f compose.yml up

3. Running the Packet Processor Manually Using Environment Variables (Development mode)

   Make sure to source the correct environment file before running packets_redis.py (Packet Processor).

   As an example the repository has a version that works with the compose.yml docker deployment:

   source envs/antinex-dev.env

   When building your own credentials and datasets, you may have special characters in the env file. Please use set -o allexport; source envs/antinex-dev.env; set +o allexport; to handle this case.

   Right now the defaults do not have special characters, so the source command works just fine:

   export ANTINEX_PUBLISH_ENABLED=1
   export ANTINEX_URL=http://localhost:8010
   export ANTINEX_USER=root
   export ANTINEX_EMAIL=123321
   export ANTINEX_PASSWORD=123321
   export ANTINEX_PUBLISH_TO_CORE=1
   export ANTINEX_USE_MODEL_NAME=Full-Django-AntiNex-Simple-Scaler-DNN
   export ANTINEX_PUBLISH_REQUEST_FILE=/opt/antinex/client/examples/predict-rows-scaler-full-django.json
   export ANTINEX_FEATURES_TO_PROCESS=idx,arp_hwlen,arp_hwtype,arp_id,arp_op,arp_plen,arp_ptype,dns_default_aa,dns_default_ad,dns_default_an,dns_default_ancount,dns_default_ar,dns_default_arcount,dns_default_cd,dns_default_id,dns_default_length,dns_default_ns,dns_default_nscount,dns_default_opcode,dns_default_qd,dns_default_qdcount,dns_default_qr,dns_default_ra,dns_default_rcode,dns_default_rd,dns_default_tc,dns_default_z,dns_id,eth_id,eth_type,icmp_addr_mask,icmp_code,icmp_gw,icmp_id,icmp_ptr,icmp_seq,icmp_ts_ori,icmp_ts_rx,icmp_ts_tx,icmp_type,icmp_unused,ip_id,ip_ihl,ip_len,ip_tos,ip_version,ipv6_fl,ipv6_hlim,ipv6_nh,ipv6_plen,ipv6_tc,ipv6_version,ipvsix_id,pad_id,tcp_dport,tcp_fields_options.MSS,tcp_fields_options.NOP,tcp_fields_options.SAckOK,tcp_fields_options.Timestamp,tcp_fields_options.WScale,tcp_id,tcp_seq,tcp_sport,udp_dport,udp_id,udp_len,udp_sport
   export ANTINEX_IGNORE_FEATURES=
   export ANTINEX_SORT_VALUES=
   export ANTINEX_ML_TYPE=classification
   export ANTINEX_PREDICT_FEATURE=label_value
   export ANTINEX_SEED=42
   export ANTINEX_TEST_SIZE=0.2
   export ANTINEX_BATCH_SIZE=32
   export ANTINEX_EPOCHS=15
   export ANTINEX_NUM_SPLITS=2
   export ANTINEX_LOSS=binary_crossentropy
   export ANTINEX_OPTIMIZER=adam
   export ANTINEX_METRICS=accuracy
   export ANTINEX_HISTORIES=val_loss,val_acc,loss,acc
   export ANTINEX_VERSION=1
   export ANTINEX_CONVERT_DATA=1
   export ANTINEX_CONVERT_DATA_TYPE=float
   export ANTINEX_MISSING_VALUE=-1.0
   export ANTINEX_INCLUDE_FAILED_CONVERSIONS=false
   export ANTINEX_CLIENT_VERBOSE=1
   export ANTINEX_CLIENT_DEBUG=0

Load the Deep Neural Network into the AntiNex Core

Note: If you are running without the docker containers, please make sure to clone the client and datasets to disk:

mkdir -p -m 777 /opt/antinex
git clone https://github.com/jay-johnson/antinex-client.git /opt/antinex/client
git clone https://github.com/jay-johnson/antinex-datasets.git /opt/antinex/antinex-datasets

Load the Django Model into the Core

Please note this can take a couple minutes…

ai_train_dnn.py -u root -p 123321 -f deep-neural-networks/full-django.json

...

30196    -1.0 -1.000000  -1.000000
30197    -1.0 -1.000000  -1.000000
30198    -1.0 -1.000000  -1.000000
30199    -1.0 -1.000000  -1.000000

[30200 rows x 72 columns]

Capture Network Traffic

These tools are installed with the pip and require running with root to be able to hook into the local network devices for capturing traffic correctly.

Scapy currently provides the traffic capture tooling, but the code already has a semi-functional scalable, multi-processing engine to replace it. This will be ideal for dropping on a heavily utilized load balancer tier and run as an agent managed as a systemd service.

1. Login as root

   sudo su

2. Activate the Virtual Environment

   source /tmp/netpipevenv/bin/activate

3. Capture TCP Data

   By default TCP capture is only capturing traffic on ports: 80, 443, 8010, and 8443. This can be modified with the NETWORK_FILTER environment variable. Please avoid capturing on the redis port (default 6379) and rabbitmq port (default 5672) to prevent duplicate sniffing on the already-captured data that is being forwarded to the message queues which are ideally running in another virtual machine.

   This guide assumes you are running all these tools from the base directory of the repository.

   ./network_pipeline/scripts/capture_tcp.py

   Capture SSH Traffic

   ./network_pipeline/scripts/capture_ssh.py

   Capture Telnet Traffic

   ./network_pipeline/scripts/capture_telnet.py

4. Capture UDP Data

   With another terminal, you can capture UDP traffic at the same time

   sudo su

   Start UDP capture tool

   source /tmp/netpipevenv/bin/activate && ./network_pipeline/scripts/capture_udp.py

5. Capture ARP Data

   With another terminal, you can capture ARP traffic at the same time

   sudo su

   Start ARP capture tool

   source /tmp/netpipevenv/bin/activate && ./network_pipeline/scripts/capture_arp.py

6. Capture ICMP Data

   With another terminal, you can capture ICMP traffic at the same time

   sudo su

   Start ICMP capture tool

   source /tmp/netpipevenv/bin/activate && ./network_pipeline/scripts/capture_icmp.py

Simulating Network Traffic

ZAP Testing with Web Applications

The repository includes ZAPv2 simulations targeting the follow application servers:

• Django 2.0.1

• Flask RESTplus with Swagger

• React + Redux

• Vue

• Spring Pet Clinic

I will be updating this guide with more ZAP simulation tests in the future.

Please refer to the Simulations README for more details on running these to capture network traffic during an attack.

Quick Simulations

If you want to just get started, here are some commands and tools to start simulating network traffic for seeding your csv datasets.

1. Send a TCP message

   ./network_pipeline/scripts/tcp_send_msg.py

2. Send a UDP message

   (Optional) Start a UDP server for echo-ing a response on port 17000

   sudo ./network_pipeline/scripts/listen_udp_port.py
   2018-01-27T17:39:47.725377 - Starting UDP Server address=127.0.0.1:17000 backlog=5 size=1024 sleep=0.5 shutdown=/tmp/udp-shutdown-listen-server-127.0.0.1-17000

   Send the UDP message

   ./network_pipeline/scripts/udp_send_msg.py
   sending UDP: address=('0.0.0.0', 17000) msg=testing UDP msg time=2018-01-27 17:40:04 - cc9cdc1a-a900-48c5-acc9-b8ff5919087b

   (Optional) Verify the UDP server received the message

   2018-01-27T17:40:04.915469 received UDP data=testing UDP msg time=2018-01-27 17:40:04 - cc9cdc1a-a900-48c5-acc9-b8ff5919087b

3. Simulate traffic with common shell tools

   nslookup 127.0.0.1; nslookup 0.0.0.0; nslookup localhost

   dig www.google.com; dig www.cnn.com; dig amazon.com

   wget https://www.google.com; wget http://www.cnn.com; wget https://amazon.com

   ping google.com; ping amazon.com

4. Run all of them at once

   nslookup 127.0.0.1; nslookup 0.0.0.0; nslookup localhost; dig www.google.com; dig www.cnn.com; dig amazon.com; wget https://www.google.com; wget http://www.cnn.com; wget https://amazon.com; ping google.com; ping amazon.com

Capturing an API Simulation

Simulations that can automate + fuzz authenticated REST API service layers like ZAP are available in the AntiNex datasets repository for training Deep Neural Networks. The included Flask ZAP Simulation does login using OAuth 2.0 with ZAP for REST API validation, but there is a known issue with the swagger openapi integration within ZAP that limits the functionality (for now):

https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/issues/4072

1. Start a local server listening on TCP port 80

   sudo ./network_pipeline/scripts/listen_tcp_port.py
   2018-01-27T23:59:22.344687 - Starting Server address=127.0.0.1:80 backlog=5 size=1024 sleep=0.5 shutdown=/tmp/shutdown-listen-server-127.0.0.1-80

2. Run a POST curl

   curl -i -vvvv -POST http://localhost:80/TESTURLENDPOINT -d '{"user_id", "1234", "api_key": "abcd", "api_secret": "xyz"}'
   *   Trying 127.0.0.1...
   * TCP_NODELAY set
   * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 80 (#0)
   > POST /TESTURLENDPOINT HTTP/1.1
   > Host: localhost
   > User-Agent: curl/7.55.1
   > Accept: */*
   > Content-Length: 59
   > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
   >
   * upload completely sent off: 59 out of 59 bytes
   POST /TESTURLENDPOINT HTTP/1.1
   Host: localhost
   User-Agent: curl/7.55.1
   Accept: */*
   Content-Length: 59
   Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
   
   * Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
   {"user_id", "1234", "api_key": "abcd", "api_secret": "xyz"}

3. Verify local TCP server received the POST

   2018-01-28T00:00:54.445294 received msg=7 data=POST /TESTURLENDPOINT HTTP/1.1
   Host: localhost
   User-Agent: curl/7.55.1
   Accept: */*
   Content-Length: 59
   Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
   
   {"user_id", "1234", "api_key": "abcd", "api_secret": "xyz"} replying

Larger Traffic Testing

1. Host a local server listening on TCP port 80 using nc

   sudo nc -l 80

2. Send a large TCP msg to the nc server

   ./network_pipeline/scripts/tcp_send_large_msg.py

Inspecting the CSV Datasets

By default, the dataset csv files are saved to: /tmp/netdata-*.csv and you can set a custom path by exporting the environment variables DS_NAME, DS_DIR or OUTPUT_CSV as needed.

ls /tmp/netdata-*.csv
/tmp/netdata-2018-01-27-13-13-58.csv  /tmp/netdata-2018-01-27-13-18-25.csv  /tmp/netdata-2018-01-27-16-44-08.csv
/tmp/netdata-2018-01-27-13-16-38.csv  /tmp/netdata-2018-01-27-13-19-46.csv
/tmp/netdata-2018-01-27-13-18-03.csv  /tmp/netdata-2018-01-27-13-26-34.csv

Prepare Dataset

This is a guide for building training datasets from the recorded csvs in the network pipeline datasets repository. Once a dataset is prepared locally, you can use the modelers to build and tune machine learning and AI models.

Install

This will make sure your virtual environment is using the latest pandas pip and install the latest ML/AI pips. Please run it from the repository’s base directory.

source /tmp/netpipevenv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade -r ./network_pipeline/scripts/builders/requirements.txt

Overview

I have not uploaded a local recording from my development stacks, so for now this will prepare a training dataset by randomly applying non-attack - 0 and attack - 1 labels for flagging records as attack and non-attack records.

Setup

Please export the path to the datasets repository on your host:

export DS_DIR=<path_to_datasets_base_directory>

Or clone the repository to the default value for the environment variable (DS_DIR=/opt/antinex/datasets) with:

mkdir -p -m 777 /opt/antinex
git clone https://github.com/jay-johnson/network-pipeline-datasets.git /opt/antinex/datasets

Build Dataset

This will take a few moments to prepare the csv files.

prepare_dataset.py
2018-01-31 23:38:04,298 - builder - INFO - start - builder
2018-01-31 23:38:04,298 - builder - INFO - finding pipeline csvs in dir=/opt/antinex/datasets/*/*.csv
2018-01-31 23:38:04,299 - builder - INFO - adding file=/opt/antinex/datasets/react-redux/netdata-2018-01-29-13-36-35.csv
2018-01-31 23:38:04,299 - builder - INFO - adding file=/opt/antinex/datasets/spring/netdata-2018-01-29-15-00-12.csv
2018-01-31 23:38:04,299 - builder - INFO - adding file=/opt/antinex/datasets/vue/netdata-2018-01-29-14-12-44.csv
2018-01-31 23:38:04,299 - builder - INFO - adding file=/opt/antinex/datasets/django/netdata-2018-01-28-23-12-13.csv
2018-01-31 23:38:04,299 - builder - INFO - adding file=/opt/antinex/datasets/django/netdata-2018-01-28-23-06-05.csv
2018-01-31 23:38:04,299 - builder - INFO - adding file=/opt/antinex/datasets/flask-restplus/netdata-2018-01-29-11-30-02.csv

Verify Dataset and Tracking Files

By default the environment variable OUTPUT_DIR writes the dataset csv files to /tmp:

ls -lrth /tmp/*.csv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jay jay  26M Jan 31 23:38 /tmp/fulldata_attack_scans.csv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jay jay 143K Jan 31 23:38 /tmp/cleaned_attack_scans.csv

Additionally, there are data governance, metadata and tracking files created as well:

ls -lrth /tmp/*.json
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jay jay 2.7K Jan 31 23:38 /tmp/fulldata_metadata.json
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jay jay 1.8K Jan 31 23:38 /tmp/cleaned_metadata.json

Train Models

I am using Keras to train a Deep Neural Network to predict attack (1) and non-attack (0) records using a prepared dataset. Please checkout the keras_dnn.py module if you are interested in learning more. Please let me know if there are better ways to set up the neural network layers or hyperparameters as well.

1. Source the virtual environment

   source /tmp/netpipevenv/bin/activate

2. (Optional) Train with a different dataset

   By default the environment variable CSV_FILE=/tmp/cleaned_attack_scans.csv can be changed to train models with another prepared dataset.

   To do so run:

   export CSV_FILE=<path_to_csv_dataset_file>

Train a Keras Deep Neural Network

Included in the pip is a keras_dnn.py script. Below is a sample log from a training run that scored an 83.33% accuracy predicting attack vs non-attack records.

Please note, this can take a few minutes if you are not using a GPU. Also the accuracy results will be different depending on how you set up the model.

keras_dnn.py
Using TensorFlow backend.
2018-02-01 00:01:30,653 - keras-dnn - INFO - start - keras-dnn
2018-02-01 00:01:30,653 - keras-dnn - INFO - Loading csv=/tmp/cleaned_attack_scans.csv
2018-02-01 00:01:30,662 - keras-dnn - INFO - Predicting=label_value with features=['eth_type', 'idx', 'ip_ihl', 'ip_len', 'ip_tos', 'ip_version', 'label_value', 'tcp_dport', 'tcp_fields_options.MSS', 'tcp_fields_options.Timestamp', 'tcp_fields_options.WScale', 'tcp_seq', 'tcp_sport'] ignore_features=['label_name', 'ip_src', 'ip_dst', 'eth_src', 'eth_dst', 'src_file', 'raw_id', 'raw_load', 'raw_hex_load', 'raw_hex_field_load', 'pad_load', 'eth_dst', 'eth_src', 'ip_dst', 'ip_src'] records=2217
2018-02-01 00:01:30,664 - keras-dnn - INFO - splitting rows=2217 into X_train=1773 X_test=444 Y_train=1773 Y_test=444
2018-02-01 00:01:30,664 - keras-dnn - INFO - creating sequential model
2018-02-01 00:01:30,705 - keras-dnn - INFO - compiling model
2018-02-01 00:01:30,740 - keras-dnn - INFO - fitting model - please wait
Train on 1773 samples, validate on 444 samples
Epoch 1/50
2018-02-01 00:01:30.947551: I tensorflow/core/platform/cpu_feature_guard.cc:137] Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: SSE4.1 SSE4.2 AVX AVX2
1773/1773 [==============================] - 1s 704us/step - loss: 2.5727 - acc: 0.8404 - val_loss: 2.6863 - val_acc: 0.8333
Epoch 2/50
1773/1773 [==============================] - 1s 626us/step - loss: 2.5727 - acc: 0.8404 - val_loss: 2.6863 - val_acc: 0.8333

...

Epoch 50/50
1773/1773 [==============================] - 1s 629us/step - loss: 2.5727 - acc: 0.8404 - val_loss: 2.6863 - val_acc: 0.8333
444/444 [==============================] - 0s 17us/step
2018-02-01 00:02:29,118 - keras-dnn - INFO - Accuracy: 83.33333333333334

Optional Tweaks

1. Colorized Logging for Debugging

   Export the path to the colorized logger config. This examples assumes you are in the base directory of the repository.

   export LOG_CFG=$(pwd)/network_pipeline/log/colors-logging.json

Linting

flake8 .

pycodestyle –exclude=./simulations,.tox,.eggs

License

Apache 2.0 - Please refer to the LICENSE for more details