github certtools/intelmq 1.0.0.dev6

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Changes between 0.9 and 1.0.0.dev6

General changes

  • Dropped support for Python 2, Python >= 3.3 is needed
  • Dropped startup.conf and system.conf. Sections in BOTS can be copied directly to runtime.conf now.
  • Support two run modes: 'stream' which is the current implementation and a new one 'scheduled' which allows scheduling via cron or systemd.
  • Helper classes for parser bots
  • moved intelmq/conf to intelmq/etc
  • cleanup in code and repository
  • All bots capable of reloading on SIGHUP
  • packages
  • pip wheel format instead of eggs
  • unittests for library and bots
  • bots/BOTS now contains only generic and specific collectors. For a list of feeds, see docs/Feeds.md

executables

  • DEV: intelmq_gen_harm_docs: added to generate Harmonization documentation
  • intelmq_psql_initdb: creates a table for a postgresql database using the harmonization fields
  • intelmqctl: reworked argument parsing, many bugfixes
  • intelmqdump: added to inspect dumped messages and reinsert them into the queues
  • DEV: rewrite_config_files: added to rewrite configuration files with consistent style

Bot changes

Collectors

  • added alienvault, alienvault otx, bitsight, blueiv, file, ftp, misp, n6, rtir, xmpp collector
  • removed hpfeeds collector
  • removed microsoft DCU collector
  • renamed and reworked URL collector to HTTP
  • reworked Mail collectors

Parsers

  • source specific parsers added: abusech, alienvault, alienvault otx, anubisnetworks, autoshun, bambenek, bitcash, bitsight, blocklistde, blueliv, ci army, cleanmx, cymru_full_bogons, danger_rulez, dataplane, dshield (asn, block and domain), dyn, fraunhofer_dga, hphosts, malc0de, malwaredomains, misp, n6, netlab_360, nothink, openphish, proxyspy, spamhaus cert, taichung, turris, urlvir
  • generic parsers added: csv, json
  • specific parsers dropped: abusehelper (broken), arbor (source unavailable), bruteforceblocker, certeu, dragonresearchgroup parser (discontinued), hpfeeds, microsoft_dcu (broken), taichungcitynetflow, torexitnode parser
  • renamed intelmq.bots.parsers.spamhaus.parser to intelmq.bots.parsers.spamhaus.parser_drop
    renamed intelmq.bots.parsers.malwarepatrol.parser-dansguardian to intelmq.bots.parsers.malwarepatrol.parser_dansguardian
  • renamed intelmq.bots.parsers.taichungcitynetflow.parser to intelmq.bots.parsers.taichung.parser
  • major rework of shadowserver parsers
  • enhanced all parsers

Experts

  • Added experts: asnlookup, cert.at contact lookup, filter, generic db lookup, gethostbyname, modify, reverse dns, rfc1918, tor_nodes, url2fqdn
  • removed experts: contactdb, countrycodefilter (obsolete), sanitizer (obsolete)
  • renamed intelmq.bots.expers.abusix.abusix to bots.expers.abusix.expert
    intelmq.bots.experts.asnlookup.asnlookup to intelmq.bots.experts.asn_lookup.expert
    intelmq.bots.experts.cymru.expert to intelmq.bots.experts.cymru_whois.expert
    intelmq.bots.experts.deduplicator.deduplicator to intelmq.bots.experts.deduplicator.expert
    intelmq.bots.experts.geoip.geopip to intelmq.bots.experts.maxmind_geoip.expert
    intelmq.bots.experts.ripencc.ripencc to intelmq.bots.experts.ripencc_abuse_contact.expert
    intelmq.bots.experts.taxonomy.taxonomy to intelmq.bots.experts.taxonomy.expert
  • enhanced all experts
  • changed configuration syntax for bots.experts.modify to a more simple variant

Outputs

  • added: amqp, elasticsearch, redis, restapi, smtp, stomp, tcp, udp, xmpp
  • removed: debug, intelmqmailer (broken), logcollector
  • enhanced all outputs

Bug fixes

  • FIX: all bots handle message which are None
  • FIX: various encoding issues resolved in core and bots
  • FIX: time.observation is generated in collectors, not in parsers

Other enhancements and changes

  • TST: testing framework for core and tests. Newly introduced components should always come with proper unit tests.
  • ENH: intelmqctl has shortcut parameters and can clear queues
  • STY: code obeys PEP8, new code should always be properly formatted
  • DOC: Updated user and dev guide
  • Removed Message.contains, Message.update methods Message.add ignore parameter

Configuration

  • ENH: New parameter and field named accuracy to represent the accuracy of each feed
  • Consistent naming "overwrite" to switch overwriting capabilities of bots (as opposed to override)
  • Renamed http_ssl_proxy to https_proxy
  • parameter hierarchical_output for many output bots
  • deduplicator bot has a new required parameter to configure deduplication mode filter_type
  • deduplicator bot key ignore_keys was renamed to filter_keys
  • The tor_nodes expert has a new parameter overwrite, which is by default false.

Harmonization

  • ENH: Additional data types: integer, float and Boolean
  • ENH: Added descriptions and matching types to all fields
  • DOC: harmonization documentation has same fields as configuration, docs are generated from configuration
  • BUG: FQDNs are only allowed in IDN representation
  • ENH: Removed UUID Type (duplicate of String)
  • ENH: New type LowercaseString and UppercaseString, doing automatic conversion
  • ENH: Removed UUID Type (duplicate of String)
  • ENH: FQDNs are converted to lowercase
  • ENH: regex, iregex and length checks when data is added to messages

Most important changes:

  • (source|destination).bgp_prefix is now (source|destination).network
  • (source|destination).cc is now (source|destination).geolocation.cc
  • (source|destination).reverse_domain_name is (source|destination).reverse_dns
  • (source|destination).abuse_contact is lower case only
  • misp_id changed to misp.event_uuid
  • protocol.transport added, a fixed list of values is allowed
  • protocol.application is lower case only
  • webshot_url is now screenshot_url
  • additional_information renamed to extra, must be JSON
  • os.name, os.version, user_agent removed in favor of extra
  • all hashes are lower case only
  • added malware.hash.(md5|sha1|sha256), removed malware.hash
  • New parameter and field named feed.accuracy to represent the accuracy of each feed
  • New parameter and field named feed.provider to document the name of the source of each feed
  • New field classification.identifier
    -classification.taxonomy is now lower case only

Known issues

  • Harmonization: hashes are not normalized and classified, see also issue #394 and pull #634

Contrib

  • ansible and vagrant scripts added
  • bash-completion for shells add
  • cron job scripts to update lookup data added
  • logcheck example rules added
  • logrotate configuration added

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