= Intelmq-dev-news 05-2016
Issue 5/2016
== Topics ==
# Summary of IHAP meeting in April
# Status update Intevation
# Status update CERT.at
# Status update misc
== May 2016 ==
Dear Intelmq-dev mailing list readers,
this is the second issue of intelmq developer news.
We hope it's useful.
TL;DR and important changes
-----------------------------
The syntax of intelmqcli was changed to a new format:
intelmqctl {start,stop} bot_id.
This breaks compatibilty with existing scripts.
If you put intelmqctl into some script, please adapt it. Also
please be sure to check out the latest version of the intelmq-manager
in case you use it.
Lots of open issues. Progress with intelmqcli (to connect postgresql to the RT ticket system).
/ TL;DR
=== How to contribute to this newsletter? ===
-> contact Aaron, Dustin for future input
=== Summary of IHAP meeting in April ===
In April the IHAP Meeting took place in Vienna.
* A Hacksession the night before the meeting was used by Raphael and Aaron in
order to bridge MISP and IntelMQ.
* Connections between Abusehelper and IntelMQ are on some CERTs wish list.
XMPP is a good start. Unfortunately the XMPP Bot upstream was not fit for
production.
=== Status report Intevation ===
* Still working on the KontaktDB, we appreciate the discussions that started
on IHAP Meeting.
We received a Pull Request from Cert.at and are currently reviewing it.
* We have Scripts to import Data into the KontaktDB.
Nevertheless there is some work left.
* Demonstrated installation from packages on Ubuntu 14.04 on IHAP-Meeting.
We propose to host the **signed** packages on our public apt-repositories.
* Working on a tool similar to intelmqcli, intended to process events from
the eventdb. Instead of using RT they are sent by e-mail.
The tool has the working title "event-processor" and can be found here
(https://github.com/Intevation/event-processor)
* We did not start with support for IODEF or X-ARF yet.
=== Status report CERT.at developments ===
* we moved to python3 only. Intelmq dropped python2 support
(https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/commit/2cbb42f1458a7e90539a443ec5e50ee…).
This does not apply yet to the certat repo (github.com/certat/intelmq), which
still supports python2.7 but only for the intelmqcli tool.
* New active contributor: pedro m. reis! Welcome and thanks for working so
hard on the Bitsight collector
(https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/pull/493)
* intelmqcli tool now supports a lot of new flags:
https://github.com/certat/intelmq/issues/52 This was necessary for CERT.at
since we use intelmqcli via cron job to connect to the (postgresql) eventDB ,
pull out all of the new data and use RT (ticket system) to send stuff out.
Added flags --quiet --batch. Now intelmqcli sends via cronjob.
These flags now allow CERT.at to run intelmq in full auto-mode! intelmqcli is
started via cron and sends out all events to all ISPs.
=== Requests ===
* Intevation searches for testers for the packages.
* We'd like to have some nice graphs in the intelmq-manager: events/sec , parse-failures/sec, etc.
* implementation of whitelisting of events (filter out events based on whitelists). See
https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/issues/426
* A good CSS design for the web page
=== Community ===
* RIPE abuse-c contacts can be done locally. RIPE might be able to export
abuse-c infos publicly (fingers crossed).
* more command line options for intelmqcli (see the
https://github.com/certat/intelmq repo)
* Aaron gave a presentation at the ENISA workshop "CSIRTs in Europe", 11th of May.
Slides will be shared on the ENISA page.
==== intelmq.org ====
The website intelmq.org is now online, but we would like to have more content and a proper
design.
Do you want to contribute to intelmq, but you are not a programmer? This is
your chance!
Current ToDos:
* Create Website Content: How-Tos / Installation Instructions, Success
Stories
** How-Tos / Instructions: If you are using a special feature of IntelMQ, for
instance an expert bot, try to find some time to write down a short article
how you managed to get it to work and why you are using it.
* Website Design
== Wishlist ==
* **we need more test-cases!!!**
* a specific config logic for ASNs: do this and that (for example sett ttl =
1 month) if event is in ASN xyz. Or "ignore" if event is in ASN xyz. This
should support some kind of more-specific-less-specific inheritance,
similarly to Apache directory settings. The most specific setting wins. The
order could be: country code -> ASN -> netblock -> ip (/32). Open questions:
what's more relevant if both domains and numbers (ASN, IPs, net blocks) exist
in an event?
* block based processing: for example block based team cymru lookups
* parallelisation: We need to revisit this topic
== Important Discussions ==
In case you missed something, here are the headlines of some discussion we
consider interesting / important.
=== Mailing Lists ===
* [Intelmq-dev] Packaging Strategy for Bots with dependencies
* [Intelmq-dev] Discussion on intelmq output / transformation architecture
* [Intelmq-dev] Output format to syslog/splunk (PR#503)
== Communication ==
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[[https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=intelmq]]
Follow on twitter: @intelmqorg
Weekly Conference Call every Tuesday: Dial in via the known conference bridge number. It is
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping|ENUM]] enabled. Ask
Aaron or Dustin for the number if you want to participate.
Folks,
In the current DHO there are 3 fields related to malware hash ('
*malware.hash*', '*malware.hash.md5*' and '*malware.hash.sha1*') but one of
them ('*malware.hash*') is not compliant with the current internal message
structure (technical details can be found on the issue 732
<https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/issues/732#issuecomment-269602721>).
Since it's a bug that needs to be fixed and affects the DHO, I would like
to propose the only three approaches that I see (maybe there are more...)
to solve this issue and would like to have your feedback to achieve an
agreement.
*Approaches**:*
1. Rename the key 'malware.hash' to something like 'malware.hash.other' for
situations where we see a feed providing a different type of hash
2. Remove the key 'malware.hash' and keep with the other two ones
3. Remove the keys 'malware.hash.md5' and 'malware.hash.sha1' and only use
the key 'malware.hash' for all types of hash. With this approach, if the
feed provides a md5 and sha1 hashes in the same event, we will not be able
to store both.
The chosen approach is the first one. If you have chance, please take some
minutes to give your feedback in order to understand if everyone is
comfortable with that.
Thank you in advance.
Cheers!
--
Tomás Lima* , * »-«* SYNchroACK *»-«
Hello,
do we have vector sources for logo and letter head?
In particular for
https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/blob/master/docs/images/Logo_Intel_MQ.…
I am thinking about an admin interface for email tickets and contacts
(see https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/issues/708 (Basic technology:
serving web applications) and it would be useful to have a vector logo
version/source to create variations.
It seems to have come from cert.pt originally in 2014?
Best,
Bernhard
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