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zeek-mercury-npf — Zeek plugin generating Mercury NPF fingerprints for TCP, TLS/DTLS, QUIC, HTTP, SSH, OpenVPN, and STUN to support network security monitoring. | Kitploit
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zeek-mercury-npf

Zeek plugin generating Mercury NPF fingerprints for TCP, TLS/DTLS, QUIC, HTTP, SSH, OpenVPN, and STUN to support network security monitoring.

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Mercury NPF for Zeek

This Zeek plugin implements the Network Protocol Fingerprinting (NPF) format as specified in the Mercury project.

Overview

The plugin inspects the following protocols and generates the NPF for them:

  • TCP
  • TLS and DTLS
  • QUIC
  • HTTP
  • SSH
  • OpenVPN (requires installation of https://github.com/corelight/zeek-spicy-openvpn)
  • STUN (requires installation of https://github.com/corelight/zeek-spicy-stun)

Installation

This plugin is distributed as a Zeek package.

To install the current version using the Zeek package manager zkg, just use

root@kitploit:~
zkg install corelight/zeek-mercury-npf

If you want to install it from the current repo, use

root@kitploit:~
zkg install .

Configuration

The plugin provides configuration options to control the version of the fingerprints generated for some protocols.

QUIC

You can choose between two QUIC fingerprint versions:

  • Mercury::QUIC::MERCURY_QUIC (default)
  • Mercury::QUIC::MERCURY_QUIC_1

To change the version, add the following to your local.zeek:

root@kitploit:~
redef Mercury::QUIC::fingerprint_version = Mercury::QUIC::MERCURY_QUIC_1

TLS/DTLS

You can choose between three TLS/DTLS fingerprint versions:

  • Mercury::TLS::MERCURY_TLS (default)
  • Mercury::TLS::MERCURY_TLS_1
  • Mercury::TLS::MERCURY_TLS_2

To change the version, add the following to your local.zeek:

root@kitploit:~
redef Mercury::TLS::fingerprint_version = Mercury::TLS::MERCURY_TLS_2;
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