jstrosch/subparseModular malware analysis artifact collection and correlation framework
Subparse, is a modular framework developed by Josh Strochein, Aaron Baker, and Odin Bernstein. The framework is designed to parse and index malware files and present the information found during the parsing in a searchable web-viewer. The framework is modular, making use of a core parsing engine, parsing modules, and a variety of enrichers that add additional information to the malware indices. The main input values for the framework are directories of malware files, which the core parsing engine or a user-specified parsing engine parses before adding additional information from any user-specified enrichment engine all before indexing the information parsed into an elasticsearch index. The information gathered can then be searched and viewed via a web-viewer, which also allows for filtering on any value gathered from any file. There is currently 3 parsing engine, the default parsing engines (PEParser, OLEParser and ELFParser), and 2 enrichment engines (ABUSEEnricher and CAPEEnricher ).
To get started using Subparse there are a few requrired/recommened programs that need to be installed and setup before trying to work with our software.
| Software | Status | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Docker | Required | Installation Guide |
| Python3.8.1 | Required | Installation Guide |
| Pyenv | Recommended | Installation Guide |
After getting the required/recommended software installed to your system there are a few other steps that need to be taken to get Subparse installed.
sudo get apt install build-essential pip3 install -r ./requirements.txt
docker-compose up
Note: This might take a little time due to downloading the images and setting up the containers that will be needed by Subparse.
Command line options that are available for subparse/parser/subparse.py:
| Argument | Alternative | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| -h | --help | No | Shows help menu |
| -d SAMPLES_DIR | --directory SAMPLES_DIR | Yes | Directory of samples to parse |
| -e ENRICHER_MODULES | --enrichers ENRICHER_MODULES | No | Enricher modules to use for additional parsing |
| -r | --reset | No | Reset/delete all data in the configured Elasticsearch cluster |
| -v | --verbose | No | Display verbose commandline output |
| -s | --service-mode | No | Enters service mode allowing for mode samples to be added to the SAMPLES_DIR while processing |
To view the results from Subparse's parsers, navigate to localhost:8080. If you are having trouble viewing the site, make sure that you have the container started up in Docker and that there is not another process running on port 8080 that could cause the site to not be available.
Before any parser is executed general information is collected about the sample regardless of the underlying file type. This information includes:
Parsers are ONLY executed on samples that match the file type. For example, PE files will by default have the PEParser executed against them due to the file type corresponding with those the PEParser is able to examine.
These modules are optional modules that will ONLY get executed if specified via the -e | --enrichers flag on the command line.
