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titleCloud collector

We use a piece of software called Collector Server to host and manage all our available collectors. If you want us to host this collector for you, get in touch with us and we will guide you through the configuration.

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titleOn-premise collector

This data collector can be run in any machine that has the Docker service available because it should be executed as a docker container. The following sections explain how to prepare all the required setup for having the data collector running.

Structure

The following directory structure should be created for being used when running the IntSights collector:

Code Block
<any_directory>
└── devo-collectors/
    └── devo-collector-intsights/
          ├── certs/
          │ ├── chain.crt
          │ ├── <your_domain>.key
          │ └── <your_domain>.crt
          └── config/
              └── config-intsight.yaml

Devo credentials

In Devo, go to Administration → Credentials → X.509 Certificates, download the Certificate, Private key and Chain CA and save them in devo-collector-intsights/certs/. Learn more about security credentials in Devo here.

Editing the config.yaml file

Code Block
globals:
  debug: <debug_value>
  id: not_used
  name: <name_collector>
  persistence:
    type: filesystem
    config:
      directory_name: state

outputs:
  devo_1:
    type: devo_platform
    config:
      address: <devo_address>
      port: 443
      type: SSL
      chain: <chain_filename.crt>
      cert: <cert_filename.crt>
      key: <key_filename.key>

inputs:
  intsights:
    id: <input_id>
    enabled: <input_status>
    credentials:
      client_id: <client_id>
      api_key: <key_id>
    base_url: <base_url>
    services:
      iocs_list_ips:
        request_period_in_seconds: <request_period_in_seconds_ips> # Optional
        days_to_look_back: <days_to_look_back_ips>
      iocs_list_domains:
        request_period_in_seconds: <request_period_in_seconds_domains> # Optional
        days_to_look_back: <days_to_look_back_domains>
      iocs_list_hashes:
        request_period_in_seconds: <request_period_in_seconds_hashes> # Optional
        days_to_look_back: <days_to_look_back_hashes>
      iocs_list_urls:
        request_period_in_seconds: <request_period_in_seconds_urls> # Optional
        days_to_look_back: <days_to_look_back_urls>
      iocs_list_emails:
        request_period_in_seconds: <request_period_in_seconds_emails> # Optional
        days_to_look_back: <days_to_look_back_emails>

Replace the placeholders with your corresponding values:

Parameter

Data type

Type

Value range

Details

id_collector

int

Mandatory

Minimum length: 1
Maximum length: 5

Use this param to give a unique ID to this collector (not used)

name_collector

str

Mandatory

Minimum length: 1
Maximum length: 10

Use this param to give a valid name to this collector.

debug_value

bool

Mandatory

false / true

Use this param to enable or disable the debug logging level.

devo_address

str

Mandatory

Use this param to identify the Devo Cloud where the events will be sent.

chain_filename

str

Mandatory

Minimum length: 4
Maximum length: 20

Use this param to identify the chain.cert  file downloaded from your Devo domain. Usually this file's name is: chain.crt

cert_filename

str

Mandatory

Minimum length: 4
Maximum length: 20

Use this param to identify the file.cert downloaded from your Devo domain.

key_filename

str

Mandatory

Minimum length: 4
Maximum length: 20

Use this param to identify the file.key downloaded from your Devo domain.

input_id

int

Mandatory

Minimum length: 1
Maximum length: 5

Use this param to give an unique id to this input service, (for instance 147 or 456)

input_status

bool

Mandatory

false / true

If the value is true, the input definition will be executed. If the value is false, the service will be ignored.

client_id

str

Mandatory

Minimum length: 1

This is the client_id given by Rapid7 IntSights

api_key

str

Mandatory

Minimum length: 1

This is the api_key given by Rapid7 IntSights

base_url

str

Mandatory

Regex: ^(https?:\/\/)?([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.])([\/\w \.-]*)*([a-z])$

The URL of endpoint for IntSights API access. This value is given by Rapid7 console.

A common value for base_url is usually https://api.intsights.com

request_period_in_seconds

int

Mandatory

Minimum value: 1800

Period in seconds used between each IoC pulling related data source.

Use the following periods as reference:

  • Run every 30 min → 1800 sec

  • Run every 1 hour → 3600 sec

  • Run every 6 hours → 21600 sec

  • Run every 12 hours → 43200 sec

  • Run every 24 hours → 86400 sec

The IoC list changes very slowly, so it does not make sense to request it very frequently, in many installations it is enough to request it a few times a day. As the list is long, in any case a small request period (less than some minutes) is not advised.

days_to_look_back

int

Mandatory

Minimum value: 1
Maximum value: 5

The collector asks the API for all the IoCs from present moment to some days back, minimum in the last day (1 day back).

Usual values for services:

  • emails → 5

  • urls → 5

  • hashes → 5

  • domains → 5

  • ips → 2

Download the Docker image

The collector should be deployed as a Docker container. Download the Docker image of the collector as a .tgz file by clicking the link in the following table:

Collector Docker image

SHA-256 hash

collector-rapid7_intsights_ioc_collector_if-docker-image-2.2.0

1c96a75b0ed6b2002241c4fb68bc211d95e050f03c59c6e2ca47e37d19968f51

Use the following command to add the Docker image to the system:

Code Block
gunzip -c collector-rapid7-intsights-docker-image-<version>.tgz | docker load
Info

Once the Docker image is imported, it will show the real name of the Docker image (including version info). Replace "<version>" with a proper value.

The Docker image can be deployed on the following services:

Docker

Execute the following command on the root directory <any_directory>/devo-collectors/devo-collector-intsights/

Code Block
docker run \
--name collector-rapid7-intsights\
--volume $PWD/certs:/devo-collector/certs \
--volume $PWD/config:/devo-collector/config \
--volume $PWD/state:/devo-collector/state \
--env CONFIG_FILE=config.yaml \
--rm -it docker.devo.internal/collectors/rapid7-intsights:<version>
Note

Replace <version> with the required value.

Docker Compose

The following Docker Compose file can be used to execute the Docker container. It must be created in the <any_directory>/devo-collectors/devo-collector-intsights/ directory.

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version: '3'
services:
  intsights:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    image: docker.devo.internal/collectors/rapid7-intsights:${IMAGE_VERSION:-latest}
    container_name: collector-rapid7-intsights
    volumes:
      - ./certs:/devo-collector/certs
      - ./config:/devo-collector/config
      - ./state:/devo-collector/state
    environment:
      - CONFIG_FILE=${CONFIG_FILE:-config.yaml}

To run the container using docker-compose, execute the following command from the <any_directory>/devo-collectors/devo-collector-intsights/ directory:

Code Block
IMAGE_VERSION=<version> docker-compose up -d
Note

Replace <version> with the required value.

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titleCloud collector
We use a piece of software called Collector Server to host and manage all our available collectors. If you want us to host this collector for you, get in touch with us and we will guide you through the configuration

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Change log

Release

Released on

Release type

Details

Recommendations

v2.2.0

Status
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titleIMPROVEMENTS

Improvements:

  • Added status field to lookups

  • Parameter request_period_in_seconds made optional in config, default to 21600

Recommended Version

v2.1.0

Status
colourRed
titleBUG FIXING
Status
colourYellow
titleIMPROVEMENTS

Improvements

  • Upgraded DCSDK from 1.8.0 to 1.9.2

    • Upgrade internal dependencies

    • Store lookup instances into DevoSender to avoid creation of new instances for the same lookup

    • Ensure service_config is a dict into templates

    • Ensure special characters are properly sent to the platform

    • Changed log level to some messages from info to debug

    • Changed some wrong log messages

    • Upgraded some internal dependencies

    • Changed queue passed to setup instance constructor

Bug Fixing

  • Fixed format for input JSON data in case that they are a dict or list

Recommended Version

v2.0.0

Status
colourRed
titleBUG FIXING
Status
colourYellow
titleIMPROVEMENTS

Improvements

  • Upgraded DCSDK from 1.1.4 to 1.8.0

    • Added log traces for knowing the execution environment status (debug mode)

    • Fixes in the current puller template version

    • Improved log trace details when runtime exceptions happen

    • Refactored source code structure

    • New "templates" functionality

    • Functionality for detecting some system signals for starting the controlled stopping

    • Input objects sends again the internal messages to devo.collectors.out table

    • Upgraded DevoSDK to version 3.6.4 to fix a bug related to a connection loss with Devo

    • Refactored source code structure

    • Changed way of executing the controlled stopping

    • Minimized probabilities of suffering a DevoSDK bug related to "sender" to be null

    • Ability to validate collector setup and exit without pulling any data

    • Ability to store in the persistence the messages that couldn't be sent after the collector stopped

    • Ability to send messages from the persistence when the collector starts and before the puller begins working

    • Ensure special characters are properly sent to the platform

    • Added a lock to enhance sender object

    • Added new class attrs to the __setstate__ and __getstate__ queue methods

    • Fix sending attribute value to the __setstate__ and __getstate__ queue methods

    • Added log traces when queues are full and have to wait

    • Added log traces of queues time waiting every minute in debug mode

    • Added method to calculate queue size in bytes

    • Block incoming events in queues when there are no space left

    • Send telemetry events to Devo platform

    • Upgraded internal Python dependency Redis to v4.5.4

    • Upgraded internal Python dependency DevoSDK to v5.1.3

    • Fixed obfuscation not working when messages are sent from templates

    • New method to figure out if a puller thread is stopping

    • Upgraded internal Python dependency DevoSDK to v5.0.6

    • Improved logging on messages/bytes sent to Devo platform

    • Fixed wrong bytes size calculation for queues

    • New functionality to count bytes sent to Devo Platform (shown in console log)

    • Upgraded internal Python dependency DevoSDK to v5.0.4

    • Fixed bug in persistence management process, related to persistence reset

    • Aligned source code typing to be aligned with Python 3.9.x

    • Inject environment property from user config

    • Obfuscation service can be now configured from user config and module definiton

    • Obfuscation service can now obfuscate items inside arrays

Bug Fixing

  • Endpoints have been changed from v2 to v3. v2 endpoints are no longer available in the API, therefore this collector can no longer be downgraded.

Recommended version


Highly recommended to update, the API no longer supports the endpoints used in previous versions.