Top-100 Malicious IP STIX Feed
Yesterday, we were contacted by one of our readers who asked if we provide a STIX feed of our blocked list or top-100 suspicious IP addresses. STIX[1] means “Structured Threat Information eXpression” and enables organizations to share indicator of compromise (IOC) with peers in a consistent and machine readable manner.
The ISC already provides an API[2] that allows you to query our databases. The following query will return the top-100 bad IP addresses: (output has been beautified)
$ curl https://isc.sans.edu/api/topips/records/100 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <topips> <ipaddress> <rank>1</rank> <source>046.101.124.074</source> <reports>132723</reports> <targets>110</targets> </ipaddress><ipaddress> <rank>2</rank> <source>130.211.015.150</source> <reports>21166</reports> <targets>4474</targets> </ipaddress><ipaddress> ... </ipaddress>
You can select the output format by appending a “?<format>” at the end of the URL. Supported formats are: xml, text, json, php. The different formats make the output easy to integrate into third-party application but our reader’s comment was legit. If they are standards like STIX, why not use them?
Python has a module[3] to handle STIX data. I wrote a quick script to convert the output of the "/topips/records/100" API call into a STIX 1.2 XML format:
<stix:STIX_Package xmlns:stix="http://stix.mitre.org/stix-1" xmlns:AddressObj="http://cybox.mitre.org/objects#AddressObject-2" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:stixVocabs="http://stix.mitre.org/default_vocabularies-1" xmlns:cybox="http://cybox.mitre.org/cybox-2" xmlns:indicator="http://stix.mitre.org/Indicator-2" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:stixCommon="http://stix.mitre.org/common-1" xmlns:example="http://example.com" xmlns:cyboxCommon="http://cybox.mitre.org/common-2" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" id="example:Package-05d930dd-db95-4ef0-928e-6a697a1d54e0" version="1.2"> <stix:STIX_Header/> <stix:Indicators> <stix:Indicator id="example:indicator-c0d228b3-8f67-44f9-add9-7b48936586d4" timestamp="2017-11-17T07:41:00.355151+00:00" xsi:type='indicator:IndicatorType'> <indicator:Title>SANS ISC Malicious IP</indicator:Title> <indicator:Type xsi:type="stixVocabs:IndicatorTypeVocab-1.1">IP Watchlist</indicator:Type> <indicator:Observable id="example:Observable-7e3046bd-ea5e-4998-9520-d3ee84a8a266"> <cybox:Object id="example:Address-9e46b000-bf82-47aa-ab40-84d088174470"> <cybox:Properties xsi:type="AddressObj:AddressObjectType" category="ipv4-addr"> <AddressObj:Address_Value>46.101.124.74</AddressObj:Address_Value> </cybox:Properties> </cybox:Object> </indicator:Observable> </stix:Indicator> </stix:Indicators> </stix:STIX_Package>
The script is available in my GitHub repository[4].
If you want to test, I'm publishing a live feed[5] (updated every 2 hours). Let me know if it's useful to you, if the STIX file is correct (read: I'm not a STIX guru) or if you need some improvements.
[1] https://stixproject.github.io/
[2] https://isc.sans.edu/api/
[3] https://github.com/STIXProject/python-stix
[4] https://github.com/xme/toolbox/blob/master/isc2stix.py
[5] https://misp.truesec.be/isc-top-100-stix.xml
Xavier Mertens (@xme)
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Comments
Thank you for the quick response to my original ask!
Anonymous
Nov 17th 2017
7 years ago
> ip.condition = "Equals"
Otherwise, I would suggest also making this available in the new STIX 2.0 JSON format. You can use the cti-stix-elevator utility to do this, which takes as input a STIX 1.2 XML file: https://github.com/oasis-open/cti-stix-elevator
Regards,
Ivan
Anonymous
Nov 20th 2017
7 years ago
I'll have a look at this and update the feed. I'm not a STIX guru ;-)
Anonymous
Nov 21st 2017
7 years ago
There are two feeds available now:
https://misp.truesec.be/isc-top-100-stix.xml (STIX 1.2)
https://misp.truesec.be/isc-top-100-stix.json (STIX 2.0)
Let me know if it works for you...
Anonymous
Nov 21st 2017
7 years ago
Anonymous
Nov 28th 2017
7 years ago