I have a test suite that generates every system call analyzed by our
package. The suite runs several programs that do a variety of things,
including opening files. I traced the set of programs, and retrieved
the records using
ausearch -r -p P > P.txt
where P is the process ID of each traced program.
When I attempt to analyze the logs, my program blows up because it
assumes that every syscall audit event for the open syscall will
include a PATH record. I made a quick edit of the analysis program,
and discovered that 24 open syscall records have no PATH record, and
sometimes the CWD record is missing too.
$ python auditopen.py -i ../autsv/*.txt
Of 421 events with a SYSCALL record with syscall=open
401 have CWD
397 have PATH
0 have CWD but no PATH
$
Is it appropriate for audit analysis programs to assume a PATH record
will be available with every open syscall event? I cannot see how to
do my analysis without the PATH record.
#! /usr/bin/python -E
"""Analyzes audit output.
Some more documentation should go here.
Package: @PACKAGE@
Version: @VERSION@
"""
# Authors: John D. Ramsdell
#
# Copyright (C) 2007 The MITRE Corporation
# see file 'COPYING' for use and warranty information
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
# published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 only
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
import sys, getopt, auparse, os.path, copy, string
# Log Parsing
class AuditLog(object):
"""AuditLog(AuParser or file, bool)
Encapsulates a log accessed by the auparse module. It provides an
iterator to the log's events. Each call to the next method of
the iterator returns an AuditEvent. The boolean determines if
numeric entities in fields are interpreted.
"""
def __init__(self, au, interpret = False):
if isinstance(au, file):
self.au = auparse.AuParser(auparse.AUSOURCE_FILE_POINTER, au)
else:
self.au = au
self.interpret = interpret
def __iter__(self):
return AuditLogIter(self)
class AuditLogIter(object):
"""AuditLogIter(AuditLog)
An iterator for an audit log.
"""
def __init__(self, aulog):
self.au = aulog.au
self.interpret = aulog.interpret
def next(self):
"""Returns an AuditEvent
"""
au = self.au
interpret = self.interpret
if not au.parse_next_event():
raise StopIteration()
event = AuditEvent(au.get_timestamp())
for i in range(au.get_num_records()):
record = AuditRecord(event)
for j in range(au.get_num_fields()):
name = au.get_field_name()
if interpret:
value = au.interpret_field()
else:
value = au.get_field_str()
record[name] = value
au.next_field()
event.append(record)
au.next_record()
return event
class AuditEvent(list):
"""AuditEvent(AuEvent)
An audit event is represented as a list of AuditRecord's. Each
AuditRecord is a dictionary that represents one of the records
that make up the event.
"""
def __init__(self, timestamp):
self.timestamp = timestamp
def get_timestamp(self):
"""Get the timestamp associated with this event."""
return self.timestamp
def find_record_of_type(self, typ):
"""Find record of type
Returns a record in the event that has the given type.
Returns None when there is no such record.
"""
for record in self:
try:
if record["type"] == typ:
return record
except KeyError:
pass
return None
def find_value(self, name):
"""Find a value
Returns a value associated with the given name in some record
in the event. Raises KeyError if no field has the given name.
"""
for record in self:
try:
return record[name]
except KeyError:
pass
raise KeyError
def find_path_record(self, item):
"""Find a PATH record for the given item.
Returns the PATH record for the given item. Return None if
PATH record cannot be found.
"""
item = str(item) # Ensure item is a string
for record in self:
if record.is_path_record(item):
return record
return None
class AuditRecord(dict):
"""AuditRecord(AuditEvent)
An audit record is a dictionary.
"""
def __init__(self, event):
self.event = event
def get_event(self):
"""Get the event associated with this record."""
return self.event
def is_path_record(self, item):
"""Is this a PATH record for the given item?"""
try:
return self["type"] == "PATH" and self["item"] == item
except KeyError:
return False
def args2aulog():
"""Make an AuditLog from command line arguments
Create an audit log object based on the command line arguments
passsed to this program.
Returns an AuditLog.
"""
interpret = False # Event reading mode
output_file = None # Output file name for results
try:
long_opts = ["help", "interpret", "raw", "output="]
opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "hiro:", long_opts)
except getopt.GetoptError:
# Bad options
usage()
sys.exit(2)
for o, a in opts:
if o in ("-h", "--help"):
# Print help information
usage()
sys.exit(0)
elif o in ("-i", "--interpret"):
interpret = True
elif o in ("-r", "--raw"):
interpret = False
elif o in ("-o", "--output"):
# Record output file name
output_file = a
# Determine input source
if len(args) > 0:
au = auparse.AuParser(auparse.AUSOURCE_FILE_ARRAY, args)
sys.stdin.close()
else:
au = sys.stdin
# Open output file as standard output
if output_file:
sys.stdout.close()
try:
sys.stdout = file(output_file, 'w')
except IOError:
sys.stderr.write("cannot open %s for writing" % output_file)
sys.exit(1)
return AuditLog(au, interpret)
def usage():
"""Show usage
Print a ussage message that includes version information.
"""
help = """Version: %s %s
Usage: %s [OPTIONS] [FILE...]
-o FILE, --output=FILE output to FILE (default is standard output)
-i, --interpret interpret numeric entities into text
-r --raw do not interpret numeric entities (default)
-h, --help print this message and exit
With no FILEs, read from the standard input.
"""
sys.stderr.write(help % ("@PACKAGE@", "@VERSION@", sys.argv[0]))
# Consume a log
def run(log):
"""The main loop for consuming a log."""
openno = 0
cwdno = 0
pathno = 0
cwdnopathno = 0
for event in log:
record = event.find_record_of_type("SYSCALL")
if record:
syscall = record["syscall"]
if syscall == "open":
openno = openno + 1
has_cwd = event.find_record_of_type("CWD")
has_path = event.find_record_of_type("PATH")
if has_cwd:
cwdno = cwdno + 1
if has_path:
pathno = pathno + 1
if has_path and not has_cwd:
cwdnopathno = cwdnopathno + 1
print "Of %d events with a SYSCALL record with syscall=open" % openno
print "%d have CWD" % cwdno
print "%d have PATH" % pathno
print "%d have CWD but no PATH" % cwdnopathno
def main():
"""Main routine
Perform command line processing and then conume the log.
"""
run(args2aulog())
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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