#!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # # Copyright 2013 The Plaso Project Authors. # Please see the AUTHORS file for details on individual authors. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. """This file contains basic interface for analysis plugins.""" import abc from plaso.engine import queue from plaso.lib import registry from plaso.lib import timelib class AnalysisPlugin(queue.EventObjectQueueConsumer): """Analysis plugin gets a copy of each read event for analysis.""" __metaclass__ = registry.MetaclassRegistry __abstract = True # The URLS should contain a list of URLs with additional information about # this analysis plugin. URLS = [] # The name of the plugin. This is the name that is matched against when # loading plugins, so it is important that this name is short, concise and # explains the nature of the plugin easily. It also needs to be unique. NAME = 'Plugin' # A flag indicating whether or not this plugin should be run during extraction # phase or reserved entirely for post processing stage. # Typically this would mean that the plugin is perhaps too computationally # heavy to be run during event extraction and should rather be run during # post-processing. # Since most plugins should perhaps rather be run during post-processing # this is set to False by default and needs to be overwritten if the plugin # should be able to run during the extraction phase. ENABLE_IN_EXTRACTION = False # All the possible report types. TYPE_ANOMALY = 1 # Plugin that is inspecting events for anomalies. TYPE_STATISTICS = 2 # Statistical calculations. TYPE_ANNOTATION = 3 # Inspecting events with the primary purpose of # annotating or tagging them. TYPE_REPORT = 4 # Inspecting events to provide a summary information. # Optional arguments to be added to the argument parser. # An example would be: # ARGUMENTS = [('--myparameter', { # 'action': 'store', # 'help': 'This is my parameter help', # 'dest': 'myparameter', # 'default': '', # 'type': 'unicode'})] # # Where all arguments into the dict object have a direct translation # into the argparse parser. ARGUMENTS = [] # We need to implement the interface for analysis plugins, but we don't use # command line options here, so disable checking for unused args. # pylint: disable=unused-argument def __init__(self, incoming_queue, options=None): """Initializes an analysis plugin. Args: incoming_queue: A queue that is used to listen to incoming events. options: Optional command line arguments (instance of argparse.Namespace). The default is None. """ super(AnalysisPlugin, self).__init__(incoming_queue) self.plugin_type = self.TYPE_REPORT # pylint: enable=unused-argument def _ConsumeEventObject(self, event_object, analysis_context=None, **kwargs): """Consumes an event object callback for ConsumeEventObjects. Args: event_object: An event object (instance of EventObject). analysis_context: Optional analysis context object (instance of AnalysisContext). The default is None. """ self.ExamineEvent(analysis_context, event_object, **kwargs) @property def plugin_name(self): """Return the name of the plugin.""" return self.NAME @abc.abstractmethod def CompileReport(self): """Compiles a report of the analysis. After the plugin has received every copy of an event to analyze this function will be called so that the report can be assembled. Returns: The analysis report (instance of AnalysisReport). """ @abc.abstractmethod def ExamineEvent(self, analysis_context, event_object, **kwargs): """Analyzes an event object. Args: analysis_context: An analysis context object (instance of AnalysisContext). event_object: An event object (instance of EventObject). """ def RunPlugin(self, analysis_context): """For each item in the queue send the read event to analysis. Args: analysis_context: An analysis context object (instance of AnalysisContext). """ self.ConsumeEventObjects(analysis_context=analysis_context) analysis_report = self.CompileReport() if analysis_report: # TODO: move this into the plugins? analysis_report.time_compiled = timelib.Timestamp.GetNow() analysis_context.ProduceAnalysisReport( analysis_report, plugin_name=self.plugin_name)