The document discusses big data visualization for security, outlining a comprehensive agenda that covers data sources, processing techniques, and various tools such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. It emphasizes the importance of context in visualization, showcases the capabilities of the ELK stack for managing and visualizing security logs, and highlights the Moloch system for packet capturing. Additionally, it addresses data visualization principles and tools necessary for effectively analyzing and presenting security-related data.

1. Big Data Visualization for Security
UE14 - Romania
September 2014
Raffael Marty, CEO

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I am Raffy - I do Viz!
IBM Research

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Agenda
Introduction
Data Sources
DAVIX
Log Data Processing
• Big Data Ecosystem
• Security Big Data Tools
• Managing Security Data
• Visualizing Big Data

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http://www.bigdatalandscape.com/

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Big Data - The Three V’s
Velocity
Volume
Variety

6. The Big Data
Ecosystem
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Hadoop Ecosystem
Mahout
machine learning
Hive
data warehouse
HiveQL query lang
Pig
programming language
(pig latin)
HBase
big data store
rndm read and write
auto sharding
Map Reduce
Impala
interactive
SQL queries
distributed file system
data redundancy
fault-tolerance
HDFS
random, real-time read/write access
append only
namenode / datanode architecture
Zookeeper
centralized “brain”
Sentry
Storm

8. Berkeley Data Analysis Stack (BDAS)
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https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/software/
SparkSQL

9. http://elasticsearch.org
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Elastic Search
• Schema free & document oriented
• Simple HTTP interface
• indexes JSON documents
• Queries, aggregations, highlighting, etc.
• Distributed - super easy to add nodes
• Real-time indexing
• Based on Lucene
• Replication
• Partitioning / sharding
• how an index is assigned to nodes
• Snapshots
Up and running in 10 minutes!!

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Elastic Search - Admin Interface

11. Big Data
Security Tools
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ELK Stack
• Elastic Search
• LogStash
• Kibana

13. LogStash http://logstash.net/
input filter output
http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/logstash
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14. logstash http://logstash.net/
input
files
syslog
email
tcp socket
Flume
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AMQP
STOMP
Beanstalk
redis
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twitter
HTTP
filter
timestamp parsing
anonymize
drop events
parse fields (grok)
multiline joins
output
ElasticSearch
Graylog2/GELF
MongoDB
Nagios
TCP
syslog
WebSockets
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AMQP
STOMP
beanstalk
redis
messaging
formats
avro
msgpack
thrift
xml
protobuf
csv

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Storing and Indexing Logs
Raw log:
Aug 2 13:29:58 pixl-ram sshd[1631]: Accepted publickey for ram from 192.168.30.1 port 49864 ssh2
Non parsed:
{“text“: “Aug 2 13:29:58 pixl-ram sshd[1631]: Accepted publickey for ram from 192.168.30.1 port 49864 ssh2”}
Parsed (through grok in LogStash):
{“text“: “Aug 2 13:29:58 pixl-ram sshd[1631]: Accepted publickey for ram from 192.168.30.1 port 49864 ssh2”,
“time”: “Aug 2 13:29:58”, “host”: “pixl-ram”, ”process”: “sshd”, “pid”: 1631}
-> structured search: time > “Aug 1 2014”

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Grok
• Instead of re-writing regexes
• Ships with about 100 patterns
• Patterns you don't have to write yourself
• It is easy to add new patterns
HOSTNAME b(?:[0-9A-Za-z].......!
IP (?<![0-9])(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]…!
IPORHOST (?:%{HOSTNAME}|%{IP})!

17. • Automatic schema inference
• Assigns analyzers (prefix indexing, etc.)
• Field properties:
• “store” [field and document level]
• “index”:
• “analyzed”: tokenized, analyzed
• “not_analyzed”: indexed as is
• “no”: no indexing
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ElasticSearch on Grokked Data

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Grok Patterns
Pattern database located in:
/opt/logstash/patterns
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Debug Grok rules:
http://grokdebug.herokuapp.com/

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LogStash UI - Kibana

20. • Block POST / PUT / DELETE to ES instance
• Older versions:
script.disable_dynamic: true!
! action.destructive_requires_name: true!
• Use aliases to allow only certain users access to certain indexes
• Use iptables to block ports (9200, 9300, …)
• Performance tuning:
• https://www.loggly.com/blog/nine-tips-configuring-elasticsearch-for-high-performance/
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Running ElasticSearch

21. Running LogStash
For debugging:
logstash -e ‘input { … } … output { … }’ !
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Other Command line parameters:
-w <number of cores>!
--debug!
!
!
input {
stdin {
type => "stdin-type"
}
!
file {
type => "syslog-ng"
path => [ "/var/log/*.log", “/var/log/messages" ]
}
}
!
output {
stdout { }
elasticsearch{
embedded => false
host => "192.168.0.23"
cluster => "logstash-cluster"
node_name => “logstash"
protocol => “node”
}
}
Act as an ES node,
not as an unknown client

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Running Kibana
Authentication not built in
Use nginx as a proxy
For example:
https://github.com/elasticsearch/kibana/blob/master/sample/nginx.conf

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Moloch
Open source, large scale IPv4
packet capturing, indexing and
database system powered by elastic
search.
Web interface for PCAP browsing,
searching, reporting, and exporting
PCAPs
https://github.com/aol/moloch

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Moloch – Components
• Capture
• Sniffs the network interface,
• Parses the traffic and creates the Session Profile Information (aka SPI-Data)
• Writes the packets to disk
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• Database
• Elasticsearch is used for storing and searching through the SPI-Data
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• Viewer
• A web interface that allows for GUI and API access from remote hosts

25. Moloch – Capture – SPI-Data Types
• Moloch parses various protocols to create SPI-Data:
• IP
• HTTP
• DNS
• IP Address
• Hostname
• IRC
• Channel Names
• SSH
• Client Name
• Public Key
• SSL/TLS
• Certificate elements of various types (common names, serial, etc)
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• This is not an all inclusive list

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Moloch - Couple Additions
• Web API’s
• Access meta information
• Grab PCAPs
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• Indexing PCAP files:
! ${moloch_dir}/bin/moloch-capture -c [config_file] -r [pcap_file]

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PacketPig
• Analyze PCAP files using Apache Pig
• Number of scripts made available
• e.g., running SNORT on the PCAPs
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https://github.com/bigsnarfdude/packetpig
pig -x local !
-f pig/examples/binning.pig !
-param pcap=data/web.pcap

28. Security Onion
•Bro IDS, your choice of Snort or Suricata, Sguil
analyst console, ELSA, Squert, Snorby and capME
web interfaces
•All setup to work with each other out of the box
http://securityonion.blogspot.com/
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29. Storing
Security Data
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30. PCAP in HDFS or HBase
Row or columnar, fixed schema?
Unstructured in ElasticSearch, enrich on ingestion?
ES or relational
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Data Type and Use
• What data do you have?
• PCAP
• Flows
• Context, (e.g., threat feeds)
• “Text” logs
• What’s your use-case?
• Search
• Analytics
• Forensics on PCAP
Index -> Elastic Search
Columnar, SQL enabled
Moloch? Or extract meta data and store PCAP in HDFS/HBase

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OpenSOC

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Visualization

33. Visualization To …
Present / Communicate Discover / Explore
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Show Context
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Show Context
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is just a number
and means nothing without context

37. Use Numbers To Highlight Most Important Parts of Data
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Numbers
Summaries

38. Visualization Creates Context
Visualization Puts Numbers
(Data) in Context!
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39. Principals of Analytic Design
• Show comparisons, contrasts,
differences
• Show causality, mechanism,
explanation, systematic structure.
• Show multivariate data; that is,
show more than 1 or 2 variables.
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!
by Edward Tufte

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Add Context
Additional information about
objects, such as:
• machine
• roles
• criticality
• location
• owner
• …
• user
• roles
• office location
• …
source destination
machine and
user context
machine role

41. Traffic Flow Analysis With Context
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Visualize Me Lots (>1TB) of Data
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! SecViz is Hard!

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Data Visualization Workflow
Overview Zoom / Filter Details on Demand
Principle by Ben Shneiderman

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Backend Support
This visualization process requires:
• Low latency, scalable backend (columnar, distributed data store)
• Efficient client-server communications and caching
• Assistance of data mining to
• Reduce overall data to look at
• Highlight relationships, patterns, and outliers
• Assist analyst in focussing on ‘important’ areas

45. Visualization
Tools
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Mondrian
• Graphs:
• Histogram
• Box plots
• Scatterplot
• Mosaicplots
• Parallel Coordinates
• Boxplots
• ...
• Linking, brushing, …
• Reads CSV files
http://www.theusrus.de/Mondrian/

47. TM3 Input files:
Source Port Destination Action
STRING INTEGER STRING STRING
10.0.0.2 80 23.2.1.2 failed
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Treemap 4.1
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap

48. Gephi http://gephi.org
•Gephi UI
• interactive link graphs
• multiple layout algorithms
• reads: CSV, DOT, GDF, etc.
• graph metrics
•Gephi Toolkit
• APIs
• Gephi Plugins
• Gephi ‘Platform’
• adding JavaFX components
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Visually Finding Insight in Gephi
1. Loading Data

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Visually Finding Insight in Gephi
2. Run Layout Algorithm (Force Atlas 2)

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Visually Finding Insight in Gephi
3. Use Degree as color and size of nodes

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Visually Finding Insight in Gephi
6. Use Preview and export Graph

53. AfterGlow - Creating DOT/GDF Files From CSV
Parser Grapher
CSV File Graph
LanguageFile
digraph structs {
graph [label="AfterGlow 1.5.8", fontsize=8];
node [shape=ellipse, style=filled,
fontsize=10, width=1, height=1,
fixedsize=true];
edge [len=1.6];
!
"aaelenes" -> "Printing Resume" ;
"abbe" -> "Information Encryption" ;
"aanna" -> "Patent Access" ;
"aatharuv" -> "Ping" ;
}
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aaelenes,Printing Resume
abbe,Information Encrytion
aanna,Patent Access
aatharuy,Ping
cat file | ./afterglow –c simple.properties –t | neato –Tgif –o test.gif

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Processing Pipeline
1. Get data into ElasticSearch
Parse data first, then store in ES
2. Get data out of ES (query)
Get into data format for visualization tool (e.g., CSV)
3. Visualize in the visualization tool
Potentially translate CSV into other format (e.g., DOT, GDF)
Process the data (aggregation, enhancement, etc)

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LogStash Setup - Exercise
1. Check out /home/davix/ue14
logstash-syslog.conf [read, understand!]
2. Run logstash and index data:
! sudo /opt/logstash/bin/logstash -f logstash-syslog.conf!
! head -10 firewall | nc localhost 5000!! # send data
3. Check what’s in LogStash:
sudo /etc/init.d/logstash-web start!
! open http://localhost:9292 !# kibana
4. Use script to extract data
read_es.py [check out the script]
update the script to output a (src_ip, dst_ip, dst_port) tuple
5. Convert the CSV output to a GDF file to then load into Gephi
OR create a TM3 file for the treemap tool
curl 'http://localhost:9200/_all/_search?q=ACCEPTED'
curl ‘http://localhost:9200/twitter/_search?q=user:kimchy'

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BlackHat Europe - Workshop
VISUAL ANALYTICS DELIVERING ACTIONABLE SECURITY INTELLIGENCE
October 14, 15 - Amsterdam

58. Security Visualization Community
Share, discuss, challenge, and learn about security
visualization.
•http://secviz.org
•List: secviz.org/mailinglist
•Twitter: @secviz
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