PAVO Malware App for Splunk Documentation

Dashboards and reports on Malware events in Splunk.

About PAVO Malware App for Splunk


Author	Aplura, LLC
App Version	1.0.4
App Build	18
Creates an index	False
Implements summarization	No
Summary Indexing	False
Data Model Acceleration	If Enabled
Data Model	Malware
Report Acceleration	False
Splunk Enterprise versions	9.2, 9.1, 9.0, 8.2, 8.1, 8.0
Platforms	Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud

Scripts and binaries

This App provides the following scripts:

Diag.py
For use with the diag command.

Overview

This app provides dashboards and reports based on events from anti-malware systems. To do this, the app relies on the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) for malware detection events. This means that the app can report on any malware/av data, as long as it has been on-boarded properly, and is available through the Malware data model.

A note on Splunk Data Model Acceleration and Disk Space

This app requires data model acceleration, which will use additional disk space. If you are using the Splunk App for Enterprise Security, this is already enabled, and should have been factored into your retention policies. If not, you should review the documentation on data model acceleration, how it uses disk space, and how to plan for it.

A note on the Splunk Common Information Model

As mentioned above, the app uses the CIM for malware events. The CIM allows you to take events from a number of sources or products, and report on them in one cohesive manner, using a common set of names for fields and event types.

Available Dashboards

Malware Overview

Provides a starting point for exploring your malware detection events. Most panels will drill-down to other pages in the application.

Signature Profile

Panels around a particular signature detected. Note that there is no normalization for the values of this field, so this will be dependent on the naming used by the vendor for the individual anti-malware products.

Destination Profile

Panels around a malware detected on a particular destination. The destination field in the Malware data model is the system on which the malware has been detected. This dashboard also contains a panel which shows malware operations (such as signatures being updated).

Category Profile

Panels with reports on category of malware. As with signature names, category names are not normalized across vendors.

File Name Profile

Reports on individual file names.

Malware Search (Advanced)

A form for finding events based on various field values.

Malware Sourcetypes (Advanced)

Information about the sourcetypes which are present in the accelerated data.

About

A simple HTML version of this document.

User Guide

Configure PAVO Malware App for Splunk

Install the App according to your environment

Lookups

PAVO Malware App for Splunk contains the following lookup files.

None

Event Generator

PAVO Malware App for Splunk does not include an event generator.

Acceleration

Summary Indexing: No
Data Model Acceleration: If Enabled
Report Acceleration: No

Known Issues

Version 1.0.4 of

PAVO Malware App for Splunk has the following known issues:

None