Cyber Attack Event Collector

Tool to collect and persist cyber attack events that Norse tracks (http://map.norsecorp.com/) into a locally running MongoDB instance. The purpose of collecting these events is to use them for analysis by downstream tools like Spark and/or R/Python to train a model that classify IP traffic as malicious

Development Instructions

The Cyber Attack Event Collector Tool was built and tested on a Mac OSX 10.10.4 and requires the following dependencies to run:

Java SE 7 (1.7.0_71)
Mongo DB version 3.0.5
Apache Maven 3.3.3

Once you have installed the above dependencies, you can build the tool by running the following:

mvn clean install

This should build the shaded Jar (binary) needed to run the tool under the target/ folder. After which you can run the tool by issuing the following command in the command line:

java -cp target/cyberattack-event-collector.jar events.EventCollector

Build Docker Container

If you want the build and run the Docker container you can issue the following commands:

./build-docker.sh
./stop-docker.sh
./run-docker.sh

Make sure that you have you have the following directory pre-created first on your host:

/opt/mongodb

Run Docker container directly

You can also directly pull and run the docker from the docker hub by issuing:

sudo docker pull cloudronin/cyberattack-event-collector
sudo docker run -d -v /opt/mongodb:/data/db -p 27017:27017 cloudronin/cyberattack-event-collector