intel: Add indicator_inserted and indicator_removed hooks

This change adds two new hooks to the Intel framework that can be used
to intercept added and removed indicators and their type.

These hooks are fairly low-level. One immediate use-case is to count the
number of indicators loaded per Intel::Type and enable and disable the
corresponding event groups of the intel/seen scripts.

I attempted to gauge the overhead and while it's definitely there, loading
a file with ~500k DOMAIN entries takes somewhere around ~0.5 seconds hooks
when populated via the min_data_store store mechanism. While that
doesn't sound great, it actually takes the manager on my system 2.5
seconds to serialize and Cluster::publish() the min_data_store alone
and its doing that serially for every active worker. Mostly to say that
the bigger overhead in that area on the manager doing redundant work
per worker.

Co-authored-by: Mohan Dhawan <mohan@corelight.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3366d81e98ef381d843f6d76628834fdcd622e25)
This commit is contained in:
Arne Welzel 2025-05-14 12:49:27 +02:00
parent a444a9cc4a
commit 0e191b25fe
18 changed files with 601 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -96,10 +96,30 @@ event Intel::insert_indicator(item: Intel::Item) &priority=5
Intel::_insert(item, F);
}
function invoke_indicator_hook(store: MinDataStore, h: hook(v: string, t: Intel::Type))
{
for ( a in store$host_data )
hook h(cat(a), Intel::ADDR);
for ( sn in store$subnet_data)
hook h(cat(sn), Intel::SUBNET);
for ( [indicator_value, indicator_type] in store$string_data )
hook h(indicator_value, indicator_type);
}
# Handling of a complete MinDataStore snapshot
#
# Invoke the removed and inserted hooks using the old and new min data store
# instances, respectively. The way this event is used, the original
# min_data_store should essentially be empty.
event new_min_data_store(store: MinDataStore)
{
invoke_indicator_hook(min_data_store, Intel::indicator_removed);
min_data_store = store;
invoke_indicator_hook(min_data_store, Intel::indicator_inserted);
}
@endif