These functions are now deprecated in favor of alternative versions that
return a vector of strings rather than a table of strings.
Deprecated functions:
- split: use split_string instead.
- split1: use split_string1 instead.
- split_all: use split_string_all instead.
- split_n: use split_string_n instead.
- cat_string_array: see join_string_vec instead.
- cat_string_array_n: see join_string_vec instead.
- join_string_array: see join_string_vec instead.
- sort_string_array: use sort instead instead.
- find_ip_addresses: use extract_ip_addresses instead.
Changed functions:
- has_valid_octets: uses a string_vec parameter instead of string_array.
Addresses BIT-924, BIT-757.
The MHR script involves a "when" statement which can be expensive due to
the way it clones frames/vals. In this case, the fa_file record is
expensive to clone, but this change works around that by unrolling only
the necessary fields from it that are needed to populate a Notice::Info
record. A drawback to this is that the full fa_file or connection
records aren't available in the Notice::Info record when evaluating
Notice::policy hooks for MHR hit notices (though they can possibly be
recovered by using e.g. the lookup_connection() builtin_function).
- Improve or just remove some file magic signatures ported from libmagic
that were too general and matched incorrectly too often.
- Fix MHR script's use of fa_file$mime_type before checking if it's
initialized. It may be uninitialized if no signatures match.
- The "fa_file" record now contains a "mime_types" field that contains
all magic signatures that matched the file content (where the
"mime_type" field is just a shortcut for the strongest match).
- Include a link to a virustotal search in the notice sub message field.
- Give all information returned from Team Cymru in the notice message.
- Add more file types to match on to the default set.
