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How do you normalize time fields, and then use them to compare two different source types?

shiv1593
Communicator

Hi All,

While trying to build a correlation search, I have run into a standpoint, where I need some help. I have two indexes and source types: index1, src1 and index2, src2. Here is how the fields in it look like.

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What I am trying to achieve here is to build a correlation search, which:

  1. Resolves the timestamp difference issue of time_created and detected_timestamp, bring them to a one standard time stamp.
  2. Compare if file_path in src1 is same as in src2, and the timestamp in both is same or max upto 12 hours apart, then give me the data in the following way

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This search will throw a notable event if it produces an output as above.

Any help is highly appreciated,
Thank you

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1 Solution

woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

|makeresults | eval raw="sourcetype=src1,server_name=win7server,logon-user=abc,time_created=12/30/2018T3:47:55AM,file_path=c:\Program_files(x86)\abc sourcetype=src1,server_name=win8server,logon-user=cde,time_created=12/31/2018T4:44:51AM,file_path=c:\Program_files\Google\Chrome sourcetype=src1,server_name=win10server,logon-user=sam,time_created=12/31/2018T8:48:51AM,file_path=c:\Program_files(x86)\Microsoft_Office sourcetype=src2,dest=win7server,user=abc,detected_timestamp=2018-12-30T09:57:32.0,file_name=c:\Program_files(x86)\abc sourcetype=src2,dest=win8server,user=cde,detected_timestamp=2018-12-31T08:55:57.0,file_name=c:\Program_files\Google\Chrome sourcetype=src2,dest=win10server,user=sam,detected_timestamp=2018-12-31T07:07:18.0,file_name=c:\Program_files(x86)\Microsoft_Office sourcetype=src2,dest=win10server,user=karla,detected_timestamp=2018-12-31T07:07:18.0,file_name=c:\Program_files(x86)\Activision sourcetype=src2,dest=windows2012,user=Pam,detected_timestamp=2018-12-31T07:07:18.0,file_name=c:\Program_files(x86)\Tencent sourcetype=src2,dest=windows2016,user=Pat,detected_timestamp=2018-12-31T07:07:18.0,file_name=c:\Program_files(x86)\any"
| makemv raw
| mvexpand raw
| rename raw AS _raw
| kv
| fields - _raw _time
| rex field=time_created mode=sed "s/T/ / s/AM/ AM/"
| rex field=detected_timestamp mode=sed "s/T/ /"

| rename COMMENT AS "Everything above generates sample event data; everything below is your solution"

| eval _time = if((sourcetype="src1"), strptime(time_created, "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p"), strptime(detected_timestamp, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%1n"))
| eval file_name = coalesce(file_name, file_path)
| eval user = coalesce(user, logon_user)
| eval dest = coalesce(dest, server_name)
| fields - file_path detected_timestamp time_created logon_user server_name
| stats list(*) AS * list(_time) AS time range(_time) AS distance_seconds dc(sourcetype) AS num_sourcetypes BY dest user file_name
| where num_sourcetypes>1 AND distance_seconds < (12 * 60 * 60)

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

|makeresults | eval raw="sourcetype=src1,server_name=win7server,logon-user=abc,time_created=12/30/2018T3:47:55AM,file_path=c:\Program_files(x86)\abc sourcetype=src1,server_name=win8server,logon-user=cde,time_created=12/31/2018T4:44:51AM,file_path=c:\Program_files\Google\Chrome sourcetype=src1,server_name=win10server,logon-user=sam,time_created=12/31/2018T8:48:51AM,file_path=c:\Program_files(x86)\Microsoft_Office sourcetype=src2,dest=win7server,user=abc,detected_timestamp=2018-12-30T09:57:32.0,file_name=c:\Program_files(x86)\abc sourcetype=src2,dest=win8server,user=cde,detected_timestamp=2018-12-31T08:55:57.0,file_name=c:\Program_files\Google\Chrome sourcetype=src2,dest=win10server,user=sam,detected_timestamp=2018-12-31T07:07:18.0,file_name=c:\Program_files(x86)\Microsoft_Office sourcetype=src2,dest=win10server,user=karla,detected_timestamp=2018-12-31T07:07:18.0,file_name=c:\Program_files(x86)\Activision sourcetype=src2,dest=windows2012,user=Pam,detected_timestamp=2018-12-31T07:07:18.0,file_name=c:\Program_files(x86)\Tencent sourcetype=src2,dest=windows2016,user=Pat,detected_timestamp=2018-12-31T07:07:18.0,file_name=c:\Program_files(x86)\any"
| makemv raw
| mvexpand raw
| rename raw AS _raw
| kv
| fields - _raw _time
| rex field=time_created mode=sed "s/T/ / s/AM/ AM/"
| rex field=detected_timestamp mode=sed "s/T/ /"

| rename COMMENT AS "Everything above generates sample event data; everything below is your solution"

| eval _time = if((sourcetype="src1"), strptime(time_created, "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p"), strptime(detected_timestamp, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%1n"))
| eval file_name = coalesce(file_name, file_path)
| eval user = coalesce(user, logon_user)
| eval dest = coalesce(dest, server_name)
| fields - file_path detected_timestamp time_created logon_user server_name
| stats list(*) AS * list(_time) AS time range(_time) AS distance_seconds dc(sourcetype) AS num_sourcetypes BY dest user file_name
| where num_sourcetypes>1 AND distance_seconds < (12 * 60 * 60)

shiv1593
Communicator

Also, i'm a little confused in the line | eval _time = if((sourcetype="src1"), strptime(time_created, "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p"), strptime(detected_timestamp, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%1n")), can you please tell me how the eval strptime command will run here on the fields both the fields time_created and detected_timestamp, as they are from different indexes and sourcetypes. And we are just mentioning one sourcetype src1 in the if command, how is the eval command calling the field detected_timestamp of the other sourcetype src2 here?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

The sourcetype src2 is in the else part of the if (the 3rd argument).

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shiv1593
Communicator

Awesome. Thank you. One more question. Can we modify this query to compare the fields file_path and file_name, and find the paths which are present in both the fields, even if their _time is different upto 12 hours, or is it doing that right now as well?

What I was trying to achieve was finding the common paths from both the fields, irrespective of their timestamp difference, and then trigger a notable event.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Open a new conversation with a new question.

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shiv1593
Communicator

Hi Woodcock,

Thank you for your response. I'll try this and will let you know my findings soon.

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valiquet
Contributor

Use iso format, or let Splunk convert the time into a single format for your through props

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Vijeta
Influencer

You can try something like this -

index=<your index name> source IN(src1,src2) | eval time_created = strptime(time_created,"%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p")| eval detected_timestamp=strptime(detected_timestamp, "%Y-%m-%d %h:%m:%s.%N")| rename time_created as detected_timestamp, logon_user as user, server_name as dest,file_path as file_name| stats count(source) as src, stdev(detected_timestamp) as diff_seconds by dest, user,file_name| where diff_seconds <= 43200 AND src>1
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shiv1593
Communicator

Hi Vijeta,

Thank you for replying. Perhaps I missed a couple of things in the question. These sourcetypes belong to two different indexes and timestamp fields time_created and detected_timestamp aren't normalize. They are a pile of timestamps of various timezones. If src1 detects and records a file_path, and the same value gets recorded into file_name of src2 within 12 hours irrespective of their timezones, my search fetches the results of the dest, file_name and user. I tried your search, tweaked it according to my requirements,but couldn't do it.

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