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Capture multiple values of same pattern in an event

nihvk
Explorer

How do we capture multiple URLs in a single event?

Log1:

type=EXECVE msg=audit(1695798790.101:25214323): argc=17 a1="http://127.0.0.1:8080" a2="http://10.0.2.20" a3="https://google.com/data/involvement/" a4=cat

 

Log2:

type=EXECVE msg=audit(1695798790.100:25214323):  a2="https://facebook.com" a3="-o" a4="http://127.0.0.1/index.html" a5="-kis" a6="-x" a7="http://10.0.0.10:8080"

 

Currently I'm using below regex which captures only one URL,

| rex field=_raw ".*\"(?<URL>((http|https):\/\/(\S+|\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\S+)))\""

Need all the URLs in the output.

 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try without the greedy match at the beginning

| rex max_match=0 field=_raw "\"(?<URL>((http|https):\/\/(\S+|\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\S+)))\""

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nihvk
Explorer

I'm afraid, it still gives a single value output like this,

   URL

http://127.0.0.1:8080

https://facebook.com

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try without the greedy match at the beginning

| rex max_match=0 field=_raw "\"(?<URL>((http|https):\/\/(\S+|\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\S+)))\""

nihvk
Explorer

Fantastic! It worked. Thanks for the solution.

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this

| rex max_match=0 field=_raw ".*\"(?<URL>((http|https):\/\/(\S+|\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\S+)))\""
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