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Getting counts on multiple fields, while grouping by one of those fields

AlexBryant
Path Finder

I am working with the fields srcip and malware-type. I need to show how many instances of each type of malware have been observed for each srcip, and then group them by src_ip.

For example:

127.0.0.1: TrojanHorse (2)

Worm (1)

192.168.7.256: TrojanHorse (1)

1.8.9.10: Worm (5)

Rootkit (2)

The code "stats values(malware-type) by srcip" will list the types of malware grouped by srcip, but getting the counts in there (while still grouping by srcip) has me stumped...can anyone help me out? Thanks!

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AlexBryant
Path Finder

Yep, although the parentheses are necessary...just needed the data. Thanks!

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Gilberto_Castil
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Are the counts of malware types represented by the digits in the parentheses?

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Gilberto_Castil
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

To answer this question we should be aligned. We are making a couple of assumptions.

If we use your sample of data, here is how we will see that in Splunk.

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From there we extract the IP,malware type and count (assuming that is embedded in the parentheses).

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The inline extractions to obtain these fields are:

... | rex "(?<srcip>\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+):\s(?<info>.+)" 
    | rex field=info max_match=0 "(?<malware_type>[a-zA-Z]+)\s+\((?<mcount>\d+)\)"



You can combine a number of functions with the stats command. Here is a complete list.
You may want to try:

... | stats list(malware_type) count(malware_type) by srcip

Which will return the following. I don't know that this is what you are looking for but here it is nonetheless.

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More than likely, this may be a more effective way to represent this data:

... | stats list(malware_type) AS malware_type list(mcount) AS mcount sum(mcount) as total by srcip 



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All together:

... | rex "(?<srcip>\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+):\s(?<info>.+)"
    | rex field=info max_match=0 "(?<malware_type>[a-zA-Z]+)\s+\((?<mcount>\d+)\)" 
    | stats list(malware_type) AS malware_type list(mcount) AS mcount sum(mcount) as total by srcip 
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