How to Use GreyNoise to Enhance Detections

Enable GreyNoise Data Sets
GreyNoise data sets are stored as Panther-managed Lookup Tables in bulk. The Basic GreyNoise data sets are available to all Panther accounts and are disabled by default. 
If you are using a CI/CD workflow, please see the CI/CD Users section below to learn about additional considerations.
To enable Analyst roles to view and manage GreyNoise packages in the Panther Console, they will need to be assigned the View Lookups and Manage Lookups permissions.
To enable GreyNoise data sets:
1.Log in to your Panther Console.
2.From the left sidebar menu, click Analysis > Packs.
On this page, you can see built-in packs available for both GreyNoise Basic and GreyNoise Advanced. Packs are disabled by default, so to use GreyNoise data you will need to enable them first.
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3.On the right side of the tile labeled GreyNoise Basic, click the toggle to enable the pack. 
4.Click Continue in the dialog that appears.
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If you'd like to make additional changes through CI/CD with the panther_analysis_tool, please contact your Panther representative for more information.
5.To verify if the GreyNoise data sets are enabled, from the left sidebar menu, click Enrichment > Sources.
On this page, you can see Panther-managed enrichment sources (such as GreyNoise). You can also see whether the sources are currently enabled or disabled and when a source’s data was last refreshed. 
In the screen shot below, you can see the four source tables provided by GreyNoise and the time they were last refreshed. Disabled data sets will not be refreshed.
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GreyNoise data (both Basic and Advanced) is not available to view or query in the Data Explorer. The "View in Data Explorer" option is hidden for GreyNoise tables, but may be shown for other Panther managed lookup sources.
CI/CD Users
Please note the following considerations:
CI/CD users do not need to use Detection Packs to get GreyNoise Lookup Tables. You can pull in the latest release of panther-analysis and use the panther_analysis_tool (PAT) to upload the GreyNoise Lookup Tables.
It is possible for CI/CD users to enable GreyNoise Lookup Tables via Detection Packs, as long as you do not customize the GreyNoise tables using PAT.
If you choose to manage GreyNoise through PAT after enabling it in the Panther Console, you must first disable the Detection Packs in the Panther Console. Simultaneous use of both the Panther Console and PAT to manage GreyNoise is not supported.
For more information on how to manage GreyNoise Lookup Tables, please see the GreyNoise files in Panther's Github repository. 
Example: Modify an Alert's severity based on GreyNoise classification
In this example, we will modify a pre-built rule in your Panther Console called Brute Force By IP to detect issues specifically in Okta and to incorporate GreyNoise. 
For this rule, we're going to modify the alert’s severity depending on whether GreyNoise reports that the IP is malicious or benign. We're also going to add a function to display the GreyNoise alert context in the alert destination, if the context is available. 
Prerequisite:
In this example, the rule has already been modified to detect Brute Force By IP specifically for Okta.
1.In the Panther Console, click Detections in the left sidebar menu.
2.Click the Okta Brute Force By IP detection.
3.Click Edit Rule, then click the Functions & Tests tab.
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4.In the Rule Function section, add the following Python command to import Panther GreyNoise helpers:
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from panther_greynoise_helpers import GetGreyNoiseObject
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5.Modify the Rule Function to retrieve the GreyNoise data and create a GreyNoise noise object:
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def rule(event):
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 global noise
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 noise = GetGreyNoiseObject(event)
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 if (event.get("eventType") == "user.session.start" and deep_get(event, "outcome", "result") == "FAILURE"):
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 return True
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 return False
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6.At the bottom of the field, replace the severity(event) function with the following code: 
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 def severity(event): 
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 if noise.classification("client.ipAddress") == "malicious":
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 return "CRITICAL"
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 if noise.classification("client.ipAddress") == "benign":
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 return "LOW"
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 return "MEDIUM"
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This modification will determine severity based on whether GreyNoise reports that the IP is malicious or benign. In this example, if GreyNoise indicates that the IP is malicious, the alert will be assigned critical severity. If GreyNoise indicates that the IP is benign, the alert will be assigned low severity. If the IP is not classified as malicious or benign, the alert will be assigned medium severity.
7.Below that, add the following code to provide the contextual noise.actor, noise.classification, and noise.ip_address GreyNoise information in the delivered alert:
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 def alert_context(event): 
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 context ={"message": "No GreyNoise Data Available"}
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 if noise.classification:
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 context = {
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 "actor": noise.actor("client.ipAddress"),
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 "classification": noise.classification("client.ipAddress"),
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 "ip": noise.ip_address("client.ipAddress"),
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 }
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 return context
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8.Optionally run tests to ensure that your detection is working as expected, then click Update in the upper right side of the page.
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Rule Function Before and After
Here is the starting content of the Rule Function:
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from panther_base_helpers import deep_get
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def rule(event):
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 if (event.get("eventType") == "user.session.start"
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 and deep_get(event, "outcome", "result") == "FAILURE"):
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 return True
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 return False
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def title(event):
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 return f"A Possible Brute Force Attack on Okta Detected from IP {deep_get(event, 'client', 'ipAddress')}"
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​
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def severity(event):
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 return "MEDIUM"
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Here is the content of the Rule Function after modifying it to use GreyNoise data for enrichment:
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from panther_base_helpers import deep_get
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from panther_greynoise_helpers import GetGreyNoiseObject
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def rule(event):
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 global noise
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 noise = GetGreyNoiseObject(event)
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 if (event.get("eventType") == "user.session.start" and deep_get(event, "outcome", "result") == "FAILURE"):
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 return True
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 return False
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​
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def title(event):
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 return f"A Possible Brute Force Attack on Okta Detected from IP {deep_get(event, 'client', 'ipAddress')}"
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def severity(event):
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 if noise.classification("client.ipAddress") == "malicious":
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 return "CRITICAL"
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 if noise.classification("client.ipAddress") == "benign":
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 return "LOW"
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 return "MEDIUM"
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def alert_context(event):
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 context ={"message": "No GreyNoise Data Available"}
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 if noise.classification:
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 context = {
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 "actor": noise.actor("client.ipAddress"),
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 "classification": noise.classification("client.ipAddress"),
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 "ip": noise.ip_address("client.ipAddress"),
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 }
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 return context
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This example only uses information from the basic GreyNoise package. With the advanced package enabled, you can also access GreyNoise Tag information, Geo IP Metadata, and flags for VPN and Tor indicators.
Example: Suppress an alert if IP is in GreyNoise RIOT
This example uses the same detection from the previous section. We will modify it to not raise an alert at all if the IP detected is in GreyNoise’s RIOT data set.
1.In the Panther Console, click Detections in the left sidebar menu.
2.Click the Okta Brute Force By IP detection.
3.Click Edit Rule, then click the Functions & Tests tab.
4.In the Rule Function section, add the following Python command to import Panther GreyNoise helpers and include GreyNoise RIOT objects:
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from panther_greynoise_helpers import GetGreyNoiseObject, GetGreyNoiseRiotObject
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5.In the rule syntax, add the following code to pull from the GreyNoise RIOT data set and modify the alert based on that data: 
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 def rule(event): 
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 global noise
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 noise = GetGreyNoiseObject(event)
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 riot = GetGreyNoiseRiotObject(event)
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 if riot.is_riot:
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 return False
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 if (event.get("eventType") == "user.session.start" 
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 and deep_get(event, "outcome", "result") == "FAILURE"):
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 return True
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 return False
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 Using this code, if GreyNoise indicates that the IP is in the RIOT data set and therefore used by a common business service that is unlikely to be an attack vector, then it will not deliver an alert at all.
6.Optionally run tests to ensure that your detection is working as expected, then click Update in the upper right side of the page.
With the advanced GreyNoise lookup tables, you can also build these rules based on additional enrichment provided, such as the Trust Level of the IP.
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Enable GreyNoise Data Sets
CI/CD Users
Example: Modify an Alert's severity based on GreyNoise classification
Example: Suppress an alert if IP is in GreyNoise RIOT