Log Parsing with Mandiant Highlighter (1)

Published: 2014-01-27
Last Updated: 2014-01-27 18:38:48 UTC
by Basil Alawi S.Taher (Version: 1)
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Reading log isn’t the most enjoyable thing in Network/Security Analysis, sometimes it’s impossible to get something useful from log without using a log parser .In this diary I am going to talk about one of my best log analysis tool.

 

MANDIANT HIGHLIGHTER

“MANDIANT Highlighter is a log file analysis tool. Highlighter provides a graphical component to log analysis that helps the analyst identify patterns. Highlighter also provides a number of features aimed at providing the analyst with mechanisms to weed through irrelevant data and pinpoint relevant data.”[i]

 

Installation:

1-Download Mandiant Highlighter from https://www.mandiant.com/resources/download/highlighter

2- Launch MandiantHighlighter1.1.3 and click Next

 

Highlighter Usage

Now let’s have some examples of using Mandiant Highlighter:

Let’s say that you have a snort log file and you would like to check for all MS-SQL related alerts:

  1. Go to File menu and select Open file.

      2-open snortsyslog

 

3-Type MS-SQL in the keyword field

4-Click on Highlight ,Now Highlighter will highlights MS-SQL in the snortsyslog

6-If you would like to filter the snortsyslog just to display MS-SQL related alerts:

  • Highlight MS-SQL
  • Right-click and select “Show Only”

7-Now let say that you are not interested in Priority:3 events  

a)right click on Priority: 3

b)Select Remove

In the next diary I will discuss some other advance options in Mandiant Highlighter



[i] Mandiant High-lighter User Guide.






Keywords: log
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Comments

Nice tool. This will come in handy. Thanks!
It is a good tool, would be useful

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