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Cyware Orchestrate

Cyware Taxii 2.x

App Vendor: Cyware

App Category: Data Enrichment & Threat Intelligence

App Version: 1.2.0

API version: v2.0/1

About App

The Cyware Taxii 2.x app allows security teams to integrate with TAXII servers to discover, collect, poll, and push data from/to a TAXII 2.x server. TAXII 2.x defines how the STIX data (threat intelligence information) is structured into collections, and how it can be accessed, retrieved, or exchanged.

The TAXII 2.x app in the Orchestrate application performs the following actions:

Action Name

Description

Collection Data Request

This action retrieves data about a collection on the TAXII server using the collection ID.

Root Discovery Request

This action makes a root request to get more information about the TAXII server, such as TAXII version, content length, and other organization-specific data.

Discovery Request

This action makes a request to validate the TAXII server credentials and retrieve basic information about the TAXII server.

Get Collections

This action retrieves all the available collections from the TAXII server.

Poll Collections

This action polls and retrieves data about a particular collection from the TAXII server using the collection ID.

Inbox request

This action makes a request to write STIX data to the TAXII server in JSON format. You must have write access to perform this action.

Generic Action

This is a generic action to perform any additional use case on Cyware TAXII 2.x Client.

Configuration Parameters

The following configuration parameters are required for the Taxii 2.x app to communicate with the Taxii 2.x enterprise application. The parameters can be configured by creating instances in the app.

Parameter

Description

Field Type

Required/Optional

Comments

TAXII Base URL

Enter the entire TAXII base URL along with the discovery URL.

Example:

"https://baseurl.com/taxii2/discovery/"

Text

Required

TAXII Password

Enter the TAXII password.

Password

Required

TAXII Username

Enter the TAXII username.

Text

Required

Verify

Choose to verify SSL certificates.

Example:

true

Boolean

Optional

Default value:

false

Allowed values:

  • true

  • false

Action: Collection Data Request

This action retrieves the details about a collection on the TAXII server using the collection ID.

Action Input Parameters

Parameter

Description

Field Type

Required/Optional

Comments

Collection ID

Enter the collection ID to retrieve details about about.

Example:

"b0ceb514-3b52-4199-8e3d-a7866ab8fdb1"

Text

Required

Example Request

[
    {
        "collection_id": "b0ceb514-3b52-4199-8e3d-a7866ab8fdb1"
    }
]
Action: Root Discovery Request

This action makes a root request to get more information about the TAXII server, such as TAXII version, content length, and other organization-specific data.

Action Input Parameters

This action does not require input parameters.

Action: Discovery Request

This action makes a request to validate the TAXII server credentials and retrieve basic information about the TAXII server.

Action Input Parameters

This action does not require input parameters.

Action: Get Collections

This action retrieves all the available collections from the TAXII server.

Action Input Parameters

Parameter

Description

Field Type

Required/Optional

Comments

Offset

Enter the pagination offset.

Example:

"10"

Text

Optional

Available only on TAXII 2.0.

Default value:

"0"

Limit

Enter response limit.

Example:

"100"

Text

Optional

Example Request

[
    {
        "limit": "100",
        "offset": "10"
    }
]
Action: Poll Collections

This action polls and retrieves data about a particular collection from the TAXII server using the collection ID.

Action Input Parameters

Parameter

Description

Field Type

Required/Optional

Comments

Collection ID

Enter the collection ID to poll and retrieve data.

Example:

"b0ceb514-3b52-4199-8e3d-a7866ab8fdb1"

Text

Required

Date to Poll from

Enter the date in yyyy-mm-dd format from which you want to poll the TAXII server.

Example:

"2020-07-01"

Text

Optional

Offset

Enter the pagination offset.

Example:

"10"

Text

Optional

Available only on TAXII 2.0.

Default value:

"0"

Limit

Enter response limit.

Example:

"100"

Text

Optional

Object ID

Enter a specific object to retrieve.

Example:

"23458756901"

Text

Optional

Next

Enter the next integer if the data is paginated.

Example:

"1456543"

Text

Optional

Object Type

Enter the indicator type to retrieve.

Example:

"indicator"

Text

Optional

Example Request

[
    {
        "added_after": "2020-07-01",
        "object_type": "indicator",
        "object_id": "23458756901",
        "collection_id": "b0ceb514-3b52-4199-8e3d-a7866ab8fdb1",
        "limit": "100",
        "next": "1456543",
        "offset": "10"
    }
]
Action: Inbox request

This action writes STIX data to the TAXII server in JSON format.

Usage in Intel Exchange:

  • When you are inboxing (sending) STIX data to a TAXII server in Intel Exchange, the source specified in the Threat Data module is the subscriber added to the system.

  • You can the collection to which the STIX data is sent in the Source Collection column in Threat Data.

Note

You must have access to write data to the TAXII server.

Parameter

Description

Field Type

Required/Optional

Comments

STIX object

Enter the STIX data to write to the TAXII server in JSON format.

Text

Required

Collection ID

Enter the collection ID to send the data.

Text

Required

Example Request

[
   {
      "stix_bundle":"{\"objects\": [{\"id\": \"a9e5-3bd2-41bb-b543-05341\", \"lang\": \"en\",\"name\": \"CTIX\",\"type\": \"identity\", \"spec_version\": \"2.1\",\"created\": \"2021-06-02T05:58:46.325759Z\"}]}",
      "collection_id":"b0ceb514-3b52-4199-8e3d-a7866ab8fdb1"
   }
]
Action: Generic Action

This is a generic action to perform any additional use case on Cyware TAXII 2.x Client.

Action Input Parameters

Parameter

Description

Field Type

Required/Optional

Comments

Method

Enter the HTTP method.

Example:

"GET"

Text

Required

Endpoint

Enter the endpoint to make the request.

Example:

"collections/{collection_id}/objects/"

Text

Required

Payload

Enter the payload to pass to the API.

Example:

$JSON[{'object_type':'indicator'}]"

Any

Optional

Query Params

Enter the query parameters to pass to the API.

Example:

{'limit':20}

Key Value

Optional

Example Request

[
   {
      "method":"GET",
      "endpoint":"collections/{collection_id}/objects/",
      "payload":[
         {
            "object_type":"indicator"
         }
      ],
      "query_params":{
         "limit":20
      }
   }
]