EmlParser: a New Cortex Analyzer for EML Files

The new EmlParser analyzer which we included in Cortex-Analyzers 1.12.0 leverages the eml_parser python library written by GOVCERT-LU. It parses EML email,  a MIME RFC 822 standard format, and extract all the information to help the analyst triage and investigate. EmlParser will prove very useful when analyzing observables imported from Synapse alerts.

You might notice that the analyzer’s requirements.txt installs the eml_parser library from one of our repositories. The original library dependencies contains file_magic library which brokes other analyzers that use python-magic. GOVCERT-LU is addressing this situation in their code but the installation process still considers file-magic as a mandatory library. We decided to consider it as an extra requirement.

cd path/to/Cortex-Analyzers

git pull

for I in analyzers/*/requirements.txt; do sudo -H pip2 install -r $I; done && \

for I in analyzers/*/requirements.txt; do sudo -H pip3 install -r $I || true; done