misp-rfc/misp-core-format/raw.md

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% date = 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z
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.# Abstract

This document describes the MISP core format used to exchange indicators and threat information between
MISP (Malware Information and threat Sharing Platform) instances.
The JSON format includes the overall structure along with the semantic associated for each
respective key. The format is described to support other implementations which reuse the
format and ensuring an interoperability with existing MISP [@?MISP-P] software and other Threat Intelligence Platforms.

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# Introduction

Sharing threat information became a fundamental requirements in the Internet, security and intelligence community at large. Threat
information can include indicators of compromise, malicious file indicators, financial fraud indicators
or even detailed information about a threat actor. MISP started as an open source project in late 2011 and
the MISP format started to be widely used as an exchange format within the community in the past years. The aim of this document
is to describe the specification and the MISP core format.

##  Conventions and Terminology

The key words "**MUST**", "**MUST NOT**", "**REQUIRED**", "**SHALL**", "**SHALL NOT**",
"**SHOULD**", "**SHOULD NOT**", "**RECOMMENDED**", "**MAY**", and "**OPTIONAL**" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [@!RFC2119].

# Format

## Overview

The MISP core format is in the JSON [@!RFC4627] format. In MISP, an event is composed of a single JSON object.

A capitalized key (like Event, Org) represent a data model and a non-capitalized key is just an attribute. This nomenclature
can support an implementation to represent the MISP format in another data structure.

## Event

An event is a simple meta structure scheme where attributes and meta-data are embedded to compose a coherent set
of indicators. An event can be composed from an incident, a security analysis report or a specific threat actor
analysis. The meaning of an event only depends of the information embedded in the event.

### Event Attributes

#### uuid

uuid represents the Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) [@!RFC4122] of the event. The uuid MUST be preserved
for any updates or transfer of the same event. UUID version 4 is RECOMMENDED when assigning it to a new event.

uuid is represented as a JSON string. uuid MUST be present.

#### id

id represents the human-readable identifier associated to the event for a specific MISP instance.

id is represented as a JSON string. id SHALL be present.

#### published

published represents the event publication state. If the event was published, the published value MUST be true.
In any other publication state, the published value MUST be false.

published is represented as a JSON boolean. published MUST be present.
 
<reference anchor='MISP-P' target='https://github.com/MISP'>
  <front>
   <title>MISP Project - Malware Information Sharing Platform and Threat Sharing</title>
   <author initials='' surname='MISP' fullname='MISP Community'></author>
   <date></date>
  </front>
</reference>

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# Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank all the MISP community to support the creation
of open standards in threat intelligence sharing.