Current version: 1.3.2
These are the new Python bindings for the Carbon Black Enterprise Response and Enterprise Protection REST APIs. To learn more about the REST APIs, visit the Carbon Black Developer Network Website at https://developer.carbonblack.com.
Please visit https://cbapi.readthedocs.io for detailed documentation on this API. Additionally, we have a slideshow available at https://developer.carbonblack.com/2016/07/presentation-on-the-new-carbon-black-python-api/ that provides an overview of the concepts that underly this API binding.
If you have questions on the Carbon Black API or these API Bindings, please contact us at [email protected]. Also review the documentation and guides available on the Carbon Black Developer Network website
The new cbapi is designed to work on Python 2.6.6 and above (including 3.x).
All requirements are installed as part of pip install
.
The legacy cbapi (cbapi.CbApi
) and legacy bit9api (cbapi.bit9Api
) are still compatible with Python 2.x only.
Backwards compatibility with old scripts is maintained through the cbapi.legacy
module. Old scripts that import
cbapi.CbApi
directly will continue to work. Once cbapi 2.0.0 is released, the old CbApi
will be deprecated and
removed entirely no earlier than January 2017.
New scripts should use the cbapi.CbEnterpriseResponseAPI
(for Carbon Black "Enterprise Response") and
cbapi.CbEnterpriseProtectionAPI
(for Carbon Black "Enterprise Protection" / former Bit9) API entry points.
There are two ways to get started:
-
If you want to install the latest stable version of
cbapi
, simply install viapip
:pip install cbapi
-
If you want to change cbapi itself, then you will want to install cbapi in "develop" mode. Clone this repository, cd into
cbapi-python
then run setup.py with thedevelop
flag:python setup.py develop
There are several examples in the examples
directory for both Carbon Black Enterprise Response and Protection. We
will be adding more samples over time. For a quick start, see the following code snippets:
Carbon Black Enterprise Response
from cbapi.response.models import Process, Binary, Sensor, Feed, Watchlist, Investigation
from cbapi.response.rest_api import CbEnterpriseResponseAPI
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
c=CbEnterpriseResponseAPI()
# read the first four bytes of the notepad.exe associated with the first process instance of notepad running
c.select(Process).where('process_name:notepad.exe').first().binary.file.read(4)
# if you want a specific ID, you can put it straight into the .select() call:
binary = c.select(Binary, "24DA05ADE2A978E199875DA0D859E7EB")
# isolate all sensors who ran executable_name.exe
sensors = set()
for proc in c.select(Process).where('process_name:executable_name.exe'):
sensors.add(proc.sensor)
for s in sensors:
s.network_isolation_enabled = True
s.save()
Carbon Black Enterprise Protection
from cbapi.protection.models import *
from cbapi.protection.rest_api import CbEnterpriseProtectionAPI
p=CbEnterpriseProtectionAPI()
# Select the first file instance
fi = p.select(FileInstance).first()
# print that computer's hostname
fi.computer.name
# change the policy ID
fi.computer.policyId = 3
fi.computer.save()
In order to perform any queries via the API, you will need to get the API token for your Cb user. See the documentation on the Developer Network website on how to acquire the API token for Enterprise Response or Enterprise Protection
Once you acquire your API token, place it in one of the default credentials file locations:
/etc/carbonblack/credentials.response
(or.protection
for Cb Enterprise Protection)~/.carbonblack/credentials.response
- (current working directory)
.carbonblack/credentials.response
Credentials found in a later path will overwrite earlier ones.
The credentials are stored in INI format. The name of each credential profile is enclosed in square brackets, followed by comma separated key-value pairs providing the necessary credential information:
[default]
url=https://localhost
token=abcdef0123456789abcdef
ssl_verify=False
[prod]
url=https://cbserver.prod.corp.com
token=aaaaaa
ssl_verify=True
[otheruser]
url=https://localhost
token=bbbbbb
ssl_verify=False
The possible options for each credential profile are:
- url: The base URL of the Cb server. This should include the protocol (https) and the hostname, and nothing else.
- token: The API token for the user ID. More than one credential profile can be specified for a given server, with different tokens for each.
- ssl_verify: True or False; controls whether the SSL/TLS certificate presented by the server is validated against the local trusted CA store.
- proxy: A proxy specification that will be used when connecting to the Cb server. The format is:
http://myusername:[email protected]:8001/
where the hostname of the proxy isproxy.company.com
, port 8001, and using username/passwordmyusername
andmypassword
respectively. - ignore_system_proxy: If you have a system-wide proxy specified, setting this to True will force cbapi to bypass the proxy and directly connect to the Cb server.
Future versions of cbapi will also provide the ability to "pin" the TLS certificate so as to provide certificate verification on self-signed or internal CA signed certificates.