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Bulk Loading CSV Threat Intelligence Information

Metron is designed to work with STIX/Taxii threat feeds, but can also be bulk loaded with threat data from a CSV file. Command-separated values (CSV) is a simple file format used to store tabular data, such as a spreadsheet or database. Files in the CSV format can be imported to and exported from programs that store data in tables.

The shell script $METRON_HOME/bin/flatfile_loader.sh reads data from the local disk and loads the threat intelligence data into an HBase table. This loader uses the special configuration parameter inputFormatHandler to specify how to consider the data. The two implementations are BY_LINE and org.apache.metron.dataloads.extractor.inputformat.WholeFileFormat. The default is BY_LINE, which makes sense for a list of CSVs in which each line indicates a unit of information to be imported. However, if you are importing a set of STIX documents, then you want each document to be considered as input to the Extractor.