Visibility Across Space and Time (VAST) is a platform for network forensics at scale.
Ingest a PCAP trace into a local VAST node:
vast -n import pcap < trace.pcap
Query a local VAST node and get the result back as PCAP trace:
vast -n export pcap "sport > 60000/tcp && src !in 10.0.0.0/8" \
| ipsumdump --collate -w - \
| tcpdump -r - -nl
Start a VAST node in the foreground, listening at 10.0.0.1:
vast -e 10.0.0.1 start -f
Send Bro logs to a remote node:
zcat *.log.gz | vast import bro
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Required dependencies:
Optional dependencies:
Building VAST involves the following steps:
./configure
make
make test
make install
The configure
script is a small wrapper that passes build-related variables
to CMake. For example, to use ninja as build
generator, add --generator=Ninja
to the command line. Passing --help
shows
all available options.
The doc
target builds the API documentation locally:
make doc
When referring to VAST in a scientific context, please use the following citation:
@InProceedings{nsdi16:vast,
author = {Matthias Vallentin and Vern Paxson and Robin Sommer},
title = {{VAST: A Unified Platform for Interactive Network Forensics}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems
Design and Implementation (NSDI)},
month = {March},
year = {2016}
}
You can download the paper from the NSDI '16 proceedings.
VAST comes with a 3-clause BSD licence.