ICSNPP-BACnet

Industrial Control Systems Network Protocol Parsers (ICSNPP) - BACnet.

Overview

ICSNPP-BACnet is a Zeek plugin for parsing and logging fields within the BACnet protocol.

This plugin was developed to be fully customizable. To drill down into specific BACnet packets and log certain variables, users can add the logging functionality to scripts/icsnpp/bacnet/main.zeek. The functions within scripts/icsnpp/bacnet/main.zeek and src/events.bif are good guides for adding new logging functionality.

This parser produces four log files. These log files are defined in scripts/icsnpp/bacnet/main.zeek.

• bacnet.log
• bacnet_discovery.log
• bacnet_property.log
• bacnet_device_control.log

For additional information on these log files, see the Logging Capabilities section below.

Installation

Package Manager

This script is available as a package for Zeek Package Manger

zkg refresh
zkg install icsnpp-bacnet

If this package is installed from ZKG it will be added to the available plugins. This can be tested by running zeek -N. If installed correctly, users will see ICSNPP::BACnet.

If ZKG is configured to load packages (see @load packages in quickstart guide), this plugin and these scripts will automatically be loaded and ready to go. ZKG Quickstart Guide

If users are not using site/local.zeek or another site installation of Zeek and want to run this package on a packet capture, they can add icsnpp/bacnet to the command to run this plugin's scripts on the packet capture:

git clone https://github.com/cisagov/icsnpp-bacnet.git
zeek -Cr icsnpp-bacnet/tests/traces/bacnet_example.pcap icsnpp/bacnet

Manual Install

To install this package manually, clone this repository and run the configure and make commands as shown below.

git clone https://github.com/cisagov/icsnpp-bacnet.git
cd icsnpp-bacnet/
./configure
make

If these commands succeed, users will end up with a newly created build directory. This contains all the files needed to run/test this plugin. The easiest way to test the parser is to point the ZEEK_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable to this build directory.

export ZEEK_PLUGIN_PATH=$PWD/build/
zeek -N # Ensure everything compiled correctly and you are able to see ICSNPP::BACnet

Once users have tested the functionality locally and it appears to have compiled correctly, they can install it system-wide:

sudo make install
unset ZEEK_PLUGIN_PATH
zeek -N # Ensure everything installed correctly and you are able to see ICSNPP::BACnet

To run this plugin in a site deployment users will need to add the line @load icsnpp/bacnet to the site/local.zeek file to load this plugin's scripts.

If users are not using site/local.zeek or another site installation of Zeek and want to run this package on a packet capture, they can add icsnpp/bacnet to the command to run this plugin's scripts on the packet capture:

zeek -Cr icsnpp-bacnet/tests/traces/bacnet_example.pcap icsnpp/bacnet

If users want to deploy this on an already existing Zeek implementation and don't want to build the plugin on the machine, they can extract the ICSNPP_Bacnet.tgz file to the directory of the established ZEEK_PLUGIN_PATH (default is ${ZEEK_INSTALLATION_DIR}/lib/zeek/plugins/).

tar xvzf build/ICSNPP_Bacnet.tgz -C $ZEEK_PLUGIN_PATH 

Logging Capabilities

BACnet Header Log (bacnet.log)

Overview

This log captures BACnet header information for every BACnet/IP packet and logs it to bacnet.log. BACnet has two different protocol data layer messages (PDUs) - Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) and Network Protocol Data Unit (NPDU). Both APDU and NPDU messages are logged to bacnet.log, but fields captured and logged are slightly different as seen below.

Fields Captured (BACnet-APDU Packets)

Field	Type	Description
ts	time	Timestamp
uid	string	Unique ID for this connection
id	conn_id	Default Zeek connection info (IP addresses, ports)
is_orig	bool	True if the packet is sent from the originator
source_h	address	Source IP address (see Source and Destination Fields)
source_p	port	Source Port (see Source and Destination Fields)
destination_h	address	Destination IP address (see Source and Destination Fields)
destination_p	port	Destination Port (see Source and Destination Fields)
bvlc_function	string	BVLC function
pdu_type	string	APDU service type
pdu_service	string	APDU service choice
invoke_id	count	Unique ID for all outstanding confirmed request/ACK APDUs
result_code	string	Error code or reject/abort reason

Fields Captured (BACnet-NPDU Packets)

Field	Type	Description
ts	time	Timestamp
uid	string	Unique ID for this connection
id	conn_id	Default Zeek connection info (IP addresses, ports)
is_orig	bool	True if the packet is sent from the originator
source_h	address	Source IP address (see Source and Destination Fields)
source_p	port	Source Port (see Source and Destination Fields)
destination_h	address	Destination IP address (see Source and Destination Fields)
destination_p	port	Destination Port (see Source and Destination Fields)
bvlc_function	string	BVLC function
pdu_type	string	static "NPDU" string
pdu_service	string	NPDU message type
invoke_id	count	NPDU destination network address
result_code	string	N/A

Discovery Log (bacnet_discovery.log)

Overview

This log captures important fields for Who-Is, I-Am, Who-Has, and I-Have messages and logs them to bacnet_discovery.log.

Fields Captured

Field	Type	Description
ts	time	Timestamp
uid	string	Unique ID for this connection
id	conn_id	Default Zeek connection info (IP addresses, ports)
is_orig	bool	True if the message is sent from the originator
source_h	address	Source IP address (see Source and Destination Fields)
source_p	port	Source Port (see Source and Destination Fields)
destination_h	address	Destination IP address (see Source and Destination Fields)
destination_p	port	Destination Port (see Source and Destination Fields)
pdu_service	string	APDU service choice (who-is, i-am, who-has, or i-have)
object_type	string	BACnet device's object type
instance_number	count	BACnet device's instance number
vendor	string	BACnet device's vendor name
range	string	Range of instance numbers
object_name	string	Object name searching for (who-has) or responding with (i-have)

Property Log (bacnet_property.log)

Overview

This log captures important variables for Read-Property-Request, Read-Property-ACK, and Write-Property-Request messages and logs them to bacnet_property.log.

Fields Captured

Field	Type	Description
ts	time	Timestamp
uid	string	Unique ID for this connection
id	conn_id	Default Zeek connection info (IP addresses, ports)
is_orig	bool	True if the message is sent from the originator
source_h	address	Source IP address (see Source and Destination Fields)
source_p	port	Source Port (see Source and Destination Fields)
destination_h	address	Destination IP address (see Source and Destination Fields)
destination_p	port	Destination Port (see Source and Destination Fields)
invoke_id	count	Unique ID for all outstanding confirmed request/ACK APDUs
pdu_service	string	APDU service choice (read or write property services)
object_type	string	BACnet device's object type
instance_number	count	BACnet device's instance number
property	string	Property type
array_index	count	Property array index
value	string	Value of property

Device Control Log (bacnet_device_control.log)

Overview

This log captures important variables for Reinitialize-Device and Device-Communication-Control messages and logs them to bacnet_device_control.log.

Fields Captured

Field	Type	Description
ts	time	Timestamp
uid	string	Unique ID for this connection
id	conn_id	Default Zeek connection info (IP addresses, ports)
is_orig	bool	True if the message is sent from the originator
source_h	address	Source IP address (see Source and Destination Fields)
source_p	port	Source Port (see Source and Destination Fields)
destination_h	address	Destination IP address (see Source and Destination Fields)
destination_p	port	Destination Port (see Source and Destination Fields)
invoke_id	count	Unique ID for all outstanding confirmed request/ACK APDUs
pdu_service	string	APDU service choice (reinitialize_device or device_communication_control)
time_duration	count	Number of minutes device should ignore other APDUs
device_state	string	State to put device into
password	string	Password
result	string	Success, Error, Reject, or Abort
result_code	string	Resulting Error/Reject/Abort Code

Source and Destination Fields

Overview

Zeek's typical behavior is to focus on and log packets from the originator and not log packets from the responder. However, most ICS protocols contain useful information in the responses, so the ICSNPP parsers log both originator and responses packets. Zeek's default behavior, defined in its id struct, is to never switch these originator/responder roles which leads to inconsistencies and inaccuracies when looking at ICS traffic that logs responses.

The default Zeek id struct contains the following logged fields:

• id.orig_h (Original Originator/Source Host)
• id.orig_p (Original Originator/Source Port)
• id.resp_h (Original Responder/Destination Host)
• id.resp_p (Original Responder/Destination Port)

Additionally, the is_orig field is a boolean field that is set to T (True) when the id_orig fields are the true originators/source and F (False) when the id_resp fields are the true originators/source.

To not break existing platforms that utilize the default id struct and is_orig field functionality, the ICSNPP team has added four new fields to each log file instead of changing Zeek's default behavior. These four new fields provide the accurate information regarding source and destination IP addresses and ports:

• source_h (True Originator/Source Host)
• source_p (True Originator/Source Port)
• destination_h (True Responder/Destination Host)
• destination_p (True Responder/Destination Port)

The pseudocode below shows the relationship between the id struct, is_orig field, and the new source and destination fields.

if is_orig == True
    source_h == id.orig_h
    source_p == id.orig_p
    destination_h == id.resp_h
    destination_p == id.resp_p
if is_orig == False
    source_h == id.resp_h
    source_p == id.resp_p
    destination_h == id.orig_h
    destination_p == id.orig_p

Example

The table below shows an example of these fields in the log files. The first log in the table represents a Modbus request from 192.168.1.10 -> 192.168.1.200 and the second log represents a Modbus reply from 192.168.1.200 -> 192.168.1.10. As shown in the table below, the id structure lists both packets as having the same originator and responder, but the source and destination fields reflect the true source and destination of these packets.

id.orig_h	id.orig_p	id.resp_h	id.resp_p	is_orig	source_h	source_p	destination_h	destination_p
192.168.1.10	47785	192.168.1.200	502	T	192.168.1.10	47785	192.168.1.200	502
192.168.1.10	47785	192.168.1.200	502	F	192.168.1.200	502	192.168.1.10	47785

BACnet File Extraction

BACnet contains two messages for sending and receiving files: Atomic-Read-File and Atomic-Write-File. This plugin will extract files sent via these two messages and pass the extracted files to Zeek's file analysis framework.

Troubleshooting

By default, this BACnet parser uses a Zeek DPD signature to detect BACnet traffic. If users are seeing false positives in their BACnet logs and their BACnet traffic is operating on UDP port 47808, users can disable this DPD signature by removing or commenting-out the first line of scripts/icsnpp/bacnet/__load__.zeek.

Default configuration, parses BACnet traffic on all UDP ports, but may produce false positives

@load-sigs ./dpd.sig
@load ./main
@load ./files

Modified configuration, only parses BACnet traffic on UDP/47808:

# @load-sigs ./dpd.sig
@load ./main
@load ./files

ICSNPP Packages

All ICSNPP Packages:

• ICSNPP

Full ICS Protocol Parsers:

• BACnet
  • Full Zeek protocol parser for BACnet (Building Control and Automation)
• BSAP
  • Full Zeek protocol parser for BSAP (Bristol Standard Asynchronous Protocol) over IP
  • Full Zeek protocol parser for BSAP Serial comm converted using serial tap device
• Ethercat
  • Full Zeek protocol parser for Ethercat
• Ethernet/IP and CIP
  • Full Zeek protocol parser for Ethernet/IP and CIP
• Genisys
  • Full Zeek protocol parser for Genisys
• OPCUA-Binary
  • Full Zeek protocol parser for OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture) - Binary
• S7Comm
  • Full Zeek protocol parser for S7comm, S7comm-plus, and COTP
• Synchrophasor
  • Full Zeek protocol parser for Synchrophasor Data Transfer for Power Systems (C37.118)

Updates to Zeek ICS Protocol Parsers:

• DNP3
  • DNP3 Zeek script extending logging capabilities of Zeek's default DNP3 protocol parser
• Modbus
  • Modbus Zeek script extending logging capabilities of Zeek's default Modbus protocol parser

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License

Copyright 2023 Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC

Licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License (the "License"); this file cannot be used except in compliance with the License. A copy of the License can be obtained at:

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