X.509 Certificate to CybOX XML Converter

Generate CybOX XML from an X.509 Certificate file

Version: 2.1.0

Copyright (c) 2015 - The MITRE Corporation
All rights reserved. See LICENSE.txt for more details.

BY USING THIS PROGRAM, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
OF USE.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM.

Overview

The X509-to-CybOX program parses an X.509 certificate (saved as plain text) and creates a CybOX document containing a corresponding X509Certificate object.

Compatible with:

• CybOX 2.1

Installation

Download and extract the included files into your directory of choice.

X509-to-CybOX requires Python 2.X. It was developed using Python 2.7, and may work under Python 2.6. It is not compatible with Python 3.

Dependencies

• python-cybox - A Python library for CybOX

You can install the dependencies using pip:

$ pip install cybox

NOTE: Installing LXML (which python-cybox depends on) on Ubuntu requrires the python-dev, libxml2-dev, and libxslt1-dev packages to be installed. Follow the link for instructions on installing python-cybox and LXML on Windows.

Usage

python x509_to_cybox.py -i <x509 cert txt file> -o <cybox xml file>

Example files

X509-to-CybOX comes with example input and output files. You can use these to see an example of the program's output, or to verify that you have installed the program correctly:

$ python x509_to_cybox.py -i examples/x509.in.txt -o x509.xml
$ diff x509.xml examples/x509.out.xml

More information

• CybOX - http://cybox.mitre.org/