An Active Defense and EDR software to empower Blue Teams
BLUESPAWN helps blue teams monitor systems in real-time against active attackers by detecting anomalous activity
BLUESPAWN is an active defense and endpoint detection and response tool which means it can be used by defenders to quickly detect, identify, and eliminate malicious activity and malware across a network.
Want to help make BLUESPAWN even more effective at locating and stopping malware? Join us on the BLUESPAWN Discord Server and help with development or even just suggest a feature or report a bug. No experience required - there's no better way to learn about development or security than by just jumping right in!
If you'd like to help contribute code, you can get started by checking out our wiki page on setting up your development environment. Please feel free to reach out to us in Discord if you run into any problems getting set up! We generally track bugs and new features through Issues and coordinate in chat when doing any development work.
We've created and open-sourced this for a number of reasons which include the following:
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Note: BLUESPAWN is under active alpha development, so many features may not work as expected yet and detections may be too narrow scope or generate lots of false positives.
Note 2: BLUESPAWN is meant to be run by a security professional in most cases and as such, will detect on non-malicious activity sometimes. While BLUESPAWN helps to quickly surface potentially bad things, it expects the user to use the available information to make the final determination.
.\BLUESPAWN-client-x64.exe --help
.\BLUESPAWN-client-x64.exe --mitigate --action=audit
.\BLUESPAWN-client-x64.exe --hunt -a Cursory --log=console,xml
.\BLUESPAWN-client-x64.exe --monitor -a Cursory --log=console,xml
BLUESPAWN consists of 3 major modes as listed below. Several of these modules have submodules (which may not be created in the codebase yet) as listed below and all are in varying stages of planning, research, and development. Additionally, they are supported by a number of other modules.
Hunt (Hunts for evidence of malicious behavior)
Mitigate (Mitigates vulnerabilities by applying security settings)
Monitor (Continuously monitors the system for potentially malicious behavior)
Scan (Used to assess items identified by hunts and make a decision whether or not it is suspicious/malware)
User (Contains program main, IOBase, and other similar functions)
Util (Contains a collection of modules that support core operations)
Here are some of the places you may have heard about the project :)
DEFCON 28 Blue Team Village - Overview, Slides
National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, 2020 Red Team Debrief - Youtube
BLUESPAWN Research Paper at UVA - Paper, DOI 10.18130/v3-b1n6-ef83
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel free to send us an email at [email protected] or message us in the BLUESPAWN Discord Server.
The core BLUESPAWN code is licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) v3.0.
Note that the project integrates several other libraries to provide additional features/detections. One of these is Florian Roth's signature-base which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. YARA rules from this project are integrated into the standard build without any changes. In order to use BLUESPAWN for any commercial purposes, you must remove everything under the "Non-Commercial Only" line in this file and recompile the project.
Made with :heart: by the UVA Cyber Defense Team and the other awesome people in the core dev team listed below
Thanks to all of the folks listed below for their contributions to BLUESPAWN!
Want to help? Take a look at the current issues, add ideas for new features, write some code, and create a pull request!
We would like to provide a special thank you to the following projects that have helped us to build BLUESPAWN: