Retrieve Process Hierarchies

Endpoint URL: https://sage.cybereason.com/rest/download_v1/process_hierarchy
Endpoint URI: download_v1/process_hierarchy

Action: POST

Returns details on process hierarchy based on the Cybereason threat intelligence service. This is used by the Cybereason platform to identify the expected hierarchy of operating system processes.

You must add an Content-Type:application/json header with the request.

Note

If you are using cURL, add the authorization cookie details or the path to the file with cookie details with every request.

{}

Because this request uses a POST method, you must add a request body. Add only open and closed brackets without parameters between the brackets.

URL/URI parameters: none

Request Body Parameters: none

This request can return the following status codes:

200: Success OK or an error message saying why

The response contains the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
recordList	Array	An object containing details on the process hierarchy.
key	Array	An object with details on the specific process.
name	String	The name of the process.
value	Array	An object containing specific details on the process’s hierarchy.
parent	String	The parent process of the selected process.
lastUploadTimestamp	Integer	The timestamp (in epoch) when this information was last updated on the Global Threat Intelligence server.

None

Important information is found in these fields:

name The name of the process for which the Cybereason platform has a process hierarchy.
parent: The expected parent process for this process.

Request

curl --request POST \
    --url https://12.34.56.78/rest/classification_v1/process_hierarchy \
    --header 'Content-Type:application/json' \
    --data '{}'

Response

{
    "recordList": [
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "lsass.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "wininit.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "svchost.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "services.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "smss.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "system"
                },
                {
                    "parent": "smss.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "services.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "wininit.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "lsm.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "wininit.exe"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "lastUploadTimestamp": 1476350910397
}

Use this request body:

Request

{}

Response

{
    "recordList": [
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "lsass.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "wininit.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "svchost.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "services.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "smss.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "system"
                },
                {
                    "parent": "smss.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "services.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "wininit.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "lsm.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "wininit.exe"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "lastUploadTimestamp": 1476350910397
}

Request

Download Python script

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import requests
import json

session = requests.session()

# Request URL

sage_url = "https://sage.cybereason.com"

endpoint_url = "/rest/download_v1/process_hierarchy"

api_url = sage_url + endpoint_url

query = '{}'

api_headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json'}

api_response = session.request("POST", api_url, data=query, headers=api_headers)

your_response = json.loads(api_response.content)

print(json.dumps(your_response, indent=4, sort_keys=True))

Response

{
    "recordList": [
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "lsass.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "wininit.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "svchost.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "services.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "smss.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "system"
                },
                {
                    "parent": "smss.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "services.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "wininit.exe"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": {
                "name": "lsm.exe"
            },
            "value": [
                {
                    "parent": "wininit.exe"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "lastUploadTimestamp": 1476350910397
}