User Field Calc Misconfiguration Pan:Threat

[RH-3]

Describe the bug

For the pan:threat sourcetype we are observing, un-parsed sender and recipient field values in the user field.

This is due to the fact the Splunk does not allow for chained Field Calculations.
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/Searchtimeoperationssequence#Calculated_fields

"All EVAL- configurations within a single props.conf stanza are processed in parallel, rather than in any particular sequence. This means you can't "chain" calculated field expressions, where the evaluation of one calculated field is used in the expression for another calculated field."

Relevant Config from Props.conf:

# Reformat email related fields
EVAL-sender          = split(replace(sender,"^From: (.*?);?$","\1"),";")
EVAL-recipient       = split(replace(recipient,"^To: (.*?);?$","\1"),";")
EVAL-user              = coalesce(src_user,dest_user,recipient,sender,"unknown")

Expected behavior

When src_user or dest_user is null, user will return the following:

sourcetype	user	src_user	dest_user	sender	recipient
pan:threat	[email protected]			[email protected]
pan:threat	[email protected]				[email protected]

Current behavior

When src_user or dest_user is null, we will observe the following on user:

sourcetype	user	src_user	dest_user	sender	recipient
pan:threat	From: [email protected];			[email protected]
pan:threat	To: [email protected];				[email protected]

Possible solution

Merge the field calc logic from sender and recipient into the user coalesce logic.

# Reformat email related fields
EVAL-sender          = split(replace(sender,"^From: (.*?);?$","\1"),";")
EVAL-recipient       = split(replace(recipient,"^To: (.*?);?$","\1"),";")
EVAL-user              = coalesce(src_user,dest_user,split(replace(recipient,"^To: (.*?);?$","\1"),";"),split(replace(sender,"^From: (.*?);?$","\1"),";"),"unknown")

Steps to reproduce

Run SPL against smtp traffic that triggered signatures and filter on results that have null values for src_user and dest_user.

Your Environment

• Observed in App version 7.0.3
• Validated that this also impacts 7.0.4

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