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API Reference

Base URL: http://localhost:8000

All endpoints return Content-Type: application/json unless noted. Errors return {"error": "<message>"} with the appropriate HTTP status code.

GET Endpoints

GET /

Redirects to /socrates.html.


GET /api/version

Returns the running SO-CRATES version.

Response: {"version": "3.0.0"}


GET /api/events

Returns event data from Suricata's eve.json (via SQLite index or direct JSON parse).

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Default Description
md5 No none MD5 hash of a historical analysis (returns an empty array if omitted)
type No all Filter by event type - any event_type Suricata's eve.json can produce (see Event Types), plus the app's own synthetic types (filealerts, log, sigmaalert)
q No none Full-text search query (searches all event JSON). Multiple q params AND together.
offset No 0 Pagination offset
limit No 1000 Max events to return (capped at MAX_QUERY_LIMIT, 100,000 by default - see GET /api/limits)
order_by No none (sorts by timestamp) Server-side sort column, e.g. Source IP. Only sortable for columns with a static JSON path for the given type (mirrors the same source-of-truth constraint as GET /api/aggregation-data); silently falls back to timestamp if the column isn't server-sortable for that type, rather than erroring
sort_dir No asc asc or desc; any other value is treated as asc

Response: Array of eve.json event objects.

Example:

GET /api/events?type=alert&limit=100
GET /api/events?q=192.168.1.1
GET /api/events?type=http&q=GET
GET /api/events?q=tcp&q=80          # AND: events containing both "tcp" and "80"


GET /api/stats

Returns event-type counts for the current or specified analysis.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Default Description
md5 Yes MD5 hash of a historical analysis
q No none Full-text search query (counts only matching events). Multiple q params AND together.

Response: {"counts": <event type to count map>, "date_range": {"min": <timestamp or null>, "max": <timestamp or null>}}

Example:

{"counts": {"alert": 42, "dns": 1500, "http": 380, "tls": 95, "flow": 2200},
 "date_range": {"min": "2026-02-03T11:13:50.123456+0000", "max": "2026-02-03T11:16:02.654321+0000"}}


GET /api/count

Returns total event count, optionally filtered by type or search query.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Default Description
md5 Yes MD5 hash of a historical analysis
type No all Filter by event type
q No none Full-text search query (counts only matching events). Multiple q params AND together.

Response: {"count": <number>}


GET /api/limits

Returns server-enforced limits the client should respect (e.g. when validating the user-configurable query-limit setting).

Response: {"maxQueryLimit": <number>, "maxUploadSize": <number>} - MAX_QUERY_LIMIT (100,000 by default) and MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE in bytes (5,000 MB by default); both are hard ceilings that any client-requested override (limit=, or the X-Max-Upload-Size upload header) is clamped to server-side, regardless of what the client requests.


GET /api/sankey-data

Returns a pre-aggregated {nodes, links} Sankey diagram (Source IP → Dest IP → Dest Port) computed server-side via GROUP BY, so the payload stays small regardless of how many events match - the client never needs to fetch raw events to render the diagram.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Default Description
md5 Yes MD5 hash of the analysis
type No all Filter by event type
q No none Full-text search query. Multiple q params AND together.

Response:

{"nodes": [{"id": "0:1.2.3.4", "name": "1.2.3.4", "column": 0}, ...],
 "links": [{"source": "0:1.2.3.4", "target": "1:5.6.7.8", "value": 42}, ...]}
Each column is capped to the top 50 nodes by event count; the remainder is bucketed into a synthetic Other node per column so the response size doesn't grow with the dataset. column is 0 (Source IP), 1 (Dest IP), or 2 (Dest Port).

Unfiltered (no q) responses are cached server-side per (md5, type) and invalidated on delete/reanalyze - repeat requests for the same view are effectively instant.


GET /api/aggregation-data

Returns per-column frequency tables (top 10 values by count) for the given event type, computed server-side - the data behind the "Aggregations" panel.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Default Description
md5 Yes MD5 hash of the analysis
type No all (merged view) Event type (see Event Types), or omitted for the merged "All Events" view. Not supported for event types whose fields have no static JSON path to aggregate on server-side - currently log/sigmaalert/binary (dynamic/untrusted columns) and mqtt/ldap (dynamically keyed by message/operation subtype) - these fall back to client-side computation instead; see AGGREGATION_JSON_PATHS in db.py for the authoritative, current list.
q No none Full-text search query. Multiple q params AND together.

Response: Object mapping column label to an array of {"value": ..., "count": ...}, sorted descending by count and capped to the top 10.

{"Protocol": [{"value": "TCP", "count": 1200}, {"value": "UDP", "count": 340}],
 "Source IP": [{"value": "10.0.0.5", "count": 88}, ...]}

Unfiltered (no q) responses are cached server-side per (md5, type), same as /api/sankey-data.


GET /api/download-stream

Carves a single TCP/UDP stream from the PCAP using tcpdump and returns it as a .pcap download.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Description
src Yes Source IP address
sport Yes Source port
dst Yes Destination IP address
dport Yes Destination port
md5 Yes MD5 hash of a historical analysis

Response: application/vnd.tcpdump.pcap file download.

Validation: IP addresses and ports are validated before passing to tcpdump. Invalid values return 400.


GET /api/ascii-stream

Extracts ASCII payload from a TCP/UDP stream using tshark. Tries TCP first, falls back to UDP. Truncated to MAX_TRANSCRIPT_SIZE characters (100,000 by default), capped to the first MAX_TRANSCRIPT_LINES lines (500 by default) once that threshold is hit.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Description
src Yes Source IP address
sport Yes Source port
dst Yes Destination IP address
dport Yes Destination port
md5 Yes MD5 hash of a historical analysis

Response: application/json{"lines": [{"text": "...", "direction": "src"|"dst"}, ...], "truncated": false}. Non-printable characters replaced with .. Each line is tagged with which side of the connection sent it.


GET /api/hexdump-stream

Extracts per-packet hex dumps from a TCP/UDP stream using tcpdump -X. Truncated to 100,000 characters or 500 packets.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Description
src Yes Source IP address
sport Yes Source port
dst Yes Destination IP address
dport Yes Destination port
md5 Yes MD5 hash of a historical analysis

Response: application/json{"packets": [{"header": "...", "lines": ["..."]}], "truncated": false}.

Validation: IP addresses and ports are validated before passing to tcpdump. Invalid values return 400.


GET /api/analyses

Lists all previously-analyzed files.

Response: Array of {"md5": "<hash>", "name": "<display name>"} sorted alphabetically by name.


GET /api/load-analysis

Loads a historical analysis by MD5.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Description
md5 Yes MD5 hash of the analysis to load

Response:

{"success": true, "md5": "<hash>", "file_name": "<filename>"}

Errors: 400 if MD5 is invalid or path is unsafe. 404 if analysis not found. 400 if eve.json exceeds size limit.


GET /api/pcap-path

Returns the filename (not the full filesystem path) of the PCAP file within an analysis's directory.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Description
md5 Yes MD5 hash of the analysis

Response: Plain text path. 404 if no PCAP found.


GET /api/status

Same status information as POST /api/check-status, but accessible via query parameters for read-only polling.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Description
md5 Yes MD5 hash of the analysis

Response:

{"status": "ready", "meta": {"version": 1, "original": "<filename>", "extracted": "<filename>", "detected_type": "pcap", "extracted_at": "<ISO timestamp>"}}
or
{"status": "processing", "phase": "network", "meta": {...}}
or, if analysis (Suricata/YARA/Zircolite) failed:
{"status": "error", "message": "<failure reason>"}

meta is present whenever .meta exists for the analysis (written after the file type is detected) and is omitted otherwise; it's absent entirely from the error response.

Errors: 400 for invalid or malformed MD5. There is no 404 for a well-formed MD5 that doesn't correspond to an existing analysis directory — the directory's absence just reads the same as "not ready yet" ({"status": "processing", "phase": ""}), since this endpoint never separately checks for the directory's existence.


GET /api/sigma-alerts

Returns Sigma alerts stored in events.db for the specified analysis.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Default Description
md5 No none MD5 hash of a historical analysis (returns an empty array if omitted)
offset No 0 Pagination offset
limit No 1000 Max alerts to return (capped at MAX_QUERY_LIMIT, 100,000 by default - see GET /api/limits)
severity No none Filter by severity level
q No none Full-text search query. Multiple q params AND together.

Response: Array of Sigma alert objects.


GET /api/sigma-count

Returns the total Sigma alert count for the specified analysis, optionally filtered.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Default Description
md5 Yes MD5 hash of a historical analysis
severity No none Filter by severity level
q No none Full-text search query. Multiple q params AND together.

Response: {"count": <number>}


GET /api/sigma-stats

Returns Sigma alert statistics (counts grouped by severity/rule/etc.) for the specified analysis.

Query Parameters:

Parameter Required Default Description
md5 No none MD5 hash of a historical analysis (returns an empty object if omitted)

Response: Object mapping statistic names to counts.


POST Endpoints

POST /api/upload

Uploads a file for analysis. Accepts multipart form data.

Request: Multipart form with a file field. Accepts any file type. PCAPs (.pcap, .pcapng, .cap, .trace) get full Suricata network analysis; log files (.evtx, .json, .jsonl, .csv, .xml, .log) get Zircolite Sigma detection; everything else gets YARA scanning.

Response (new file):

{"status": "processing", "md5": "<hash>", "phase": "network"}

or for non-PCAP files:

{"status": "processing", "md5": "<hash>", "phase": "files"}

or for log files:

{"status": "processing", "md5": "<hash>", "phase": "logs"}

Response (already analyzed):

{"status": "ready", "md5": "<hash>"}

Processing flow: 1. Detects file type (PCAP magic bytes, log content, or .zip extension) 2. Computes MD5 hash 3. If already analyzed (eve.json for PCAPs, events.db for non-PCAPs), returns ready 4. For PCAPs: saves file, spawns Suricata in background thread, returns processing with phase: "network" 5. For log files: saves file and imports them into events.db in the background, returns processing with phase: "logs" 6. For other files: saves file, runs YARA/EXIF scans in the background, returns processing with phase: "files" 7. When analysis finishes, results are available in events.db (or eve.json for PCAPs)

Special handling: Password-protected zips are auto-decrypted using the common infected password; if the filename contains a YYYY-MM-DD date, the MTA-style dated password (infected_YYYYMMDD) is also tried.

Client should poll POST /api/check-status with the returned MD5 to know when analysis is complete.


POST /api/load-url

Downloads a file from a URL and analyzes it.

Request Body:

{"url": "https://example.com/capture.pcap"}

Response: Same as /api/upload{"status": "processing", "md5": "...", "phase": "..."} or {"status": "ready", "md5": "..."}.

Special handling: - Password-protected zips are auto-decrypted using the common infected password (same as /api/upload); for malware-traffic-analysis.net URLs specifically, the date-based password format (infected_YYYYMMDD, derived from the URL's /YYYY/MM/DD/ path) is also tried, before the plain fallback - URL safety validation blocks localhost, private IPs, link-local, and non-HTTP schemes - Hostname is resolved to verify the resolved IP is not private

Errors: 400 for invalid URL or SSRF attempt. 413 if file exceeds upload size limit.


POST /api/check-status

Polls whether analysis has finished for an uploaded file.

Request Body:

{"md5": "<hash>"}

Response:

{"status": "ready", "meta": {"version": 1, "original": "<filename>", "extracted": "<filename>", "detected_type": "pcap", "extracted_at": "<ISO timestamp>"}}
or
{"status": "processing", "phase": "network", "meta": {...}}
or, if analysis (Suricata/YARA/Zircolite) failed:
{"status": "error", "message": "<failure reason>"}

The phase field reflects the current analysis stage (network, logs, or files), or an empty string if no phase file exists yet. meta is present whenever .meta exists for the analysis and omitted otherwise (including on the error response). Same "no 404 for a well-formed-but-nonexistent MD5" caveat as GET /api/status applies here too.

Ready detection: For PCAPs, checks that eve.json exists and events.db is present. For other files, checks that events.db exists.


POST /api/reanalyze

Re-runs the analysis pipeline for an existing MD5 directory. The original uploaded file is preserved; the previous analysis outputs (eve.json, events.db, etc.) are removed and regenerated.

Request Body:

{"md5": "<hash>"}

Only md5 is read from the request body — the response's phase is determined automatically from what's actually in the analysis's directory (network if a PCAP is found, logs if a log file is found, otherwise files), not accepted as client input.

Response:

{"status": "processing", "md5": "<hash>", "phase": "network"}

Errors: 400 for invalid MD5 or unsafe path. 404 if analysis not found. 409 if analysis is already in progress.


POST /api/delete-analysis

Deletes a single historical analysis (removes the entire MD5 directory).

Request Body:

{"md5": "<hash>"}

Response:

{"success": true}

Errors: 400 for invalid MD5 or unsafe path. 404 if analysis not found.


POST /api/delete-all-analyses

Deletes all historical analyses (every MD5-shaped directory under the data root). Non-analysis directories and files are left untouched.

Request Body: {} (empty JSON object)

Response:

{"success": true, "deleted": 5}

Errors: 500 if every analysis directory fails to delete.


Error Codes

Code Meaning
400 Invalid input (bad IP, port, MD5, URL, path traversal)
404 Resource not found (no file, no analysis, no packets)
409 Conflict — analysis already in progress for this MD5
413 File too large
500 Internal server error (generic message, no details leaked)
507 Not enough disk space available for this upload