Version: 2.1.0.12.dev0

Overview

This page provides a quick overview needed to understand the inner workings of the python-cybox library. If you prefer a more hands-on approach, browse the Examples.

CybOX Entities

Each type within CybOX is represented by a class which derives from cybox.Entity. In general, there is one Python class per CybOX type, though in some cases classes which would have identical functionality have been reused rather than writing duplicating classes. One example of this is that many enumerated values are implemented using the cybox.common.properties.String, since values aren’t checked to make sure they are valid enumeration values.

Note

Not all CybOX types have yet been implemented.

Controlled Vocabulary Strings

Controlled Vocabulary strings are a concept originally designed for STIX and adapted for use in CybOX as well. For background, see the STIX documentation. Controlled Vocabulary strings are implemented in the cybox Python package very similarly to how they are implemented in the stix package, so viewing the python-stix documentation should help explain how to work with CybOX Controlled Vocabulary strings as well. CybOX vocabularies are defined in the cybox.common.vocabs module.