"Hyperscan is a high-performance multiple regex matching library." https://www.hyperscan.io
"Hyperscan is a high performance regular expression matching library (...)" (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/introduction-to-hyperscan.html)
In Suricata it can be used to perform multi pattern matching (mpm). Support was implemented by Justin Viiret and Jim Xu from Intel: https://github.com/inliniac/suricata/pull/1965, https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/1704
In Suricata it can be used to perform multi pattern matching (mpm) or single pattern matching (spm).
Compilation
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Support for hyperscan in Suricata was initially implemented by Justin Viiret and Jim Xu from Intel via https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/1965.
It's possible to pass --with-libhs-includes=/usr/local/include/hs/ --with-libhs-libraries=/usr/local/lib/, although by default this shouldn't be necessary. Suricata should pick up Hyperscan's pkg-config file automagically.
Hyperscan is only for Intel x86 based processor architectures at this time. For ARM processors, vectorscan is a drop in replacement for hyperscan, https://github.com/VectorCamp/vectorscan.
When Suricata's compilation succeeded, you should have:
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Basic Installation (Package)
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Some Linux distributions include hyperscan in their respective package collections.
To use the hyperscan support edit your suricata.yaml. Change the mpm-algo and spm-algo values to 'hs'.
Advanced Installation (Source)
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Alternatively, use this command-line option: --set mpm-algo=hs --set spm-algo=hs
Hyperscan has the following dependencies in order to build from
source:
* boost development libraries (minimum boost library version is 1.58)
* cmake
* C++ compiler (e.g. gcc-c++)
* libpcap development libraries
* pcre2 development libraries
* python3
* ragel
* sqlite development libraries
**Note:** git is an additional dependency if cloning the
hyperscan GitHub repository. Otherwise downloading the
hyperscan zip from the GitHub repository will work too.
Ubuntu Hyperscan Installation
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To use Suricata with Hyperscan support, install dependencies:
The steps to build and install hyperscan are:
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apt-get install cmake ragel
libboost headers
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Hyperscan needs the libboost headers from 1.58+.
On Ubuntu 15.10 or 16.04+, simply do:
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apt-get install libboost-dev
Trusty
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Trusty has 1.57, so it's too old. We can grab a newer libboost version, but we *don't* install it system wide. It's only the headers we care about during compilation of Hyperscan.