List Parser
Software programing has been a skill that never came naturally to me but something I always wished I could do. I dabbled in creating an iOS application many years ago but that never really crossed the finish line (see also my first post). Luckily my career has never required me to learn how to write code or pick up a certain programing language. The bottleneck was never the ideas, it was taking those ideas and being able to create something from them. That’s where AI-assisted coding came to the rescue.
My first stab at a web application was a tool I called List Parser. It allows someone to input a plain text list and convert it to a format for either Crowdstrike or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. For example, let’s say I’m hunting a threat actor and have a list of indicators of compromise (IOCs). These could be IP addresses, domain names, or file hashes associated with the threat actor’s activity. I need to quickly search for the IOCs in the company network but the tools require them to be in a specific format (for example: “IOC_1”,”IOC_2”,”IOC_3”). Using list parser, I simply put the plain text list of IOCs in the app, select my output format, and click convert. This is not revolutionary, and probably only useful to me, but the fact that I was able to create this in less than an hour was amazing to me.
