new_contents: # Converts Unified2 event artifacts to simple JSON file
  # Primary use case is to convert Snort alerts to JSON
  # Performs no error checking
  #
  # Josh Liburdi 2016
  
  import unified2.parser
  import argparse
  import socket, struct
  import json
  
  def dec_to_ipv4(decimal):
    return socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack('!L',decimal))
  
  def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='')
    parser.add_argument('--input', '-i', dest='input_file', action='store')
    argsout = parser.parse_args()
  
    evts = []
    for ev,ev_tail in unified2.parser.parse(argsout.input_file):
      if 'ip_source' in ev:
        ev['ip_source'] = dec_to_ipv4(ev['ip_source'])
      if 'ip_destination' in ev:
        ev['ip_destination'] = dec_to_ipv4(ev['ip_destination'])
      evts.append(ev)
  
    outfile = argsout.input_file + '.json'
    with open(outfile, 'wb') as fout:
      for item in evts:
        fout.write("%s\n" % item)
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
  
subject: Create u2-parser.py