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Copy selected submission metadata when triggering re-analyse of a file #243

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kam193 opened this issue Aug 4, 2024 · 0 comments
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kam193 commented Aug 4, 2024

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In my use case, I have a metadata (currently: name of the analysed package) that connects related submissions. I also use it later for finding submissions, as well as semi-automatic archiving in an external storage. In a more generic use case, you can model it as a ticket number from an external system, that can be used to track all submissions related to the given ticket.

Thanks to an option to manually provide metadata, I can always set it when going through submission view. However, it would be extremely useful if those metadata fields were propagated automatically when going to a resubmission of a file or or submitting an extracted URL from the context of a particular submission. Interestingly, it already works like this for files when choosing "Resubmit for Dynamic Analyze", but not with "Adjust parameters before submission".

To be clear: I'm considering transferring some submission metadata to a re-submission of any file from generated in the submission, not only the original file, but also anything extracted. It happens quite often that I want to e.g. submit a file to a dynamic analysis or submit a statically extracted URL. Currently, I have to copy the metadata field each time and then fill it.

Describe the solution you'd like

  1. Allow configuring "sticky" metadata.
  2. Being in a submission view in the UI, when resubmitting any of extracted files, ensure pre-filling configured metadata from the open submission.
  3. Being in a submission view in the UI, when submitting an extracted URL from tags (right click / Submit URL), ensure pre-filling configured metadata from the open submission.

Describe alternatives you've considered

  • In some cases or views (e.g. file view) it may not be clear which submission should be the "context", so nothing should be pre-filled.
  • Files can be extracted from many submissions, and it's alright that metadata would be only from a particular one submission: it's about connecting related submissions. If I trigger a submission from a view of another, I'd like to be able to connect them.
  • An alternative idea would be to introduce "parent" submission - a triggered submission could keep the ID of the previous one (similarly to the ingest ID). However, I think keeping some metadata would be more flexible.
  • It could also be considered keeping all submission metadata, but I think it may provide unexpected consequences (e.g. copying ingest ID would rather be against the meaning of the metadata).

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For me, it's important that any extracted file / URL could keep some metadata. It's easier to remove them as to copy and put again ;)

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