Python Threat Hunting Tools: Part 9 — Creating Python Packages with Poetry

Welcome back to this series on building threat hunting tools. In this series, I will be showcasing a variety of threat hunting tools that you can use to hunt for threats, automate tedious processes, and extend to create your own toolkit!

Most of these tools will be simple, focusing on being easy to understand and implement. This is so that you, the reader, can learn from these tools and begin to develop your own. There will be no cookie-cutter tutorial on programming fundamentals like data types, control structures, etc. This series will focus on the practical implementation of scripting through small projects.

You are encouraged to play with these scripts, figure out ways to break or extend them, and try to improve their basic design to fit your needs. I find this the best way to learn any new programming language/concept and, certainly, the best way to derive value!
In this installment, we create our own Python packages so others can easily use our threat hunting tools.

What is a Python Package?

Python, you can easily add functionality to your code by importing modules. For instance, in this series, you have previously used the requests module, json module, and csv module to interact with the web…