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Extract and defang IP addresses

Collect IPv4 and IPv6 indicators, deduplicate them, and neutralize the notation.

Install in Serialize

What it can do

  • Extract IPv4 and IPv6
  • Sort and remove duplicates
  • Neutralize addresses for reporting

How the recipe works

Extract IP addresses

Find both address families in the text.

Defang IP Addresses

Defang the extracted indicators.

Demonstration

Sample input

Seen 203.0.113.42, 198.51.100.7 and 2001:db8::1.

Expected result

203[.]0[.]113[.]42

When to use it

  • SOC triage
  • Threat-intelligence cleanup
  • Building block lists

Adapt it

Enable removal of local IPv4 addresses when a report should contain only public indicators.

Source and verification

Adapted from mattnotmax CyberChef recipes. The explanation and sample are written for Serialize, use synthetic or documentation-safe data, and are checked against the current operation catalogue. The workflow runs locally without an external API call.

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