Palo Alto External Dynamic Lists for Various Services

Introduction

This provides a number of External Dynamic Lists (EDLs) to be used by a Palo Alto firewall. The following services are supported:

• Microsoft 365.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Zscaler.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Polycom RealConnect.

The script will use a combination of public APIs and DNS queries to return a list of IP addresses for use in an EDL.

Requirements

• PHP 7 (will probably work with PHP 5).
• cURL module for PHP.
• Apache 2 with mod_rewrite.
• Make outbound web requests (direct or via a proxy).
• Resolve external FQDNs.

Installation

1. Clone the repository and move somewhere within the web server's document root.
2. To have requests cached for 24 hours, make the cache directory writeable by the web server (e.g. chown www-data cache && chmod 755 cache).
3. If you need to use a proxy to connect to external resources from the web server, edit functions.inc.php, find the CURLOPT_PROXY and CURLOPT_PROXYPORT options, uncomment them and set them appropriately.

Ubuntu 21.04

These instructions will work with a vanilla install of Ubuntu 21.04 Server:

1. Install packages: apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php php-curl
2. Enable Apache and PHP modules: a2enmod rewrite php7.4 ; phpenmod curl
3. Edit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf and add to the VirtualHost stanza:

<Directory "/var/www/html">
  AllowOverride all
</Directory>

4. Restart Apache: systemctl restart apache2
5. Clone repository in to document root: cd /var/www/html && git clone https://github.com/david-ramsden/paloalto-edl.git
6. Enable caching and set proxy, if required (see Installation note #2 and #3 above).

Updates

Pull the latest code from the repository using git pull. This will pull in any new services that get added.

Usage

Create an External Dynamic List object on the firewall, where the source URL is: http://your.server/paloalto-edl/<vendor>/<service>

Note: With PAN-OS 8.1, a source URL using HTTPS was problematic. This was fixed in PAN-OS 9.0 and above.

Vendors and Services

Vendor	Service Required	Services	Optional Parameters
microsoft	No (will return all services)	common, exchange, sharepoint, skype
aws	No (will return all services)	Refer to services syntax.	region=<region> (refer to region syntax
gcp	No	google cloud	scope=<scope> (region such as us-central1)
zscaler	Yes	cenr, pac, hub	zscloud=<cloud> (defaults to zscloud.net)
polycom	No (defaults to global)	global, teams, sfb

Examples

• /paloalto-edl/microsoft will return all IPs and networks for Microsoft 365 services.
• /paloalto-edl/microsoft/exchange will return IPs and networks for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online service.
• /paloalto-edl/aws/ec2 will return all IPs and networks for AWS EC2 globally.
• /paloalto-edl/aws/s3?region=eu-west-3 will return all IPs and networks for AWS S3 in the eu-west-3 region.
• /paloalto-edl/gcp will return all IPs and networks for GCP.
• /paloalto-edl/gcp?scope=us-central1 will return all IPs and networks for GCP in the us-central1 region.
• /paloalto-edl/zscaler/hub will return IPs and networks for Zscaler (zscloud.net) Hub IPs.
• /paloalto-edl/zscaler/cenr?zscloud=zscaler.net will return IPs and networks for Zscaler (zscaler.net) CENR IPs.
• /paloalto-edl/polycom/teams will return IPs used for outbound calls to Polycom RealConnect service for Microsoft Teams.

Notes

• Requests for microsoft will only return IPv4 addresses. IPv6 is not requested but this can be changed in the code if required.
• Requests for aws and gcp will only return IPv4 addresses.

References

• Microsoft 365
• AWS
• GCP
• Zscaler
• Polycom RealConnect

Adding New Vendors and Services

If you would like to add new vendors and services, please submit a Pull Request with the required code modifications or submit an Issue to make a request.