MAL (the Meta Attack Language)

MAL is a language for designing cyber threat modeling languages for specific domains. For more information, see https://mal-lang.org/.

Some examples of MAL languages are:

• exampleLang
• vehicleLang

Creating a MAL language:

For information on how to set up your development environment for creating MAL languages, please refer to the README.md file in exampleLang: https://github.com/mal-lang/exampleLang/blob/master/README.md

For MAL language development, you don't need to compile the MAL compiler yourself. It will be downloaded by maven automatically.

Developing the MAL compiler

To develop the MAL compiler, you need to have Apache Maven and a Java JDK installed. You also need to enable the OSSRH snapshot repository. You can do that by creating a file ~/.m2/settings.xml with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>ossrh-snapshots</id>
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>ossrh</id>
          <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
  <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>ossrh-snapshots</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
</settings>

Execute the following steps to download and compile the MAL complier:

git clone git://github.com/mal-lang/malcompiler.git
cd malcomplier
mvn install