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OTX lookup result doesn't use validation informations from the OTX response #102

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@jrvn

As-Is: OTXLookupResult checks in the result only non-zero count of pulses. But some of the results have validation field, where can be found information about whitelisting of IP/Domain (not malicious, even if found in pulses). This causes return of the false positive result into Graylog.

To-Be: OTXLookupResult should check the occurence of validation key first and if it is false, then continue with checking the non-zero count of pulses.

Example of the result from OTX API, indicator IPv4, IP=8.8.8.8

...
"validation": [
      {
        "message": "suspiciously short IP (len: 7)",
        "name": "Suspicious IP format / Possible version number",
        "source": "suspicious"
      },
      {
        "message": "contained in 8.8.8.8",
        "name": "Whitelisted IP",
        "source": "whitelist"
      }
    ],
...

Example: for inspiration, here is code in Python OTX-Python-SDK example, function def ip()

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