Thursday, November 30, 2017

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/30/2017

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/30/2017


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 21 new rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 8 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.



Talos's rule release:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-ie, exploit-kit, file-office, file-other, file-pdf, malware-cnc, server-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


In order to subscribe now to Talos's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at https://snort.org/products#rule_subscriptions. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/28/2017

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/28/2017


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 59 new rules of which 13 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 19 additional rules of which 1 are Shared Object rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

Talos's rule release:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-firefox, browser-ie, browser-other, file-image, file-other, file-pdf, indicator-compromise, malware-cnc, policy-other, protocol-tftp and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


In order to subscribe now to Talos's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at https://snort.org/products#rule_subscriptions. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/21/2017, Adobe Vulns

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/21/2017


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 105 new rules of which 4 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 18 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.


Talos's rule release:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-firefox, browser-ie, file-flash, file-image, file-office, file-other, file-pdf, malware-cnc, malware-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


In order to subscribe now to Talos's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at https://snort.org/products#rule_subscriptions. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/16/2017

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/16/2017


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 18 new rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 12 additional rules of which 2 are Shared Object rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.



Talos's rule release:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-ie, exploit-kit, file-image, file-pdf, indicator-compromise, malware-cnc and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


In order to subscribe now to Talos's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at https://snort.org/products#rule_subscriptions. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/14/2017, MSTuesday

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/14/2017


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 55 new rules of which 15 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 11 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

Talos would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions, their rules are included in the Community Ruleset:

Yaser Mansour
44763
44764
44768


Talos's rule release:
Talos is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from Microsoft
Corporation.

Details:
Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11791:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Scripting Engine that may lead
to information disclosure.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44819 through 44820.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11837:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Scripting Engine that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44809 through 44810.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11840:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Scripting Engine that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44811 through 44812.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11841:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Scripting Engine that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44813 through 44814.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11843:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Scripting Engine that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44815 through 44816.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11845:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Edge that may lead to remote
code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44817 through 44818.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11846:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Scripting Engine that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44845 through 44846.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11847:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows Kernel that may lead to
elevation of privilege.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44833 through 44834.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11854:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Word that may lead to remote
code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44838 through 44839.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11855:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Internet Explorer that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44831 through 44832.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11856:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Internet Explorer that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44829 through 44830.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11858:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Scripting Engine that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44827 through 44828.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11861:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Scripting Engine that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44825 through 44826.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11869:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Scripting Engine that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44823 through 44824.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11873:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Scripting Engine that may lead
to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44843 through 44844.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2017-11878:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Excel that may lead to remote
code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 44821 through 44822.

Talos also has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-ie,
file-image, file-office, file-other, file-pdf, indicator-compromise,
os-windows and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging
threats from these technologies.


In order to subscribe now to Talos's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at https://snort.org/products#rule_subscriptions. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/09/2017

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/09/2017


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 55 new rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 27 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.



Talos's rule release:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-ie, file-identify, file-office, file-other, file-pdf, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-linux, server-apache and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


In order to subscribe now to Talos's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at https://snort.org/products#rule_subscriptions. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/07/2017

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/07/2017


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 24 new rules of which 1 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 124 additional rules of which 1 are Shared Object rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.



Talos's rule release:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-ie, browser-other, browser-plugins, exploit-kit, file-executable, file-identify, file-multimedia, file-office, file-other, malware-cnc, netbios, server-mail and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


In order to subscribe now to Talos's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at https://snort.org/products#rule_subscriptions. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Friday, November 3, 2017

Snort 3.0 with ElasticSearch, LogStash, and Kibana (ELK)

The Elastic Stack, consisting of Elasticsearch with Logstash and Kibana, commonly abbreviated "ELK", makes it easy to enrich, forward, and visualize log files.  ELK is especially good for getting the most from your Snort 3.0 logs.  This post will show you how to create a cool dashbaord:



The dashboard shows the following:
  • bring_da_heat - a heat map that plots event priority vs classification
  • apple_pie - a pie chart that shows total bytes transferred by app
  • greatest_hits - a data table that shows the rules generating the most events
  • global_hot_spots - a geo plot of the event source address*
  • size_o_gram - a histogram of logged packet / buffer sizes

Get Started

To get started, you will need to install the following:
Go ahead and get Snort 3.0 and ELK installed now if you haven't done so already.  There is plenty of help for that available elsewhere.  Some things to note:
  • The github repo is updated multiple times per week and the master branch is always clean so that is the best way to get Snort 3.0.
  • The base appid module is built into Snort 3.0 but you will need Open App ID to get the Lua detector plugins.
  • You can use the community rules in 3.0 format or translate other 2.X rules with snort2lua.

Run Snort

The next step is to get Snort running and generating events and app stats.  Add the following to the default config file (after the -c argument below):

appid =
{
    log_stats = true,
    app_detector_dir = 'ODP'
}

alert_json =
{
    fields = 'timestamp pkt_num proto pkt_gen pkt_len dir src_addr src_port dst_addr dst_port service rule priority class action b64_data'
}

The tokens in bold above and below are as follows:
  • ODP is the path where you installed Open App ID.  Note this path does not include the trailing /odp.
  • INSTALL is the install prefix you used when configuring your Snort 3.0 build.
  • RULES is the path containing the community rules.
  • PCAP is your favorite pcap.  You could use -i <iface> instead. 
This command will process your pcap and generate alerts.json and app_stats.log files in your current directory:

INSTALL/bin/snort \
-c INSTALL/etc/snort/snort.lua \
-R RULES/snort3-community.rules \
--plugin-path INSTALL/lib \
-r PCAP \
-A json -y -q > alerts.json

The JSON events are determined by the configured fields to look like this:

{ "timestamp" : "03/08/01-04:21:07.583700", "pkt_num" : 737, "proto" : "UDP", "pkt_gen" : "raw", "pkt_len" : 161, "dir" : "C2S", "src_addr" : "192.168.16.222", "src_port" : 3076, "dst_addr" : "239.255.255.250", "dst_port" : 1900, "service" : "unknown", "rule" : "1:1917:15", "priority" : 3, "class" : "Detection of a Network Scan", "action" : "allow", "b64_data" : "TS1TRUFSQ0ggKiBIVFRQLzEuMQ0KSG9zdDoyMzkuMjU1LjI1NS4yNTA6MTkwMA0KU1Q6dXJuOnNjaGVtYXMtdXBucC1vcmc6ZGV2aWNlOkludGVybmV0R2F0ZXdheURldmljZToxDQpNYW46InNzZHA6ZGlzY292ZXIiDQpNWDozDQoNCg==" }

The app stats are in csv format with Unix timestamp, app, bytes to client, and bytes to server:

1059733200,FTP Data,4441712,185694921

Run ELK

Now lets process these logs with the elastic stack.  Start by running elasticsearch and kibana as follows:

cd elasticsearch-5.5.1/
bin/elasticsearch -v &

cd kibana-5.5.1-darwin-x86_64
bin/kibana &

I've got version 5.5.1 of ELK installed on OS X.  Adjust your paths as needed for your install of ELK.  We are using the default ports of 9200 for elasticsearch and 5601 for kibana.  You may need to adjust on your system.

Now we are ready to send the logs to elasticsearch using logstash.  Get the config files here.  Edit alert_json.txt and alert_apps.txt and set the path on the 3rd line to point to your log files.  Then you can run logstash like this:

cd logstash-5.5.1/
bin/logstash -f snort_json.txt &
bin/logstash -f snort_apps.txt &

Visualize

The logstash commands will populate the logstash-snort3j and logstash-snort3a indexes in elasticsearch.  At this point we can start working on the dashboard using kibana.  Point your browser to http://localhost:5601/ and follow these steps:
  1.   Click on the gear (Management), Index Patterns, + Create Index Pattern, set the name logstash-snort3j, and then click Create.
  2.   Edit b64_data (click pencil on right), set Format = String and Transform = Base64 Decode, and then click Update Field.
  3.   Click on the gear (Management), Index Patterns, + Create Index Pattern, set the name logstash-snort3a, and then click Create.
  4.   Click the scripted fields tab, + Add Scripted Field, set Name = app_total_bytes and Script = doc['bytes_to_client'].value+doc['bytes_to_server'].value and then click Create Field.
At this point you can click on the icons on the left for Discover, Visualize, and Dashboard to view the raw data, create tables, charts, etc., and build a dashboard.  This is really best done by just exploring and experimenting, however you can import the dashboard shown above by clicking Management, Saved Objects, Import and selecting snort_dash.json.  Tip: base your visualizations off saved searches so that you don't lose them when the data is deleted.

snort_csv.txt is also provided for use with snort -A csv if you want to process alerts in csv format.  The index name for that is logstash-snort3.

* Snort 3.0 supports the target rule option, so use that instead of source address if your rules have targets.  That gets the attacker correct for shellcode, etc.










Thursday, November 2, 2017

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/02/2017

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 11/02/2017


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 26 new rules of which 14 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 2 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.



Talos's rule release:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the indicator-compromise, policy-other, protocol-snmp and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


In order to subscribe now to Talos's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at https://snort.org/products#rule_subscriptions. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Snort++ Update

Pushed build 240 to github (snortadmin/snort3).  It's been a while since posting so this is a big list!
  • active: fix packet modify vs resize handling
  • alert_csv: rename dgm_len to pkt_len
  • alert_csv: add b64_data, class, priority, service, vlan, and mpls options
  • alert_json: initial json event logger
  • alerts: add log_references to store and log rule references with alert_full
  • appid: enable SSL certificate pattern matching
  • appid: fix build with LuaJIT 2.1
  • appid: reorganize AppIdHttpSession to minimize padding
  • appid: add count for applications detected by port only
  • appid: create exptected flow immediately after ftp PORT command for active mode
  • appid: handle sip events before packets
  • appid: overhaul peg counting for discovered appids
  • appid: use ac_full search method since it supports find_all; force enable dfa flag
  • binder: added network policy selection
  • binder: added zones
  • binder: allow src and dst specifications for ports and nets
  • binder: check interface on packet instead of flow
  • binder: fixed nets check falling through on failure
  • build: clean up a few ICC 2018 and GCC 7 warnings
  • build: fix linking against external libiconv with autotools
  • build: fix numerous analyzer errors and leaks
  • build: fix numerous clang-tidy warnings
  • build: fix numerous cppcheck warnings
  • build: fix numerous valgrind errors
  • build: fixed issues on OSX
  • catch: update to Catch v1.10.0
  • cd_icmp6: fix encoded cksum calculation
  • cd_pbb: initial version of codec for 802.1ah; thanks to jan hugo prins <jhp@jhprins.org> for      reporting the issue
  • cd_pflog: fix comments; thanks to Markus Lude <markus.lude@gmx.de> for the 2X patch
  • content: fix relative loop condition
  • control: delete the old binder while reloading inspector
  • control: update binder with new inspector
  • daq: add support for DAQ_VERDICT_RETRY
  • daq: add support for packet trace
  • daq: add support tunnel bypass for IP 4IN4, IP 6IN6, GRE and MPLS by config and flags
  • data_log: update to new http_inspect
  • dce_rpc: remove connection-oriented rules from dce_smb module
  • dce_smb: unicode filename support
  • doc: add module usage and peg count type
  • doc: add POP, IMAP and SMTP to user manual features
  • doc: add port scan feature
  • flow key: support associating router solicit/reply packets to a single session
  • http_inspect: HTTP headers no longer avoid detection when message unexpectedly ends after status  line or headers
  • http_inspect: add random increment to message body division points
  • http_inspect: added http_raw_buffer rule option
  • http_inspect: create message sections with body data that has been dechunked and unzipped but not otherwise nortmalized
  • http_inspect: handle borked reassembly gracefully; thanks to João Soares <joaopsys@gmail.com> for reporting the issue
  • http_inspect: support for u2 extra data logging
  • http_inspect: test tool improvements
  • http_inspect: true IP enhancements
  • inspectors: add control type and ensure appid is run ahead of other controls
  • inspectors: add peg count for max concurrent sessions
  • ips: add uuid
  • loggers: add base64 encoder based on libb64 from devolve
  • loggers: use standard year/mon/day format
  • main: fix potential memory leak when queuing analyzer commands
  • memory: align allocator metadata such that returned memory is also max_align_t-aligned
  • memory: output basic startup heap stats
  • messages: output startup warnings and errors to stderr instead of stdout
  • messages: redirect stderr to syslog as well
  • modules: add usage designating global, context, inspect, or detect policy applicability
  • mss: add extra rule option to check mss
  • parser: disallow invalid port range !:65535 (!any)
  • parser: tweak performance
  • pcre: fix relative search with ^
  • pop: service name is pop3
  • replace: fix activation sequence
  • rules: warn only once per gid:sid of no fast pattern
  • search_engine: port the optimized port table compilation from 2.9.12
  • search_engines: Fix case sensitive ac_full DFA matching
  • shell: delete inspector from the default inspection policy
  • shell: fix --pause to accept control commands while in paused state
  • sip: sip_method can use data from any sip inspector of any inspection policy
  • snort.lua: align default conf closer to 2.X
  • snort.lua: expand default conf for completeness and clarity
  • snort_defaults.lua: update default servers and ports
  • snort2lua: correctly identify ftpbounce and sameip as unsupported rule options
  • snort2lua: added XFF configuration to unsupported list
  • snort2lua: added config protected_content to deleted list
  • snort2lua: added config_na_policy_mode to unsupported list
  • snort2lua: added dynamicoutput to deleted list
  • snort2lua: added firewall to unsupported list
  • snort2lua: added nap.rules zone translation
  • snort2lua: added nap_selector support
  • snort2lua: added nap_selector to unsupported list
  • snort2lua: added sf_unified2 to unsupported list and matching log/alert to deleted.
  • snort2lua: bindings now merge and propagate to top level of corresponsing policy
  • snort2lua: config policy_id converts to when ips_policy_id
  • snort2lua: convert dsize:a<>b to dsize:a<=>b for consistency with other rule options
  • snort2lua: do not convert sameip; handle same as ftpbounce (no longer supported)
  • snort2lua: enforced ordering to bindings in binder table
  • snort2lua: fix null char in -? output
  • snort2lua: fixed extra whitespace generation
  • snort2lua: logto is not supported
  • snort2lua: removed port dce proxy bindings to fix http_inspect conflicts
  • snort2lua: search_engine.split_any_any now defaults to true
  • snort: -T does not compile mpse; --mem-check does
  • snort: add warnings count to -T ouptut
  • snort: add --dump-msg-map
  • snort: exit with zero from usage
  • snort: fix --dump-builtin-rules to accept optional module prefix
  • stdlog: support snort 3> log for text alerts
  • target: add rule option to indicate target of attack
  • thread: add logging directory ID offset controlled by --id-offset option
  • u2spewfoo: fix build on FreeBSD
  • unified2: add legacy_events bool for out-of-date barnyard2
  • unified2: log buffers as cooked packets with legacy events
  • wscale: add extra rule option to check tcp window scaling