Re: help writing snort rule

["Bill Lopez" <Bill () oefi org>]

Thank you for the quick response to my question.  

 

I don't want to keep asking elementary questions in this forum if its
not appropriate, please let me know if this isn't the proper place and
direct me to where I can ask basic questions.

 

I wasn't able to get an alert on the bleeding rule

 

alert tcp any any -> any any (msg: "BLEEDING-EDGE SSN Detected in Clear
Text"; flow: established; pcre:"/
([0-6]\d\d|7[0-256]\d|73[0-3]|77[0-2])-\d{2}-\d{4} /"; classtype:
policy-violation; sid: 2001328; rev:8; )

 

thus the reason for trying to write my own with a small variance in the
character string -  

 

alert ip any any -> $EXTERNAL_NET any
(pcre:"/\d{3}(\s|-)?\d{2}(\s|-)?\d{4}/"; msg:"SSN Detected in Clear
Text"; sid: 1000004;)

 

which doesn't produce an alert either - eventually I want to apply this
filter to just traffic from/to mail , telnet, ftp (etc) servers - I can
send any variance of xxx-xx-xxxx, xxxxxxxx  or xxx xx xxxx via an
e-mail, text file attachment or file upload and still never see an alert
to the console.  I have a simple rule to check for content using a
keyword and get alerted when sending that keyword with e-mail,
attachment and file upload (this was my test to see if snort was
actually alerting correctly)  I am only running my test rules with an
out of the box snort.conf file.

 

Why wouldn't either of the above rules alert with (for example) an
e-mail sent with 555-55-5555 in the body?

 

 

Bill Lopez

Operating Engineers Trust Funds

(626) 356-3524

(626) 255-1066

 

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