Re: Override alert msg for reputation preprocessor?

[Duane Howard <duane.security () gmail com>]

Thanks Hui,

So I'm reading the answer as, "no, there's no way to override this value
without modifying the source and recompiling."

./d


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Hui cao <huica () cisco com> wrote:

>  Hi Duane,
>
> This is done intentionally. If it's a preprocessor or decoder rule, the
> message we want to use is the one that was in snort, not what is in the
> message of the rule, which will be generic if the rule was not
> autogenerated and potentially wrong if it was.
>
> Best,
> Hui.
>
>
> On 07/17/2014 01:24 PM, Duane Howard wrote:
>
>  Hey all, I've enabled alerting for blacklisted events using the
> reputation preprocessor, but alerts continue to use the message defined in:
> spp_reputation.h
>
>  Instead of anything found in gen-msg.map or preproc.rules.
>
>  Is there a way to override the message that's sent when writing fast or
> unified2 alerts? We do some custom processing and I'd like to be able to
> modify this a bit for our specific use case.
>
>  examples:
> spp_reputation.h:
> #define REPUTATION_EVENT_BLACKLIST_STR     "(spp_reputation) packets
> blacklisted"
>
>  gen-msg.map:
> 136 || 1 || reputation: Packet is blacklisted
>
>  preproc.rules:
> alert ( msg: "REPUTATION_EVENT_BLACKLIST"; sid: 1; gid: 136; rev: 1;
> metadata: rule-type preproc ; tag:session,60,seconds;
> classtype:bad-unknown; )
>
>  Actual alert resulting:
> 07/14-02:51:30.229493  [**] [136:1:1] (spp_reputation) packets blacklisted
> [**] [Classification: Potentially Bad Traffic] [Priority: 2] {TCP}
> XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:XXXX -> XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:XXX
>
>  I'd like to change "(spp_reputation) packets blacklisted" without
> needing to recompile, etc.
>
>  Thanks,
> Duane
>
>
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