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Getting alerts for every file Snort detects and File Services preprocessor
From: Pablo Cantos Polaino <pcantos () redborder org>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:57:22 +0100
Hello all, I already sent this issue to snort-devel with the same subject since I am not sure if either I am configuring Snort in the right way or there is an internal malfunction to fix. I have been testing the new experimental preprocessor called File Services in order to get an event every time a file go through our network. To carry on these tests I have used two pcap files. The first one is a 1GB-size pcap with a great number of files and the second one is a short pcap generated on my computer when I downloaded a GIF file. My snort.conf file is configured like this at the end: include file_magic.conf
preprocessor file_inspect: type_id, signature, \
capture_queue_size 5000, \
capture_disk /home/file_capture/tmp/
In both cases files are captured by the preprocessor, as you can see below (1GB pcap output): ===============================================================================
Action Stats:
Alerts: 0 ( 0.000%)
Logged: 0 ( 0.000%)
Passed: 0 ( 0.000%)
Limits:
Match: 0
Queue: 0
Log: 0
Event: 0
Alert: 0
Verdicts:
Allow: 8418451 ( 97.482%)
Block: 0 ( 0.000%)
Replace: 0 ( 0.000%)
Whitelist: 217492 ( 2.518%)
Blacklist: 0 ( 0.000%)
Ignore: 0 ( 0.000%)
===============================================================================
===============================================================================
File Preprocessor Statistics
Total file type callbacks: 576
Total file signature callbacks: 578
Total files would saved to disk: 574
Total files saved to disk: 320
Total file data saved to disk: 483039 bytes
Total files duplicated: 254
Total files reserving failed: 2
Total file capture min: 0
Total file capture max: 2
Total file capture memcap: 0
Total files reading failed: 0
Total file agent memcap failures: 0
Total files sent: 0
Total file data sent: 0
Total file transfer failures: 0
===============================================================================
File type stats:
Type Download (Bytes) Upload (Bytes)
GZ( 33) 2 5580056 0 0
SWF( 52) 1 65991 0 0
GIF( 62) 7 16516 0 0
GIF( 63) 275 151718 0 0
PNG( 69) 266 256724 0 0
JPEG( 70) 2 35566 0 0
BMP(148) 2 4204 0 0
ICO(149) 21 187894 0 0
Total 576 6298669 0 0
File signature stats:
Type Download Upload
GZ( 33) 2 0
SWF( 52) 1 0
GIF( 62) 7 0
GIF( 63) 275 0
PNG( 69) 266 0
JPEG( 70) 2 0
BMP(148) 2 0
ICO(149) 21 0
Total 576 0
File type verdicts:
UNKNOWN: 576
LOG: 0
STOP: 0
BLOCK: 0
REJECT: 0
PENDING: 0
STOP CAPTURE: 0
Total: 576
File signature verdicts:
UNKNOWN: 578
LOG: 0
STOP: 0
BLOCK: 0
REJECT: 0
PENDING: 0
STOP CAPTURE: 0
Total: 578
Total files processed: 68985
Total files data processed: 97156439 bytes
Total files buffered: 576
Total files released: 574
Total files freed: 2
Total files captured: 574
Total files within one packet: 561
Total buffers allocated: 641
Total buffers freed: 64
Total buffers released: 577
Maximum file buffers used: 64
Total buffers free errors: 0
Total buffers release errors: 0
Total memcap failures: 0
Total memcap failures at reserve: 0
Total reserve failures: 0
Total file capture size min: 0
Total file capture size max: 0
Total capture max before reserve: 2
Total file signature max: 0
Maximum buffers can allocate: 3196
Number of buffers in use: 0
Number of buffers in free list: 2619
Number of buffers in release list: 577
===============================================================================
Following the instructions given as examples inside the file README.file, I have included the following rules to get an alert every time Snort detects a file: alert (msg: "GIF file"; gid:146; sid:63; rev:1; metadata: rule-type
preproc;)
After that, no alert showed up. I went deep inside the code to find out what the reason is and found the following piece of code that confused me: snort/src/dynamic-preprocessors/file/file_agent.c:601-614 /*
* File type callback when file type is identified
*
* For file capture or file signature, FILE_VERDICT_PENDING must be
returned
*/
static File_Verdict file_agent_type_callback(void* p, void* ssnptr,
uint32_t file_type_id, bool upload, uint32_t file_id)
{
file_inspect_stats.file_types_total++;
if (file_signature_enabled || file_capture_enabled)
return FILE_VERDICT_UNKNOWN;
else
return FILE_VERDICT_LOG;
}
You can read on the description that FILE_VERDICT_PENDING must be returned when file capture OR file signature is enabled, but what really the code does is to return FILE_VERDICT_UNKNOWN when capture or signature are enabled. After see that, I have modified the snort.conf by carrying on the following changes: Replace this: preprocessor file_inspect: type_id, signature, \
capture_queue_size 5000, \
capture_disk /home/file_capture/tmp/
By:
preprocessor file_inspect: type_id
This way I forced to go through the ELSE and return a FILE_VERDICT_LOG.
After this change, and using the same two alert rules, we run snort,
getting alerts like these below:
03/16-12:50:22.350000 [**] [146:63:1] GIF [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP}
192.168.202.78:80 <http://192.168.202.78/> -> 192.168.203.61:38976 03/16-12:50:22.350000 [**] [146:63:1] GIF [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 192.168.202.78:80 <http://192.168.202.78/> -> 192.168.203.61:38976 03/16-12:50:22.350000 [**] [146:63:1] GIF [**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 192.168.202.78:80 <http://192.168.202.78/> -> 192.168.203.61:38977
... and getting the following output at the end: ===============================================================================
Action Stats:
Alerts: 275 ( 0.003%)
Logged: 275 ( 0.003%)
Passed: 0 ( 0.000%)
Limits:
Match: 0
Queue: 0
Log: 0
Event: 0
Alert: 0
Verdicts:
Allow: 8418514 ( 97.482%)
Block: 0 ( 0.000%)
Replace: 0 ( 0.000%)
Whitelist: 217429 ( 2.518%)
Blacklist: 0 ( 0.000%)
Ignore: 0 ( 0.000%)
===============================================================================
===============================================================================
File Preprocessor Statistics
Total file type callbacks: 576
Total file signature callbacks: 0
Total files would saved to disk: 0
Total files saved to disk: 0
Total file data saved to disk: 0 bytes
Total files duplicated: 0
Total files reserving failed: 0
Total file capture min: 0
Total file capture max: 0
Total file capture memcap: 0
Total files reading failed: 0
Total file agent memcap failures: 0
Total files sent: 0
Total file data sent: 0
Total file transfer failures: 0
===============================================================================
File type stats:
Type Download (Bytes) Upload (Bytes)
GZ( 33) 2 0 0 0
SWF( 52) 1 0 0 0
GIF( 62) 7 0 0 0
GIF( 63) 275 0 0 0
PNG( 69) 266 0 0 0
JPEG( 70) 2 0 0 0
BMP(148) 2 0 0 0
ICO(149) 21 0 0 0
Total 576 0 0 0
File signature stats:
Type Download Upload
Total 0 0
File type verdicts:
UNKNOWN: 0
LOG: 576
STOP: 0
BLOCK: 0
REJECT: 0
PENDING: 0
STOP CAPTURE: 0
Total: 576
File signature verdicts:
UNKNOWN: 0
LOG: 0
STOP: 0
BLOCK: 0
REJECT: 0
PENDING: 0
STOP CAPTURE: 0
Total: 0
Total files processed: 68987
Total files data processed: 42751396 bytes
Total files buffered: 0
Total files released: 0
Total files freed: 0
Total files captured: 0
Total files within one packet: 0
Total buffers allocated: 0
Total buffers freed: 0
Total buffers released: 0
Maximum file buffers used: 0
Total buffers free errors: 0
Total buffers release errors: 0
Total memcap failures: 0
Total memcap failures at reserve: 0
Total reserve failures: 0
Total file capture size min: 0
Total file capture size max: 0
Total capture max before reserve: 0
Total file signature max: 0
===============================================================================
As you can see, in the "File type verdicts" section I got all the files with verdict LOG. Also, I got 275 alerts that match the 275 GIF files detected by Snort. I am not sure if this is the expected behavior of this feature or maybe I am not configuring Snort properly. Am I doing something wrong or configuring the preprocessor in a wrong way? Thanks for your help and best Regards, Pablo Cantos redborder.org / pcantos () redborder org
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