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Re: Can't read IDS Log


From: "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:25:57 +0000

Error 422 means:


The version of rules you are attempting to download doesn't exist anymore as a result of our EOL policy.

Please see it here:
https://www.snort.org/eol



--
Joel Esler
Manager, Talos Group




On Oct 27, 2015, at 5:20 PM, Victor Roemer (viroemer) <viroemer () cisco com<mailto:viroemer () cisco com>> wrote:

Aaron,

I am not familiar with `pulledpork` as a user so much- I'm adding the Snort-users back to the CC; someone
more knowledgeable then myself on this subject exists there.

 "Error 422 when fetching ..." is an HTTP server response code, so I would guess old version of pulled pork or
perhaps you dont have the whatever we call it APIkey thing (OINKCODE?)...



On 10/21/15 18:53, Aaron Brown wrote:
Thanks.   I have installed everything per the manual  but am having trouble getting PulledPork to download rules.

"Checking latest MD5 for snortrules-snapshot-2976.tar.gz....
    Error 422 when fetching https://www.snort.org/reg-rules/snortrules-snapshot-2976.tar.gz.md5 at 
/usr/local/bin/pulledpork.pl line 463.
    main::md5file('<d502ece18d1feea16344bf3c74f881b257856938>', 'snortrules-snapshot-2976.tar.gz', '/tmp/', 
'https://www.snort.org/reg-rules/&apos;) called at /u"



On Monday, October 19, 2015 3:20 PM, Victor Roemer <viroemer () cisco com><mailto:viroemer () cisco com> wrote:


Aaron, you're missing an large part of the build chain... In lieu of this, let me point you at some literature 
contributed by the opensource community:

https://snort.org/documents/snort-2-9-7-x-on-ubuntu-12-lts-and-14-lts

This one is specific to Ubuntu; however additional resources can be found @ <https://snort.org/documents> 
https://snort.org/documents




On 10/16/15 19:27, Aaron Brown wrote:
Hmmm. ......   I am seeing that it is telling me below, but no telling me what exactly or where to get it:

"checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/home/jethro/daq-2.0.6':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
"



On Friday, October 16, 2015 6:41 PM, Victor Roemer <viroemer () cisco com><mailto:viroemer () cisco com> wrote:


Aaron, did you install snort via 'apt-get'?

If so- then you'll need to take a few steps back and do the following

1. Uninstall via aptitude
2. download the Snort tar.gz from https://www.snort.org<https://www.snort.org/>
3. download the DAQ tar.gz from same site
4. Install the 'build-essentials' packaged via aptitude repos

take a break

5. untar DAQ tar.gz (cd into directory)
6. Execute `./configure`
7. Wait for its failure messages- it will tell you what you need to install, and where to get it.
8. Repeat 6 and 7 until it succeeds, and `make install`

then, go back to step 5, and do the same thing with the Snort tar.gz


On 10/16/15 18:36, Aaron Brown wrote:
Trying to use u2spewfoo.  It is not part of my snort.   I used apt-get install.    Is there some trusted place to 
download that 1 tool?



On Thursday, October 15, 2015 9:22 PM, Victor Roemer <mailto:viroemer () cisco com> <viroemer () cisco 
com><mailto:viroemer () cisco com> wrote:


Aaron,

IIRC, "snort.log" is the default name for the "log_unified2" output format- and considering your log text looks like 
unicode vomit (typical of raw binary); try reading the logs with
the provided tool "u2spewfoo".

Execute like so

$ u2spewfoo /var/snort/snort.log

If that does nothing useful for you, then your snort.conf and the command line options used to run snort will be needed.

---

FWIW, if you are not using unified2 output, then you should seriously consider switching. It is our preferred format, 
it is capable of providing additional meta-informations, and allows easy correlation of snort alerts and the culprit 
packets.

u2spewfoo is a tool we provide with snort to dump this data into a readable text format- but not much else. The serious 
deployments make heavy use of "barnyard2" for spooling the logs and doing the magics
to log to databases, etc..


-Victor



On 10/15/15 19:11, Aaron Brown wrote:
Hi, I am new to snort.  Just set it up and ran in intrusion detection mode.  All seems well it reports and when I stop 
it seems to have a bunch of good statistics.   But, when I cat the /var/snort/snort.log I get this stuff below(alot 
more than posted):   When I import it into Wireshark, it says the packet is too big to be imported.    I just want to 
read the logs:


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