Re: Understanding IDSkeys - thought I had it but no..........

[Jörgen Persson <jpn () tlth lth se>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:56:22PM -0300, Mads Rasmussen wrote:
> Hmmm I thought I had it but....
>
> [**] [111:8:1] spp_stream4: STEALTH ACTIVITY (FIN scan) detection [**] 
>
> [**] [111:3:1] spp_stream4: Possible RETRANSMISSION detection [**]  
>
> Then what is the idskey? 
>
> The FAQ doesn't mension this very clearly, what is the procedure exactly? 
> first I just had the 111:3:1 key and searched for 111 on the whitehat.com/ids 
> site. This gave me info about a trojan but now that a FIN scan gives the same 
> number just with different suffix what is the ids key and how do I search for 
> it on whitehats?

The number 111 is the ID of the generator who made the alert (in this
case spp_stream4). The second number is the SID (Snort ID) of the rule
and the third number is the revision of the rule. There's some info
about it in the FAQ.

Jörgen

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