Re: DOS rules for Nimda

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

Is the seq number constant for every connection?  If so you could do a
simple detection rule looking for the seq + window with the SYN flag set.
If you use version 1.9 you can even use the new threshold keyword to only
get one event notification for every X alerts....

    -Marty


On 9/26/02 7:11 AM, "Richard Ellerbrock" <richarde () eskom co za> wrote:

> I am trying to help a very large site that is being killed by denial of
> service due to a large number of MS type workstations infected by Nimda.
> The standard snort rules are no good as no connection is actually made,
> just a HUGE SYN flood looking for open Web servers to infect. Traffic
> looks like this:
>
> Each host sends 2x SYN packets exactly the same (same source port, SEQ
> and WIN size) to a remote host on port 80. Obviously never gets a reply.
> Within a couple of milliseconds, tries another randon destination.
>
> Now my understanding of snort points to the stream4 processor to catch
> this stuff, but how to configure. The docs are a little unclear to this
> snort newbie. I do get TTL evasion on stream4, but this does not
> indicate much.
>
> Any help with rules/setup for this would be great.
>
>
>
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