Re: how to test snort rules?

[Matthew Jonkman <jonkman () emergingthreatspro com>]

It's not FP testing if that's what you're thinking. :)

It's for engine testing and load testing primarily. Testing keywords, preprocessors, reassembly, etc. Not the only 
tool, but a very useful one!

Matt

On Feb 9, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Matt Olney wrote:

> What do you use it for?  Its a completely invalid functional test, since you're mimicking the rule.  What is the 
> purpose?
>
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Matthew Jonkman <jonkman () emergingthreatspro com> wrote:
> I highly recommend Rule2Alert. Famousjs maintains that, a former ET and OISF employee. Great project! We use it 
> heavily.
>
> Matt
>
> On Feb 8, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Fraser, Hugh wrote:
>
> > There's also a project, still in development, called Rule2Alert that imports snort rules and uses Scapy to generate 
> > the corresponding traffic to trigger the rules. It's at www.malforge.com.
> >
> > From: Matt Olney [mailto:molney () sourcefire com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 10:54 AM
> > To: Kevin Ross
> > Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] how to test snort rules?
> >
> > For example, https://www.openpacket.org/capture/grab/40 (ms06-040) should fire sid:7209:
> >
> > kpyke@vrt-dev-01:~/mal_pack$ stest -Kqn ms06_04.pcap
> > Alerts (2.9.0, ms06_04.pcap)
> > 1:7209:10       NETBIOS DCERPC NCACN-IP-TCP srvsvc NetrPathCanonicalize overflow attempt     Alerts: 2
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Kevin Ross <kevross33 () googlemail com> wrote:
> > You could also look at openpacket.org and set snort to read the packet in (make sure you haven't set your $HOME_NET 
> > variable and to test it so it will fire on any IP though in practice you should have your $HOME_NET set and then 
> > EXTERNAL_NET !HOME_NET so it considers everything else non-internal). I would also advise using the emergingthreats 
> > snort rules (google them) for some free rules which cover a lot of malware, command and control, known hostile IP 
> > address, exploits, scanners and so on. You could also look on sites like exploit-db.com for vulnerabilities which 
> > are covered to test them from another system.
> >
> > Regards, Kevin 
> >
> > On 8 February 2011 09:29, anvin igcar <avigcar () gmail com> wrote:
> > Dear members
> >   I am new in snort and I installed it on my Fedora 12 system. SNORT is running properly and I am using BASE to view 
> > snort alerts. I want to know how to test snort rules , I want to test my running snort before deploying it. 
> > Is there any software which would do this?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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