Re: Snort against DARPA 1999 Dataset

[Zahra Hakimi <zhr.hakimi () gmail com>]

Yes, it generated 17000 alerts but when I compared these alerts with DARPA
dataset master identification file, I found that any of them is true
positive alert.

Link to DARPA dataset truth file:
http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/communications/ist/files/master_identifications.list

Thanks & Regards,
Zahra Hakimi



On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:

> You said it generated 17,000 alerts, but then you say it didn't generate
> any alerts.  Which one is it?
>
>
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> Joel Esler
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> On Nov 5, 2012, at 4:03 AM, Zahra Hakimi <zhr.hakimi () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm working on running snort with DARPA dataset for 4 weeks but I gain
> any success to detection its attacks by snort.
> > My test setup is as follow:
> >
> > I've two virtual machine with Ubuntu installed. On the first virtual
> machine I've Tcpreplay installed to replay network traffic stored in one
> day of DARPA testing dataset to network. On the other machine, I've set IP
> address manually to one of Victim's IP address in the dataset (eg.
> 172.16.112.50). Also, I've installed snort-2.9.3.1 to protect just this
> machine. (HOME_NET= 172.16.112.50 & External_NET= !$HOME_NET)
> > I'm confused by the output alerts. After than four hours of running,
> snort generates about 17000 alerts that less than 1% of them has source or
> destination IP address same as my configured HOME_NET (172.16.112.50).
> > My second problem is detection rate. It doesn't generate any true
> positive alert.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Zahra Hakimi
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