Re: Snort / Pulled Pork Confusion

["Jefferson, Shawn" <Shawn.Jefferson () bcferries com>]

I'm curious what you think is confusing about it?  You can quite easily disable whole categories with Pulledpork, or 
ignore them from the tarball completely.  In fact, if we are talking about managing rules, PP gives you so much more... 
for instance, automatically enabling rules that set flowbits if another rule that is already enabled relies on it.  A 
noob rule operator will probably miss that.  PP makes things easier.  Also there is the whole "security/balanced" 
ruleset management that PP does for you as well-perfect for the noob (and advanced rule operators alike.)





From: Michael Steele [mailto:michaels () winsnort com]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 3:05 PM
To: 'JJC'
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort / Pulled Pork Confusion

Dumping all the rules into one bucket might be easier in the long run for an experienced rule operator, but for the new 
rule operator, it might get a little confusing.

I know separators were discussed earlier, but development on PP is at a crawl, or non-existent :(

One solution for those that use the -k switch would be for Sourcefire to prepend 'vrt-' to the distributed *.rules in 
the official distributed rule tarball, and change the snort.conf to reflect the 'vrt-*.rule'. At least that way, what 
you see in the official distributed rule tarball, is what you are seeing in the rules folder after using the -k switch 
in PP.

Kindest regards,
Michael...

From: JJC [mailto:cummingsj () gmail com]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 2:57 PM
To: AllowOverride
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net<mailto:snort-users () lists sourceforge net>; Turnbough, Bradley E.
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort / Pulled Pork Confusion

The logic here is quite simple... new rule categories and files are included in the rules tarball, they are 
automatically included in your live ruleset this way.  This is one of but many solid logical arguments.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:07 AM, AllowOverride <allowoverride () gmail com<mailto:allowoverride () gmail com>> wrote:
one file???? sighs... how is that quicker, show me the smack reports

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 21:13 +0000, Jeremy Hoel wrote:
> pulledpork puts all the rules together into one file.. so you can
> remove/comment out all the lines for the 'include $RULE_PATH/*.rules'
> and just have include $RULE_PATH/snort.rules' line.  Just one is
> needed.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Turnbough, Bradley E.
> <bturnbough () belcan com<mailto:bturnbough () belcan com>> wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm having a little trouble wrapping my head around the snort and pulled
> > pork interaction.  In the snort.conf file, the following rules are defined
> > (by default):
> >
> >
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/attack-responses.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/backdoor.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/bad-traffic.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/blacklist.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/botnet-cnc.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/chat.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/content-replace.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/ddos.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/dns.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/dos.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/exploit.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/file-identify.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/finger.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/ftp.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/icmp.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/icmp-info.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/imap.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/info.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/misc.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/multimedia.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/mysql.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/netbios.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/nntp.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/oracle.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/other-ids.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/p2p.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/phishing-spam.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/policy.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/pop2.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/pop3.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/rpc.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/rservices.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/scada.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/scan.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/shellcode.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/smtp.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/snmp.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/specific-threats.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/spyware-put.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/sql.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/telnet.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/tftp.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/virus.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/voip.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/web-activex.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/web-attacks.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/web-cgi.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/web-client.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/web-coldfusion.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/web-frontpage.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/web-iis.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/web-misc.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/web-php.rules
> >
> > include $RULE_PATH/x11.rules
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > When I compile snort, the $RULE_PATH directory isn't created.  I create it
> > by `mkdir /opt/snort/rules`.  I then run pulled pork with the following
> > command:
> >
> >
> >
> > ./pulledpork.pl<http://pulledpork.pl> -c /opt/pulledpork/etc/pulledpork.conf -o /opt/snort/rules/
> > -i /opt/pulledpork/etc/disablesid.conf -T -H
> >
> >
> >
> > The only file that shows up is `snort.rules`  where are all of the other
> > files that are specified in the snort.conf?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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