Re: Help would be appreciated!

["Nicholas Mavis (nmavis)" <nmavis () cisco com>]

Charlie,

We need data in order to help ascertain the root cause of your issue. Please provide the following:

  *   The rule
  *   Pcap of the traffic that should be alerting
  *   Snort.conf file

Nick

From: Charlie Egan <chas5873 () gmail com<mailto:chas5873 () gmail com>>
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 2:02 PM
To: "snort-users () lists sourceforge net<mailto:snort-users () lists sourceforge net>" <snort-users () lists 
sourceforge net<mailto:snort-users () lists sourceforge net>>
Subject: [Snort-users] Help would be appreciated!

Hi guys,

I've been playing around with Snort for a while now as a little project of mine, and I'm doing my best to get the hang 
of writing rules for it. I'm becoming more familiar with how signatures are made, and I'd like to begin writing rules 
which aren't currently detected by Snort, even if they're fairly simple ones.

Currently I'm using Snort as a sniffer on a Kali Linux VM, metasploit on another Kali Linux VM, and Windows 2000 & XP 
as victim machines. I've been looking for exploits on sites such as exploit db and 1337day, and I'm trying to start 
with plain text protocols such as FTP and HTTP to make writing the rules slightly easier for me (using basic regular 
expressions and such).

If anybody could help me out it would be much appreciated, I've been trying to get my head around writing a rule that's 
not currently detected for a while now, and I'm not having much luck.

I'm not familiar with how these mailing lists work as well, so apologies if this isn't the sort of thing I should be 
posting - I've looked quite thoroughly for forums dedicated to Snort, and was hoping to find some good ones, especially 
with sections for beginners, although haven't had any luck as of yet.

Thanks for any help,

Charlie

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