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Re: File preprocessor fails to capture files


From: Pablo Cantos Polaino <pcantos () redborder org>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 11:25:39 +0200

Hi Hui,

I'm sorry for the delay, but I wanted to test some scenarios before
replying you.

Following your advice, I've disabled some optimizations in order to not to
get jumbo frames, which actually were present in my PCAP file. After
disabling the optimization, I was able to generate other PCAP files without
Jumbo frames.

This time I got several traffic network captures by using 3 small files
(8.1KB, 18KB and 63KB) and 'wget' and 'tcpdump' programs. I've tried to get
the captures as much simple as possible in order to avoid external
"noises", and to do that I've got 6 PCAP files for every one of these three
files, which gives me 18 PCAP files. I've also "cleaned" all these PCAP
files by removing the rest of the sessions in which the file isn't in.

After that, what I found on my first tests is that in all cases every file
was not always captured by Snort (IDS mode). When a file was not captured,
there were always 1 or 2 TCP Gaps and no TCP Discards and I could see with
Wireshark that there were at least one packet marked as "TCP ACKed unseen
segment" (see filter tcp.analysis.ack_lost_segment in Wireshark), which is
due to one ACK that arrives before the Datapacket acked does. On the other
hand, when the file was captured, there were neither TCP Gaps nor TCP
Discards and I could check with Wireshark that there were no packet marked
as "TCP ACKed unseen segment". Se examples below:

Regular PCAP file:

pkt 1: server | client | seq_100 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 2: server | client | seq_200 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 3: server | client | seq_300 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 4: server | client | seq_400 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 5: client | server | seq_050 | ack_200 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 1
pkt 6: client | server | seq_050 | ack_300 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 2
pkt 7: client | server | seq_050 | ack_400 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 3
pkt 8: client | server | seq_050 | ack_500 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 4

PCAP file with one TCP ACKed unseen segment:

pkt 1: server | client | seq_100 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 2: server | client | seq_200 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 3: server | client | seq_300 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 4: client | server | seq_050 | ack_200 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 1
pkt 5: client | server | seq_050 | ack_300 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 2
pkt 6: client | server | seq_050 | ack_400 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 3
pkt 7: client | server | seq_050 | ack_500 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 8 (TCP
ACKed unseen segment)
pkt 8: server | client | seq_400 | ack_050 | len 100

I've reordered some packets In PCAP files that cause TCP Gaps in Snort by
putting ACKs after their corresponding Datapacket (in the example above it
would consist in put the pkt 8 before pkt 7). This time, Snort didn't see
TCP Gaps when read these reordered PCAP files and was able to capture the
file inside.

This packet disruption is causing Snort to not work properly, since it's
finding "false" TCP Gaps, and I say "false" because actually these
Datapackets exists, but their corresponding ACKs are arriving before them
(just one position before is enough to discard the Datapacket).

To understand better how far Snort is able to take into account packet
disruptions, I've also tried to reorder a "consistent" PCAP file, with
neither TCP ACKed unseen segments nor TCP Gaps or Discard in Snort and
whose file inside is captured by Snort. Example of "consistent" or regular
PCAP file:

pkt 1: server | client | seq_100 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 2: server | client | seq_200 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 3: server | client | seq_300 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 4: server | client | seq_400 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 5: client | server | seq_050 | ack_200 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 1
pkt 6: client | server | seq_050 | ack_300 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 2
pkt 7: client | server | seq_050 | ack_400 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 3
pkt 8: client | server | seq_050 | ack_500 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 4

What I've done with this PCAP file is to alter the position of two
Datapacket, but without causing TCP ACKed unseen segments. See example
below in which pkt 2 is moved before pkt 3:

pkt 1: server | client | seq_100 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 2: server | client | seq_300 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 3: server | client | seq_200 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 4: server | client | seq_400 | ack_050 | len 100
pkt 5: client | server | seq_050 | ack_200 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 1
pkt 6: client | server | seq_050 | ack_300 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 2
pkt 7: client | server | seq_050 | ack_400 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 3
pkt 8: client | server | seq_050 | ack_500 | len 000 <- ack for pkt 4

In this case, Snort is able to detect this packet re-ordering and it does
not affect to the final result, since there's neither TCP Gaps nor Discards
and the file inside the TCP session is captured by Snort.

I've replayed all these tests in IPS mode with the same result, by using
'tcpreplay' program and sending these PCAP files through a network
interface.

Now, my question is whether there is a way that Snort could manage the
"false" TCP ACKed unseen segments due to packet re-ordering, in the same
way it manages the Datapacket re-ordering. Since the packet re-ordering
seems to be a common issue in networks.

I've reviewed the Stream5 and Frag3 options looking for a possible
configuration to solve this, but I haven't found anything related to this.

If any Snort output, PCAP file or whatever were useful to you, please don't
hesitate to ask for it.

Best Regards and Thank you very much for your help,

Pablo Cantos
redborder.org / pcantos () redborder org

2015-05-09 2:51 GMT+02:00 Hui Cao (huica) <huica () cisco com>:

 Hi Pablo,

 I am pretty sure that the Jumbo frame is the issue for PCAP. They are
even bigger than 60000, which is not normal.

 For the interface one, there are lots of discards. Not all traffic are
processed by snort, therefore there are lots gaps in the TCP stream. You
can try inline mode, instead of passive. Either there is some configuration
issue for interface, or the speed of passive interface might be too high to
be processed by your CPU.

 Best,
Hui.

  From: Pablo Cantos Polaino <pcantos () redborder org>
Date: Friday, May 8, 2015 at 5:59 PM

To: Hui Cao <huica () cisco com>
Cc: "snort-users () lists sourceforge net" <snort-users () lists sourceforge net

Subject: Re: [Snort-users] File preprocessor fails to capture files

  Hi Hui,

 I've replaced config paf_max: 16000 by 60000 as you propose.

 File type was not identified because I had disabled type_id option in
preprocessor file_inspect. I've replayed the tests with paf_max = 60000 and
both type_id enabled and disabled. In both cases the capture files are the
same (number and size) when sniffering from an interface and reading from a
PCAP file. So I'm pasting below the exit stats when type_id is enabled and
paf_max = 60000:

 Exit stats when reading the PCAP file and type_id enabled:


===============================================================================
 Run time for packet processing was 3.978146 seconds
Snort processed 3326 packets.
Snort ran for 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 3 seconds
   Pkts/sec:         1108

===============================================================================
Memory usage summary:
  Total non-mmapped bytes (arena):       10190848
  Bytes in mapped regions (hblkhd):      122081280
  Total allocated space (uordblks):      8072896
  Total free space (fordblks):           2117952
  Topmost releasable block (keepcost):   133008

===============================================================================
Packet I/O Totals:
   Received:         3326
   Analyzed:         3326 (100.000%)
    Dropped:            0 (  0.000%)
   Filtered:            0 (  0.000%)
Outstanding:            0 (  0.000%)
   Injected:            0

===============================================================================
Breakdown by protocol (includes rebuilt packets):
        Eth:         3333 (100.000%)
       VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
        IP4:         3333 (100.000%)
       Frag:            0 (  0.000%)
       ICMP:            0 (  0.000%)
        UDP:           40 (  1.200%)
        TCP:         3293 ( 98.800%)
        IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Opts:            0 (  0.000%)
      Frag6:            0 (  0.000%)
      ICMP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       UDP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       TCP6:            0 (  0.000%)
     Teredo:            0 (  0.000%)
    ICMP-IP:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP4/IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP4/IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6/IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6/IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
        GRE:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE Eth:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
GRE IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE PPTP:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
       MPLS:            0 (  0.000%)
        ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
        IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP4 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   TCP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   UDP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
  ICMP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
All Discard:            0 (  0.000%)
      Other:            0 (  0.000%)
Bad Chk Sum:            0 (  0.000%)
    Bad TTL:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 1:            3 (  0.090%)
     S5 G 2:            4 (  0.120%)
      Total:         3333

===============================================================================
Action Stats:
     Alerts:            0 (  0.000%)
     Logged:            0 (  0.000%)
     Passed:            0 (  0.000%)
Limits:
      Match:            0
      Queue:            0
        Log:            0
      Event:            0
      Alert:            0
Verdicts:
      Allow:         3326 (100.000%)
      Block:            0 (  0.000%)
    Replace:            0 (  0.000%)
  Whitelist:            0 (  0.000%)
  Blacklist:            0 (  0.000%)
     Ignore:            0 (  0.000%)

===============================================================================
Frag3 statistics:
        Total Fragments: 0
      Frags Reassembled: 0
               Discards: 0
          Memory Faults: 0
               Timeouts: 0
               Overlaps: 0
              Anomalies: 0
                 Alerts: 0
                  Drops: 0
     FragTrackers Added: 0
    FragTrackers Dumped: 0
FragTrackers Auto Freed: 0
    Frag Nodes Inserted: 0
     Frag Nodes Deleted: 0

===============================================================================

===============================================================================
Stream statistics:
            Total sessions: 24
              TCP sessions: 14
              UDP sessions: 10
             ICMP sessions: 0
               IP sessions: 0
                TCP Prunes: 0
                UDP Prunes: 0
               ICMP Prunes: 0
                 IP Prunes: 0
TCP StreamTrackers Created: 14
TCP StreamTrackers Deleted: 14
              TCP Timeouts: 0
              TCP Overlaps: 0
       TCP Segments Queued: 2394
     TCP Segments Released: 2394
       TCP Rebuilt Packets: 793
         TCP Segments Used: 2393
              TCP Discards: 0
                  TCP Gaps: 0
      UDP Sessions Created: 10
      UDP Sessions Deleted: 10
              UDP Timeouts: 0
              UDP Discards: 0
                    Events: 1
           Internal Events: 0
           TCP Port Filter
                  Filtered: 0
                 Inspected: 0
                   Tracked: 3286
           UDP Port Filter
                  Filtered: 0
                 Inspected: 0
                   Tracked: 10

===============================================================================
HTTP Inspect - encodings (Note: stream-reassembled packets included):
    POST methods:                         0
    GET methods:                          10
    HTTP Request Headers extracted:       10
    HTTP Request Cookies extracted:       0
    Post parameters extracted:            0
    HTTP response Headers extracted:      10
    HTTP Response Cookies extracted:      0
    Unicode:                              0
    Double unicode:                       0
    Non-ASCII representable:              0
    Directory traversals:                 0
    Extra slashes ("//"):                 0
    Self-referencing paths ("./"):        0
    HTTP Response Gzip packets extracted: 0
    Gzip Compressed Data Processed:       n/a
    Gzip Decompressed Data Processed:     n/a
    Total packets processed:              2433

===============================================================================
SMTP Preprocessor Statistics
  Total sessions                                    : 0
  Max concurrent sessions                           : 0

===============================================================================
dcerpc2 Preprocessor Statistics
  Total sessions: 0

===============================================================================

===============================================================================
SIP Preprocessor Statistics
  Total sessions: 0

===============================================================================
File Preprocessor Statistics
  Total file type callbacks:            7
  Total file signature callbacks:       7
  Total files would saved to disk:      7
  Total files saved to disk:            7
  Total file data saved to disk:        47466737  bytes
  Total files duplicated:               0
  Total files reserving failed:         0
  Total file capture min:               0
  Total file capture max:               0
  Total file capture memcap:            0
  Total files reading failed:           0
  Total file agent memcap failures:     0
  Total files sent:                     0
  Total file data sent:                 0
  Total file transfer failures:         0

===============================================================================
File type stats:
         Type              Download   (Bytes)      Upload     (Bytes)
          GZ( 33)          2          6848054      0          0
         MP3( 64)          2          37257592     0          0
        JPEG( 70)          2          3360645      0          0
          BMP(148)          1          446          0          0
            Total          7          47466737     0          0

 File signature stats:
         Type              Download   Upload
          GZ( 33)          2          0
         MP3( 64)          2          0
         PNG( 69)          1          0
        JPEG( 70)          2          0
            Total          7          0

 File type verdicts:
        UNKNOWN:           7
            LOG:           0
           STOP:           0
          BLOCK:           0
         REJECT:           0
        PENDING:           0
   STOP CAPTURE:           0
          Total:           7

 File signature verdicts:
        UNKNOWN:           7
            LOG:           0
           STOP:           0
          BLOCK:           0
         REJECT:           0
        PENDING:           0
   STOP CAPTURE:           0
          Total:           7

 Total files processed:             10
Total files data processed:        47473897  bytes
Total files buffered:              7
Total files released:              7
Total files freed:                 0
Total files captured:              7
Total files within one packet:     1
Total buffers allocated:           1452
Total buffers freed:               0
Total buffers released:            1452
Maximum file buffers used:         759
Total buffers free errors:         0
Total buffers release errors:      0
Total memcap failures:             0
Total memcap failures at reserve:  0
Total reserve failures:            0
Total file capture size min:       0
Total file capture size max:       0
Total capture max before reserve:  0
Total file signature max:          0
Maximum buffers can allocate:      3196
Number of buffers in use:          0
Number of buffers in free list:    1744
Number of buffers in release list: 1452

===============================================================================
Snort exiting

 This time the captured files have changed:

 # ls -lS
 -rw------- 1 root root 24211979 May  8 21:20
8452B621DC334D1FD44470A80540CBEF2F6869AF851B9E8C684EF9402016F692
-rw------- 1 root root 13045613 May  8 21:20
5CF142947C2957EE648457A91B69FB82F088F31205030F9A77B2AD827228C6E9
-rw------- 1 root root  6352738 May  8 21:20
DB57C532919D9ABABAC127F29DBDC05ED832394880E46CAD81A5DDE713CCB4BE
-rw------- 1 root root  2936119 May  8 21:20
B4127F43A3F455523B81179CC11AA4F28FC27F4C041D20E28AA08A32D85CB757
-rw------- 1 root root   495316 May  8 21:20
A294AA3D01CD8902BF842D320E7F2C043AF9EAD95D0E7198C3B71A0DBC9D253C
-rw------- 1 root root   424526 May  8 21:20
8863DB1EC4B02D5BCC1FB4BD03D220F7458136342CDD47CE507A5B886C6BB56C
-rw------- 1 root root      446 May  8 21:20
8D490C71A27631CF6A476F68C409655CB63BF32C17846A3C3C125A79046DB2C1

 But they are still different from the original ones:

 # ls -lS
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1044381696 Feb 18 20:12
ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  375187792 May  8 21:07 VMware-viclient.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  101688487 Jul 10  2014 oversize_pdf_test_0.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   14955972 May  8 21:07 MakeUp.mov
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    6094376 May  8 21:07 video1.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    2187725 May  8 21:07 Fighter.mpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        446 Mar 22  2013 tux-sw.bmp


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 Exit stats when listening from interface and type_id enabled:


===============================================================================
Run time for packet processing was 108.388974 seconds
Snort processed 256250 packets.
Snort ran for 0 days 0 hours 1 minutes 48 seconds
   Pkts/min:       256250
   Pkts/sec:         2372

===============================================================================
Memory usage summary:
  Total non-mmapped bytes (arena):       10100736
  Bytes in mapped regions (hblkhd):      122081280
  Total allocated space (uordblks):      8073952
  Total free space (fordblks):           2026784
  Topmost releasable block (keepcost):   108544

===============================================================================
Packet I/O Totals:
   Received:       256250
   Analyzed:       256250 (100.000%)
    Dropped:            0 (  0.000%)
   Filtered:            0 (  0.000%)
Outstanding:            0 (  0.000%)
   Injected:            0

===============================================================================
Breakdown by protocol (includes rebuilt packets):
        Eth:       256255 (100.000%)
       VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
        IP4:       256130 ( 99.951%)
       Frag:            0 (  0.000%)
       ICMP:            0 (  0.000%)
        UDP:           24 (  0.009%)
        TCP:       132229 ( 51.601%)
        IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Opts:            0 (  0.000%)
      Frag6:            0 (  0.000%)
      ICMP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       UDP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       TCP6:            0 (  0.000%)
     Teredo:            0 (  0.000%)
    ICMP-IP:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP4/IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP4/IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6/IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6/IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
        GRE:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE Eth:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
GRE IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE PPTP:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
       MPLS:            0 (  0.000%)
        ARP:          125 (  0.049%)
        IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP4 Disc:       123866 ( 48.337%)
   IP6 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   TCP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   UDP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
  ICMP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
All Discard:       123866 ( 48.337%)
      Other:           11 (  0.004%)
Bad Chk Sum:          362 (  0.141%)
    Bad TTL:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 1:            2 (  0.001%)
     S5 G 2:            3 (  0.001%)
      Total:       256255

===============================================================================
Action Stats:
     Alerts:            0 (  0.000%)
     Logged:            0 (  0.000%)
     Passed:            0 (  0.000%)
Limits:
      Match:            0
      Queue:            0
        Log:            0
      Event:            0
      Alert:            0
Verdicts:
      Allow:       228770 ( 89.276%)
      Block:            0 (  0.000%)
    Replace:            0 (  0.000%)
  Whitelist:        27480 ( 10.724%)
  Blacklist:            0 (  0.000%)
     Ignore:            0 (  0.000%)

===============================================================================
Frag3 statistics:
        Total Fragments: 0
      Frags Reassembled: 0
               Discards: 0
          Memory Faults: 0
               Timeouts: 0
               Overlaps: 0
              Anomalies: 0
                 Alerts: 0
                  Drops: 0
     FragTrackers Added: 0
    FragTrackers Dumped: 0
FragTrackers Auto Freed: 0
    Frag Nodes Inserted: 0
     Frag Nodes Deleted: 0

===============================================================================

===============================================================================
Stream statistics:
            Total sessions: 20
              TCP sessions: 14
              UDP sessions: 6
             ICMP sessions: 0
               IP sessions: 0
                TCP Prunes: 0
                UDP Prunes: 0
               ICMP Prunes: 0
                 IP Prunes: 0
TCP StreamTrackers Created: 14
TCP StreamTrackers Deleted: 14
              TCP Timeouts: 0
              TCP Overlaps: 0
       TCP Segments Queued: 6930
     TCP Segments Released: 6930
       TCP Rebuilt Packets: 6331
         TCP Segments Used: 6903
              TCP Discards: 7
                  TCP Gaps: 6570
      UDP Sessions Created: 6
      UDP Sessions Deleted: 6
              UDP Timeouts: 0
              UDP Discards: 0
                    Events: 16
           Internal Events: 0
           TCP Port Filter
                  Filtered: 0
                 Inspected: 0
                   Tracked: 131874
           UDP Port Filter
                  Filtered: 0
                 Inspected: 0
                   Tracked: 6

===============================================================================
HTTP Inspect - encodings (Note: stream-reassembled packets included):
    POST methods:                         0
    GET methods:                          0
    HTTP Request Headers extracted:       0
    HTTP Request Cookies extracted:       0
    Post parameters extracted:            0
    HTTP response Headers extracted:      2
    HTTP Response Cookies extracted:      0
    Unicode:                              0
    Double unicode:                       0
    Non-ASCII representable:              0
    Directory traversals:                 0
    Extra slashes ("//"):                 0
    Self-referencing paths ("./"):        0
    HTTP Response Gzip packets extracted: 0
    Gzip Compressed Data Processed:       n/a
    Gzip Decompressed Data Processed:     n/a
    Total packets processed:              13165

===============================================================================
SMTP Preprocessor Statistics
  Total sessions                                    : 0
  Max concurrent sessions                           : 0

===============================================================================
dcerpc2 Preprocessor Statistics
  Total sessions: 0

===============================================================================
SSL Preprocessor:
   SSL packets decoded: 68
          Client Hello: 0
          Server Hello: 2
           Certificate: 2
           Server Done: 3
   Client Key Exchange: 0
   Server Key Exchange: 0
         Change Cipher: 2
              Finished: 0
    Client Application: 0
    Server Application: 1
                 Alert: 0
  Unrecognized records: 64
  Completed handshakes: 0
        Bad handshakes: 0
      Sessions ignored: 1
    Detection disabled: 1

===============================================================================
SIP Preprocessor Statistics
  Total sessions: 0

===============================================================================
File Preprocessor Statistics
  Total file type callbacks:            2
  Total file signature callbacks:       1
  Total files would saved to disk:      1
  Total files saved to disk:            1
  Total file data saved to disk:        446       bytes
  Total files duplicated:               0
  Total files reserving failed:         0
  Total file capture min:               0
  Total file capture max:               0
  Total file capture memcap:            0
  Total files reading failed:           0
  Total file agent memcap failures:     0
  Total files sent:                     0
  Total file data sent:                 0
  Total file transfer failures:         0

===============================================================================
File type stats:
         Type              Download   (Bytes)      Upload     (Bytes)
         BMP(148)          1          446          0          0
         PDF(288)          1          3057259      0          0
            Total          2          3057705      0          0

 File signature stats:
         Type              Download   Upload
         BMP(148)          1          0
            Total          1          0

 File type verdicts:
        UNKNOWN:           2
            LOG:           0
           STOP:           0
          BLOCK:           0
         REJECT:           0
        PENDING:           0
   STOP CAPTURE:           0
          Total:           2

 File signature verdicts:
        UNKNOWN:           1
            LOG:           0
           STOP:           0
          BLOCK:           0
         REJECT:           0
        PENDING:           0
   STOP CAPTURE:           0
          Total:           1

 Total files processed:             2
Total files data processed:        3057705   bytes
Total files buffered:              2
Total files released:              1
Total files freed:                 1
Total files captured:              1
Total files within one packet:     1
Total buffers allocated:           95
Total buffers freed:               94
Total buffers released:            1
Maximum file buffers used:         94
Total buffers free errors:         0
Total buffers release errors:      0
Total memcap failures:             0
Total memcap failures at reserve:  0
Total reserve failures:            0
Total file capture size min:       0
Total file capture size max:       0
Total capture max before reserve:  0
Total file signature max:          0
Maximum buffers can allocate:      3196
Number of buffers in use:          0
Number of buffers in free list:    3195
Number of buffers in release list: 1

===============================================================================
Snort exiting

 This time the captured files haven't changed:

 # ls -lS
-rw------- 1 root root 446 May  8 21:33
8D490C71A27631CF6A476F68C409655CB63BF32C17846A3C3C125A79046DB2C1

 Best Regards,


   Pablo Cantos
 redborder.org / pcantos () redborder org

2015-05-08 21:49 GMT+02:00 Hui Cao (huica) <huica () cisco com>:

 Hi Pablo,

 When listening from interfaces, you have lots of discards. Because file
processing relies on data that are reassembled correctly, it won’t be
called for those sessions that miss file data.

 In the case of PCAP, no sure why file type is not identified. It is
interesting to see 47M file data for only 3326 packets. That is 24K per
packet. I guess in this case, it will always hit PAF_MAX for each packet
which might set each packet as single PDU(file). Can you try this setting?

 config paf_max: 60000

 Best,
Hui.

  From: Pablo Cantos Polaino <pcantos () redborder org>
Date: Friday, May 8, 2015 at 3:29 PM
To: Hui Cao <huica () cisco com>
Cc: "snort-users () lists sourceforge net" <
snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] File preprocessor fails to capture files

    IP4 Disc:       122145 ( 49.331%)
    IP6 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
    TCP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
    UDP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   ICMP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
 All Discard:       122145 ( 49.331%)

           TCP Segments Used: 6919
              TCP Discards: 48
                  TCP Gaps: 6459



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