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4th year student trying to use snort in their project
From: Shane Corridon via Snort-devel <snort-devel () lists snort org>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 10:08:49 +0000
Hi All, I am a 4th year I.T Management student in Cork Institute of Technology. I am currently working on my Final year project. I am building an automated open source software analyser and vulnerability detector. I wish to use snort to analysis open source software that is downloaded from the web by users. I am unsure how to use snort to analysis software downloads without installing them on the machine. The flow of my application is firstly a user downloads any free online software, this will then be analysed using snort and lastly the download will either be blocked or marked safe to use. I need to use snort to examine the software source code and give a result on whether or not the software is safe for the user to use. Can you tell me: 1. Is it possible to use snort to examine software downloads which have not yet been installed on the machine? 2. what file paths is snort monitoring for executable software applications 3. how does snort know what to analysis. is it looking for the file extension such as .exe? 4. If the software downloads need to be installed before snort can scan them, then can I use a script to move the downloads into the appropriate paths so snort can analyse the download without it being installed? Any help is greatly appreciated! Best Regards Shane
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