Re: WEB-CLIENT Excel malformed FBI record - False positive?

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () mac com>]

Well, that's a separate issue.  If you suspect a false positive,  
please get a full pcap of the transfer of the traffic, and file it via  
the false positive report format you can find on the snort.org website.

J

On Jul 9, 2008, at 5:52 AM, Jesper Skou Jensen wrote:

> Jack Pepper wrote:
> > Check the config file for accuracy, or check that the snort service  
> > is
> > using the same config file that you think it's using.
>
> Joel Esler wrote:
> > Do you have two HOME_NET lines in your snort.conf file?  I'm not  
> > saying
> > anything bad or anything, but it looks like to me that you have two
> > HOME_NET definitions.
>
>
> D'oh... You guys were spot on.
>
> It turns out that Debian is just a bit too smart at times... They have
> their own config file with a few entries (inluding home_net) that it
> uses, instead of those in the snort.conf file.
>
> Thank you guys for spotting this.
>
>
> It's a bit weird though, that the rule fires at all, because from  
> what I
> can gather from the server-logs, there are no Excel files on it, only
> Word Documents, and the Word Docuemnt that was downloaded when this
> alert fired, is not malicious according to www.virustotal.com so I  
> doubt
> there is anything fishy in it.
>
>
> -- 
>
>   Jesper S. Jensen
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