Re: Alert on web traffic instead of IP Address?

[Matt Olney <molney () sourcefire com>]

If you have a list of domains you know to be bad, you could alert on
the DNS lookup of those names.  Just make sure you check the DNS
protocol.  I don't have my notes here, but to block bad.com, I believe
it would be something like:

alert udp $HOME_NET any -> $DNS_SERVERS 53 (msg:"Bad host name
detected"; flow: to_server; content:"|03|bad|03|com"; classtype:
bad-tarffic; sid: 10000000;)

Or something.  Unfortunately you need a separate rule for each domain,
the good news is that the format for DNS requests makes for a fairly
good fast-pattern match.

I think, haven't tested it, your mileage may very etc, ad nauseum

Matt

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Jason Haar<Jason.Haar () trimble co nz> wrote:
> On 08/12/2009 02:40 AM, Joel Esler wrote:
> > Correct, it is *not* possible to put hostnames in a rule.  It's
> > probably better to write a rule on the content of the traffic than to
> > try and track an IP.
>
> More specifically, it would be *insane* for an IDS to do on-the-fly DNS
> lookups. Don't forget, if you have a rule that says "trigger an alert if
> someone connects to this.dns.host  and then...", then the IDS would have
> to do DNS lookups for EVERY packet - just in case it matched.
>
> Also, the IDS only sees the IP, so it could only do PTR lookups - which
> may not match the A record (certainly true in your case of fast flux)
> Same principle applies to firewalls. Firewalls that support DNS only
> means they do the DNS lookup ONCE at boot-time, then they match on IP
> address thereafter.
>
> If you can get your IDS in front of your DNS servers you may have a
> shot. You could write rules to trigger when anyone did the actual DNS
> lookup of such hosts...
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Jason Haar
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