Re: Have I lost my mind?

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Did you run Snort in -T and see if it chokes on it?

J

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists () tx rr com>wrote:

> Doh.  Wonder why snort didn't choke on that and throw an error?
>
>
> --On Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:13:03 -0600 Joel Esler <
> jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:
>
>
> > You didn't escape the colon in "X-Powered-By:" ?
> >
> > At first glance.
> >
> > J
> >
> > On Jan 13, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >
> >  I wrote a rule to see what a certain host was up to:
> > > alert tcp 95.211.27.211 any -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"Up to no good?";
> > > classtype:web-application-activity; sid:1000174; re
> > > v:1;)
> > >
> > > That produced (among others) this packet:
> > >
> > > 000 : 48 54 54 50 2F 31 2E 31 20 32 30 30 20 4F 4B 0D   HTTP/1.1 200 OK.
> > > 010 : 0A 53 65 72 76 65 72 3A 20 67 77 73 0D 0A 44 61   .Server: gws..Da
> > > 020 : 74 65 3A 20 54 75 65 2C 20 31 32 20 4A 61 6E 20   te: Tue, 12 Jan
> > > 030 : 32 30 31 30 20 30 36 3A 34 35 3A 30 38 20 47 4D   2010 06:45:08 GM
> > > 040 : 54 0D 0A 43 6F 6E 74 65 6E 74 2D 54 79 70 65 3A   T..Content-Type:
> > > 050 : 20 74 65 78 74 2F 68 74 6D 6C 0D 0A 43 6F 6E 6E    text/html..Conn
> > > 060 : 65 63 74 69 6F 6E 3A 20 63 6C 6F 73 65 0D 0A 58   ection: close..X
> > > 070 : 2D 50 6F 77 65 72 65 64 2D 42 79 3A 20 50 48 50   -Powered-By: PHP
> > > 080 : 2F 35 2E 32 2E 36 2D 31 2B 6C 65 6E 6E 79 34 0D   /5.2.6-1+lenny4.
> > > 090 : 0A 43 6F 6E 74 65 6E 74 2D 4C 65 6E 67 74 68 3A   .Content-Length:
> > > 0a0 : 20 31 32 30 0D 0A 0D 0A 33 43 33 45 37 41 36 45    120....3C3E7A6E
> > > 0b0 : 36 38 32 35 37 30 36 32 37 41 37 41 36 33 36 34   682570627A7A6364
> > > 0c0 : 36 32 33 30 32 43 33 45 33 45 32 31 33 30 33 33   62302C3E3E213033
> > > 0d0 : 37 31 37 42 37 35 37 38 37 43 37 30 37 34 37 43   717B75787C70747C
> > > 0e0 : 32 31 33 46 36 42 36 42 34 36 30 43 31 41 30 31   213F6B6B460C1A01
> > > 0f0 : 31 42 31 42 32 43 31 42 35 30 34 34 34 36 34 46   1B1B2C1B5044464F
> > > 100 : 34 44 35 39 34 46 31 31 33 41 30 44 31 44 34 42   4D594F113A0D1D4B
> > > 110 : 35 39 35 39 35 32 35 36 34 43 35 38 30 34 33 31   595952564C580431
> > >
> > > Source address is 95.211.27.211.  Source port is 80.
> > >
> > > So I wrote this rule:
> > >
> > > alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET 80 -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"Bredolab server ack";
> > > flow:from_server,established; content:"Server: gws";
> > > content:"X-Powered-By: P
> > > HP"; content:"+lenny4"; classtype:trojan-activity; sid:1000172; rev:1;)
> > >
> > > But it never triggered (even though the first rule continues to).  So I
> > > altered it thus:
> > >
> > > alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET 80 -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"Bredolab server ack";
> > > flow:from_server,established; uricontent:"Server: gws";
> > > uricontent:"X-Powered-By: P
> > > HP"; uricontent:"+lenny4"; classtype:trojan-activity; sid:1000172;
> > > rev:2;)
> > >
> > > But it still didn't trigger, so I altered it again:
> > >
> > > alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET 80 -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"Bredolab server ack";
> > > uricontent:"Server: gws"; uricontent:"X-Powered-By: PHP";
> > > uricontent:"+lenny4"; classtype:trojan-activity; sid:1000172; rev:3;)
> > >
> > > But it still didn't trigger, so I altered it yet again:
> > >
> > > alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET 80 -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"Bredolab server ack";
> > > content:"Server: gws"; content:"X-Powered-By: PHP"; content:"+lenny4";
> > > classtype:trojan-activity; sid:1000172; rev:4;)
> > >
> > > It still doesn't trigger.
> > >
> > > Someone please enlighten me.  What am I missing?
> > >
> > > --
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