Re: snort is logging alerts but not capturing corresponding packets for some rules

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Actually, Jason is right.  The alert is generated on the pseudo packet, this
is correct functionality, so I've closed the bug.

So, James, using the pcap you gave me, I'll get rid of the IPs in the cut
and paste here, but I'll make BOLD the line that indicates that the alert is
actually on the pseudo packet, and not the individual packet.

snort -c snort.conf -r missed.pcap -A cmg -q

04/26-10:37:43.307954  [**] [1:12280:3] WEB-CLIENT Microsoft Internet
Explorer VML source file memory corruption attempt [**] [Classification:
Attempted User Privilege Gain] [Priority: 1] {TCP} x.x.x.x:80 ->
x.x.x.x:31390
*Stream reassembled packet*

Above, where is says "Stream reassembled packet" is your indication that the
alert was not in fact on one packet, but on the reassembly of the packets.
 We call this the pseudo packet.

If you output from Snort in Unified format, you have access to these
packets.

J



On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Lay, James <james.lay () wincofoods com>wrote:

> Thanks for the response Jason…I ended up working with Joel on this and he
> has put in a bug fix.  Thanks again.
>
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> James
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> *From:* Jason Brvenik [mailto:jbrvenik () sourcefire com]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 25, 2011 5:14 PM
> *To:* Lay, James; Kumar, Mahendra
> *Subject:* Re: [Snort-users] snort is logging alerts but not capturing
> corresponding packets for some rules
>
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> I would suspect that the event fires on pseudo packets, reassembled or
> normalized traffic. Can you enable unified2 and see if it is also missing
> there.
>
> On Apr 25, 2011 6:58 PM, "Lay, James" <james.lay () wincofoods com> wrote:
> > From: Kumar, Mahendra [mailto:mkumar () intacct com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 3:50 PM
> > To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > Subject: [Snort-users] snort is logging alerts but not capturing
> > corresponding packets for some rules
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am using snort-2.9.0.5 with daq-0.5-9 and libpcap1-1.1.1-9 on Centos
> > 5.5 (x86_64). I am not using any other thing like unified2, base,
> > barnyard, mysql etc.
> >
> > My snort is working properly and I am getting alerts and packet captures
> > in snort.log in tcpdump format.
> >
> > But for some rules (e.g. SHELLCODE sid:1394) I get the alert logged but
> > there is no packet capture in snort.log and it is very consistent
> > behavior, i.e. I will never get packet captures for some of the rules
> > but will always get alert so it is not a packet drop problem. It seems
> > to be a config issue where the alert is logged but no packet captures.
> >
> > Please help me resolve this issue.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > MK
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Welcome to my world...I've submitted this exact same item a few
> > times....seems to be a mystery. I have snort boxes in a few different
> > sites on a few different OS's....same thing though...I get the alert in
> > the .fast file, but certain things just do not log to the pcap. I've
> > had to work around this with full web traffic packet captures. The
> > machines aren't even close to maxing CPU or memory, but the problem
> > still persists. If anyone has some advice I'd love to hear it.
> >
> >
> >
> > James
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