Re: byte_jump + Stream5, should it work?

[Shaiming Hsiung <shaiming.hsiung () gmail com>]

Many thanks for your answers.

Here is my snort.conf file. The aim here is to detect application-level
packets of the form:

    start<offset>XX...XXXtest

where <offset> are four bytes encoding the number of Xs
we should skip to find the string "test". (The representation
is big endian).

-------- snort.conf

preprocessor stream5_global: track_tcp yes track_udp yes
preprocessor stream5_tcp: timeout 86400, protocol all, ports all
preprocessor stream5_udp: timeout 86400

config paf_max: 16000

alert tcp any any -> any any (sid:1000000; msg:"test package detected";\
content:"start";\
byte_jump:4,0,relative;\
content:"test";within:4;)

--------

The following Python file generates valid traffic given
the number of Xs to insert:

-------- snorttest.py

import sys
import struct
no = int(sys.argv[1])
sys.stdout.write('start' + struct.pack('>I',no) + no*'X' + 'test')

--------

The problem is that Snort is not detecting packages when
the number of Xs is big (e.g. 10000). In that case the
application-level data is segmented in multiple TCP packets.

For instance, in this case, Snort detects the package:

$ python snorttest.py 10 | nc target 1234

While in this case it doesn't:

$ python snorttest.py 10000 | nc target 1234

I attach the files snorttest10.pcap and snorttest10000.pcap
corresponding to each of these cases.

Thanks in advance for your help,

--
Shaiming Hsiung

Attachment: snorttest10.pcap
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Attachment: snorttest10000.pcap
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