Re: Quick uricontent question

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

James, in this case %u and such are variable fields.  (The theme is digits and the siteID is also digits if it's the 
first report)

So, what you'd want is something like this:

alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"MALWARE-CNC Win.Trojan.Zeroaccess variant outbound 
communication"; flow:to_server,established; content:"/counter.img?theme="; nocase; http_uri; content:"&digits="; 
nocase; http_uri; distance:0; content:"&siteId="; nocase; http_uri; distance:0; pcre:"/theme\=\d+\&digits\=/Ui"; 
metadata:policy balanced-ips drop, policy security-ips drop, service http; 
reference:url,www.sophos.com/en-us/why-sophos/our-people/technical-papers/zeroaccess-botnet.aspx; 
classtype:trojan-activity;)

Now, I haven't tested this against any pcaps or samples, I simply wrote this freehand by looking at the pdf you linked 
there.

I'll do some testing and we'll try and get this (or something very similar) out.

--
Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire




On Sep 19, 2012, at 4:32 PM, James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net> wrote:

> So...doing some reading:
>
> http://www.sophos.com/en-us/why-sophos/our-people/technical-papers/zeroaccess-botnet.aspx
>
> From the text:
>
> The first phone home mechanism is through a specially crafted HTTP Get 
> Request that
> takes the following form:
>
> GET /<unique ID>/counter.img?theme=%u&digits=10&siteId=%u HTTP/1.1\r\n
> Host: <hostname>\r\n
> User-Agent: Opera/9 (Windows NT %u.%u; %s; %s)
>
> So far here's what I have:
>
> alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS 
> (msg:"INDICATOR-COMPROMISE ZeroAccess phone home"; 
> content:"User-Agent|3a| Opera/9"; http_header; 
> uricontent:"/counter.img?theme=";
>
> As I am reading the info on uricontent, the content is already 
> normalized...does that mean I don't have to hex anything with 
> "/counter.img?theme="?  Or does it matter.  Thanks all.
>
> James
>
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