Re: Snort / Pulled Pork Confusion

["Jefferson, Shawn" <Shawn.Jefferson () bcferries com>]

I apologize if this message came across as antagonistic, I didn't mean for it to be.  I was genuinely curious, because 
I think that pulledpork is better than the way things used to be with snort, oinkmaster and all the many rule files, 
flowbits, etc...



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From: AllowOverride <allowoverride () gmail com>
To: Jefferson, Shawn
Cc: Michael Steele <michaels () winsnort com>; 'JJC' <cummingsj () gmail com>; snort-users () lists sourceforge net 
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Sent: Thu Oct 04 18:00:15 2012
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort / Pulled Pork Confusion

i love the attitude... keep it up. 

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 16:17 -0600, Jefferson, Shawn wrote:
> I’m curious what you think is confusing about it?  You can quite
> easily disable whole categories with Pulledpork, or ignore them from
> the tarball completely.  In fact, if we are talking about managing
> rules, PP gives you so much more… for instance, automatically enabling
> rules that set flowbits if another rule that is already enabled relies
> on it.  A noob rule operator will probably miss that.  PP makes things
> easier.  Also there is the whole “security/balanced” ruleset
> management that PP does for you as well-perfect for the noob (and
> advanced rule operators alike.)
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> From: Michael Steele [mailto:michaels () winsnort com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 3:05 PM
> To: 'JJC'
> Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort / Pulled Pork Confusion
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> Dumping all the rules into one bucket might be easier in the long run
> for an experienced rule operator, but for the new rule operator, it
> might get a little confusing.
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> I know separators were discussed earlier, but development on PP is at
> a crawl, or non-existent L
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> One solution for those that use the –k switch would be for Sourcefire
> to prepend ‘vrt-’ to the distributed *.rules in the official
> distributed rule tarball, and change the snort.conf to reflect the
> ‘vrt-*.rule‘. At least that way, what you see in the official
> distributed rule tarball, is what you are seeing in the rules folder
> after using the –k switch in PP.
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> Kindest regards,
>
> Michael...
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> From: JJC [mailto:cummingsj () gmail com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 2:57 PM
> To: AllowOverride
> Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net; Turnbough, Bradley E.
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort / Pulled Pork Confusion
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> The logic here is quite simple... new rule categories and files are
> included in the rules tarball, they are automatically included in your
> live ruleset this way.  This is one of but many solid logical
> arguments.
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:07 AM, AllowOverride
> <allowoverride () gmail com> wrote:
>
> one file???? sighs... how is that quicker, show me the smack reports
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> On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 21:13 +0000, Jeremy Hoel wrote:
>
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> > pulledpork puts all the rules together into one file.. so you can
> > remove/comment out all the lines for the 'include
> $RULE_PATH/*.rules'
> > and just have include $RULE_PATH/snort.rules' line.  Just one is
> > needed.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Turnbough, Bradley E.
> > <bturnbough () belcan com> wrote:
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I’m having a little trouble wrapping my head around the snort and
> pulled
> > > pork interaction.  In the snort.conf file, the following rules are
> defined
> > > (by default):
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/attack-responses.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/backdoor.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/bad-traffic.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/blacklist.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/botnet-cnc.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/chat.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/content-replace.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/ddos.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/dns.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/dos.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/exploit.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/file-identify.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/finger.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/ftp.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/icmp.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/icmp-info.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/imap.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/info.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/misc.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/multimedia.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/mysql.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/netbios.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/nntp.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/oracle.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/other-ids.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/p2p.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/phishing-spam.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/policy.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/pop2.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/pop3.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/rpc.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/rservices.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/scada.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/scan.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/shellcode.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/smtp.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/snmp.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/specific-threats.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/spyware-put.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/sql.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/telnet.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/tftp.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/virus.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/voip.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/web-activex.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/web-attacks.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/web-cgi.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/web-client.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/web-coldfusion.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/web-frontpage.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/web-iis.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/web-misc.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/web-php.rules
> > >
> > > include $RULE_PATH/x11.rules
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > When I compile snort, the $RULE_PATH directory isn’t created.  I
> create it
> > > by `mkdir /opt/snort/rules`.  I then run pulled pork with the
> following
> > > command:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ./pulledpork.pl -c /opt/pulledpork/etc/pulledpork.conf
> -o /opt/snort/rules/
> > > -i /opt/pulledpork/etc/disablesid.conf -T –H
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The only file that shows up is `snort.rules`  where are all of the
> other
> > > files that are specified in the snort.conf?
> > >
> > >
> > >
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