Re: Alerting on internal TCP connection attemptsto non-existent services or hosts . .

["Jonathan Heard" <jonathan.heard () qassociates co uk>]

Hi All,
   Before I forget - I just wanted to say thank you for your helpful responses!

I've now resolved my problem which was ultimately related to the checksum preprocessor. I didn't realise that snort 
discards packets with bad checksums if checking is enabled and I'm seeing a fairly consistent 43% of all packets having 
bad sums. This would normally be worrying to me, but in the heavily virtualised environment I'm working in - it appears 
to be normal so I'm happy to run snort with checksums being ignored for the time being.

Many thanks
Jonathan


-----Original Message-----
From: Stark, Vernon L. [mailto:Vernon.Stark () jhuapl edu]
Sent: Tue 03/12/2013 21:59
To: James Lay; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Alerting on internal TCP connection attemptsto       non-existent services or hosts .

We have good luck with rules that look for the SYN packet used to begin a TCP session.  So, you might try the following:

alert tcp any any -> any 3389 (sid:100000; msg:"RDP Detected"; flags:S; )

Vern
-----Original Message-----
From: James Lay [mailto:jlay () slave-tothe-box net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 4:51 PM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Alerting on internal TCP connection attempts to non-existent services or hosts .

On 2013-12-03 06:58, Jonathan Heard wrote:
> Alerting on internal TCP connection attempts to non-existent services
> or hosts
>
> Hi All,
>  I'm trying to configure snort in a closed network (i.e. no internet)
> and I really want to be able to receive alerts if snort ever sees
> particular types of connection on the wire, regardless of whether it
> actually reaches a host. e.g. If someone so much as tries to establish
> a telnet or ftp connection from an internal host to any ip address, I
> want to know about it.
>
>  Snort is running in passive mode and is receiving all traffic for
> analysis via an ERSPAN session (i.e. snort is decoding almost 100% GRE
> inbound). It's version "2.9.5.3 GRE (Build 132)" and I compiled it
> myself from source using mainly the default config options.
>
>  At present a rule such as:
>
>  alert tcp any any -> any 3389 (sid:100000; msg:"RDP Detected";)
>
>  ...only fires when I establish a successful TCP connection between
> two hosts on the Monitored VLAN - This includes just using 'telnet
> <ip_address> 3389'. However if I use the IP address of either a
> non-existent server in the subnet, or a server which is not listening
> on port 3389 then snort doesn't log any alerts for this rule :-(
>
>  If I run 'snort -v' I can see the captured TCP packet leaving the
> host which initiated the connection, so I know snort is seeing it -
> But I cannot find a way to make it react.
>
>  The packet is represented by snort -v as follows (with some info
> redacted):
>  <Date/Time> <SRC_IP>:58978 -> <DEST_IP>:3389  TCP TTL: 128 TOS:0x0
> ID:XXXXX IpLen: 20 DgmLen:52 DF
>  ******S* Seq: 0xXXXXXXXX Ack: 0x0 Win: 0x2000 TcpLen: 32  TCP Options
> (6) => MSS: 1260 NOP WS: 8 NOP NOP SackOK
>
>  I'm using the snort.conf which comes with the snort free subscription
> ruleset - I've tried stripping it back to a very basic config with
> most of the preprocessors and stock rules disabled but the behaviour
> remains the same.
>
>  Is it possible to achieve this and if so how please?
>
>  Many Thanks in advance
>  Jonathan

Wonder if something like the below would work:

alert tcp any 3389 -> any any (msg:"RDP RST Packet Detected"; flow:stateless; flags:RA+; sid:100000;)

This should alert on the reset packet sent from the machine that doesn't have 3389 open on it.

James

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