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Fwd: Parse UnixSock output with Perl Script


From: Snort User <snort.nsm.user () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 15:58:02 +1200

Dear all,
I'm trying to parse Snort output while receiving it on a Unix Socket. I'm
using Security Onion.
I'm using this Perl Script I found in several locations on the web:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

# Include the socket libraries

use IO::Socket;

# This is the template to capture the Alert Name
# Edit this to get the additional packets.
my $TEMPLATE = "A256 A*";

# Release the socket if it already exists

unlink "/nsm/sensor_data/[sensor_name]/snort-1/snort_alert";

# In case of user termination - exit gracefully.

$SIG{TERM} = $SIG{INT} = sub { exit 0 };

# Open up the socket.
my $client = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(Type => SOCK_DGRAM, Local =>
"/nsm/sensor_data/[sensor_name]/snort-1/snort_alert") or die "Socket: $@";

print STDOUT "Socket Open ... \n";

# Loop receiving data from the socket, pulling out the
# alert name and printing it.

my $data;

while ( 1 ) {
    recv($client,$data,1024,0);
    my @MSSG = unpack($TEMPLATE, $data);
    print "$MSSG[0]\n"

}

# At termination close up the socket again.

END {unlink "/nsm/sensor_data/[sensor_name]/snort-1/snort_alert";};


A comment says we can edit the Template format to get others information.
However, I couldn't find out how to get others information: Is there a
proper description of the different data we can find in the received
packets and their order with their type, outbounds etc?
My goal is to get the following data:
- signature of the attack
- source ip address
- destination ip address
- protocol
- source and destination ports
I'm sorry I'm new to Perl and to Snort.
I also found a program in C (https://www.snort.org/faq/readme-unsock) to do
the same thing but I didn't find out how to make it works in Security Onion
(there is no "snort.h" library anywhere).

Thank you in advance!

Regards,


Veronique
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