Re: Payload not fitting rule content detection on snort + snorby

["Al Lewis (allewi)" <allewi () cisco com>]

Since this is mail traffic my guess is that the data is base64 endcoded so snort is decoding the packet THEN alerting. 
Do you have a pcap of the traffic you can share?

If not.... test it on opensource alone vs what you see in snortby.

That should tell you if snortby is not showing the data (your point # 1) or if snort is not capturing/forwarding the 
data (your point #2).

As a side note.. upgrade to 2.9.7... 2.9.6 has been gone for some time... ;-)

Cheers!

Albert Lewis
QA Software Engineer
SOURCEfire, Inc. now part of Cisco
9780 Patuxent Woods Drive
Columbia, MD 21046
Phone: (office) 443.430.7112
Email: allewi () cisco com

From: Joel Esler (jesler)
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 12:10 PM
To: Txalin
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Payload not fitting rule content detection on snort + snorby

The "file_data;" keyword in the rule tells me that the rule is looking for that content in the attachment to the email 
itself.
--
Joel Esler
Manager, Threat Intelligence and Open Source
Talos Group
Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 7, 2015, at 3:49 AM, Txalin <txalin () gmail com<mailto:txalin () gmail com>> wrote:
First of all let me say hi to this mailing list as this is my first message here :) and quickly introduce myself, i'm a 
spaniard security freak now dealing with snort + tons of other things and tools.

Right now i am running a snort v 2.9.6.2 GRE + barnyard2 v2.1.13 build 327 + Snorby 2.6.2 with ET pro, community and 
several custom rules, and i have detected several times an strange behavior in snort.

When one rule has been triggered, sometimes i found that the data in the payload field doesn't match with the 
detecction patterns in the rule, let me show you and example:

# cat snort.rules | grep "MALWARE-TOOLS Win.Trojan.Dridex dropper message"
alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $SMTP_SERVERS 25 (msg:"MALWARE-TOOLS Win.Trojan.Dridex dropper message"; 
flow:to_server,established; file_data; content:"X-mailer: Synapse - Pascal TCP/IP library by Lukas Gebauer"; 
fast_pattern:only; metadata:impact_flag red, policy balanced-ips drop, policy security-ips drop, service smtp; 
reference:url,www.virustotal.com/en/file/d56e7dea0e119f9a37f2cb7915c3aca0056064a8cc2bd373f2a9a8d97d548c43/analysis/<http://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d56e7dea0e119f9a37f2cb7915c3aca0056064a8cc2bd373f2a9a8d97d548c43/analysis/>;
 classtype:trojan-activity; sid:34945; rev:1;)


The payload shown on Snorby is:

Return-Path:.<envio.eletronico.cte () gmail com<mailto:envio.eletronico.cte () gmail com>>
.Received:.from.[1.1.1.1].by.server.mailprovider.com.id.94/98-03819-BCE0AE55;.Fri,.04.Sep.2015.21:36:11.+0000
.X-Env-Sender:.envio.eletronico.cte () gmail com<mailto:X-Env-Sender%3A.envio.eletronico.cte () gmail com>
.X-Msg-Ref:.server.mailprovider.com<http://server.mailprovider.com>!1441402569!47224666!1
.X-Originating-IP:.[2.2.2.2]
.X-SpamReason:.No,.hits=0.0.required=7.0.tests=SUBJECT_EXCESS_QP
.X-StarScan-Received:
.X-StarScan-Version:.6.13.16;.banners=-,-,-
.X-VirusChecked:.Checked
.Received:.(qmail.1237.invoked.from.network);.4.Sep.2015.21:36:09.-0000
.Received:.from.mail-qk0-f172.google.com<http://from.mail-qk0-f172.google.com>.(HELO.mail-qk0-f172.google.com<http://HELO.mail-qk0-f172.google.com>).(2.2.2.2)
...by.server.mailprovider.com.with.RC4-SHA.encrypted.SMTP;.4.Sep.2015.21:36:09.-0000
.Received:.by.qkdv1.with.SMTP.id.v1so14169723qkd.0
.........for.<cte () onecompany com<mailto:cte () onecompany com>>;.Fri,.04.Sep.2015.14:36:09.-0700.(PDT)
.DKIM-Signature:.v=1;.a=rsa-sha256;.c=relaxed/relaxed;
.........d=gmail.com<http://gmail.com>;.s=20120113;
.........h=message-id:from:to:subject:date:mime-version:reply-to:content-type
..........:content-description;
.........bh=vVNiQkcbDuIiHCOOoLSG5c8UydaAvY8BiM5JM7lmFt8=;
.........b=MP/tJcqgJ4tn5zaVJbis3NaM34oAsBVrcWfTz+F2jlBnLNpEl2sPFQkrLXGBOFjO8a
..........ns2w6shY+ySFWRQcR2D9lYdht0TK5CTWeXxsW0I3WURt+k7BGC8kQEvTipuQmsQ68C/g
..........xDuihRZt/j/qP0rKX7tnuiboWQxbEqEVYWpoPuGJUUiBVo/BNlgMwRaeScC/Ol+k6rPT
..........lWQvdEEdPfTcsRDDaTLxsPBqbM7Flmir06+4X9gbX/m0mDTArCmogEXgYUsV7kPdo1VC
..........li

As you can see in the payload, the pattern "X-mailer: Synapse - Pascal TCP/IP library by Lukas Gebauer" is not being 
shown in the payload, which makes me think in two possibilities:

a) Snorby is not showing all the payload data
b) Snort is not forwarding all the data to Snorby.

Did someone here found similar behavior? Any hints about the cause of it and how to fix it? I was looking for a 
configuration file where i can modify the payload size but i didn't found anything yet.

Kind regards.


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