Re: Snort Alert Log Timestamps

[Balasubramaniam Natarajan <bala150985 () gmail com>]

Could you do a file on your *.pcap file and share the output?  If the file
is very small, what do you get when you do this tcpdump -r yourfile.pcap
-nn -X ?

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Jones, Christopher (Chris) (Maj) <
cajones1 () nps edu> wrote:

> Team,
>
>
>
> Snort is working for me and producing some alerts on the pcap files I want
> to analyze.  The problem I’m having now is matching the alert timestamp to
> a packet in WireShark.  For instance, the following alert gives a timestamp
> of 08/16-03:22:49.286138 but that packet does not exist.  The closest one
> is 03:22:48.64 and 03:22:50.65.
>
> [**] [139:1:1] (spp_sdf) SDF Combination Alert [**]
>
> [Classification: Sensitive Data was Transmitted Across the Network]
> [Priority: 2]
>
> 08/16-03:22:49.286138 216.137.xxx.xxx -> 207.140.xxx.xxx
>
> PROTO:254 TTL:63 TOS:0x0 ID:33005 IpLen:20 DgmLen:20 DF
>
>
>
> I’d really like to find the offending packet to better understand what
> caused the alert.  Can someone help me understand how to best find the
> packet in question given a snort alert?
>
>
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
>
> Chris
>
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