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    • JonathanLeeJ
      JonathanLee
      last edited by JonathanLee

      Hello fellow Netgate community members can you please help?

      In the photos below I have activated Snort's AppID. Snort's AppID works, it detects and alerts. Again, I only have some of the detected appid alerts showing out of what's actually listed inside the appid log. To my understanding if it shows in appid logs it should also show in alerts.

      Can you please help? What can cause this kind of mix up?

      Screenshot 2023-10-03 at 2.33.00 PM.png
      (IMAGE: Snort AppID detecting gmail and other items)
      Screenshot 2023-10-03 at 2.33.30 PM.png
      (IMAGE: Wireless Lan Logs showing many more items that did not make it to an alert.)
      Netbios, Itunes, Apple Music, Office 365, Duo Security, and many others did not make it to alerts tab)

      Make sure to upvote

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      • bmeeksB
        bmeeks
        last edited by bmeeks

        You are looking at a rotated appid-stats log. Notice the UNIX timestamp appended onto the end of the filename. The ALERTS tab only displays the "currently active" alerts log file. Most likely the entries you see in the rotated appid-stats.log can be found in one of the rotated alerts log files.

        The currently active alerts log and the currently active appid-stats log should more or less match up, but they still may not due to the difference in potential rotation times.

        When the alerts log file is rotated, entries from it will disappear from the ALERTS tab because that code only reads the "active" alerts log. It does not read in older entries from rotated logs.

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        • JonathanLeeJ
          JonathanLee
          last edited by JonathanLee

          Thanks for the reply,

          I just did a quick search in the alerts from an hour ago and they do not show anything for Linkedin.

          Based on what you are saying it should show it much or less some kind of match up here.

          Screenshot 2023-10-03 at 3.38.38 PM.png
          (about an hour ago)

          Screenshot 2023-10-03 at 3.38.49 PM.png
          (LinkedIN)

          Screenshot 2023-10-03 at 3.39.46 PM.png
          (all alerts from an hour ago 14:25- till current do not have linked in only gmail)

          Current timestamp is 15:43
          I have not suppressed linkedin yet.

          Keep in mind this is not set to block yet only alert and snort is set to Lan only.

          Make sure to upvote

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          • JonathanLeeJ
            JonathanLee @JonathanLee
            last edited by

            @JonathanLee

            statTime="1696368600",appName="MSN",txBytes="3000",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Chrome",txBytes="3000",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="DNS",txBytes="185",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="HTTP",txBytes="123401",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="iTunes",txBytes="19696",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="MDNS",txBytes="8394",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Instructure",txBytes="10975",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="__unknown",txBytes="8703",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Bing",txBytes="37181",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Google",txBytes="4783",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="MSN",txBytes="29991",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Android browser",txBytes="5748",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Chrome",txBytes="110019",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="DHCP",txBytes="363",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="DNS",txBytes="773",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="HTTP",txBytes="135861",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="iTunes",txBytes="4999",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="LinkedIn",txBytes="2788",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="MDNS",txBytes="15112",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Apple Music",txBytes="8026",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Instructure",txBytes="4403",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Google Inbox",txBytes="5748",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="__unknown",txBytes="60644",rxBytes="92"
statTime="1696368900",appName="Android browser",txBytes="13181",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="Chrome",txBytes="2944",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="DNS",txBytes="969",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="Gmail",txBytes="13181",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="HTTP",txBytes="255810",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="iTunes",txBytes="12446",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="MDNS",txBytes="42590",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="Office 365",txBytes="214391",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="Instructure",txBytes="10750",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="__unknown",txBytes="10572",rxBytes="4824"
statTime="1696368900",appName="McAfee",txBytes="433",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="HTTP",txBytes="13055",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="iTunes",txBytes="6078",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="NetBIOS-ns",txBytes="606",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="Apple sites",txBytes="3577",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="Apple Maps",txBytes="2967",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="__unknown",txBytes="70360",rxBytes="6556"
statTime="1696369200",appName="DNS",txBytes="1341",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="HTTP",txBytes="285047",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="NetBIOS-dgm",txBytes="251",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="NetBIOS-ns",txBytes="790",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="iCloud",txBytes="56378",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="MDNS",txBytes="33974",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Office 365",txBytes="213385",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Instructure",txBytes="15284",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="__unknown",txBytes="15537",rxBytes="7167"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Chrome",txBytes="137190",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="DNS",txBytes="403",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="HTTP",txBytes="137190",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368900",appName="DNS",txBytes="1235",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="7481",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Google",txBytes="14107",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Windows Live",txBytes="58841",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Android browser",txBytes="117655",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Chrome",txBytes="97811",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="DHCP",txBytes="363",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="DNS",txBytes="1137",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="HTTP",txBytes="270874",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="LinkedIn",txBytes="2854",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Microsoft",txBytes="27781",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="MDNS",txBytes="34553",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Microsoft Azure",txBytes="11598",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Office 365",txBytes="48571",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Instructure",txBytes="4318",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="__unknown",txBytes="2481",rxBytes="3741"
statTime="1696369500",appName="Google",txBytes="2907",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="McAfee",txBytes="433",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="Chrome",txBytes="2907",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="DNS",txBytes="615",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="HTTP",txBytes="237491",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="MDNS",txBytes="20038",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="Office 365",txBytes="223135",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="Instructure",txBytes="11016",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="__unknown",txBytes="13402",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="Chrome",txBytes="696365",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696368600",appName="HTTP",txBytes="696365",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="__unknown",txBytes="4387",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="61123",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="Chrome",txBytes="61123",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="DNS",txBytes="185",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="HTTP",txBytes="61123",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="MDNS",txBytes="24630",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369500",appName="__unknown",txBytes="723516",rxBytes="610"
statTime="1696369800",appName="DNS",txBytes="622",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="HTTP",txBytes="238658",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="NetBIOS-dgm",txBytes="491",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="NetBIOS-ns",txBytes="1158",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="MDNS",txBytes="1200",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="Office 365",txBytes="230067",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="Instructure",txBytes="8591",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="__unknown",txBytes="25620",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="HTTP",txBytes="35964",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="Office 365",txBytes="35964",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369200",appName="__unknown",txBytes="6784",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="9047",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="Google",txBytes="3525",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="Chrome",txBytes="188230",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="DNS",txBytes="498",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="HTTP",txBytes="197054",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="MDNS",txBytes="8210",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="Instructure",txBytes="6492",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696369800",appName="__unknown",txBytes="141551",rxBytes="10071"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Bing",txBytes="4421",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="2434",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Chrome",txBytes="19961",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="DNS",txBytes="440",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="HTTP",txBytes="261238",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="MDNS",txBytes="8210",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Office 365",txBytes="232555",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Instructure",txBytes="8722",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="__unknown",txBytes="89160",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Bing",txBytes="205111",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="5739",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Chrome",txBytes="161160",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="HTTP",txBytes="243976",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Apple Maps",txBytes="3970",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Instructure",txBytes="4332",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="__unknown",txBytes="121479",rxBytes="376"
statTime="1696370400",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="2816",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="Chrome",txBytes="141702",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="DNS",txBytes="237",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="HTTP",txBytes="425023",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="NetBIOS-ns",txBytes="368",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="GitHub",txBytes="136818",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="MDNS",txBytes="1134",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="Office 365",txBytes="272441",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="Instructure",txBytes="10880",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="__unknown",txBytes="17218",rxBytes="4448"
statTime="1696370100",appName="__unknown",txBytes="1285",rxBytes="2989"
statTime="1696370400",appName="Chrome",txBytes="34223",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="HTTP",txBytes="34223",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="GitHub",txBytes="34223",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370400",appName="__unknown",txBytes="20489",rxBytes="5236"
statTime="1696370700",appName="DNS",txBytes="707",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="HTTP",txBytes="238089",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="NetBIOS-dgm",txBytes="251",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="MDNS",txBytes="16911",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="Office 365",txBytes="222825",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="Instructure",txBytes="15264",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="__unknown",txBytes="13978",rxBytes="765"
statTime="1696370100",appName="HTTP",txBytes="19607",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="Office 365",txBytes="19607",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370100",appName="__unknown",txBytes="6784",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="DNS",txBytes="263",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="HTTP",txBytes="9224",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="iCloud",txBytes="2720",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="MDNS",txBytes="8210",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="Instructure",txBytes="6504",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="__unknown",txBytes="29432",rxBytes="410"
statTime="1696371000",appName="DNS",txBytes="168",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="HTTP",txBytes="230336",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="NetBIOS-ns",txBytes="368",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="Office 365",txBytes="215099",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="Instructure",txBytes="15237",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="__unknown",txBytes="5665",rxBytes="161"
statTime="1696371000",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="3830",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="Chrome",txBytes="166046",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="HTTP",txBytes="166046",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="__unknown",txBytes="3208",rxBytes="1554"
statTime="1696371300",appName="Google",txBytes="3952",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="Chrome",txBytes="8154",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="DNS",txBytes="507",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="HTTP",txBytes="256637",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="NetBIOS-dgm",txBytes="251",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="NetBIOS-ns",txBytes="460",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="Office 365",txBytes="228959",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="Instructure",txBytes="19524",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="__unknown",txBytes="6608",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="__unknown",txBytes="106644",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="2666",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="Chrome",txBytes="49101",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="DNS",txBytes="341",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="HTTP",txBytes="49101",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="Yahoo! Mail",txBytes="1055",rxBytes="3812"
statTime="1696371300",appName="IMAPS",txBytes="1055",rxBytes="3812"
statTime="1696371300",appName="SSL client",txBytes="1055",rxBytes="3812"
statTime="1696371300",appName="MDNS",txBytes="7048",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371300",appName="__unknown",txBytes="106522",rxBytes="4726"
statTime="1696371600",appName="Google",txBytes="6971",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="Chrome",txBytes="12068",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="DNS",txBytes="510",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="Google Analytics",txBytes="7412",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="HTTP",txBytes="1200057",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="CloudFront",txBytes="671459",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="Office 365",txBytes="218577",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="Instructure",txBytes="163934",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="__unknown",txBytes="7189",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696370700",appName="__unknown",txBytes="538",rxBytes="3077"
statTime="1696371000",appName="HTTP",txBytes="26947",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="Office 365",txBytes="26947",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371000",appName="__unknown",txBytes="6718",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="Chrome",txBytes="27829",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="DNS",txBytes="91",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="HTTP",txBytes="27829",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="MDNS",txBytes="8210",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371600",appName="__unknown",txBytes="101399",rxBytes="1117"
statTime="1696371900",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="78815",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="Chrome",txBytes="80883",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="DNS",txBytes="789",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="HTTP",txBytes="337188",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="NetBIOS-ns",txBytes="368",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="Office 365",txBytes="216253",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="Instructure",txBytes="40052",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="__unknown",txBytes="8595",rxBytes="161"
statTime="1696371600",appName="__unknown",txBytes="817",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="Bing",txBytes="204428",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="2185",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="MSN",txBytes="54676",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="Chrome",txBytes="288603",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="HTTP",txBytes="400339",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="NetBIOS-dgm",txBytes="251",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="NetBIOS-ns",txBytes="460",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="Apple Maps",txBytes="3780",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="Instructure",txBytes="4429",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696371900",appName="__unknown",txBytes="84710",rxBytes="9714"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Google",txBytes="7069",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="MSN",txBytes="2934",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Chrome",txBytes="39216",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="DNS",txBytes="435",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="HTTP",txBytes="276242",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Office 365",txBytes="219901",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Instructure",txBytes="15882",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="__unknown",txBytes="40047",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Bing",txBytes="113251",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="2665",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Google",txBytes="3056",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Chrome",txBytes="67078",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="DNS",txBytes="86",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Google Analytics",txBytes="4182",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="HTTP",txBytes="138902",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Google Adsense",txBytes="10648",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="MDNS",txBytes="6855",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="Google ads",txBytes="2156",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372200",appName="__unknown",txBytes="24753",rxBytes="4195"
statTime="1696372500",appName="Amazon",txBytes="6328",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372500",appName="Google APIs",txBytes="9427",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372500",appName="Android browser",txBytes="20910",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372500",appName="DNS",txBytes="1103",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372500",appName="HTTP",txBytes="252573",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372500",appName="MDNS",txBytes="2694",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372500",appName="Office 365",txBytes="222675",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372500",appName="Instructure",txBytes="8988",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372500",appName="Google Inbox",txBytes="5155",rxBytes="0"
statTime="1696372500",appName="__unknown",txBytes="26304",rxBytes="0"

            I did notice "unknown" tends to show lots of rxBytes. Yahoo and SSL lines show RX maybe it only matches the rxBytes as an alert?

            statTime="1696371300",appName="Yahoo! Mail",txBytes="1055",rxBytes="3812"
statTime="1696371300",appName="IMAPS",txBytes="1055",rxBytes="3812"
statTime="1696371300",appName="SSL client",txBytes="1055",rxBytes="3812"

            Make sure to upvote

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            • JonathanLeeJ
              JonathanLee
              last edited by

              I just noticed the update for alerts tab.
              I just installed it thank you !!!

              Screenshot 2023-10-03 at 3.56.54 PM.png

              Make sure to upvote

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              • JonathanLeeJ
                JonathanLee
                last edited by JonathanLee

                I forgot I have to add the custom rules for the text that is not mapped over yet right? Starting at 1000000. I also found one to detect and alert on ChatGPT :)

                alert ip $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:"iTunes";flow:from_client;appid:itunes; sid:1000000 ; classtype:misc-activity; rev:1;)
alert ip $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:"iCloud";flow:from_client;appid:icloud; sid:1000001 ; classtype:misc-activity; rev:1;)
alert ip $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:"LinkedIn";flow:from_client;appid:linkedin; sid:1000002 ; classtype:misc-activity; rev:1;)
alert ip $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:"ChatGPT";flow:from_client;appid:chatgpt; sid:1000003 ; classtype:misc-activity; rev:1;)

                With the help of . . . /usr/local/etc/snort/appid/odp/appMapping.data

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                  @JonathanLee said in AppID alerts question:

                  I forgot I have to add the custom rules for the text that is not mapped over yet right? Starting at 1000000. I also found one to detect and alert on ChatGPT :)

                  Yes, you will possibly need to create your own supplemental AppID text rules for some of the newer AppID stubs in the updates that come down from the Snort Vulnerability Research Team.

                  Remember that the AppID text rules package is a very old variant created by University volunteers several years ago. It has not been maintained, so that means it will lack the necessary rules for some of the newer apps. There were also a few typos in some app names in those rules (or else the Snort VRT changed the names slightly since the text rules were developed).

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                    The one big shortcoming of OpenAppID is the dearth of available and maintained text rules that must be used with the stub detectors. Without matching text rules for each AppID stub detector, there will be no alerts.

                    Much like lists of IP addresses that must be created and maintained for known bad actor and poor reputation blocking, you must have someone creating and maintaining the associated text rules for OpenAppID to work corrrectly in Snort. It's these associated text rules that are not being maintained, and thus OpenAppID loses some of its usefulness because without the text rules you will not get alerts for some application traffic. But maintaining such a collection of rules is labor intensive and nobody wants to do it for free. As of yet, I have not located an available package of OpenAppID text rules that is current and maintained.

                    Users are certainly free to create their own custom OpenAppID text rules to match up with all the available detector stubs provided by the Snort VRT, but that takes a good bit of effort.

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                      @bmeeks I did try Bill. I dont know if you remember but we had a talk about this maybe a year or two ago.
                      To keep the list current i compared what was in here https://appid.cisco.com/home and seeing if there was a corresponding text rule

                      I created maybe 200 and then stopped. Its an impossible task if it's one person. This is why this is a paid service from other vendors. There is no way to keep on top of writing text rules with new appids without some level of automation or a team for oversight.

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                        @michmoor This could be fully automated with use of /usr/local/etc/snort/appid/odp/appMapping.data for iterations. Make a string in java and iterate for lower case strings add all the rules at once. It is really easy to code it with java. I will download the file and do a one time conversion to a new text file to add to custom but it will be huge. It may take some time but I have a good idea on how to do this with Java's scanner object now that I understand it. Only took me a couple years.

                        Here is a nice reference:

                        https://forum.netgate.com/topic/183210/guide-snort-s-appid-custom-rules-quick-guide-to-blocking-example-shows-openai-chatgpt-or-itunes

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                          @michmoor said in AppID alerts question:

                          Its an impossible task if it's one person. This is why this is a paid service from other vendors. There is no way to keep on top of writing text rules with new appids without some level of automation or a team for oversight.

                          100% agree with this sentiment. But apparently vendors do not sense a wide level of interest/desire for this kind of product and thus no promise of a revenue stream large enough to fund the effort and produce some amount of profit.

                          This is one of the reasons I've become sort of soured on Snort. Not "soured" in a bad way, but rather because there is no active support and interest in its most distinguishing feature (when comparing Snort to Suricata): OpenAppID. Without OpenAppID, Snort really trails Suricata due to Suricata's multithreaded nature and its extensive logging options.

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                            michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @bmeeks
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                            @bmeeks said in AppID alerts question:

                            This is one of the reasons I've become sort of soured on Snort. Not "soured" in a bad way, but rather because there is no active support and interest in its most distinguishing feature (when comparing Snort to Suricata): OpenAppID. Without OpenAppID, Snort really trails Suricata due to Suricata's multithreaded nature and its extensive logging options.

                            I get what you're saying completely. There's potential there but not a lot of commitment to bettering the product.
                            Until there is functional and automated way of writing these rules and importantly categorizing the apps and text rules correctly its difficult to recommend OpenAppID as is.

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                              michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @JonathanLee
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                              @JonathanLee Your solution doesn't take into account categorizing the apps as well which is a huge undertaking and arguably the hardest part.

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                                @michmoor @bmeeks

                                Here is, the fully converted appMapping.data to text file...

                                Screenshot 2023-10-04 at 5.58.46 PM.jpg

                                The pfSense Snort AppID de-cipher sorcerer's code file: --> textrules.txt

                                Sid range: 1000000 - 1003371

                                Total 3,371 AppID rules you can use with the custom option.

                                I converted it with a Java program I just made. The message is the same as the appid match it makes it easier.

                                Some of the ieee items are bigger but they seem to match.

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