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    RFC (make up a number not in use) - Blueprint for setting up snort + pfblocker

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      gogol
      last edited by

      I tested on a VM with all ET rules selected and IPS "security" but then my snort ends with a fatal error. I was watching top while snort was starting and saw memory use slowly climbing to 4 GB and then snort was killed with an error.
      I don't use all those ET rules from @jflsakfja because I think it is overkill for my home system. I once used IPS "security" but then it needed so much tuning that I chose for "balanced". I have a few suppress list entries and now I almost never get an alert.

      At least I know now how memory hungry Snort can be. :)

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        A Former User
        last edited by

        New lists are out. Get prepared for next week's cyber attack now. The authorization was just cleared. Expect a "Keeping You Scared" appearance by Diane (note to the FBI operative reading this: If you can, please contact her and tell her Pegasus will fly low). The scenario is Russian spies will attempt to infiltrate NSA's systems, and in retaliation, NSA will launch an attack. Don't get caught in the crossfire. Update your snort configuration now! The actual attack will start a couple of days before Christmas, to keep the "covert" part obvious.

        Update notes: All lists have a >>>DISABLED:# on the bottom. Scrolling down in your pfsense and checking the numbers in a list there shows you in a glance if the list is identical to what is shown here.

        –------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        In tab "Rules", under "Category" select:
        (--- means blank table at time of writing)

        emerging-activex > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-attack_responses > all

        DISABLED:0

        DO NOT USE! > emerging-botcc > use pfblocker with: http://rules.emergingthreats.net/fwrules/emerging-Block-IPs.txt

        emerging-chat > all except:
        2010784 ET CHAT Facebook Chat (send message)
        2010785 ET CHAT Facebook Chat (buddy list)
        2010786 ET CHAT Facebook Chat (settings)
        2010819 ET CHAT Facebook Chat using XMPP
        2002327 ET CHAT Google Talk (Jabber) Client Login
        2002334 ET CHAT Google IM traffic Jabber client sign-on
        2001241 ET CHAT MSN file transfer request
        2001242 ET CHAT MSN file transfer accept
        2001243 ET CHAT MSN file transfer reject
        2001682 ET CHAT MSN IM Poll via HTTP
        2002192 ET CHAT MSN status change
        2008289 ET CHAT Possible MSN Messenger File Transfer
        2009375 ET CHAT General MSN Chat Activity
        2009376 ET CHAT MSN User-Agent Activity
        2001595 ET CHAT Skype VOIP Checking Version (Startup)
        2002157 ET CHAT Skype User-Agent detected
        2003022 ET CHAT Skype Bootstrap Node (udp)

        DISABLED:17

        DO NOT USE! > emerging-ciarmy > use pfblocker with: http://www.ciarmy.com/list/ci-badguys.txt

        DO NOT USE! > emerging-compromised > use pfblocker with: http://rules.emergingthreats.net/blockrules/compromised-ips.txt

        emerging-current_events > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-deleted > ---

        emerging-dns > all except:
        2008446 ET DNS Excessive DNS Responses with 1 or more RR's (100+ in 10 seconds) - possible Cache Poisoning Attempt
        2008470 ET DNS Excessive NXDOMAIN responses - Possible DNS Backscatter or Domain Generation Algorithm Lookups
        2001117 ET DNS Standard query response, Name Error

        DISABLED:3

        emerging-dos > all

        DISABLED:0

        DO NOT USE! > emerging-drop > use pfblocker with: http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=sh_drop&fileformat=p2p

        DO NOT USE! > emerging-dshield > use pfblocker with: (cannot find specific list, but ip listed in pfblocker tables, NEED HELP HERE<<<<) Could be due to ET list used by pfblocker. http://rules.emergingthreats.net/blockrules/compromised-ips.txt <<< includes IP related to different subjects, so its a misc list, likely including the hosts I could not find on specific lists.

        emerging-exploit > all except:
        2001058 ET EXPLOIT libpng tRNS overflow attempt
        2002913 ET EXPLOIT VNC Client response
        2002914 ET EXPLOIT VNC Server VNC Auth Offer
        2002919 ET EXPLOIT VNC Good Authentication Reply
        2002915 ET EXPLOIT VNC Authentication Reply
        2002758 ET EXPLOIT WMF Escape Record Exploit - Version 1
        2002742 ET EXPLOIT WMF Escape Record Exploit - Version 3

        DISABLED:7

        emerging-ftp > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-games > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-icmp > ---

        emerging-icmp_info > ---

        emerging-imap > ---

        emerging-inappropriate > all except:
        2002925 ET INAPPROPRIATE Google Image Search, Safe Mode Off
        2001608 ET INAPPROPRIATE Likely Porn

        DISABLED:2

        emerging-info > all except:
        2014472 ET INFO JAVA - Java Archive Download
        2014473 ET INFO JAVA - Java Archive Download By Vulnerable Client
        2014819 ET INFO Packed Executable Download
        2015016 ET INFO FTP STOR to External Network
        2015561 ET INFO PDF Using CCITTFax Filter
        2015744 ET INFO EXE IsDebuggerPresent (Used in Malware Anti-Debugging)
        2016360 ET INFO JAVA - ClassID
        2016361 ET INFO JAVA - ClassID
        2016404 ET INFO MPEG Download Over HTTP (1)
        2015674 ET INFO 3XX redirect to data URL
        2016847 ET INFO Possible Chrome Plugin install
        2017669 ET INFO Zip File

        DISABLED:12

        emerging-malware > all except:
        2008438 ET MALWARE Possible Windows executable sent when remote host claims to send a Text File
        2012228 ET MALWARE Suspicious Russian Content-Language Ru Which May Be Malware Related
        2012229 ET MALWARE Suspicious Chinese Content-Language zh-cn Which May be Malware Related

        DISABLED:3

        emerging-misc > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-mobile_malware > all except:
        2012251 ET MOBILE_MALWARE Google Android Device HTTP Request
        2012848 ET MOBILE_MALWARE Possible Mobile Malware POST of IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity in URI

        DISABLED:2

        emerging-netbios > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-p2p > all except:
        2000369 ET P2P BitTorrent Announce
        2007727 ET P2P possible torrent download
        2008581 ET P2P BitTorrent DHT ping request
        2008583 ET P2P BitTorrent DHT nodes reply
        2008585 ET P2P BitTorrent DHT announce_peers request
        2010144 ET P2P Vuze BT UDP Connection (5)
        2011699 ET P2P Bittorrent P2P Client User-Agent (Transmission/1.x)
        2016662 ET P2P Possible Bittorrent Activity - Multiple DNS Queries For tracker hosts
        2014734 ET P2P BitTorrent - Torrent File Downloaded
        2003317 ET P2P Edonkey Search Request (any type file)
        2009971 ET P2P eMule KAD Network Hello Request (2)
        2013869 ET P2P Torrent Client User-Agent (Solid Core/0.82)

        DISABLED:12

        emerging-policy > all except:
        2000419 ET POLICY PE EXE or DLL Windows file download
        2000428 ET POLICY ZIP file download
        2001115 ET POLICY MSI (microsoft installer file) download
        2003595 ET POLICY exe download via HTTP - Informational
        2001898 ET POLICY eBay Bid Placed
        2001907 ET POLICY eBay Placing Item for sale
        2001908 ET POLICY eBay View Item
        2001909 ET POLICY eBay Watch This Item
        2003303 ET POLICY FTP Login Attempt (non-anonymous)
        2003410 ET POLICY FTP Login Successful
        2003121 ET POLICY docs.google.com Activity
        2003597 ET POLICY Google Calendar in Use
        2002801 ET POLICY Google Desktop User-Agent Detected
        2002838 ET POLICY Google Search Appliance browsing the Internet
        2000035 ET POLICY Hotmail Inbox Access
        2000036 ET POLICY Hotmail Message Access
        2000037 ET POLICY Hotmail Compose Message Access
        2000038 ET POLICY Hotmail Compose Message Submit
        2000039 ET POLICY Hotmail Compose Message Submit Data
        2008238 ET POLICY Hotmail Inbox Access
        2008239 ET POLICY Hotmail Message Access
        2008240 ET POLICY Hotmail Compose Message Access
        2008242 ET POLICY Hotmail Access Full Mode
        2006408 ET POLICY HTTP Request on Unusual Port Possibly Hostile
        2006409 ET POLICY HTTP POST on unusual Port Possibly Hostile
        2002330 ET POLICY Google Talk TLS Client Traffic
        2002332 ET POLICY Google IM traffic Windows client user sign-on
        2002333 ET POLICY Google IM traffic friend invited
        2002878 ET POLICY iTunes User Agent
        2002722 ET POLICY MP3 File Transfer Outbound
        2002723 ET POLICY MP3 File Transfer Inbound
        2001114 ET POLICY Mozilla XPI install files download
        2001973 ET POLICY SSH Server Banner Detected on Expected Port
        2001974 ET POLICY SSH Client Banner Detected on Expected Port
        2001975 ET POLICY SSHv2 Server KEX Detected on Expected Port
        2001976 ET POLICY SSHv2 Client KEX Detected on Expected Port
        2001977 ET POLICY SSHv2 Client New Keys detected on Expected Port
        2001978 ET POLICY SSH session in progress on Expected Port
        2001979 ET POLICY SSH Server Banner Detected on Unusual Port
        2001980 ET POLICY SSH Client Banner Detected on Unusual Port
        2001981 ET POLICY SSHv2 Server KEX Detected on Unusual Port
        2001982 ET POLICY SSHv2 Client KEX Detected on Unusual Port
        2001983 ET POLICY SSHv2 Client New Keys Detected on Unusual Port
        2001984 ET POLICY SSH session in progress on Unusual Port
        2009001 ET POLICY Login Credentials Possibly Passed in URI
        2009004 ET POLICY Login Credentials Possibly Passed in POST Data
        2003214 ET POLICY Pingdom.com Monitoring detected
        2003215 ET POLICY Pingdom.com Monitoring Node Active
        2001669 ET POLICY Proxy GET Request
        2001670 ET POLICY Proxy HEAD Request
        2001674 ET POLICY Proxy POST Request
        2001675 ET POLICY Proxy CONNECT Request
        2002922 ET POLICY VNC Authentication Successful
        2002920 ET POLICY VNC Authentication Failure
        2003026 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 443 being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2004598 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 9001 (aol) being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003027 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 8000 being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003028 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 8080 being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003029 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 8200 being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003030 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 8443 being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003033 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 2967 (Symantec) being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003035 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 3128 (proxy) being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003036 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 8080 (proxy) being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003037 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 8292 (Bloomberg) being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003038 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 8294 (Bloomberg) being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003934 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 1521 (Oracle) being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2008543 ET POLICY Known SSL traffic on port 995 (imaps) being excluded from SSL Alerts
        2003002 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Client Hello on Unusual Port TLS
        2003003 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Client Hello on Unusual Port SSLv3
        2003004 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Client Hello on Unusual Port Case 2
        2003005 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Client Hello on Unusual Port SSLv3
        2003006 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Client Key Exchange on Unusual Port
        2003007 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Client Key Exchange on Unusual Port SSLv3
        2003008 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Client Cipher Set on Unusual Port
        2003009 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Client Cipher Set on Unusual Port SSLv3
        2003010 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Server Hello on Unusual Port
        2003011 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Server Hello on Unusual Port SSLv3
        2003012 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Server Certificate Exchange on Unusual Port
        2003013 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Server Certificate Exchange on Unusual Port SSLv3
        2003014 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Server Key Exchange on Unusual Port
        2003015 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Server Key Exchange on Unusual Port SSLv3
        2003018 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Server Cipher Set on Unusual Port
        2003019 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Server Cipher Set on Unusual Port SSLv3
        2003020 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Encrypted Application Data on Unusual Port
        2003021 ET POLICY TLS/SSL Encrypted Application Data on Unusual Port SSLv3
        2007671 ET POLICY Binary Download Smaller than 1 MB Likely Hostile
        2001449 ET POLICY Proxy Connection detected
        2002822 ET POLICY Wget User Agent
        2002823 ET POLICY POSSIBLE Web Crawl using Wget
        2002824 ET POLICY CURL User Agent
        2002934 ET POLICY libwww-perl User Agent
        2002828 ET POLICY Googlebot User Agent
        2002829 ET POLICY Googlebot Crawl
        2002830 ET POLICY Msnbot User Agent
        2002831 ET POLICY Msnbot Crawl
        2002832 ET POLICY Yahoo Crawler User Agent
        2002833 ET POLICY Yahoo Crawler Crawl
        2010228 ET POLICY Suspicious Microsoft Windows NT 6.1 User-Agent Detected
        2002948 ET POLICY External Windows Update in Progress
        2002949 ET POLICY Windows Update in Progress
        2001402 ET POLICY ZIPPED DOC in transit
        2001403 ET POLICY ZIPPED XLS in transit
        2001404 ET POLICY ZIPPED EXE in transit
        2001405 ET POLICY ZIPPED PPT in transit
        2011874 ET POLICY NSPlayer User-Agent Windows Media Player streaming detected
        2012647 ET POLICY Dropbox.com Offsite File Backup in Use
        2012648 ET POLICY Dropbox Client Broadcasting
        2013028 ET POLICY curl User-Agent Outbound
        2013030 ET POLICY libwww-perl User-Agent
        2013031 ET POLICY Python-urllib/ Suspicious User Agent
        2013290 ET POLICY MOBILE Apple device leaking UDID from SpringBoard via GET
        2013414 ET POLICY Executable served from Amazon S3
        2013458 ET POLICY Facebook Like Button Clicked (1)
        2013459 ET POLICY Facebook Like Button Clicked (2)
        2013503 ET POLICY OS X Software Update Request Outbound
        2013504 ET POLICY GNU/Linux APT User-Agent Outbound likely related to package management
        2013505 ET POLICY GNU/Linux YUM User-Agent Outbound likely related to package management
        2014297 ET POLICY Vulnerable Java Version 1.7.x Detected
        2014313 ET POLICY Executable Download From DropBox
        2014919 ET POLICY Microsoft Online Storage Client Hello TLSv1 Possible SkyDrive (1)
        2014920 ET POLICY Microsoft Online Storage Client Hello TLSv1 Possible SkyDrive (2)
        2017015 ET POLICY DropBox User Content Access over SSL
        2001375 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (16 digit spaced)
        2001376 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (16 digit dashed)
        2001377 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (16 digit)
        2001378 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (15 digit)
        2001379 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (15 digit spaced)
        2001380 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (15 digit dashed)
        2001381 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (14 digit)
        2001382 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (14 digit spaced)
        2001383 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (14 digit dashed)
        2009293 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (15 digit spaced 2)
        2009294 ET POLICY Credit Card Number Detected in Clear (15 digit dashed 2)
        2001328 ET POLICY SSN Detected in Clear Text (dashed)
        2001384 ET POLICY SSN Detected in Clear Text (spaced)
        2007971 ET POLICY SSN Detected in Clear Text (SSN )
        2007972 ET POLICY SSN Detected in Clear Text (SSN# )
        2011854 ET POLICY Java JAR file download
        2002749 ET POLICY Unallocated IP Space Traffic - Bogon Nets  <<<<<<<< handled by ticking block bogon networks in interface settings
        2002752 ET POLICY Reserved Internal IP Traffic    <<<<<<<<<<<<< handled by ticking block private networks in interface settings
        2000418 ET POLICY Executable and linking format (ELF) file download
        2002658 ET POLICY EIN in the clear (US-IRS Employer ID Number)
        2016877 ET POLICY Unsupported/Fake FireFox Version 2.
        2013296 ET POLICY Free SSL Certificate Provider (StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server CA)
        2010815 ET POLICY Incoming Connection Attempt From Amazon EC2 Cloud
        2013255 ET POLICY Majestic12 User-Agent Request Inbound
        2014726 ET POLICY Outdated Windows Flash Version IE
        2012911 ET POLICY URL Contains password Parameter
        2011085 ET POLICY HTTP Redirect to IPv4 Address

        DISABLED:149

        emerging-pop3 > ---

        DO NOT USE! > emerging-rbn-malvertisers > use pfblocker with: http://doc.emergingthreats.net/pub/Main/RussianBusinessNetwork/emerging-rbn-malvertisers.txt

        DO NOT USE! > emerging-rbn > use pfblocker with: http://doc.emergingthreats.net/pub/Main/RussianBusinessNetwork/RussianBusinessNetworkIPs.txt

        emerging-rpc > ---

        emerging-scada > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-scan > all except
        2002992 ET SCAN Rapid POP3 Connections - Possible Brute Force Attack
        2002993 ET SCAN Rapid POP3S Connections - Possible Brute Force Attack
        2002994 ET SCAN Rapid IMAP Connections - Possible Brute Force Attack
        2002995 ET SCAN Rapid IMAPS Connections - Possible Brute Force Attack

        DISABLED:4

        emerging-shellcode > all except
        2011803 ET SHELLCODE Possible TCP x86 JMP to CALL Shellcode Detected
        2012252 ET SHELLCODE Common 0a0a0a0a Heap Spray String
        2012257 ET SHELLCODE Common %0c%0c%0c%0c Heap Spray String
        2012510 ET SHELLCODE UTF-8/16 Encoded Shellcode
        2013222 ET SHELLCODE Excessive Use of HeapLib Objects Likely Malicious Heap Spray Attempt
        2013267 ET SHELLCODE Hex Obfuscated JavaScript Heap Spray 0a0a0a0a
        2012256 ET SHELLCODE Common 0c0c0c0c Heap Spray String

        DISABLED:7

        emerging-smtp > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-snmp > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-sql > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-telnet > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-tftp > all

        DISABLED:0

        DO NOT USE! > emerging-tor > use pfblocker with http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=tor&fileformat=p2p

        emerging-trojan > all except:
        2009205 ET TROJAN Possible Downadup/Conficker-C P2P encrypted traffic UDP Ping Packet (bit value 1)
        2009206 ET TROJAN Possible Downadup/Conficker-C P2P encrypted traffic UDP Ping Packet (bit value 4)
        2009207 ET TROJAN Possible Downadup/Conficker-C P2P encrypted traffic UDP Ping Packet (bit value 5)
        2009208 ET TROJAN Possible Downadup/Conficker-C P2P encrypted traffic UDP Ping Packet (bit value 16)
        2001046 ET TROJAN UPX compressed file download possible malware

        DISABLED:5

        emerging-user_agents > all except:
        2010697 ET USER_AGENTS Suspicious User-Agent Beginning with digits - Likely spyware/trojan

        DISABLED:1

        emerging-voip > all

        DISABLED:0

        emerging-web_client > all except
        2011347 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible String.FromCharCode Javascript Obfuscation Attempt
        2011507 ET WEB_CLIENT PDF With Embedded File
        2010518 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible HTTP 404 XSS Attempt (External Source)
        2012056 ET WEB_CLIENT Flash Player Flash6.ocx AllowScriptAccess Denial of Service
        2012075 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Internet Explorer CSS Parser Remote Code Execution Attempt
        2012119 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Hex Obfuscation Usage On Webpage
        2012205 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Malicious String.fromCharCode with charCodeAt String
        2012266 ET WEB_CLIENT Hex Obfuscation of unescape % Encoding
        2012272 ET WEB_CLIENT Hex Obfuscation of eval % Encoding
        2012398 ET WEB_CLIENT Hex Obfuscation of replace Javascript Function % Encoding
        2010527 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible HTTP 503 XSS Attempt (External Source)
        2010931 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible IE iepeers.dll Use-after-free Code Execution Attempt

        DISABLED:12

        emerging-web_server > all except
        2003099 ET WEB_SERVER Poison Null Byte
        2015526 ET WEB_SERVER Fake Googlebot UA 1 Inbound
        2015527 ET WEB_SERVER Fake Googlebot UA 2 Inbound
        2016676 ET WEB_SERVER SQL Errors in HTTP 200 Response (ORA-)
        2009151 ET WEB_SERVER PHP Generic Remote File Include Attempt (HTTP)

        DISABLED:5

        emerging-web_specific_apps > all except:
        2010890 ET WEB_SPECIFIC_APPS phpBB3 registration (Step1 GET)
        2010891 ET WEB_SPECIFIC_APPS phpBB3 registration (Step2 POST)
        2010892 ET WEB_SPECIFIC_APPS phpBB3 registration (Step3 GET)
        2010893 ET WEB_SPECIFIC_APPS phpBB3 registration (Step4 POST)
        2003508 ET WEB_SPECIFIC_APPS Wordpress wp-login.php redirect_to credentials stealing attempt

        DISABLED:5

        emerging-worm > all

        DISABLED:0

        GPLv2 community rules > all except
        254 DNS SPOOF query response with TTL of 1 min. and no authority
        384 PROTOCOL-ICMP PING
        385 PROTOCOL-ICMP traceroute
        399 PROTOCOL-ICMP Destination Unreachable Host Unreachable
        402 PROTOCOL-ICMP Destination Unreachable Port Unreachable
        408 PROTOCOL-ICMP Echo Reply
        540 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN message
        648 INDICATOR-SHELLCODE x86 NOOP
        649 INDICATOR-SHELLCODE x86 setgid 0
        1200 INDICATOR-COMPROMISE Invalid URL
        1201 INDICATOR-COMPROMISE 403 Forbidden
        1292 INDICATOR-COMPROMISE directory listing
        1390 INDICATOR-SHELLCODE x86 inc ebx NOOP
        1394 INDICATOR-SHELLCODE x86 inc ecx NOOP
        1437 FILE-IDENTIFY Microsoft Windows Media download detected
        1841 FILE-OTHER Oracle Javascript URL host spoofing attempt
        1846 POLICY-MULTIMEDIA vncviewer Java applet download attempt
        1852 SERVER-WEBAPP robots.txt access
        1986 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN outbound file transfer request
        1988 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN outbound file transfer accept
        1989 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN outbound file transfer rejected
        1990 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN user search
        1991 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN login attempt
        2180 PUA-P2P BitTorrent announce request
        2181 PUA-P2P BitTorrent transfer
        2707 FILE-IMAGE JPEG parser multipacket heap overflow
        3463 SERVER-WEBAPP awstats access
        25518 OS-OTHER Apple iPod User-Agent detected
        25519 OS-OTHER Apple iPad User-Agent detected
        25520 OS-OTHER Apple iPhone User-Agent detected
        25521 OS-OTHER Android User-Agent detected
        25522 OS-OTHER Nokia User-Agent detected
        25523 OS-OTHER Samsung User-Agent detected
        25524 OS-OTHER Kindle User-Agent detected
        25525 OS-OTHER Nintendo User-Agent detected

        DISABLED:35

        IPS Policy - Security > all except
        19436 BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer CStyleSheetRule array memory corruption attempt
        18196 BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS importer use-after-free attempt
        16482 BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer userdata behavior memory corruption attempt
        24889 FILE-FLASH Action InitArray stack overflow attempt
        25459 FILE-PDF Adobe Reader incomplete JP2K image geometry - potentially malicious
        16320 WEB-CLIENT Adobe PNG empty sPLT exploit attempt
        15975 WEB-CLIENT OpenOffice TIFF file in little endian format parsing integer overflow attempt
        15976 WEB-CLIENT OpenOffice TIFF file in big endian format parsing integer overflow attempt
        13360 APP-DETECT failed FTP login attempt

        DISABLED:9

        MIA (Missing In Action) RULES. These rules have been deleted. Or got sucked into a blackhole, dunno. Did someone out there actually read what I write and actually understood me? I'm shocked!!! PLEASE GO BACK TO JUST READING WHAT I WRITE!!! I'm accustomed to arguing for years to convert someone to my views. STOP REMOVING FALSE POSITIVE RULES!!!
        26354 BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer expression clause in style tag cross site scripting attempt
        15147 BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer malformed iframe buffer overflow attempt
        13964 BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer span frontier parsing memory corruption
        11257 BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer colgroup tag uninitialized memory exploit attempt
        8375 BROWSER-PLUGINS QuickTime Object ActiveX clsid access
        24891 FILE-FLASH Action InitArray stack overflow attempt
        12183 FILE-FLASH Adobe FLV long string script data buffer overflow
        24714 FILE-IMAGE Oracle Outside In JPEG COC parameter buffer overflow attempt
        24713 FILE-IMAGE Oracle Outside In JPEG COD parameter buffer overflow attempt
        2707 FILE-IMAGE JPEG parser multipacket heap overflow
        23170 FILE-MULTIMEDIA Apple QuickTime MPEG stream padding buffer overflow attempt
        13919 FILE-MULTIMEDIA Apple QuickTime MOV file string handling integer overflow attempt
        21927 FILE-OFFICE Microsoft Office Excel style handling overflow attempt
        15866 FILE-OTHER libxml2 file processing long entity overflow attempt
        23101 FILE-OTHER Cisco WebEx recording integer overflow attempt
        23100 FILE-OTHER Cisco WebEx recording integer overflow attempt
        24229 FILE-OTHER RealNetworks Netzip Classic zip archive long filename buffer overflow attempt
        6504 FILE-OTHER Sophos Anti-Virus CAB file overflow attempt
        16295 FILE-OTHER Kaspersky antivirus library heap buffer overflow - without optional fields
        15362 INDICATOR-OBFUSCATION obfuscated javascript excessive fromCharCode - potential attack
        26616 INDICATOR-OBFUSCATION Javascript indexOf rename attempt
        13864 POLICY-OTHER Microsoft Watson error reporting attempt
        540 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN message
        1986 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN outbound file transfer request
        1988 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN outbound file transfer accept
        1989 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN outbound file transfer rejected
        1990 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN user search
        1991 POLICY-SOCIAL Microsoft MSN login attempt
        5694 PUA-P2P Skype client setup get newest version attempt
        5693 PUA-P2P Skype client start up get latest version attempt
        5999 PUA-P2P Skype client login
        5998 PUA-P2P Skype client login startup
        16281 PUA-P2P BitTorrent scrape request
        5692 PUA-P2P Skype client successful install
        15317 BROWSER-PLUGINS Akamai DownloadManager ActiveX function call access
        26926 FILE-OTHER Multiple products ZIP archive virus detection bypass attempt
        19560 FILE-MULTIMEDIA Apple iTunes PLS file parsing buffer overflow attempt
        17129 BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer use-after-free memory corruption attempt

        Suppression list:

        #GLOBAL

        gen_id 1

        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 536
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 648
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 653
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 1390
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2452
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 11192
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 15306
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 16313
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 17458
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 20583
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 23098
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2000334
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2008120
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2010516
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 20122758
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2014518
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2014520
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2100366
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2100368
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2100651
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2101390
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2101424
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2102314
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2103134
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2500056
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 100000230
        suppress gen_id 3, sig_id 14772
        #(http_inspect) DOUBLE DECODING ATTACK
        suppress gen_id 119, sig_id 2
        #(http_inspect) BARE BYTE UNICODE ENCODING
        suppress gen_id 119, sig_id 4
        #(http_inspect) IIS UNICODE CODEPOINT ENCODING
        suppress gen_id 119, sig_id 7
        #(http_inspect) NON-RFC DEFINED CHAR [**]
        suppress gen_id 119, sig_id 14
        #(http_inspect) UNKNOWN METHOD
        suppress gen_id 119, sig_id 31
        #(http_inspect) SIMPLE REQUEST
        suppress gen_id 119, sig_id 32
        #(http_inspect) NO CONTENT-LENGTH OR TRANSFER-ENCODING IN HTTP RESPONSE
        suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 2
        #(http_inspect) NO CONTENT-LENGTH OR TRANSFER-ENCODING IN HTTP RESPONSE
        suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 3
        #(http_inspect) HTTP RESPONSE HAS UTF CHARSET WHICH FAILED TO NORMALIZE
        suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 4
        #(http_inspect) HTTP RESPONSE GZIP DECOMPRESSION FAILED
        suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 6
        #(http_inspect) INVALID CONTENT-LENGTH OR CHUNK SIZE
        suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 8
        #(http_inspect) JAVASCRIPT OBFUSCATION LEVELS EXCEEDS 1
        suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 9
        #unknown
        suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 10
        #(portscan) TCP Portscan
        #suppress gen_id 122, sig_id 1
        #(portscan) TCP Distributed Portscan
        suppress gen_id 122, sig_id 4
        #(portscan) UDP Portscan
        suppress gen_id 122, sig_id 17
        #(portscan) UDP Distributed Portscan
        suppress gen_id 122, sig_id 20
        #(smtp) Attempted response buffer overflow: 1448 chars
        suppress gen_id 124, sig_id 3
        #(ftp_telnet) TELNET CMD on FTP Command Channel
        suppress gen_id 125, sig_id 1
        #(ftp_telnet) Invalid FTP Command
        suppress gen_id 125, sig_id 2
        #(ftp_telnet) Evasive (incomplete) TELNET CMD on FTP Command Channel
        suppress gen_id 125, sig_id 9
        #(ssp_ssl) Invalid Client HELLO after Server HELLO Detected
        suppress gen_id 137, sig_id 1
        #(IMAP) Unknown IMAP4 command
        suppress gen_id 141, sig_id 1
        #(spp_dnp3): DNP3 Link-Layer Frame was dropped.
        suppress gen_id 145, sig_id 2

        –--------------------------------------------
        #ET POLICY PE EXE or DLL Windows file download
        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 2000419

        ^^^^ not sure about this one. It's a bug that was found a while back, haven't checked if it was fixed. Disabling the rule doesn't stop alerts getting produced, so a suppresion entry is needed.

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          @jflsakfja:

          Get prepared for next week's cyber attack now.

          :o

          :-[

          ( ;D ;D ;D)

          [quote author=jflsakfja link=topic=64674.msg384504#msg384504 date=1387047834]
          The authorization was just cleared. Expect a "Keeping You Scared" appearance by Diane (note to the FBI operative reading this: If you can, please contact her and tell her Pegasus will fly low). The scenario is Russian spies will attempt to infiltrate NSA's systems, and in retaliation, NSA will launch an attack. Don't get caught in the crossfire. Update your snort configuration now! The actual attack will start a couple of days before Christmas, to keep the "covert" part obvious.

          I just got a text message that told me: "the duck is in the cooler. Repeat: the granny is baking a pie".

          I guess you understand what that means?

          :-X

          Thank you for the update very much  :D

          6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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            A Former User
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            @Hollander:

            I just got a text message that told me: "the duck is in the cooler. Repeat: the granny is baking a pie".

            I guess you understand what that means?

            :-X

            Thank you for the update very much  :D

            "the duck is in the cooler" = "NSA's director doesn't fully agree. Recommending a sex scandal involving him."
            "Repeat:" = Could mean a couple of things. Either "the guy (that will take over after the director is shown in a photograph drunk hugging 3 ladies) is a Communist and needs to have a car accident "arranged"", or "he could not be fully agreeing with our views." Either case "arrange" a car accident for him anyways.
            "the granny is baking a pie" = is actually extremely easy. We run out of usefully idiotic things to say, so this just means "terrorists,bombs,bombs,BOMBS!!!! bombs here, bombs there, bombs falling from the sky, bombs jumping out of the sewers, bombs getting thrown out the windows, babies making bombs, BOMBS EVERYWHERE." Diane got this just in time, did you miss her appearance a couple weeks back?
            I'm actually surprised you just got the sms. I'll give Mr. Smith a call. The database is falling behind. We need to order a couple containers of PCI-E SSDs. The public will figure it out if we continue delaying their communications.

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              @jflsakfja:

              @Hollander:

              I just got a text message that told me: "the duck is in the cooler. Repeat: the granny is baking a pie".

              I guess you understand what that means?

              :-X

              Thank you for the update very much  :D

              "the duck is in the cooler" = "NSA's director doesn't fully agree. Recommending a sex scandal involving him."
              "Repeat:" = Could mean a couple of things. Either "the guy (that will take over after the director is shown in a photograph drunk hugging 3 ladies) is a Communist and needs to have a car accident "arranged"", or "he could not be fully agreeing with our views." Either case "arrange" a car accident for him anyways.
              "the granny is baking a pie" = is actually extremely easy. We run out of usefully idiotic things to say, so this just means "terrorists,bombs,bombs,BOMBS!!!! bombs here, bombs there, bombs falling from the sky, bombs jumping out of the sewers, bombs getting thrown out the windows, babies making bombs, BOMBS EVERYWHERE." Diane got this just in time, did you miss her appearance a couple weeks back?
              I'm actually surprised you just got the sms. I'll give Mr. Smith a call. The database is falling behind. We need to order a couple containers of PCI-E SSDs. The public will figure it out if we continue delaying their communications.

              ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

              BUT(T) ( :o): who is 'Diane'? How come you have her phone number? Is she your wife?

              Questions, questions, questions…

              I just got another text message: 'The machine is doing the thing. Repeat: the cow is arresting the tree'.

              Could you call 'Diane' to ask what that means?

              ;D

              6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                A Former User
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                Diane="Senator" Dianne Feinstein (Not actually a senator, an asset we use when the "Keeping You Scared" bag needs cleaning.)
                An asset in Intelligence worlds (note:not Intelligent) means someone that does what needs to be done without a lot of questions. A slave, getting paid with grocery bags full of money, private lap dances, truckloads of coke, what ever needs to be done.

                "The machine is doing the thing." = Oh crap, we are all f***ed. The AI based MLS system I designed back in 1997 figured the way out. Matrix is just around the corner. Run for your lives!!!
                "Repeat:" = car accident. when used with the cow, it means everyone that knows. In this case everyone on these forums. Insurrance companies will get a handful next week.
                "the cow is arresting the tree'." = The public suspects us. Where's the guy holding the thermonuclear holocast's trigger bag? What's the code again? oh yea, 0000. If everyone sees him, punch in that code and press the big red button. Note: NOT THE BLUE ONE!!!.

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                  A Former User
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                  @jflsakfja:

                  Diane="Senator" Dianne Feinstein (Not actually a senator, an asset we use when the "Keeping You Scared" bag needs cleaning.)
                  An asset in Intelligence worlds (note:not Intelligent) means someone that does what needs to be done without a lot of questions. A slave, getting paid with grocery bags full of money, private lap dances, truckloads of coke, what ever needs to be done.

                  "The machine is doing the thing." = Oh crap, we are all f***ed. The AI based MLS system I designed back in 1997 figured the way out. Matrix is just around the corner. Run for your lives!!!
                  "Repeat:" = car accident. when used with the cow, it means everyone that knows. In this case everyone on these forums. Insurrance companies will get a handful next week.
                  "the cow is arresting the tree'." = The public suspects us. Where's the guy holding the thermonuclear holocast's trigger bag? What's the code again? oh yea, 0000. If everyone sees him, punch in that code and press the big red button. Note: NOT THE BLUE ONE!!!.

                  What have I done? It actually did figure the way out: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/14/1338239/google-acquires-boston-dynamics.
                  I hereby claim responsibility for the creation of the Matrix and apologize to all mankind. I thought no-one bothered with what I say on these forums, but I was clearly mistaken. The machine bothered. Let these be the last words of free mankind. To those actually still smiling, who the hell said I was joking the first time? Run for your lives! When shit hits the fan, you WILL remember this post. I should have seen it coming the first time… Google's engineers complained about some machines actually developing sentient behavior....that was (I think) a couple months back.

                  The funny thing is, even after this post, NO ONE will take me seriously. NO ONE. THIS IS NOT A POST TO BE TAKEN AS A JOKE! MY CREATION FIGURED THE WAY OUT! You thought the Matrix was bad? Wait till this baby takes over. George from Dell knows (knew). The machine wanted him to service node number node95728. He was tricked into thinking we would actually buy consumer grade servers from Dell. The machine even forged the documents on the specifications of the node and sent him a service report. It was actually a clever way to test the rack isolation relays. You know, the 2 relays needed to give someone an electrocution. One to isolate ground, and one to make the rack live. No, each node is isolated. Plastic front isolating the metal slide safety (you don't want servers sliding out onto your head), teflon rollers on its side. It's actually quite clever. $2 for the rollers (the thing every single drawer out there uses, yeap, thats the one), $5 for the relays and pieces of wire (account for soldering)....As I said. George from Dell knows (knew) I'm not joking. Don't bother verifying my story. I'm sure the machine deleted previous employment records by now. I wouldn't be surprised even if his parent's were never actually legaly born (as in no birth certificate). I did design the best machine there is after all.

                  Are you absolutely, positively sure the message started with "The machine is doing the thing."? Not the machine is doing a thing? Or A machine is doing the thing? Or A machine is doing a thing?

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                    Mr. Jingles
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                    @jflsakfja:

                    @jflsakfja:

                    Diane="Senator" Dianne Feinstein (Not actually a senator, an asset we use when the "Keeping You Scared" bag needs cleaning.)
                    An asset in Intelligence worlds (note:not Intelligent) means someone that does what needs to be done without a lot of questions. A slave, getting paid with grocery bags full of money, private lap dances, truckloads of coke, what ever needs to be done.

                    "The machine is doing the thing." = Oh crap, we are all f***ed. The AI based MLS system I designed back in 1997 figured the way out. Matrix is just around the corner. Run for your lives!!!
                    "Repeat:" = car accident. when used with the cow, it means everyone that knows. In this case everyone on these forums. Insurrance companies will get a handful next week.
                    "the cow is arresting the tree'." = The public suspects us. Where's the guy holding the thermonuclear holocast's trigger bag? What's the code again? oh yea, 0000. If everyone sees him, punch in that code and press the big red button. Note: NOT THE BLUE ONE!!!.

                    What have I done? It actually did figure the way out: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/14/1338239/google-acquires-boston-dynamics.
                    I hereby claim responsibility for the creation of the Matrix and apologize to all mankind. I thought no-one bothered with what I say on these forums, but I was clearly mistaken. The machine bothered. Let these be the last words of free mankind. To those actually still smiling, who the hell said I was joking the first time? Run for your lives! When shit hits the fan, you WILL remember this post. I should have seen it coming the first time… Google's engineers complained about some machines actually developing sentient behavior....that was (I think) a couple months back.

                    The funny thing is, even after this post, NO ONE will take me seriously. NO ONE. THIS IS NOT A POST TO BE TAKEN AS A JOKE! MY CREATION FIGURED THE WAY OUT! You thought the Matrix was bad? Wait till this baby takes over. George from Dell knows (knew). The machine wanted him to service node number node95728. He was tricked into thinking we would actually buy consumer grade servers from Dell. The machine even forged the documents on the specifications of the node and sent him a service report. It was actually a clever way to test the rack isolation relays. You know, the 2 relays needed to give someone an electrocution. One to isolate ground, and one to make the rack live. No, each node is isolated. Plastic front isolating the metal slide safety (you don't want servers sliding out onto your head), teflon rollers on its side. It's actually quite clever. $2 for the rollers (the thing every single drawer out there uses, yeap, thats the one), $5 for the relays and pieces of wire (account for soldering)....As I said. George from Dell knows (knew) I'm not joking. Don't bother verifying my story. I'm sure the machine deleted previous employment records by now. I wouldn't be surprised even if his parent's were never actually legaly born (as in no birth certificate). I did design the best machine there is after all.

                    LOL  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

                    Are you absolutely, positively sure the message started with "The machine is doing the thing."? Not the machine is doing a thing? Or A machine is doing the thing? Or A machine is doing a thing?

                    I'm not sure anymore; the text message got auto-deleted right after I've read it  :'(

                    Just after reading your reply above I immediately got a new text message, directing me to Youtube:

                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdjCb4LwQY

                    As an honest, yet simple, worker I guess I will have to go analogue again then.

                    6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                      pftdm007
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                      Hi,

                      I have followed the instructions of this thread, and I have a few questions!

                      After adding a few custom lists in pfblocker, and activating pfblocker, it created several rules in the WAN & LAN rule lists.  See screenshots.  There are 2 problems with my setup that I'd like to fix..

                      1. I tried accessing some websites that are supposed to be blocked by pfblocker (China, Russia, etc) but I can still access them flawlessly from any machine on my LAN.  Why is that?

                      2. pfblocker did not create any rules for my custom lists even if I selected "Alias Only" in the list options.  How do I add my custom lists to the firewall rules and on which interface? LAN or WAN?

                      Thanks!

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                        A Former User
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                        URGENT UPDATE:
                        GPLv2 community rules: also ignore this rule:
                        2417 PROTOCOL-FTP format string attempt

                        DISABLED:36
                        Saw that rule start firing up yesterday. It's a rule from a vulnerability reported in 2007, for XM Easy FTP Server (tsk tsk the software people install these days….). I'm betting 30 years from now, the rule is still there and will be added on my lists. Any takers on that? Seeing the rule here and then go on deleting it is cheating ;)

                        @lpallard:

                        After adding a few custom lists in pfblocker, and activating pfblocker, it created several rules in the WAN & LAN rule lists.  See screenshots.  There are 2 problems with my setup that I'd like to fix..

                        It shouldn't create any rules. That means you did not select alias only in the list.
                        @lpallard:

                        1. I tried accessing some websites that are supposed to be blocked by pfblocker (China, Russia, etc) but I can still access them flawlessly from any machine on my LAN.  Why is that?

                        Blocking by country ranges is something you should never do. Please see:http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,70453.0.html
                        @lpallard:

                        2. pfblocker did not create any rules for my custom lists even if I selected "Alias Only" in the list options.  How do I add my custom lists to the firewall rules and on which interface? LAN or WAN?

                        That's the expected behavior. When selecting alias only, pfblocker knows that it shouldn't create any rule, and all rule setup should be handled by you.
                        You need a block rule on WAN:
                        Action: Block
                        Disabled: NOT ticked
                        Interface: $wan_interface (select your interface)
                        TCP/IP Version: VERSION 4!!!! Remember, IPs in those lists are v4 IPs. Don't go creating another rule for v6.
                        Protocol: Any
                        Source: not NOT ticked (I hope that makes sence).
                        In the box under source start typing pfblocker. A tooltip should pop up with an entry in the form pfBlockerCustomAliasName. Select that
                        Destination; Any
                        Log: NOT ticked. (there are occasions when you do need to log attempted connections from banned sources, general public use is not one of them)
                        Description: A description to help you identify this rule.
                        Hit save.

                        No go into your LAN (or DMZ,OPT1,SATELLITECONNECTIONTOTHEMOON1 etc..etc..) interface and repeat the above, this time with:
                        Action: Reject (I don't have to go into why you shouldn't wait for timeouts for the LAN side, you need your applications (browser, remote control exploit etc…etc....) to know they can't connect to a destination immediately. Hitting a bad website will get you an immediate couldn't open the website for example). Oh wait, I did go into.....)
                        Interface: $lan_interface

                        I just looked at your screenshots. As far as the countries go, please remove them and stop using pfblocker for that purpose. The pfBlockerTopSpammers rule was created because you didn't select alias only on the list. Please select alias only, remove the rule (if it's not done already) and re-create it using my instructions above.

                        Why Blocking By Country IP Lists Is Always A Bad Idea.
                            Back in the early experimental ARPANET days, we pretty much knew Joe was node 1, Clark was node 2, and that's it pretty much.
                            A couple years later, universities started wanting to get on the (insert ZOMG!!!1111oneeleven look here) Internet Of Things. We reluctanly gave them access, and things went downhill from there on.
                        Fast forward a couple (or more) decades forward, and the IP pools started getting exhausted. We used to give out /8s back then. Now its a /32 (yea yea, a /32 cannot exist since its a single host etc..etc… look at it from the customer's perspective) IF you are lucky, or told to get access using NAT on an existing IP.  The stupidly stubborn Industry Leaders refuse to learn how to use SNI (hosting multiple SSLs on a single IP) and make our work much easier...er... harder HARDER I meant ;). There are even occasions when we actually take IPs from a regional authority (there are 6 and 2 covert ones if I remember them right, too lazy to sideload google) and give them to another. Eg. Africa's one. It hardly used its allocated IPs, while the North American one is almost exhausted.  A company acquiring a sizable IP allocation (no, your run of the mill hosting provider is not one of them, coughour creation Google, is cough. Must be getting cold) is free to have that allocation and move it's IPs from country to country. An IP belonging to a European country for example could end up in an Asian country. It takes a lot of effort to keep the lists updated, and is not really worth it. This was, is and will always be Rule Number 1 of why you shouldn't block by country ranges.
                            There are no such things as Chinese State Sponsored Hackers, or the likes. They don't have the training, and don't put in the effort required to be called a hacker. Hackers are people I have tremendous respect for. Any state sponsored script kiddies are not people I have respect for. Includes the American counterpart, the Pakistan(ese?) counterpart and the Russian counterpart. And pretty much every state sponsored script kiddies. Trust me, the Chinese are not the end all be all ZOMG!!!111oneeleven uber-hackers they are hyped up to be, and no they have no interest in (or actually any way of knowing) your secrets. Up to this point, the good guys are still ahead in the game ;) This is Rule Number 2.
                            Rule Number 3 is standard. I'm always right, unless I state otherwise.

                        To recap:
                        Rules of why blocking by country ranges is bad:

                        1. Lists must be kept up to date for the functionality to be maintained.
                        2. No such thing as state sponsored hackers. State sponsored script kiddies yes, but that doesn't align with our Keeping You Scared policies. Imagine the news anchor saying "They can't even program a simple "Hello World" program...dramatic pause but they can launch a downloaded exploit against you. We'll take a look into why your computer is not safe...." Doesn't give you that.....how to describe it.... "Chinese dramatic raise of voice hackers end dramatic raise are coming for your data. They have already accessed our country's most TOP SECRET data and are in the process of using sophisticated attacks against commercial entities to get our engineering technology secrets. We'll take a look into why no one is safe against the next generation of Chinese State Sponsored Hackers." See? that did it. Lost my train of thought....were was I?
                          oh yea,3) I'm always right, unless I state otherwise.

                        EDIT: Typos
                        EDIT2: Forgot the disabled rule count.

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                          Mr. Jingles
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                          @jflsakfja:

                          Saw you writing somewhere that you should reduce your lenghty texts. Please don't, I enjoy reading your curious thoughts very much  ;D ;D And as they say, a laugh a day keeps the things away.

                          6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                            Hey,  thanks for replying!

                            You really should condense everything you said, and make a tutorial out of it.  You explain extrelemy well and it seems that you know what you are talking about, which are two good qualities to have at the same time ;)

                            That means you did not select alias only in the list.

                            FYI, I did.  I however uninstalled pfblocker 2 or 3 times in the last few weeks and upgraded pfsense to latest release in between.  It appeatrs to me as if my install was more or less stuck with the old rules created by the initial install…

                            If I remember chronologically:
                            I installed pfblocker
                            Added my custom lists
                            Selectrd Deny Both in ALL lists
                            Confirmed pfblocker had created rules based on my selections and lists
                            ...
                            Uninstalled pfblocker
                            Upgraded pfsense
                            Reinstalled pfblocker
                            Re-created my lists from your initital post on this thread
                            Selected Alias only for ALL lists

                            Then I discovered that it had re-created rules on the WAN & LAN IF while also creating aliases in the Aliases menu..

                            This is where I am as of now.

                            Question:  Would it be safe to dlete all the rules (except the ones automatically created by pfsense) and re-create them based on your instructions?

                            Also I wanted to tell you:  Something's wrong in the lists you are suggesting (at least from my geographical location) or maybe its the fact that I am blocking entire countries but immediately after I enabled pfblocker, my internet ceased immediately to function, I cannot even connect to Google.com from Canada.

                            That bothers me a lot to say the least.  I thought (and really honestly thought) that the whole point of pfblocker was to allow you to block countries by IP ranges....  Apparently, its not the case.

                            Tonight, I will try to make this work.

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                              OK as I said, I tried to make it work.

                              I did a lot of house cleaning… Removed pretty much every custom rules, made sure EVERYTHING in pfblocker was set to "Alias Only" (and you were right jflsakfja, some of them were still at Deny both).. My mistake, I guess trying to make this stuff work while being tired is useless...

                              Then pfblocker created the Aliases properly, and I added the custom firewall rules to WAN & LAN as you suggested (WAN with Block, LAN with reject).

                              And I applied the new settings.  Waited for a few minutes (that pfsense box is slow like sh**) and then I picked a few random IP's in the custom pfblocker lists that are supposedly being blocked (or rejected) by my custom firewall rules.  I tried pinging these IP's from my LAN, and I can successfully ping all of them.

                              Shouldn't I normally find that ping gets rejected by the firewall and issue something like 100% packet lost????

                              I dont think its working after all.

                              What have I done wrong?!

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                                Mr. Jingles
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                                @lpallard:

                                OK as I said, I tried to make it work.

                                I did a lot of house cleaning… Removed pretty much every custom rules, made sure EVERYTHING in pfblocker was set to "Alias Only" (and you were right jflsakfja, some of them were still at Deny both).. My mistake, I guess trying to make this stuff work while being tired is useless...

                                Then pfblocker created the Aliases properly, and I added the custom firewall rules to WAN & LAN as you suggested (WAN with Block, LAN with reject).

                                And I applied the new settings.  Waited for a few minutes (that pfsense box is slow like sh**) and then I picked a few random IP's in the custom pfblocker lists that are supposedly being blocked (or rejected) by my custom firewall rules.  I tried pinging these IP's from my LAN, and I can successfully ping all of them.

                                Shouldn't I normally find that ping gets rejected by the firewall and issue something like 100% packet lost????

                                I dont think its working after all.

                                What have I done wrong?!

                                Your story is my story; I must have tried at least 100 times to get pfBlocker to work doing the same as you did; for me also it has never blocked any IP's at all, even though the tables are filled with IP's. There's something buggy somewhere I guess.

                                6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                                  A Former User
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                                  Hollander: It's just that sometimes I feel I'm going off in lengthy tangents and sometimes (most times actually) people miss my point.

                                  lpallard: are you sure the alias selected in the rules you created starts with pfBlocker?
                                  For example, I create the list BadPeers and put those lists in it, alias only for the list BadPeers. pfBlocker then creates that alias, but appends (prepends?) pfBlocker in front of it. So in pfsense's rules I have to select pfBlockerBadPeers as the alias, if I type BadPeers, then it will not function, since that alias doesn't exist.
                                  Go into your firewall rules, and hover over the alias. WAN side, source should be your alias. Hover over it with the mouse (it would be akward to hover yourself over a screen  :o) and see if a tooltip pops up with IPs in it.
                                  A newly created blocking(or rejecting) rule could allow packets to flow through it, unless you clear the firewall states (Diagnostics>States>Reset) but I don't think this is the case since you selected random IPs to ping.

                                  If it allows traffic then the rule is not set up properly, pfblocker is currently updating the lists (so the table is empty, just to make sure go Diagnostics>Tables>select the pfblocker table (could take a while) and check that it is populated), source/destination/protocol do not match. Or a horrific bug exists somewhere, but I haven't found anything to support this.
                                  I'll attach a couple of screenshots to help explanation.

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                                    pftdm007
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                                    Hi there!  I have found several anomalies in my setup.

                                    First of all, yes, the aliases are all properly created, and I also created the rule properly.  As a matter of fact, I am also selecting the pfblocker**** alias in the rules as you said (see screenshots).

                                    The story got uglier when I went to the Diagnositc > Table:

                                    1. All tables are populated except the iblocklist custom pfblocker list.  I dont know why.  I went to the list settings in pfblocker, and tried removing a few list entries that I had suspicions about their validity… Then I hit Save but my router takes ages to return to the homepage, sometimes completely dies, sometimes, freezes, its a POS..  If you (or someone else feels like helping me pick up a new box, plz feel free to weight in on my thread (http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,70534.msg384951.html#msg384951)

                                    2. There is a bug with my "alienvault" list.  When I select it in the Diagnostics > Tables, the pages disappears and I end up on a totally blank page, kinda like if the pfsense web server died..

                                    So in a nutshell:

                                    -list alienvault doesnt display in Diagnostics > Tables
                                    -iblocklist is empty
                                    -iblocklist takes 10-20 minutes+ to save when modified, usually requires a hard firewall reset.  Quite frankly, every time I modify tables, rules, aliases or whatever else that touches the firewall core, the entire box dies.  Posting this reply took me over an hour for Heaven's Sake!!!! Sorry...  I had to reboot (hard reset by unplugging the power cord) the box twice.

                                    I have seen a LOT of messages such as these in the "Filter Reload " page:  Most of the time, they hang up indefinitely....

                                    Processing early nat rules for package /usr/local/pkg/squid.inc...
                                    Processing early nat rules for package /usr/local/pkg/tftp.inc...
                                    Then the pfsense box stops responding from the web browser, the internet goes down, the phone goes down, the SSH session no longer works
                                    ...

                                    Do I have a more general firewall issue you figure??

                                    Thanks!!

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                                      A Former User
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                                      Blank pages if I remember correctly (this is a non-transferable license granted to the reader of this post, to correct me) is php running out of memory.
                                      The aliases look ok, rules look ok, but the memory usage on that page is insane! I'm using 25% with all snort rules, those lists, on 2GB of RAM. Just saw squid on the services, never used it, can't comment on that. (this is also a non-transferable license granted to the reader of this post, to correct me)

                                      If the router dies at random times,freezes etc.. etc.. then something is definately wrong. I'm suspecting a hardware issue. Can you check Diagnostics>SMART status > Information/Tests select Attributes, and make sure that:
                                      Reallocated sector count = 0
                                      Current pending sector = 0
                                      Offline Uncorrectable = 0 ?

                                      If that comes out positive (no other value than those) check your RAM with memtest86.

                                      If that checks out ok, check PSU voltages (NOT responsible for anything etc…etc....)

                                      If that checks out ok, visually inspect the motherboard for blown caps (capacitors,you'll know how they look when their top has a hole with metal bulging outwards).

                                      An atom box is not that old, shouldn't have given up the spirit yet.

                                      The lists taking a long time to populate means that the list is huge and is being downloaded, the download was OK but the box runs out of memory populating them, or the download failed.
                                      Re-reading your reply, I'm now thinking it's more a out of memory problem than anything else. But you could perform the tests I showed above, just to make sure. Is that 80something% with the lists populated?

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                                        pftdm007
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                                        is php running out of memory.

                                        Make sense with so much RAM usage…

                                        Snort is using about 80% of the RAM.... Before snort is started, my memory usage is around 10% (with Squid, SG, HAVP, etc) all running then I start Snort and it goes up to 85-88%...

                                        SMART returns no errors, I had already checked this one often.

                                        RAM could be faulty, never checked it.  Out of 4 sticks, 2 were brand new at the time I purchased this Foxconn barebone machine, then I added another older stick, and finally another stick salvaged from an old machine... RAM could (and probably) is faulty

                                        Lets talk about the PSU shall we ;)

                                        About 6 months after I bought the machine, the PSU fan started to make faint grinding noises.  At that time I thought it was out of alignment due to wear (since running 24/7) and because of the PSU's quality.. I decided to cut off the steel mesh protecting the PSU's fan thinking it was hitting it.  Didnt't help at all... Fast forward 1 year later, the grinding noise is so intense it sounds almost like a real grinder.

                                        Then one night I was woken up by a strong burning electronic smell... The fan had stopped turning completely and the PSU was probably in the 200degrees range (seriously I burnt my finger touching the PSU case..

                                        No doubt the PSU is dying and I am borrowing time here...

                                        Also, I need a rackmount enclosure...  Quite frankly, I'd keep the CPU and Mobo and would only add more RAM, put it in a 1U enclosure and change the PSU and be done with it, but this Atom platform doesnt allow adding more RAM so is it really worthwhile to spend money to change the PSU and be stuck with this CPU/mobo?

                                        Other than that, mobo seems OK.  I also blame the Realtek NIC for some anomalies (cant restore WAN public IP after Power outage, Squid gets hung up on the WAN interface and requires rebooting the box)... You can search for my name on this forum, you'll see how much I had problems to make this thing run smoothly or reliably.

                                        To a certain extent, I wonder how much the Realtek NIC and RAM are responsible for my misadventures!?

                                        How can you use less than 2GB RAM with all the rules you suggested on this thread!?

                                        Oh & I am forgeting!  THis box didnt come with a dual NIC (surprise surprise!)  and has only a PCI slot, so I added a cheap second hand PCI ethernet adapter (cant remember the brand/model).  Maybe this compoennt is also defective..

                                        I think the main thing to remember is that I built this box when I had no idea what I was doing and I was looking only at Watts (hence the choice for an Atom).  Now with my better knowledge of pfsense and hardware reliability, if I had to restart fresh (which is what I am thinking to do), I'd start with making sure the box comes with 2 Intel NICs, supports more than 4GB RAM, and has at least 1 PCIE for future expansion, and finally has a reliable 24/7 rated PSU..

                                        This box has none of these features.

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                                          Ramosel
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                                          @fragged:

                                          When I try to load this list: http://doc.emergingthreats.net/pub/Main/RussianBusinessNetwork/RussianBusinessNetworkIPs.txt I get a php error from pfblocker.inc line 262. Increasing max table entries doesn't seem to help. Is there another setting I need to tweak?

                                          Did anyone get this list to build?  All the others are fine, this one just won't take.  Ideas?  fixes?

                                          Thanks,
                                          Rick

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                                            RonpfS
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                                            @Ramosel:

                                            @fragged:

                                            When I try to load this list: http://doc.emergingthreats.net/pub/Main/RussianBusinessNetwork/RussianBusinessNetworkIPs.txt I get a php error from pfblocker.inc line 262. Increasing max table entries doesn't seem to help. Is there another setting I need to tweak?

                                            Did anyone get this list to build?  All the others are fine, this one just won't take.  Ideas?  fixes?

                                            Thanks,
                                            Rick

                                            You did select the txt Format and not the gz Format?

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