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    Suricata - alert on pdf files

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      michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
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      I have written a custom rule to alert me on any pdf transfers seen going via smb

      alert smb any any -> any any (msg:"PDF file transfer detected over SMB"; fileext:"pdf"; sid:100002; rev:1;)

      The rule is written currently using the new Suricata 7.x binary for pfsense and the fileext is supported according to documentation.

      For added measure I have enabled FileStore in the GUI as well. SMB parsers is set to enable.

      Any clue as to why this wouldn't work?

      This is just a test rule and i do intend on being more refined in the future.

      Firewall: NetGate,Palo Alto-VM,Juniper SRX
      Routing: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
      Switching: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
      Wireless: Unifi, Aruba IAP
      JNCIP,CCNP Enterprise

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        Vollans
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        My guess would be that if you’re moving the file over SMB, it’s likely to be on the same network, so would never actually touch the firewall to be detected.

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