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    BBcan177 Moderator
    last edited by Jan 8, 2014, 8:04 PM

    You were right on the WAN side not picking up the alert but …. I'll leave my other opinions alone ..lol.

    You would think that to edit the HOME_NET and EXTERNAL_NET that you would do that in -

    Snort Interfaces-WAN Settings, "Choose the networks Snort should inspect and whitelist."

    The Drop Box links to the "WhiteList" Tab.

    In the WhiteList tab, create a new List and at the Bottom enter an "Alias" which can be defined from the Firewall, Alias lists.
    I created a new Alias for the External with the two external WAN ip's (all the checkmarks are whitelisting the others already?)
    I created a second alias for Home_net and listed 192.168.0.0/16,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12 (all the checkmarks are whitelisting the others already?)

    To enter these changes in Custom.rules would you need to use IPVAR instead of VAR? Not sure how this will affect the Whitelist?

    ipvar HOME_NET [192.168.0.0/16,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12]
    ipvar EXTERNAL_NET !HOME_NET

    "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

    Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
    Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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      BBcan177 Moderator
      last edited by Jan 8, 2014, 8:29 PM Jan 8, 2014, 8:14 PM

      An easy way to check what is in the HOME_NET is to -

      Snort Interfaces-WAN Settings, "Choose the networks Snort should inspect and whitelist." and choose "VIEW"

      When its set to "default", all the correct entries are there including the WAN Alias that I setup previously.
      (Not sure why the EXTERNAL NET doesnt have a "VIEW" button also?)

      If I enter the Alias entry as per my previous post it adds those aliases to the list correctly also.

      So back to the drawing board on why that "Blatantly Evil JS Function" rule didn't trigger on the WAN side!!

      [UPDATE]

      EXTERNAL_NET should be set to "default" which is probably defined as "any".

      To use "!$HOME_NET" (Still trying to see how to enter that in the alias field)

      "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

      Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
      Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
      Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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        Ramosel
        last edited by Jan 8, 2014, 8:18 PM

        @jflsakfja:

        You either trust the DNS servers, or you don't. It's one of the reasons they don't let me finish the IPv8 draft (to those rolling their eyes, get real will you? Then get a higher access classification and study the CYCLOPS program).

        Holy smokes… I haven't seen mention of IPv8 for 10 or 12? years...  Network geeks taking sides with Terrell or Fleming... lots of flame retardant underwear needed for that arena.

        Rick

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          A Former User
          last edited by Jan 8, 2014, 8:39 PM

          @BBcan17:

          You were right on the WAN side not picking up the alert but …. I'll leave my other opinions alone ..lol.

          You would think that to edit the HOME_NET and EXTERNAL_NET that you would do that in -

          Snort Interfaces-WAN Settings, "Choose the networks Snort should inspect and whitelist."

          The Drop Box links to the "WhiteList" Tab.

          In the WhiteList tab, create a new List and at the Bottom enter an "Alias" which can be defined from the Firewall, Alias lists.
          I created a new Alias for the External with the two external WAN ip's (all the checkmarks are whitelisting the others already?)
          I created a second alias for Home_net and listed 192.168.0.0/16,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12 (all the checkmarks are whitelisting the others already?)

          To enter these changes in Custom.rules would you need to use IPVAR instead of VAR? Not sure how this will affect the Whitelist?

          ipvar HOME_NET [192.168.0.0/16,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12]
          ipvar EXTERNAL_NET !HOME_NET

          Yes that's how you add aliases (add a whitelist).

          Yes it does need to be defined in the scope that you use it, eg portvar for ports, when used in custom.rules.

          As long as you have the loopback,all the networks (10.0.0.0/8, which brings me to what are you doing with a /8 and  a /16? routing for a whole country?), the dns servers, and the public IPs (preferably with their subnet) HOME_NET should work. That's what it's supposed to do on its own when setting up the list automatically.

          Who in here doesn't believe that the draft for IPv8 is in the process of getting completed? Mark my words, preferably chisel them in stone, just in case the EMP knocks out all technology: IPv8 will use a distributed DNS system, and will force only encrypted connections from host>host. Do NOT forget I told you that, 15 years before it was implemented.

          Joe says that Jack is Jack, Joshua says that Jack is Jack, Daphne says Jack is not Jack. Per the NTP website (which I WILL NOT sideload, please go and read it there if you don't believe me), a person with a single watch knows the time, but a person with two watches is never sure.

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            Ramosel
            last edited by Jan 9, 2014, 2:13 AM

            @jflsakfja:

            [Who in here doesn't believe that the draft for IPv8 is in the process of getting completed? Mark my words, preferably chisel them in stone, just in case the EMP knocks out all technology: IPv8 will use a distributed DNS system, and will force only encrypted connections from host>host. Do NOT forget I told you that, 15 years before it was implemented.
            [/quote]

            Not saying IPv8 draft isn't being worked… But isn't the IPv8 address space 43bit?  With IPv6 rolling (at 128bit) isn't there going to be a reluctance to move that direction even if the draft is being completed?  Or will the IPv8 draft be worked to fit inside the IPv6 address space?

            Rick

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              A Former User
              last edited by Jan 9, 2014, 6:04 AM

              @Ramosel:

              Not saying IPv8 draft isn't being worked… But isn't the IPv8 address space 43bit?  With IPv6 rolling (at 128bit) isn't there going to be a reluctance to move that direction even if the draft is being completed?  Or will the IPv8 draft be worked to fit inside the IPv6 address space?

              Rick

              IPv8 will not have addresses in the traditional context. Your domain is your address. Hosts join a domain based on what hosts trust they belong in that domain. If the hosts trusted to be authoritative for that domain trust the new host, then it is added to the domain, and they in turn announce to other hosts that a new host has joined. Not authoritative hosts then query the new host, and if they determine that the host truelly belongs in that domain (based on how routing to the host is done, its personal key, and a few other factors), then they start adding it to their tables. Hosts can then query any host for any host, and then agree on a key exchange (for the mandatory encrypted connections). If your host and my host agree that the keys other hosts delivered (multiple hosts) belong to each other, then your host trust my host, queries the dns for how to directly get here, then cut all other hosts from the communication and set up the encrypted connections. In the future, it first queries my host, and if the host responds OK, new connections are set up. If the host doesn't respond, then a new query is done for my host. Think of it as failover at the dns level.
              In the rare occurance that a hostile host is added to a domain (all the first level failguards failed) then the authoritative hosts are no longer trusted for adding new hosts to their domain. There is a process to trust them in the future, but their credibility is reduced. After a certain threshold, those hosts are no longer trusted.

              It's an extremely complicated system to explain, and the only thing I can say helps in the explanation is that the dns is part of the IP (Internet Protocol, not IP addresses).

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                Ramosel
                last edited by Jan 9, 2014, 3:36 PM

                I jokingly used your JF initials a few posts back…  if you are not JF, you certainly have read his stuff and are following his path!
                If you are JF, damn glad to know you are still around.  Read a lot of your stuff in years gone by.

                Rick

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                  A Former User
                  last edited by Jan 12, 2014, 3:17 PM

                  Not him, neither have I read his stuff. Maybe he read mine?

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                    Ramosel
                    last edited by Jan 13, 2014, 5:10 PM

                    @jflsakfja:

                    Not him, neither have I read his stuff. Maybe he read mine?

                    Really?!  Although I thought Terrell introduced it… Jim Fleming was quite a proponent of IPv8 back in the 1998-2002 timeframe.  His stuff was all over APNIC and NANOG.  I also think he was involved or maybe even created UNIR.  There are still some archive messages relating to him on RIPE and IETF.  Most were not too kind to him back then.  I thought he was brilliant... but with some limited social skills.  I haven't heard/seen anything from him in over 10 years now.  When you brought up IPv8 it jogged this memory of him.

                    Rick

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                      A Former User
                      last edited by Mar 4, 2014, 2:48 PM

                      Update

                      This is an update to remove redundant suppressions (thanks to Bill for adding the preprocessor rules so we can disable those instead of suppressing them). Some rules added to various categories. As always there were some rules missing in action, didn't note which were those though. Snort needs an update to add commands to the IMAP recognised commands, but I didn't have time to push the list upstream to be included in Snort's code. Those lists are embedded in the code and need updating upstream. If a Snort dev notices this, please consider updating those lists.

                      Don't know how much longer this list will be updated, since I'm personally waiting to migrate over to the Suricata package. As soon as the Suricata package is ready for production (hoping for full IPS functionality), this thread will stop being updated.

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

                      Auto-Flowbit rules > all except:
                      8478 FILE-IDENTIFY Microsoft Office Publisher file magic detected
                      23714 FILE-IDENTIFY Microsoft Office Publisher file magic detected

                      DISABLED:2

                      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
                      2010731 ET FTP FTP CWD command attempt without login

                      DISABLED:1

                      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://rules.emergingthreats.net/blockrules/rbn-malvertisers-ips.txt

                      DO NOT USE! > emerging-rbn > use pfblocker with: http://rules.emergingthreats.net/blockrules/rbn-ips.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
                      2011764 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Microsoft Internet Explorer mshtml.dll Timer ID Memory Pointer Information Disclosure Attempt

                      DISABLED:13

                      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-)
                      2016672 ET WEB_SERVER SQL Errors in HTTP 200 Response (error in your SQL syntax)
                      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
                      2417 PROTOCOL-FTP format string attempt
                      1377 PROTOCOL-FTP wu-ftp bad file completion attempt
                      1378 PROTOCOL-FTP wu-ftp bad file completion attempt

                      DISABLED:38

                      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
                      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
                      23098 FILE-MULTIMEDIA Adobe Flash Player MP4 sequence parameter set parsing overflow attempt
                      14772 WEB-CLIENT libpng malformed chunk denial of service attempt
                      29466 FILE-OTHER Corel PDF fusion XPS stack buffer overflow attempt

                      DISABLED:11

                      preprocessor.rules > all except (first_column:second_column details)
                      119:2 HI_CLIENT_DOUBLE_DECODE
                      119:4 HI_CLIENT_BARE_BYTE
                      119:7 HI_CLIENT_IIS_UNICODE
                      119:14 HI_CLIENT_NON_RFC_CHAR
                      119:31 HI_CLIENT_UNKNOWN_METHOD
                      119:32 HI_CLIENT_SIMPLE_REQUEST
                      120:2 HI_SERVER_INVALID_STATCODE
                      120:3 HI_SERVER_NO_CONTLEN
                      120:4 HI_SERVER_UTF_NORM_FAIL
                      120:6 HI_SERVER_DECOMPR_FAILED
                      120:8 HI_CLISRV_MSG_SIZE_EXCEPTION
                      120:9 HI_SERVER_JS_OBFUSCATION_EXCD
                      120:10 HI_SERVER_JS_EXCESS_WS
                      122:1 PSNG_TCP_PORTSCAN
                      122:4 PSNG_TCP_DISTRIBUTED_PORTSCAN
                      122:17 PSNG_UDP_PORTSCAN
                      122:20 PSNG_UDP_DISTRIBUTED_PORTSCAN
                      124:3 SMTP_RESPONSE_OVERFLOW
                      125:1 FTPP_FTP_TELNET_CMD
                      125:2 FTPP_FTP_INVALID_CMD
                      125:7 FTPP_FTP_ENCRYPTED
                      125:9 FTPP_FTP_EVASIVE_TELNET_CMD
                      137:1 SSL_INVALID_CLIENT_HELLO
                      141:1 IMAP_UNKNOWN_CMD <<< pending upstream update
                      141:2 IMAP_UNKNOWN_RESP <<< pending upstream update
                      145:2 DNP3_DROPPED_FRAME
                      DISABLED>>>26

                      DO NOT USE! > sensitive-data.rules > NONE enabled

                      Suppression list:

                      #GLOBAL

                      gen_id 1

                      suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 536
                      suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 653
                      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 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
                      #(IMAP) Unknown IMAP4 command
                      suppress gen_id 141, sig_id 1

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                        A Former User
                        last edited by Mar 15, 2014, 6:38 PM

                        Emerging threats has stopped updating the RBN related lists, hence a new update to this topic. That and a couple of added rules.

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

                        Auto-Flowbit rules > all except:
                        8478 FILE-IDENTIFY Microsoft Office Publisher file magic detected
                        23714 FILE-IDENTIFY Microsoft Office Publisher file magic detected

                        DISABLED:2

                        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: http://rules.emergingthreats.net/blockrules/compromised-ips.txt

                        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
                        2010731 ET FTP FTP CWD command attempt without login

                        DISABLED:1

                        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
                        2009303 ET POLICY MediaFire file download service access

                        DISABLED:150

                        emerging-pop3 > ---

                        DO NOT USE! > emerging-rbn-malvertisers > use pfblocker with: !!!LIST REMOVED!!! LOOKING FOR SUGGESTIONS

                        DO NOT USE! > emerging-rbn > use pfblocker with: !!!LIST REMOVED!!! LOOKING FOR SUGGESTIONS

                        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
                        2011367 ET SCAN TCP Traffic (ET SCAN Malformed Packet SYN FIN)

                        DISABLED:5

                        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
                        2011764 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Microsoft Internet Explorer mshtml.dll Timer ID Memory Pointer Information Disclosure Attempt

                        DISABLED:13

                        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-)
                        2016672 ET WEB_SERVER SQL Errors in HTTP 200 Response (error in your SQL syntax)
                        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
                        2417 PROTOCOL-FTP format string attempt
                        1377 PROTOCOL-FTP wu-ftp bad file completion attempt
                        1378 PROTOCOL-FTP wu-ftp bad file completion attempt

                        DISABLED:38

                        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
                        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
                        23098 FILE-MULTIMEDIA Adobe Flash Player MP4 sequence parameter set parsing overflow attempt
                        14772 WEB-CLIENT libpng malformed chunk denial of service attempt
                        29466 FILE-OTHER Corel PDF fusion XPS stack buffer overflow attempt
                        27948 FILE-OFFICE Microsoft Office Excel rtMergeCells heap overflow attempt
                        17153 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox plugin parameter array dangling pointer exploit attempt - 1

                        DISABLED:13

                        preprocessor.rules > all except (first_column:second_column details)
                        119:2 HI_CLIENT_DOUBLE_DECODE
                        119:4 HI_CLIENT_BARE_BYTE
                        119:7 HI_CLIENT_IIS_UNICODE
                        119:14 HI_CLIENT_NON_RFC_CHAR
                        119:31 HI_CLIENT_UNKNOWN_METHOD
                        119:32 HI_CLIENT_SIMPLE_REQUEST
                        120:2 HI_SERVER_INVALID_STATCODE
                        120:3 HI_SERVER_NO_CONTLEN
                        120:4 HI_SERVER_UTF_NORM_FAIL
                        120:6 HI_SERVER_DECOMPR_FAILED
                        120:8 HI_CLISRV_MSG_SIZE_EXCEPTION
                        120:9 HI_SERVER_JS_OBFUSCATION_EXCD
                        120:10 HI_SERVER_JS_EXCESS_WS
                        122:1 PSNG_TCP_PORTSCAN
                        122:4 PSNG_TCP_DISTRIBUTED_PORTSCAN
                        122:17 PSNG_UDP_PORTSCAN
                        122:20 PSNG_UDP_DISTRIBUTED_PORTSCAN
                        124:3 SMTP_RESPONSE_OVERFLOW
                        124:10 SMTP_B64_DECODING_FAILED
                        125:1 FTPP_FTP_TELNET_CMD
                        125:2 FTPP_FTP_INVALID_CMD
                        125:7 FTPP_FTP_ENCRYPTED
                        125:9 FTPP_FTP_EVASIVE_TELNET_CMD
                        137:1 SSL_INVALID_CLIENT_HELLO
                        141:1 IMAP_UNKNOWN_CMD <<< pending upstream update
                        141:2 IMAP_UNKNOWN_RESP <<< pending upstream update
                        145:2 DNP3_DROPPED_FRAME
                        DISABLED>>>27

                        DO NOT USE! > sensitive-data.rules > NONE enabled

                        Suppression list:

                        #GLOBAL

                        gen_id 1

                        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 536
                        suppress gen_id 1, sig_id 653
                        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 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
                        #(IMAP) Unknown IMAP4 command
                        suppress gen_id 141, sig_id 1

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                          cogumel0
                          last edited by Mar 28, 2014, 4:22 PM

                          Hi jflsakfja,

                          Quite like your idea of disabling the rule rather than adding suppresses.

                          However, if you have the time, I think it would be nice to separate things into categories.

                          e.g., things "everyone" is likely to want, things required for Facebook, things required for GMail, things required for Skype, things required for downloading files, etc etc.

                          Using a real scenario as an example, I want Skype to be allowed. I currently have my rules set only to log and thought I had previously allowed all Skype related rules. Today after a Skype call I came back to see hundreds of alerts for:

                          1:2007637 ET TROJAN Storm Worm Encrypted Traffic Outbound - Likely Connect Ack
                          1:2007635 ET TROJAN Storm Worm Encrypted Traffic Inbound - Likely Connect Ack

                          (This might be something you want to add to your exception list).

                          Both alerts started exactly when my Skype call started and ended exactly when my Skype call ended. This rule is only triggered by SkypeOut calls (calls from Skype to physical numbers, not Skype-to-Skype calls). SkypeOut uses port 12340, which is exactly the port that traffic was coming in on when these rules got triggered.

                          Just looking at the description of the rule, I would say that anything with the name "TROJAN" on it should definitely be blocked, and if someone tells me I should unblock it without justifying it I would just leave it blocked until the alerts show me a genuine reason to unblock it. Having a list that says this is related to Skype and without it Skype will not work will give me enough confidence to enable it without needing to test it myself. It also means I then know that if I want to enable Skype I have to enable this one too, but I can quite happily leave others still enabled.

                          For example, if the following two rules do exactly what their name suggests, I have no need for them since I do not use Microsoft Office Publisher:

                          8478 FILE-IDENTIFY Microsoft Office Publisher file magic detected
                          23714 FILE-IDENTIFY Microsoft Office Publisher file magic detected

                          However, if you tell me that iPhone AppStore (crazy example) triggers that rule, I'll quite happily enable it.

                          I know there is a massive amount of work involved in assigning every single rule to a category, but if that's done, it will also be a lot easier for the community to later maintain it…

                          Just my two cents.

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                            A Former User
                            last edited by Mar 30, 2014, 12:28 PM Mar 30, 2014, 12:24 PM

                            Thought about putting a reason for disabling a particular rule next to the rule. Then sat down and thought. If a rule produces false positives, it's not a "I don't use skype (for example) so I'll leave active all rules related to skype that generate false positives" scenario, it's more of a "I don't use skype, but other persons do".
                            This particular list is in use at a site that provides internet connectivity to clients, and hosts a couple of servers behind it. If something ends up on my list it's a)the rule should be removed upstream (coughsimple HTTP requestcough) b)client's requirements (stuff they use, I don't use) c)company requirements (stuff nobody but me uses, but causes a false positive). In all cases, the rule is required to be disabled, since nobody wants to get a call at 3am to get up and unblock an IP that was blocked by mistake.

                            Personally I would like to see a simple explanation next to the rule for the reason why it's disabled. I would prefer it though if the false positive (or overly-paranoid rules coughsimple HTTP requestcough) get removed upstream. Rules "protecting" from 5 year vulnerabilities in a program shouldn't be used, but instead the program in question should be fixed. Yes there is the chance of a regression in a future update. I'll take my chances with that, instead of dropping connectivity at random due to false positives.
                            Until all, each and every single one, of the past,present and future sysadmins, goes to work with an attitude of "I'll check for updates to software in use daily and co-operate with the community on getting bugs fixed" AND developers adopt the versioning scheme I suggested on a debian list a while back (only 2 versions for programs: stable and testing) then all kinds of these lists will be needed to "watch after" other people's mess.

                            Let's take your example, for example (no pun intended). Those two rules caused an alert for something they should not produce. What the entire community is faced with is a simple choice:
                            A) update the rule and fix it. If detection for that particular worm is not possible without using an NSA dragnet approach (all traffic to that port,not allowed) then that rule should be removed.
                            B) leave the rule as is, and instead put additional effort into maintaining a copy of "This rule should be disabled because it's causing a false positive when you use skype".

                            I'll take option A.

                            Let's take my example now. SYN (first step to establishing a connection) traffic destined for an HTTP port, directed to a non-HTTP server. In my case, that particular rule is a "WTF?!? traffic directed at a web server is trying to get to a client's computer" type of reaction. This particular rule cannot produce a false positive. The reason is actually in the use case for the rule. HTTP traffic, NOT directed to a webserver. This rule detects attempts to find a webserver faster than all those rules related to detecting this (snort/ET). The reason is simple. There are times you can use a not needed traffic approach. There are other times though that using that approach, could lead to false positives. What if another sysadmin adds a webserver using a client's IP (theoretical scenario, play along)? In that case the system will still see that traffic is trying to get to a client's pc, but block it. It's still NOT a false positive though, since I know that that address block shouldn't have servers in it. It's the sysadmin's responsibility of notifying me to get the IP added to the webservers' list, and my responsibility of adding it. It's not the sysadmin's responsibility of going in and disabling a rule because my rule needs updating. Hope it makes sense.

                            PS.
                            Re-read the post and saw that I got carried away. Summary: yes, explanations would be nice, people actually doing what they are supposed to do would be nicer.

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                            • bmeeksB
                              bmeeks
                              last edited by Mar 31, 2014, 2:19 AM Mar 30, 2014, 10:45 PM

                              You guys using pfBlocker may be interested in the upcoming Snort package update.  It will include support for Snort's IP Reputation preprocessor.  This is a high-speed preprocessor that is the first link in the Snort traffic inspection train (when enabled).  It can use one or more plain text files of IP addresses or CIDR-notation networks that it should block outright.  Traffic is matched on a simple IP and not using the complex regex engines and stuff the text rules use.  This means the inspection is quick and efficient.

                              Here is my personal take on this new Snort blacklist approach versus the pfBlocker approach.  Both eventually produce the same result:  offender IPs blocked.  The difference in my opinion is how they get there.  pfBlocker is a sort of shotgun approach where you load your firewall up with all the potential bad-guy addresses.  This can potentially waste lots of memory and packet filter resources protecting against an army of IP addresses when maybe only 50 or 60 of them may actually ever hit your firewall (just an example; busier or high-value networks probably see more bad actor IPs than that).  At any rate, it seems more efficient in terms of resources in my view to let Snort sit there with a blacklist and only fill your firewall block tables with those blacklisted IPs that actually hit your box.

                              The new Snort package will have a new top-level tab for managing IP Lists used by the new preprocessor, and then a new IP REP tab for each interface where you will assign the blacklist and/or whitelist for the interface and adjust other settings.  Some screenshots are attached below.

                              Bill

                              SnortIPLists.png
                              SnortIPLists.png_thumb
                              SnortIPReputationPreproc.png
                              SnortIPReputationPreproc.png_thumb

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                                cogumel0
                                last edited by Mar 31, 2014, 12:04 AM

                                @jflsakfja:

                                Thought about putting a reason for disabling a particular rule next to the rule. Then sat down and thought. If a rule produces false positives, it's not a "I don't use skype (for example) so I'll leave active all rules related to skype that generate false positives" scenario, it's more of a "I don't use skype, but other persons do".
                                This particular list is in use at a site that provides internet connectivity to clients, and hosts a couple of servers behind it. If something ends up on my list it's a)the rule should be removed upstream (coughsimple HTTP requestcough) b)client's requirements (stuff they use, I don't use) c)company requirements (stuff nobody but me uses, but causes a false positive). In all cases, the rule is required to be disabled, since nobody wants to get a call at 3am to get up and unblock an IP that was blocked by mistake.

                                Personally I would like to see a simple explanation next to the rule for the reason why it's disabled. I would prefer it though if the false positive (or overly-paranoid rules coughsimple HTTP requestcough) get removed upstream. Rules "protecting" from 5 year vulnerabilities in a program shouldn't be used, but instead the program in question should be fixed. Yes there is the chance of a regression in a future update. I'll take my chances with that, instead of dropping connectivity at random due to false positives.
                                Until all, each and every single one, of the past,present and future sysadmins, goes to work with an attitude of "I'll check for updates to software in use daily and co-operate with the community on getting bugs fixed" AND developers adopt the versioning scheme I suggested on a debian list a while back (only 2 versions for programs: stable and testing) then all kinds of these lists will be needed to "watch after" other people's mess.

                                Let's take your example, for example (no pun intended). Those two rules caused an alert for something they should not produce. What the entire community is faced with is a simple choice:
                                A) update the rule and fix it. If detection for that particular worm is not possible without using an NSA dragnet approach (all traffic to that port,not allowed) then that rule should be removed.
                                B) leave the rule as is, and instead put additional effort into maintaining a copy of "This rule should be disabled because it's causing a false positive when you use skype".

                                I'll take option A.

                                Let's take my example now. SYN (first step to establishing a connection) traffic destined for an HTTP port, directed to a non-HTTP server. In my case, that particular rule is a "WTF?!? traffic directed at a web server is trying to get to a client's computer" type of reaction. This particular rule cannot produce a false positive. The reason is actually in the use case for the rule. HTTP traffic, NOT directed to a webserver. This rule detects attempts to find a webserver faster than all those rules related to detecting this (snort/ET). The reason is simple. There are times you can use a not needed traffic approach. There are other times though that using that approach, could lead to false positives. What if another sysadmin adds a webserver using a client's IP (theoretical scenario, play along)? In that case the system will still see that traffic is trying to get to a client's pc, but block it. It's still NOT a false positive though, since I know that that address block shouldn't have servers in it. It's the sysadmin's responsibility of notifying me to get the IP added to the webservers' list, and my responsibility of adding it. It's not the sysadmin's responsibility of going in and disabling a rule because my rule needs updating. Hope it makes sense.

                                PS.
                                Re-read the post and saw that I got carried away. Summary: yes, explanations would be nice, people actually doing what they are supposed to do would be nicer.

                                Umm, it does sound like you got slightly carried away, but I understand what you mean.

                                However, I would question your logic for not putting reasons next to the disabled rules. You said you didn't do it because if a rule produces false positives it should be disabled, regardless of whether I as a user uses skype or not (as other might).

                                This doesn't take a few things into account though:

                                A) The pfSense environment might be at home, not in a workplace (in which case it would make sense to block as many things as possible to reduce the attack surface - even if that's being overly careful in 99% of the cases)

                                B) Corporate policy says that skype cannot be used.

                                In either of those scenarios, the end result is that the user wants to actively block Skype. Having a list of what rules go with what helps to identify whether this is something that the person setting up pfSense should disable, leave as default or make sure it gets enabled.

                                As for how to resolve the particular rules causing false positives I posted, I completely agree with your way of looking at it: the rule should be fixed, not disabled in an ideal world.

                                However, I would raise the same question about other rules you have disabled on your config, such as:

                                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)

                                Why are those being disabled rather than fixing the rule?

                                Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bust your balls or anything and I really really appreciate what you are doing here, but I think it would be a much better effort if more people could help you with generating a list that actually works and I feel that for that to work we need to have reasons behind why a certain rule is disabled.

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                                • ?
                                  A Former User
                                  last edited by Mar 31, 2014, 6:19 PM

                                  The conficker rules (if memory serves right) FP on applications using UDP to get data transfered. Those were disabled because they were FPing when using viber (calls if I remember correctly). That was the second time they produced FPs and I decided I don't want to use them anymore. In the past they FPed when downloading torrents (if I remember correctly).

                                  Those were disabled because I'm not in the position to get them fixed. Ideally rule developers should be aware of this list and have a closer look at the rules in question. There are several rules that were present on my lists but were later removed upstream (as seen in a couple of my posts, noted as Missing In Action rules). That should confirm that at least something's fishy with those rules.

                                  As always, gasoline is sold to be put into your car. Nothing stops you from drinking it, apart from common sense. The same applies here. If you see a rule for skype, and you don't want to or can't use skype, then don't bother with it until it produces a genuine FP for you.

                                  With that said, I'll try to put a reason next to a rule that is disabled from now on. Would appreciate some help with the already existing list.

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                                    digdug3
                                    last edited by Apr 1, 2014, 12:42 PM

                                    @bmeeks:

                                    You guys using pfBlocker may be interested in the upcoming Snort package update.  It will … ... other settings.  Some screenshots are attached below.

                                    Bill

                                    This is great!  ;D

                                    If you could add .gz and .csv files than it can replace pfBlocker.
                                    Will a blocked ip be listed in the Snort Widget? And will this option also be available in the final Suricata package?

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                                    • bmeeksB
                                      bmeeks
                                      last edited by Apr 1, 2014, 7:16 PM Apr 1, 2014, 7:14 PM

                                      @digdug3:

                                      @bmeeks:

                                      You guys using pfBlocker may be interested in the upcoming Snort package update.  It will … ... other settings.  Some screenshots are attached below.

                                      Bill

                                      This is great!  ;D

                                      If you could add .gz and .csv files than it can replace pfBlocker.
                                      Will a blocked ip be listed in the Snort Widget? And will this option also be available in the final Suricata package?

                                      Yes on displaying blocks in the Widget (and I've fixed the Snort Widget so it updates correctly and also absorbed it into the base Snort package, so when you install the next update it will silently absorb previous widget settings and then remove the separate widget package).

                                      Snort itself can only take text files.  This is not a package limitation but rather a limitation of the binary itself.

                                      And finally, yes, this is coming to Suricata. I'm holding off a bit because Suricata has more options in this area and I think one of the major Suricata backers in the industry is working on their own IP reputation lists custom-tailored for Suricata's abilities.  They have offered to let me have a sample for testing and implementing in the Suricata package.

                                      Bill

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                                        t3rmin
                                        last edited by Apr 2, 2014, 5:45 PM

                                        @bmeeks:

                                        You guys using pfBlocker may be interested in the upcoming Snort package update.  It will include support for Snort's IP Reputation preprocessor.  This is a high-speed preprocessor that is the first link in the Snort traffic inspection train (when enabled).  It can use one or more plain text files of IP addresses or CIDR-notation networks that it should block outright.  Traffic is matched on a simple IP and not using the complex regex engines and stuff the text rules use.  This means the inspection is quick and efficient.

                                        Very cool! Any thoughts on auto-update for the IP lists? ie: Give it a URL to fetch the IP list from periodically, like with pfBlocker.

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                                          BBcan177 Moderator
                                          last edited by Apr 2, 2014, 6:35 PM

                                          I believe that to enter the blocklists into the Snort IP Reputation processor, you will have to do this manually.

                                          Another option is to have a script that copies the pfBlocker text files into the appropriate snort folder after each pfBlocker update.

                                          I have been working on a script that downloads all of the Blacklists, along with .csv and web scrapping methods. It also removes duplication addresses from all of the lists.

                                          It reduces the list by approx 50%. This works in tandem with pfBlocker. I just map pfBlocker to use local files instead.

                                          "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                                          Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                                          Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                                          Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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