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    zonian18
    last edited by Apr 13, 2014, 7:59 PM

    @jflsakfja:

    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

    FYI the following being enabled kept the WAN interface from turning on.
    It will show enabled, but it will have that red X next to it and it refused to start.
    After troubleshooting, I narrowed it down to this very specific rule (which you need to add to your exception list)

    2011695 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Microsoft Internet Explorer Dynamic Object Tag/URLMON Sniffing Cross Domain Information Disclosure Attempt Disclosure Attempt

    If I disable that, then the WAN interface is able to show the green play button (running) without issue.

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      bmeeks
      last edited by Apr 13, 2014, 9:47 PM

      @zonian18:

      @jflsakfja:

      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

      FYI the following being enabled kept the WAN interface from turning on.
      It will show enabled, but it will have that red X next to it and it refused to start.
      After troubleshooting, I narrowed it down to this very specific rule (which you need to add to your exception list)

      2011695 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Microsoft Internet Explorer Dynamic Object Tag/URLMON Sniffing Cross Domain Information Disclosure Attempt Disclosure Attempt

      If I disable that, then the WAN interface is able to show the green play button (running) without issue.

      Yes, there is apparently an issue with that specific rule in the ET OPEN rule set package.  I think it throws an error when Snort's pcre (Perl-compatible regular expression) engine tries to decode the content part of the rule.  This is an error the ET OPEN rule authors will need to fix.  It is a not something directly related to the Snort package.

      Bill

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        bmeeks
        last edited by Apr 13, 2014, 9:48 PM

        @t3rmin:

        I installed the new Snort package and it looks like you're pulling the compromised IPs .txt file from ETPro automatically during rules updates. Very cool!  8)

        Yes, since the file is there in the ET OPEN and ET PRO rules packages, the new code for the IP Reputation preprocessor grabs and stores it for use if enabled by the user.

        Bill

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          A Former User
          last edited by Apr 25, 2014, 2:55 PM

          IMPORTANT!!!

          I'm in the middle of transitioning to a different blacklist management, but for now the pfblocker lists will remain here since I don't have the time to update that part of the guide. Thanks to BBcan17 for his help with the blacklists.

          This update brings a couple dozen no longer needed rules, and I have now started adding an explanation of why I deleted a certain rule next to it, after <<<

          Enjoy.

          
          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 <<< CARE!!! a lot of IRC servers are listed here. Try it first, an IRC network that you need to work, doesn't, then remove it.
          
          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)
          2000355 ET CHAT IRC authorization message [stops IRC from working]
          2002024 ET CHAT IRC NICK command [stops IRC from working]
          2002028 ET CHAT IRC PONG response [stops IRC from working]
          2002025 ET CHAT IRC JOIN command [stops IRC from working]
          2002026 ET CHAT IRC PRIVMSG command [stops IRC from working]
          >>DISABLED:22
          
          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
          2000356 ET POLICY IRC connection [stops IRC from working, misses a lot of real IRC connections]
          >>>DISABLED:151
          
          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 <<< Affects systems running the Firefox ActiveX control (firefox 3.6.7). No longer needed, delete upstream.
          17154 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox plugin parameter array dangling pointer exploit attempt - 2 <<< Affects systems running the Firefox ActiveX control (firefox 3.6.7). No longer needed, delete upstream.
          19713 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1\. No longer needed, delete upstream.
          19714 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1\. No longer needed, delete upstream.
          19321 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Products nsCSSValue Array Index Integer Overflow  <<< Affects Firefox v3.5.1-3.6.6.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          19292 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          19078 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox html tag attributes memory corruption <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          19077 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          19076 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          17804 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox html tag attributes memory corruption <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          25233 BROWSER-FIREFOX appendChild multiple parent nodes stack corruption attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          25232 BROWSER-FIREFOX appendChild multiple parent nodes stack corruption attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          25228 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox iframe and xul element reload crash attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          25227 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox iframe and xul element reload crash attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          24994 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox onChannelRedirect method attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          24188 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          24187 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          21363 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          20072 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox nsTreeRange Use After Free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          16502 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox WOFF font processing integer overflow attempt - CFF-based <<< Affects Firefox v3.6.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          16501 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox WOFF font processing integer overflow attempt - TrueType <<< Affects Firefox v3.6.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          29503 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Products SVG text content element getCharNumAtPosition use after free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-5.0.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
          >>DISABLED:34
          
          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
          
          pfBlocker extra lists:
          TYPE LIST
          txt http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/drop.txt
          txt http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/edrop.txt
          
          
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            Ramosel
            last edited by Apr 26, 2014, 12:56 PM

            Since you have changed the format of how you are posting the updates in this post, is this a repost of the March 15th update or something new?

            Rick

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              A Former User
              last edited by Apr 26, 2014, 1:00 PM

              @Ramosel:

              Since you have changed the format of how you are posting the updates in this post, is this a repost of the March 15th update or something new?

              Rick

              See quote and rule sample:
              @jflsakfja:

              This update brings a couple dozen no longer needed rules, and I have now started adding an explanation of why I deleted a certain rule next to it, after <<<

              
              17153 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox plugin parameter array dangling pointer exploit attempt - 1 <<< Affects systems running the Firefox ActiveX control (firefox 3.6.7). No longer needed, delete upstream.
              17154 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox plugin parameter array dangling pointer exploit attempt - 2 <<< Affects systems running the Firefox ActiveX control (firefox 3.6.7). No longer needed, delete upstream.
              19713 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1\. No longer needed, delete upstream.
              19714 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1\. No longer needed, delete upstream.
              19321 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Products nsCSSValue Array Index Integer Overflow  <<< Affects Firefox v3.5.1-3.6.6.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              19292 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              19078 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox html tag attributes memory corruption <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              19077 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              19076 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              17804 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox html tag attributes memory corruption <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              25233 BROWSER-FIREFOX appendChild multiple parent nodes stack corruption attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              25232 BROWSER-FIREFOX appendChild multiple parent nodes stack corruption attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              25228 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox iframe and xul element reload crash attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              25227 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox iframe and xul element reload crash attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              24994 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox onChannelRedirect method attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              24188 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              24187 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              21363 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              20072 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox nsTreeRange Use After Free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              16502 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox WOFF font processing integer overflow attempt - CFF-based <<< Affects Firefox v3.6.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              16501 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox WOFF font processing integer overflow attempt - TrueType <<< Affects Firefox v3.6.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              29503 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Products SVG text content element getCharNumAtPosition use after free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-5.0.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
              
              
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                G.D. Wusser Esq.
                last edited by Jun 3, 2014, 6:54 PM Jun 3, 2014, 6:45 PM

                I have a quick question about mechanics of what exactly this rule is detecting.

                @jflsakfja:

                2017015 ET POLICY DropBox User Content Access over SSL

                The source IP is an AWS address. The source port is 443. The destination IP is a local computer that does not (or should not) have drop box installed. The destination port is in 15-thousands (15067, 15068).

                What is triggering this rule? Would simply clicking on a link, to download a file in web browser, or accessing a page with hot-linked https dropbox content, allow the AWS hosted computer to send traffic back on a port already opened by the browser? Or is this an indication of a secret drop box client installed by a hacker, and then used to send payload to the compromised computer?

                Could it be one, or another, or both?

                Thank you.

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                  BBcan177 Moderator
                  last edited by Jun 3, 2014, 11:15 PM

                  @G.D.:

                  2017015 ET POLICY DropBox User Content Access over SSL

                  The source IP is an AWS address. The source port is 443. The destination IP is a local computer that does not (or should not) have drop box installed. The destination port is in 15-thousands (15067, 15068).

                  What is triggering this rule? Would simply clicking on a link, to download a file in web browser, or accessing a page with hot-linked https dropbox content, allow the AWS hosted computer to send traffic back on a port already opened by the browser? Or is this an indication of a secret drop box client installed by a hacker, and then used to send payload to the compromised computer?

                  Could it be one, or another, or both?

                  This is the rule

                  alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET 443 -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"ET POLICY DropBox User Content Access over SSL"; flow:established,from_server; content:"|55 04 03|"; content:"|18|*.dropboxusercontent.com"; nocase; distance:1; within:25; reference:url,www.dropbox.com/help/201/en; classtype:policy-violation; sid:2017015; rev:6;)

                  This is the reference URL in the rule  https://www.dropbox.com/help/201/en  which doesn't say too much.

                  There is a lot of Crap on AWS. I found the following reference -

                  "Data uploaded by the Dropbox client software is also encrypted before it is uploaded to Dropbox servers. Dropbox stores files on Amazon's S3 service. The company encrypts files with 256-bit AES before transmitting them to Amazon's servers via an SSL connection. However, Dropbox employees can decrypt these files, as can the Dropbox system."

                  Maybe posting on the Snort forum would get the right information for this type of question.

                  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mailing.unix.snort

                  "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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                    bmeeks
                    last edited by Jun 4, 2014, 12:13 AM

                    @G.D.:

                    I have a quick question about mechanics of what exactly this rule is detecting.

                    @jflsakfja:

                    2017015 ET POLICY DropBox User Content Access over SSL

                    The source IP is an AWS address. The source port is 443. The destination IP is a local computer that does not (or should not) have drop box installed. The destination port is in 15-thousands (15067, 15068).

                    What is triggering this rule? Would simply clicking on a link, to download a file in web browser, or accessing a page with hot-linked https dropbox content, allow the AWS hosted computer to send traffic back on a port already opened by the browser? Or is this an indication of a secret drop box client installed by a hacker, and then used to send payload to the compromised computer?

                    Could it be one, or another, or both?

                    Thank you.

                    In addition to what user BBcan177 stated and provided above with regards to this alert, my guess is a client computer on your network clicked on a web link that downloads Dropbox content.  You do not have to have the Dropbox client installed to download and view someone else's content.  I don't have Dropbox on my LAN, but my family has sent me links to photos hosted on their Dropbox accounts.  So my bet is one of your LAN users clicked a link in an e-mail or even a web page that then connects via https:// to Dropbox to grab the content.  The Snort rule is simply alerting on that action.

                    Bill

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                      G.D. Wusser Esq.
                      last edited by Jun 4, 2014, 12:24 AM

                      Thank you for the explanation. I appreciate it. It seems somewhat counter-intuitive to me that Snort would ignore the outgoing request for the prohibited resource, and only catch it on the way back, when the remote server starts transmitting to the local port.

                      I have much to learn about Snort.

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                        A Former User
                        last edited by Jun 4, 2014, 8:40 AM

                        Warning: This post may contain rage directed at the snort/suricata rule writers. It does NOT contain rage directed at any of the poor souls trying to make a usable product of the mess that is The Rules.

                        And rule writers have an order of magnitude more than you to learn about writing rules and/or using snort. (translation-and-a-fact-actually:MOST rule writers have no idea what a rule is and what a rule does)

                        Snippet from the upcoming blueprint for suricata:
                        2010228 ET POLICY Suspicious Microsoft Windows NT 6.1 User-Agent Detected <<< so WTF is windows 7 then???

                        Since nobody on the entire internet reads this topic, that brutal FP rule will never be corrected. Trillions upon quadrillions of man hours will be wasted to disable that rule, after thousands upon thousands of debates on whether Windows 7 is version 7 or version 6 (hint:it's 6.1 and the rule fires up after a clean install's first time updates).

                        The Golden Standards for Rule Writing

                        1. Rules should detect what they are designed to detect (most rules actually do this)
                        2. A rule to detect a successful ftp login is not only idiotic, it's an insult of my intelligence. Applies to apt-get rule as well.
                        3. A rule set up on an abacus then carried over to snort should REALLY be dropped. No arguments, no what-ifs, no think-of-the-children, no terrorism (includes cyberterrorism). Just build up the courage and delete old rules already. Nobody needs them.

                        Most rules meet only point 1. There are exceptions of course.
                        I'll be updating this topic for the last time in the coming days. After that, the suricata blueprint will take over.

                        Note to those that say "ZOMG!!!oneeleven WHAT ABOUT DETECTING WINDOWS 7 WHEN YOU ARE ON AN ALL LINUX NETWORK????".

                        1. THERE IS NOTHING SUSPICIOUS ABOUT A VALID WINDOWS RELEASE! (other than the three-letter-agencies backdoors of course)
                        2. If you don't know what os each host runs, please consider a career change.
                        3. If a host whose OS you don't know managed to get on "The Internet", then you have bigger problems. Please see 2.
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                          Ramosel
                          last edited by Jun 4, 2014, 1:21 PM

                          @jflsakfja:

                          I'll be updating this topic for the last time in the coming days. After that, the suricata blueprint will take over.

                          First off, thank you for your efforts in this thread, I have found it most useful and the more I understand about it, most clever in its use and implementation of pfSense/pfBlocker/Snort as a system

                          I don't know that this is a question or just a curiosity…  what I have read, questioned and talked to friends about in the Snort/Suricata debate, points to the big advantage of Suricata is its true "inline" functionality.  At this time, it is my understanding that this true "inline" functionality can not be invoked under pfSense due to changes needed in pfSense itself.  Given those two pieces of the puzzle, what would be the impetus for moving to Suricata "at this time"?

                          To further obfuscate the curiosity, the Snort fanboys insist that by the time pfSense gets "fixed" for the inline functionality that Snort will be updated to also offer this ability.  My question then was whether an inline Snort would also require its own pfSense core change?… to which I got blank stares and silence.

                          Rick

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                            bmeeks
                            last edited by Jun 4, 2014, 4:50 PM

                            @G.D.:

                            Thank you for the explanation. I appreciate it. It seems somewhat counter-intuitive to me that Snort would ignore the outgoing request for the prohibited resource, and only catch it on the way back, when the remote server starts transmitting to the local port.

                            I have much to learn about Snort.

                            The outgoing request from your LAN client may well not contain all the "triggers" needed by the rule.  Only the data coming back contained everything necessary (and in the right order) to trigger the rule.

                            Bill

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                              bmeeks
                              last edited by Jun 4, 2014, 5:02 PM

                              @Ramosel:

                              @jflsakfja:

                              I'll be updating this topic for the last time in the coming days. After that, the suricata blueprint will take over.

                              First off, thank you for your efforts in this thread, I have found it most useful and the more I understand about it, most clever in its use and implementation of pfSense/pfBlocker/Snort as a system

                              I don't know that this is a question or just a curiosity…  what I have read, questioned and talked to friends about in the Snort/Suricata debate, points to the big advantage of Suricata is its true "inline" functionality.  At this time, it is my understanding that this true "inline" functionality can not be invoked under pfSense due to changes needed in pfSense itself.  Given those two pieces of the puzzle, what would be the impetus for moving to Suricata "at this time"?

                              To further obfuscate the curiosity, the Snort fanboys insist that by the time pfSense gets "fixed" for the inline functionality that Snort will be updated to also offer this ability.  My question then was whether an inline Snort would also require its own pfSense core change?… to which I got blank stares and silence.

                              Rick

                              There are (well, actually, "will be") two ways to implement in-line mode in Snort and Suricata.  One utilizes ipfw.  This is the part of pfSense that today does not fully function in IPS mode.  It's also the mode, that even if fixed to work, will still offer very poor performance throughput due to the swaps back and forth between kernel space and user land for packets.  The other mechanism that really offers promise is Netmap.  This is now part of FreeBSD 10, and I assume (but have not verified) it is in pfSense 2.2.  There is a feature request that is currently showing as 50% complete in the Suricata source tree to add a Netmap API module so that Suricata can use it.  I'm not sure why the feature is not 100% finished yet.

                              Back to Snort.  Snort's DAQ module that does all the packet acquisition can utilize ipfw on BSD systems to do in-line drops.  I have not seen anything about Netmap support in Snort yet, though.  Somebody may be contemplating it, but I did not see any links in my initial searches.

                              So to summarize – the ideal way forward is to use the Netmap support in FreeBSD 10 as the architecture for implementing inline IPS in Suricata (and maybe even Snort).  However, we are now in a waiting game while those two upstream source trees fully incorporate Netmap support.  In my view, ipfw is probably a lost cause due first to the potential performance issues, and second to the fact it would have to be updated in the pfSense code in order to work correctly.

                              As to liking Suricata over Snort (or vice-versa), that is really mostly personal preference at this time.  Maybe if Suricata gets full Netmap support and Snort does not, then the choice becomes more clear cut.

                              Bill

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                                A Former User
                                last edited by Jun 4, 2014, 5:54 PM

                                @Ramosel:

                                @jflsakfja:

                                I'll be updating this topic for the last time in the coming days. After that, the suricata blueprint will take over.

                                First off, thank you for your efforts in this thread, I have found it most useful and the more I understand about it, most clever in its use and implementation of pfSense/pfBlocker/Snort as a system

                                I don't know that this is a question or just a curiosity…  what I have read, questioned and talked to friends about in the Snort/Suricata debate, points to the big advantage of Suricata is its true "inline" functionality.  At this time, it is my understanding that this true "inline" functionality can not be invoked under pfSense due to changes needed in pfSense itself.  Given those two pieces of the puzzle, what would be the impetus for moving to Suricata "at this time"?

                                To further obfuscate the curiosity, the Snort fanboys insist that by the time pfSense gets "fixed" for the inline functionality that Snort will be updated to also offer this ability. My question then was whether an inline Snort would also require its own pfSense core change?… to which I got blank stares and silence.

                                Rick

                                Snort inline is dead. Any hope of resurrecting the project (coming from die hard snort fans, companies funneling trillions of $ into snort inline, fanbois, not related passers by) is nothing more than a hope. As an added nail in snort inline's coffin is that pretty much all development for it has stopped when suricata was born, since most (all?) developers (wrt inline) moved over to that project.

                                Just to put it in plain sight: snort inline is DEAD. Any future posts mentioning snort inline should be accompanied by "R.I.P. snort inline". If you want that functionality, migrate to suricata. As for all the (inevitably) coming [citation needed] posts, I'm not the one saying snort inline is dead, migrate to suricata. It's actually snort inline's site. Here I'll make everybody's life easier: http://snort-inline.sourceforge.net/

                                Right now the best course forward is to work as much as we can to get suricata fully functional under pfsense. Even if the inline part doesn't get implemented for another 40 years, the foundations will be there when it does. I know this will upset everybody related to snort, but now that cisco has taken over snort, I'm waiting for the announcement that snort will no longer be supported any day now. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe the day after that. Maybe next week. It WILL be here eventually.

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                                  A Former User
                                  last edited by Jun 8, 2014, 12:15 PM

                                  This is the final rule post in this topic. Moving forward, the rules will be found in the suricata topic, which I'll create in a couple of days. I strongly advise all to move to suricata and stop using snort.

                                  With that out of the way, here's the rule updates:

                                  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 <<< CARE!!! a lot of IRC servers are listed here. Try it first, an IRC network that you need to work, doesn't, then remove it.

                                  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)
                                  2000355 ET CHAT IRC authorization message [stops IRC from working]
                                  2002024 ET CHAT IRC NICK command [stops IRC from working]
                                  2002028 ET CHAT IRC PONG response [stops IRC from working]
                                  2002025 ET CHAT IRC JOIN command [stops IRC from working]
                                  2002026 ET CHAT IRC PRIVMSG command [stops IRC from working]

                                  DISABLED:22

                                  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
                                  2014527 ET CURRENT_EVENTS Exploit Kit Delivering Compressed Flash Content to Client <<< Tired of manually cleaning up after this one.

                                  DISABLED:1

                                  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
                                  2000356 ET POLICY IRC connection [stops IRC from working, misses a lot of real IRC connections]
                                  2012141 ET POLICY Protocol 41 IPv6 encapsulation potential 6in4 IPv6 tunnel active <<< Breaks IPv6 Tunnels

                                  DISABLED:152

                                  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)
                                  2000538 ET SCAN NMAP -sA (1) <<< FP when accessing certain sites over IPv6

                                  DISABLED:6

                                  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
                                  2016950 ET TROJAN Possible Win32/Hupigon ip.txt with a Non-Mozilla UA

                                  DISABLED:6

                                  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 <<< Affects systems running the Firefox ActiveX control (firefox 3.6.7). No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  17154 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox plugin parameter array dangling pointer exploit attempt - 2 <<< Affects systems running the Firefox ActiveX control (firefox 3.6.7). No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  19713 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1. No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  19714 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1. No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  19321 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Products nsCSSValue Array Index Integer Overflow  <<< Affects Firefox v3.5.1-3.6.6.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  19292 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  19078 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox html tag attributes memory corruption <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  19077 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  19076 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  17804 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox html tag attributes memory corruption <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  25233 BROWSER-FIREFOX appendChild multiple parent nodes stack corruption attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  25232 BROWSER-FIREFOX appendChild multiple parent nodes stack corruption attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  25228 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox iframe and xul element reload crash attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  25227 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox iframe and xul element reload crash attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  24994 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox onChannelRedirect method attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  24188 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  24187 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Array.reduceRight integer overflow <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-4.0.1.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  21363 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox appendChild use-after-free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v3.5-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  20072 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox nsTreeRange Use After Free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-3.6.9.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  16502 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox WOFF font processing integer overflow attempt - CFF-based <<< Affects Firefox v3.6.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  16501 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox WOFF font processing integer overflow attempt - TrueType <<< Affects Firefox v3.6.  No longer needed, delete upstream.
                                  29503 BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Products SVG text content element getCharNumAtPosition use after free attempt <<< Affects Firefox v1.0-5.0.  No longer needed, delete upstream.

                                  DISABLED:34

                                  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
                                  119:33 HI_CLIENT_UNESCAPED_SPACE_IN_URI <<< FPs all over the place. Especially fun when it bans a cdn's ip. That's when calls start coming in. Fun!
                                  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
                                  122:5 PSNG_TCP_FILTERED_PORTSCAN <<< Fires up on our remote monitoring servers
                                  122:17 PSNG_UDP_PORTSCAN
                                  122:20 PSNG_UDP_DISTRIBUTED_PORTSCAN
                                  124:3 SMTP_RESPONSE_OVERFLOW
                                  124:10 SMTP_B64_DECODING_FAILED
                                  124:11 SMTP_QP_DECODING_FAILED <<< FPs seen coming from normal email sources
                                  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>>>30

                                  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

                                  pfBlocker extra lists:
                                  TYPE LIST
                                  txt http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/drop.txt
                                  txt http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/edrop.txttxt http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/edrop.txt

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                                    Mr. Jingles
                                    last edited by Jun 8, 2014, 1:10 PM

                                    @jflsakfja:

                                    This is the final rule post in this topic. Moving forward, the rules will be found in the suricata topic, which I'll create in a couple of days. I strongly advise all to move to suricata and stop using snort.

                                    I am somewhat of a fan of your writing style ever since I discovered you and I speak the same secret agents stuff (update, btw, the yellow cat is in the bathroom, I repeat: rain is expected this summer :P )

                                    ;D

                                    Anyhow, I do appreciate very much what you are doing for us all, and I've followed most of what you've written here. I even like your rants  ;D

                                    But:

                                    It is not quite clear why you write the part in bold in the above quote. Yes, I've read 'snort-inline is dead' (whatever that means precisely  :-[ ), but Bmeeks writes above that he is not particularly advocating the one over the other right now (Snort/Suricata).

                                    So, my dear ranting man who knows secret stuffs ( ;D ): could I persuade you to write a little bit more about why move to Suricata [b]right now?

                                    Thank you,

                                    Bye,

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

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                                      bmeeks
                                      last edited by Jun 8, 2014, 2:32 PM Jun 8, 2014, 2:27 PM

                                      @Hollander:

                                      But:

                                      It is not quite clear why you write the part in bold in the above quote. Yes, I've read 'snort-inline is dead' (whatever that means precisely  :-[ ), but Bmeeks writes above that he is not particularly advocating the one over the other right now (Snort/Suricata).

                                      So, my dear ranting man who knows secret stuffs ( ;D ): could I persuade you to write a little bit more about why move to Suricata [b]right now?

                                      Thank you,

                                      Bye,

                                      There is one area, for home users, where Snort currently still has an edge.  That edge is the affordability of "current" rules updates.  For Snort VRT rules, the cost is $29.99 USD per year.  For Emerging Threats, you have to go with ET-PRO and I think that is close to $500 USD per year.  Last time I checked, the ET folks did not have a home-user level of subscription.  Suricata will not process all of the Snort VRT rules because some of them have rule option keywords that only Snort recognizes and processes.  So for those folks who maintain a Snort VRT subscription but use the rules on Suricata, be aware that not all of the rules will actually inspect traffic.  Make sure you always look in the suricata.log file on the LOGS BROWSER tab to see what (if any) Snort rules Suricata choked on and skipped loading.

                                      Both vendors (Snort VRT and Emerging Threats) offer free rules updates, but those are 30-day old rules at best.  And for ET, I think some of their more advanced malware and Trojan rules may never make it into the free updates.

                                      Performance wise Snort and Suricata on pfSense are pretty evenly matched as of now.  And for use in a commercial environment where you are subscribing to either Snort VRT updates or Emerging Threats PRO updates, there is really no huge difference in protection.

                                      Bill

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                                      • BBcan177B
                                        BBcan177 Moderator
                                        last edited by Jun 8, 2014, 2:38 PM

                                        "Emerging Threats" had a deal (if you call it a deal) for the ET PRO ruleset at ~$300 awhile back? Not sure if its still available.

                                        Jflsakfja's Blueprint for ET will be the same for either Snort or Suricata. Only issue is as Bill Stated that approx 600 Snort rules will not load in Suricata due to incompatible Regex issues. (Maybe these rules are already in the ET rulesets. I have never investigated that.)

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                                        • ?
                                          A Former User
                                          last edited by Jun 8, 2014, 3:04 PM

                                          A couple of months back I contacted the snort guys to remove some rules that were carved in stone back in pre-historic times, since the stone was chipped and some pieces of it went missing. A few thousand years later, the rules are still there, and that's why I decided to contact them. They completely ignored me, thinking (and if any of them passes by here, please confirm) that no matter how old a rule is, it's still worth it to spend the man hours to maintain it. That's one X for snort.

                                          You can see based on Bill's posts and mine around here that snort hasn't updated the imap commands yet. A critical part of an IDS for an "enterprise" use is therefore missing. That's two Xs for snort.

                                          snort-inline. No need to comment on this, other than R.I.P. snort-inline. Three Xs so far. At this very same point, snort was voted out of the game. We decided to give it another chance though.

                                          suricata comes along with its (far) superior stream and detection engine. Fanboysm aside, suricata was directly funded by the U.S. government for use as a toy in NSA's plans. As always, NEVER trust a single word, let alone a dot, of what I say. You can verify everything I say online. If it's good for them, it sure as hell it's good for me. That funding gave birth to a system that can max out a 10Gbps duplex connection, and have spare cycles to render a 3D video, at the same time. As it stands >right now<, comparing snort and suricata, suricata offers the ability to take advantage of our systems at their max potential, as they are right now. Since most people followed another member's advise (and basically ignored me), they used i3+ systems. Those systems went underutilized so far, since I have mentioned a (few) thousand times that snort doesn't actually act on the original packet, but a copy of the packet. To put it simply, the less than a handful of forum members that did decide to take my advice, saw snort running as fast on a p4 as an overclocked i7. Then again, who am I to know, right? Those systems (i3+) are completely ready for suricata's inline part, and will max out more bandwidth than you can afford. This is a HUGE advantage to suricata over snort.

                                          Suricata is like building a solid foundation for the future. Think of it like snort on steroids. Better log management, better capture facilities. When the inline part finally arrives in pfsense, that will transform pfsense into a multi million $ firewall system, capable of taking even the best of the best on (cough USISC, later assimilated into NETCOM).

                                          Speed wise, they both are pretty much the same as it stands right now.

                                          Putting both systems side by side, most users will not notice the difference, right now. A year later when the inline part arrives, those users will run around reconfiguring their systems from the ground up. The rest of us will just tick a checkbox and forget about it.

                                          For the upcoming suricata topic, I've decided to completely ignore the snort rules. Those rules that made it into ET (gpl for example) will be there, since they are technically part of ET, but the rest will be ignored. I believe it's best if we cut all ties with snort and let it die the horrendous death it deserves.

                                          WRT the money needed for a subscription, I would prefer it if anyone finds any of the two topics interesting, instead of contacting me for donations, they donate to ET by purchasing a subscription. Rule maintainers have to make a living you know.

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