Dear all mailing list members：
I study in Cheng Kung University that located in Taiwan. I
want to research snort rules about rules classification and have two questions
to ask for advice.
1. I look up snort rules that have a file named classification.conf, and it has
thirty four class-types. I classify them into five types that I named by myself
but I do not confirm that thirty four class-types mapping to five types are
correct. Five types are exploration, break in, escalation, DOS and error
message and those types are needed to me. Could you give me some advices that
which type is located a wrong position (eg. “kickass-porn” is not exploration
and it is another type).
2. The other question is that there are 1 to 4 original priorities in the
“classification.config” ,but I want to classify these class-types such as 1 ~
6 levels. How can I classify priorities more in detail ? Or which documents can
I research in ?
Extremely thx for your help. Erci Chen
1. exploration：
Someone wants to explore weakness or just scan the host to get some
information.
2. break in：
Attacker uses some tools or techniques to break in victim host.
3. escalation：
If attacker get into the victim host whether breaks in or not, he can
modify some contents,limits of authority or control this victim host to attack
another host.
4. DOS：
All of denial of services.
5. error message
Some unknown,bad or not-suspicious traffic
1. exploration
Original Classtype: Original priority
kickass-porn 1
web-application-attack 1
attempted-recon 2
rpc-portmap-decode 2
successful-recon-largescale 2
successful-recon-limited 2
network-scan 3
protocol-command-decode 3
2. break in
policy-violation 1
default-login-attempt 2
misc-attack 2
suspicious-login 2
3. escalation
attempted-admin 1
shellcode-detect 1
unsuccessful-user 1
successful-admin 1
trojan-activity 1
attempted-user 1
successful-user 1
unusual-client-port-connection 2
system-call-detect 2
web-application-activity 2
string-detect 3
misc-activity 3
4. DOS
attempted-dos 2
denial-of-service 2
successful-dos 2
5. error message
non-standard-protocol 2
bad-unknown 2
suspicious-filename-detect 2
not-suspicious 3
unknown 3
