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Re: [Snort-users] How should alerts be interpreted? hacker's_machine ->

Subject: Re: [Snort-users] How should alerts be interpreted? hacker's_machine -> victim's_machine?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:51:45 -0300
What would be these other variables? For example, I don't have a webserver,
database, I have an internal ftp and that's all. At least for now.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Esler" <joel.esler@sourcefire.com>
To: <patrick@internetsecurityguru.com>
Cc: "'Palula Brasil'" <palula@uol.com.br>;
<snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] How should alerts be interpreted?
hacker's_machine -> victim's_machine?


I suggest that you define all your variables inside of the snort.conf.
There are many to configure.  -h is only one.

J

Patrick S. Harper wrote:
That is also assuming that you have all your variables set correctly.

-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:snort-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Palula
Brasil
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:12 PM
To: snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Snort-users] How should alerts be interpreted?
hacker's_machine ->
victim's_machine?

Ok! Alerts are workin fine. But indeed there is another problem.
Here is the problem: the alert file has these.

[**] [122:7:0] (portscan) TCP Filtered Portsweep [**]
04/12-22:30:29.305031 x.x.x.x:port -> 38.119.49.39
PROTO255 TTL:0 TOS:0x0 ID:5901 IpLen:20 DgmLen:162 DF

and...

[**] [119:15:1] (http_inspect) OVERSIZE REQUEST-URI DIRECTORY [**]
04/12-23:14:22.648030 x.x.x.x:port -> 66.165.172.181:80
TCP TTL:64 TOS:0x0 ID:30828 IpLen:20 DgmLen:1452 DF
***A**** Seq: 0x3B8C6DA9  Ack: 0x7AAF4300  Win: 0x5AC  TcpLen: 32
TCP Options (3) => NOP NOP TS: 54649465 770359521

But the thing is that x.x.x.x:port is my machines IP and port. Looks like
it's gone mad and is doing totally random port scans and http inspects on
whatever machines.

According to snort docs, the correct interpretation for these alerts is:
hacker's machine -> victim's machines

Has my machine gone mad and is making victims out of a sudden? Home
network
( -h x.x.x.x/x) has been defined, by the way.

Thanks! :-)




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