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| Subject: | Re: [Snort-users] WEB-CLIENT Excel malformed FBI record - False positive? |
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| Date: | Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:49:40 +0200 |
Jack Pepper wrote:
If this was how you imagined our setup then please try to explain the above in another way.Starting over ....
Good idea. :-)
I believe your IP address obfuscation is blurring the analysis. Please repost the rule definition and the original packet again. This time change only the second octet of the IP addresses. Defining both ends of the conversation as both being on the "10." network is messy. We'll just start over.
alert
Jul 7 13:37:00 syslogserver snort: [1:12256:1] WEB-CLIENT Excel
malformed FBI record [Classification: Attempted User Privilege Gain]
[Priority: 1]: {TCP} 80.xx.86.40:80 -> 195.xx.18.18:15968
rules/web-client.rules
alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"WEB-CLIENT
Excel malformed FBI record"; flow:from_server,established;
flowbits:isset,xls.download; content:"`|10|";
byte_test:2,>,32767,6,relative; reference:cve,2007-1203;
reference:url,www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-023.mspx;
classtype:attempted-user; sid:12256; rev:1;)
Also please include the following line from your snort.conf: "var HOME_NET ... "
var HOME_NET 80.xx.86.0/24 80.xx.86.40 = Our webserver on our lan, behind (next to) the Snort box 195.xx.18.18 = Some client on the Internet -- Jesper S. Jensen Basisnet og Sikkerhed Uni-C - Århus, Danmark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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