Re: Getting more context in snort alerts.

[Kevin Ross <kevross33 () googlemail com>]

Also if you get the PCAPs you can do network file carving
http://blogs.cisco.com/security/network-based-file-carving/. I am wanting to
do this. Using a tool like tcpxtract or another tool pull out certain files
and have them automatically get scanned using various tools, (Clamav with
custom sigs, jsunpack perhaps, yara etc). Then have the files moved over for
further automated analysis while ones which did not fire anything useful are
removed. Sure it will miss stuff but I think it may work well in picking up
some stuff, especially if the intitial checks picks out not just 100%
malicious but suspicious stuff as well.

On 10 January 2011 18:00, sudhakar govindavajhala <sudhakarg79spam () gmail com
> wrote:

> Hi Snort folks,
>
>
> When Snort identifies something as an attack, it currently only shows me
> the single packet that triggered the alarm. It does not show me enough
> context to make an informed decision.
>
>
> Do you have any suggestions on how I could get more context?  Is this
> something that Snort supports relatively out of the box or do I have to
> write lots of code?   A silly option would be to use tcpdump to log all
> packets and then search the logs.    Is there a better approach?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sudhakar.
>
>
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