Re: Fwd: How to detect OS with Snort?

[Kevin Ross <kevross33 () googlemail com>]

Are you running snort in inline mode (IPS) so that you can block attacks?
How is the data being accessed by the mobile phones (web browser I assume)?
Are all mobile devices the same or only a few? If it is IPS and snort is
all you have what you could do is go:

pass tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HTTP_SERVERS $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"Pass/Ignore
Mobile Device User Agent - Blackberry"; flow:established,to_server;
content:"(B****lackberry|3B 20|"; nocase; http_header;
classtype:not-suspicious; sid:149911; rev:1;)

pass tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HTTP_SERVERS $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"Pass/Ignore
Mobile Device User Agent - Android"; flow:established,to_server;
content:"(Linux|3B 20| U|3B 20|Android"; nocase; http_header;
classtype:not-suspicious; sid:149912; rev:1;)

and so on. then

drop tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HTTP_SERVERS $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"Drop All
Other User Agents Inbound to Web Server"; flow:established,to_server;
content:"User-Agent|3A 20|"; http_header; classtype:misc-activity; sid:149913;
rev:1;)

Pass rules are processed first so it will pass them and then block all
other traffic containing the user agent header.

I suppose you could do alert but it is going to pick up crawlers, probes,
"innocent" stuff etc. If it is website you could also maybe in the website
code do a user agent check and go from there (trivial to bypass). i.e
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html. You could also password protect
it/remove the data.

If it is not in IPS mode/able to actively respond to the attack may I ask
how do you intend to respond to a windows machine viewing the data? What
happens if it is a Linux machine, MAC or whatever that also does it
eventually? There is the possibility the machines viewing the data are
compromised with malware. All of the methods mentioned here can be bypassed
however/evaded.

Regards,
Kev



On 9 May 2012 07:05, Borja Luaces <borja.luaces () gmail com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am going to explain more or less the environment.
>
> One of my clients web site that supposed to be accesed from mobile phones
> is beeing actively used by phishers to steal usernames and passwords.
>
> What I have found is that once the poor user has introduced the data into
> the phishing site, this site makes a data check and the OS that is
> launching this check is a Windows XP, so what I am trying to do is block
> this data check.
>
> As waldo kitty said, I know that that information can be faked and that
> this rule is mostly unuseful.
>
> All my weapons are snort rules, just that.
>
> I hope that with this little more info you could help me.
>
> Once again thanks to all,
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:09 AM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>wrote:
>
> > On 5/8/2012 15:25, Borja Luaces wrote:
> > > Firstly, thanks.
> > >
> > > i know that Nmap is a better tool but the fact is that the rule is to
> > detect
> > > specific attacks from windows OS. The company I work for does not allow
> > me to
> > > install anything else. I have to do it with snort this is why I am
> > trying that
> > > rule but it seems not to work.
> >
> > what does it matter what OS an attack originates from? detect the atack
> > and
> > drop, alert or block as necessary... what i saw your rule doing appeared
> > to be
> > only detecting possible user agents in http headers but those are faked
> > all the
> > time with valid ones appearing along with invalid ones... i can tell you
> > that
> > they are coming from all different OS' no matter what OS the UA says it
> > is...
> > witness forum spammer's tools and infiltration techniques...
> >
> >
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