Re: Snort's modules

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Pratik Narang <pratik.cse.bits () gmail com>wrote:

> The preproc_rules directory contains decoder.rules, preprocessor.rules
> and sensitive-data.rules. Surely there must be more to Snort's anomaly
> detection than these 4 files :) (dependencies, et al.) Where do I
> start looking?
>
> Start looking there and at the normalizer (see the README/manual).

If you think something should be added, please let us know.


> Thanks
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com> wrote:
> > Snort signatures include decoder and preprocessor alerts which are
> primarily
> > how anomalous traffic is detected.  Check the preproc_rules/ directory in
> > the tarball.
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Pratik Narang <
> pratik.cse.bits () gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have been playing around with Snort for a while now. I am beginning to
> > > wonder that apart from its Signatures being its biggest strength, what
> else
> > > are the things on which Snort relies upon? Prima facie, the preprocessor
> > > modules don't involve signatures- am I right here? Does Snort have an
> > > Anomaly engine?? If not, i would be interested in knowing how all the
> > > network stuff which cannot be detected via signatures (or you may say
> that I
> > > do not wish to use signatures) can be detected with Snort?
> > >
> > > Thanks...
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