Re: Mis-Matching traffic with PCRE Rules

[waseem sarwar <waseemsarwar103 () hotmail com>]

Hi Jeol,
I have tried the rule on snort 2.9.4 version as well and got the same results. The PCRE version I am using is version: 
8.12 2011-01-15. Please guide me with further debugging or resolution steps. 
Thanks,Waseem

Subject: Re: [Snort-devel] Mis-Matching traffic with PCRE Rules
From: jesler () sourcefire com
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:28:33 -0500
CC: snort-devel () lists sourceforge net
To: waseemsarwar103 () hotmail com

On Mar 8, 2013, at 5:43 AM, waseem sarwar <waseemsarwar103 () hotmail com> wrote:I have a pcre based rule as follow in 
my rules file,
alert udp any any -> any 53 (msg:"MALWARE domain capodeicapi.eu"; pcre:"m/capodeicapi.eu/i"; classtype:trojan-activity; 
sid:5000968;)
Hm..I'm not sure what you are doing with the "m" in your pcre there..  but if you are trying to match on a domain name 
look up, that rule won't work.  The "." in a domain name is actually a number.  And it would be faster and better to do 
a content match there.  content:"capodeicapi|02|eu"; or something like that.

The issue I am facing is that this rule also matches for the domain http://capo.eu which it should not match. I am also 
facing similar problem with more pcre rules such that they match sub string based url of actual rules . I am using 
snort version 2.9.1.
First thing I am going to ask you to do is upgrade your version of Snort.  We are on 2.9.4.1 now, support for 2.9.1 
ended about a year ago.  In addition to that, I also need to know what version of pcre you have installed on the box.

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Joel Esler
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OpenSource Community Manager
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