Re: Snort HTTP Inspect

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Can you send the pcap so we can look at what you are seeing?

On Jun 4, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Zubair Rafique <m_zubair_rafique () yahoo com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using following configuration file to use snort in IDS mode. Unfortunately, it appears that Snort is only 
> inspecting http responses and not the requests. Am, I  missing something here?
>
> # Inline packet normalization. For more information, see README.normalize
> # Does nothing in IDS mode
> preprocessor normalize_ip4
> preprocessor normalize_tcp: ips ecn stream
> preprocessor normalize_icmp4
> preprocessor normalize_ip6
> preprocessor normalize_icmp6
>
> # Target-based IP defragmentation.  For more inforation, see README.frag3
> preprocessor frag3_global: max_frags 65536
> preprocessor frag3_engine: policy windows detect_anomalies overlap_limit 10 min_fragment_length 100 timeout 180
>
> # Target-Based stateful inspection/stream reassembly.  For more inforation, see README.stream5
> preprocessor stream5_global: track_tcp yes, \
>    track_udp yes, \
>    track_icmp no, \ 
>    max_tcp 262144, \
>    max_udp 131072, \
>    max_active_responses 2, \
>    min_response_seconds 5
> preprocessor stream5_tcp: policy windows, detect_anomalies, require_3whs 180, \
>    overlap_limit 10, small_segments 3 bytes 150, timeout 180, \
>     ports client 21 22 23 25 42 53 70 79 109 110 111 113 119 135 136 137 139 143 \
>         161 445 513 514 587 593 691 1433 1521 1741 2100 3306 6070 6665 6666 6667 6668 6669 \
>         7000 8181 32770 32771 32772 32773 32774 32775 32776 32777 32778 32779, \
>     ports both 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 110 311 383 443 465 563 591 593 631 636 901 989 992 993 994 995 1220 
> 1414 1830 2301 2381 2809 3037 3057 3128 3702 4343 4848 5250 6080 6988 7907 7000 7001 7144 7145 7510 7802 7777 7779 \
>         7801 7900 7901 7902 7903 7904 7905 7906 7908 7909 7910 7911 7912 7913 7914 7915 7916 \
>         7917 7918 7919 7920 8000 8008 8014 8028 8080 8085 8088 8090 8118 8123 8180 8222 8243 8280 8300 8500 8800 8888 
> 8899 9000 9060 9080 9090 9091 9443 9999 10000 11371 34443 34444 41080 50002 55555
> preprocessor stream5_udp: timeout 180
>
> # performance statistics.  For more information, see the Snort Manual, Configuring Snort - Preprocessors - 
> Performance Monitor
> # preprocessor perfmonitor: time 300 file /var/snort/snort.stats pktcnt 10000
>
> # HTTP normalization and anomaly detection.  For more information, see README.http_inspect
> preprocessor http_inspect: global iis_unicode_map unicode.map 1252  compress_depth 65535 decompress_depth 65535 
> max_gzip_mem 104857600 
> preprocessor http_inspect_server: server default \
>     http_methods { GET POST PUT SEARCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK NOTIFY POLL BCOPY BDELETE BMOVE LINK UNLINK 
> OPTIONS HEAD DELETE TRACE TRACK CONNECT SOURCE SUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE PROPFIND PROPPATCH BPROPFIND BPROPPATCH 
> RPC_CONNECT PROXY_SUCCESS BITS_POST CCM_POST SMS_POST RPC_IN_DATA RPC_OUT_DATA RPC_ECHO_DATA } \
>     chunk_length 500000 \
>     server_flow_depth 300 \
>     client_flow_depth 300 \
>     post_depth 65495 \
>     oversize_dir_length 500 \
>     max_header_length 750 \
>     max_headers 100 \
>     max_spaces 200 \
>     small_chunk_length { 10 5 } \
>     ports { 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 311 383 591 593 631 901 1220 1414 1741 1830 2301 2381 2809 3037 3057 3128 
> 3702 4343 4848 5250 6080 6988 7000 7001 7144 7145 7510 7777 7779 8000 8008 8014 8028 8080 8085 8088 8090 8118 8123 
> 8180 8181 8222 8243 8280 8300 8500 8800 8888 8899 9000 9060 9080 9090 9091 9443 9999 10000 11371 34443 34444 41080 
> 50002 55555 } \
>     non_rfc_char { 0x00 0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04 0x05 0x06 0x07 } \
>     enable_cookie \
>     extended_response_inspection \
>     inspect_gzip \
>     normalize_utf \
>     unlimited_decompress \
>     normalize_javascript \
>     apache_whitespace no \
>     ascii no \    
>     bare_byte no \
>     directory no \
>     double_decode no \
>     iis_backslash no \
>     iis_delimiter no \
>     iis_unicode no \
>     multi_slash no \
>     utf_8 no \
>     u_encode yes \    
>     webroot no
>
>
>
> Command line: sudo /usr/local/snort/bin/snort  -i eth0 -c /usr/local/snort/etc/snort.conf -l /var/log/snort/ -A fast  
> -I -L sig.pcap 
>
>
> The output for HTTP is like 
>
> ===============================================================================
> HTTP Inspect - encodings (Note: stream-reassembled packets included):
>     POST methods:                         0         
>     GET methods:                          0         
>     HTTP Request Headers extracted:       0         
>     HTTP Request Cookies extracted:       0         
>     Post parameters extracted:            0         
>     HTTP response Headers extracted:      1         
>     HTTP Response Cookies extracted:      0         
>     Unicode:                              0         
>     Double unicode:                       0         
>     Non-ASCII representable:              0         
>     Directory traversals:                 0         
>     Extra slashes ("//"):                 0         
>     Self-referencing paths ("./"):        0         
>     HTTP Response Gzip packets extracted: 0         
>     Gzip Compressed Data Processed:       n/a       
>     Gzip Decompressed Data Processed:     n/a       
>     Total packets processed:              13        
> ===============================================================================
>
>
> It seems like it has inspected the response successfully and can not do any thing about request. A simple rule with 
> "http_method" is not firing any alert. Any ideas about it!
>
>
>
>
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