Re: pf_ring, openfpc, snort and snorby

["Leon Ward (leonward)" <leonward () cisco com>]

Hi,

An OpenFPC question, this gives me a chance to answer and add some quick project status info.

Finally - I want to send all this information to a centralised Snorby GUI, so another question is, how do I get Snorby 
to differentiate between different sensor IP's to grab the pcaps from the difference OpenFPC instances?

The first part is more of a Snorby question than one for OpenFPC, in that is there anything in the event that can be 
used to associate the event to a capture device? Not being a Snorby user I assume there must be something that 
identifies where the Snort event comes from?

If so, this should be doable. OFPC in a ‘proxy’ mode as to call it (really need to rename that to something more 
descriptive) can go process an extraction from a target device for you, then give it back to the requestor. There is a 
simple key/value text file that provides ‘routing’ information of how to connect to the device that has the pcaps you 
want to extract.

E.g.

new_york=1.1.1.1:4242:auth_data

So if the event comes from the snort device “new_york”, it can go grab the pcaps from that device for you. The API that 
is used by Snorby is pretty basic. I knocked it together in a hotel room one evening as a bit of a proof of concept 
rather than something robust. I just took a quick look at the code and it looks like it should correctly pass an 
argument of ‘device’ in the URI for extraction. That provides the above function. I’ve recently been working on an 
actual rest API, but it’s not ready for use yet (and I’ve not pushed it to Github), that will handle this use case for 
sure. I expect I’ll have that ready in the next week or so, but real work keeps getting in the way. That will have full 
documentation.

On a side note,  if you didn’t know that OpenFPC had moved to github, you’re clearly running some old code, perhaps you 
should take a look at some of the changes.

Cheers

-Leon


On 3 Dec 2014, at 19:01, Matheus Condi'ez <conma293 () gmail com<mailto:conma293 () gmail com>> wrote:


Hey Doug,  yes I have, security onion is a powerful tool and will most likely use it for my bro implementation as a 
stand alone sensor. However it has some limitations and we require a central database partitioned away from the vm etc 
so seconion at this stage is in the mix hut won't be used in anger

On 4/12/2014 1:22 AM, "Doug Burks" <doug.burks () gmail com<mailto:doug.burks () gmail com>> wrote:
Hi Matheus,

Have you considered Security Onion?  It includes Snort, Snorby, PF_RING, Bro, full packet capture, and many other tools.

http://securityonion.net<http://securityonion.net/>



On Wednesday, December 3, 2014, Matheus Condi'ez <conma293 () gmail com<mailto:conma293 () gmail com>> wrote:

Excellent, Yeh I had actually thought it wouldn't be too strenuous to go and interrogate the individual sensors rather 
than rely on snorby as timings may wander anyways.

Ah good I very much intended to put bro in there as well, in a separate vm. What is n top?

The reason I like vms is so I can do hot swaps of new snort images, differentiate images between sensor points etc and 
roll back if something goes wrong (which it does)

But it sounds like you could give me some pointers :-)

Also Having said that jeremy if we had only 4-6 sensors that should be not timeout?
How did you get snorby to differentiate, there seems to be only one field for a single ip?

On 3/12/2014 7:06 PM, "Jeremy Hoel" <jthoel () gmail com> wrote:
At my last job we ran OpenFPC (deamon logger) and snort on top of pf_ring along with bro and ntop..  all in the same 
user space.  Why run snort in a VM?

We didn't use snorby to pull the packets, we used the openfpc-client directly with the sensor information.  The way 
snorby did it, if the sensor was to far down in the list (we had 50+) it would time out, so it was easier to query the 
target sensor individually rather then all of them.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Matheus Condi'ez <conma293 () gmail com> wrote:
In short, after many builds of snort sensors I am about to start off on a new journey of discovery which will 
potentially send me mad.

My goal is to create a sensor(s) which runs OpenFPC on PF_Ring native, with snort sitting on top as a guest vm.

Has anyone had any experience with PF_Ring and snort, or PF_Ring and snort?

Am aware that I will have to patch PF_Ring onto both the host and the guest OS's for this to work.

Am also aware that most likely will have to build and configure OpenFPC and/or Snort as PF_Ring aware?

If I do this but then attempt to run a version of Snort and/or OpenFPC that is not configured to handle PF_Ring, will 
it take it?



Finally - I want to send all this information to a centralised Snorby GUI, so another question is, how do I get Snorby 
to differentiate between different sensor IP's to grab the pcaps from the difference OpenFPC instances?

im sure someone has been overly ambitious and has attempted some, if not all of this before..

any guidance would be muchly appreciated.

-conma

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