Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update 2015-01-27

[Jamie Riden <jamie.riden () gmail com>]

Just as a data point, this is what my Amazon Cloud Player thing says -
it shouldn't have matched the posted rule.And it goes over TLS1.2 if I
don't force it to proxy.

POST /dmls/getStreamingURLs HTTP/1.1
Host: www.amazon.co.uk
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 654
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Content-Encoding: amz-1.0
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Origin: https://www.amazon.co.uk
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows 7) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Morpho/3.7.1.698 Safari/537.4
X-Amz-Target: com.amazon.digitalmusiclocator.DigitalMusicLocatorServiceExternal.getStreamingURLs
<snip>

On 28 January 2015 at 20:09, Jeff Stebelton <sysprobe9127 () gmail com> wrote:
> Just an update, all Windows boxes we've seen trigger this were connecting to
> det-ta-g7g.amazon.com and have Amazon Cloud Player installed. There was also
> an unknown Mac; we assume it had Cloud Player installed as well.
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Alex McDonnell <amcdonnell () sourcefire com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > This UA string is not one that "should" be found, errors like this will
> > happen, User Agents are pretty much user defined, and despite checking
> > against known UA strings on resources like useragentstring.com and
> > www.user-agents.org/ or running against our non trivial amount of pcaps FPs
> > can crop up.
> >
> > A PCAP of the FP can help us identify why this shortened UA string was
> > used and how to avoid it, both now and in future FP testing.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Alex McDonnell
> > TALOS
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Benjamin Small
> > <benjamin.small83 () gmail com> wrote:
> > > I get that PCAPs are useful, but this sig has been stripped down to just
> > > a UA. It's not like the UA is a distinct string, it's a substring of one of
> > > the most popular UAs you'll see. If this were crafted as a low priority
> > > "suspicious" rule would be *almost* ok, but as a drop rule? I would hope
> > > that your signature review process would have caught something like this.
> > >
> > > -Ben
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) <jesler () cisco com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Yeah. Pcaps would help. I think we can isolate the false positives, just
> > > > want some examples to check against.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Joel Esler
> > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > >
> > > > On Jan 28, 2015, at 9:29 AM, Jeff Stebelton <sysprobe9127 () gmail com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Seeing some false positives here. Latest ones appear to be an Amazon app
> > > > using the Mozilla/5.0 User Agent..
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Rodgers, Anthony (DTMB)
> > > > <RodgersA1 () michigan gov> wrote:
> > > > > It looks like the 'content:"/2507US-1/"; ' match has been removed from
> > > > > 1:31557 in rev 3, which is causing a lot of apparent FPs on our network.
> > > > > Anyone else seeing this?
> > > > >
> > > > > Rev 2: alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS
> > > > > (msg:"BLACKLIST USER-AGENT known malicious user-agent string - Mozilla/5.0 -
> > > > > Win.Backdoor.Andromeda"; flow:to_server,established; content:"/2507US-1/";
> > > > > http_uri; content:"User-Agent|3A| Mozilla/5.0|0D 0A|"; fast_pattern:5,20;
> > > > > nocase; http_header; metadata:policy balanced-ips drop, policy security-ips
> > > > > drop, service http;
> > > > > reference:url,www.virustotal.com/en/file/51b3f93d8ebd83fb01306c8797f50b01d14d2c0c9d861782dcca4b4dfbf80cc3/analysis/;
> > > > > classtype:trojan-activity; sid:31557; rev:2; )
> > > > >
> > > > > Rev 3: alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS
> > > > > (msg:"BLACKLIST USER-AGENT known malicious user-agent string - Mozilla/5.0 -
> > > > > Win.Trojan.Upatre"; flow:to_server,established; content:"User-Agent|3A|
> > > > > Mozilla/5.0|0D 0A|"; fast_pattern:5,20; nocase; http_header;
> > > > > metadata:impact_flag red, policy balanced-ips drop, policy security-ips
> > > > > drop, service http;
> > > > > reference:url,www.virustotal.com/en/file/51b3f93d8ebd83fb01306c8797f50b01d14d2c0c9d861782dcca4b4dfbf80cc3/analysis/;
> > > > > classtype:trojan-activity; sid:31557; rev:3; )
> > > > >
> > > > > Anthony Rodgers
> > > > > Security Analyst
> > > > > Michigan Security Operations Center (MiSOC)
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Research [mailto:research () sourcefire com]
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:42
> > > > > To: snort-sigs () lists sourceforge net
> > > > > Subject: [Snort-sigs] Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update
> > > > > 2015-01-27
> > > > >
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> > > > >
> > > > > Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update
> > > > >
> > > > > Synopsis:
> > > > > This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.
> > > > >
> > > > > Details:
> > > > > The VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist,
> > > > > browser-ie, file-flash, file-multimedia, file-pdf, indicator-compromise,
> > > > > malware-cnc, malware-other, os-windows, pua-adware and server-webapp rule
> > > > > sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
> > > > >
> > > > > For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://www.snort.org/advisories
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