Re: Snort not updating any .rules except snort.rules in /rules directory

[Michael Shkolnik <michael.shkolnik () webcasts com>]

Hi Joel, 

Thank you for getting back to me so promptly. I took a look inside the snort.rules before I reached out to you and did 
not see the latest threats being added despite what appears to be a successful rule pulldown, which is why I became 
concerned and reached out. If you could kindly look at the provided screenshot, you will notice that the pulled down 
rules do not match what is on the release notes for May 20th: https://snort.org/advisories/talos-rules-2019-05-20 

Also, if all rules files are consolidated into a single snort.rules files, why do Snort release notes show 
modifications to other .rules files per the url I provided earlier? 

" Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the deleted, file-flash, file-other, file-pdf, malware-cnc, os-windows 
and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies." 

If it helps, I am running Snort Version 2.9.9.0 GRE (Build 56) FreeBSD 



Best, 



Michael Shkolnik | Engineering | PGi | New York, NY 


From: "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com> 
To: "Michael Shkolnik" <michael.shkolnik () webcasts com>, snort-sigs () lists snort org 
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 2:18:37 PM 
Subject: Re: [Snort-sigs] Snort not updating any .rules except snort.rules in /rules directory 



Hey Michael, 



PulledPork consolidates the rules files down to one file (snort.rules). If you take a look inside that file, you will 
see the multiple categories of rules all consolidated. 





-- 

Joel Esler 

Manager, Communities Division 

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group 

http://www.talosintelligence.com 




From: Snort-sigs <snort-sigs-bounces () lists snort org> on behalf of Michael Shkolnik <michael.shkolnik () webcasts 
com> 
Date: Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 2:14 PM 
To: "snort-sigs () lists snort org" <snort-sigs () lists snort org> 
Subject: [Snort-sigs] Snort not updating any .rules except snort.rules in /rules directory 





Good afternoon, 





I've noticed that during weekly updates only snort.rules files get updated within the /usr/local/etc/snort/rules 
directory and not any other .rules files within that directory. 





This is what I have in my pulledpork.conf file, do I need to revise any entries to fix this? 





rule_path=/usr/local/etc/snort/rules/snort.rules 


out_path=/usr/local/etc/snort/rules/ 








Michael S 

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