Re: [Snort-users] Activates/Dynamic

Hi Sekure,

We haven't specifically disabled the activate/dynamic rules at this
time, they should work.

I just did a quick test with these rules and it worked. The dynamic
rules don't actually generate an alert message that goes to the
alerting facility, they just put a message on the logged data (if
you're in text mode).

Here's the sample rules I ran and my command line:

activate tcp any any -> any any (content: "foo"; msg: "got foo";
activates: 1;)
dynamic tcp any any -> any any (activated_by: 1; msg: "activated";
count: 3;)

snort -c test.conf -l ./log -A console -d

Here's the output (logging in ASCII mode):

[**] got foo [**]
08/03-22:36:35.110800 10.1.47.32:23 -> 10.1.47.102:64724
TCP TTL:255 TOS:0x0 ID:32031 IpLen:20 DgmLen:107 DF
***AP*** Seq: 0xB08D365D Ack: 0xCAF24BC4 Win: 0x2798 TcpLen: 32
TCP Options (3) => NOP NOP TS: 236012640 3100606937
66 6F 6F 3A 20 43 6F 6D 6D 61 6E 64 20 6E 6F 74 foo: Command not
20 66 6F 75 6E 64 2E 0D 0A 5B 78 65 72 78 65 73 found...[xerxes
20 2F 75 73 72 2F 68 6F 6D 65 2F 72 6F 65 73 63 /usr/home/roesc
68 5D 20 7B 32 7D 20 h] {2}

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
=+

[**] activated [**]
08/03-22:36:35.308159 10.1.47.102:64724 -> 10.1.47.32:23
TCP TTL:64 TOS:0x10 ID:32178 IpLen:20 DgmLen:52 DF
***A**** Seq: 0xCAF24BC4 Ack: 0xB08D3694 Win: 0x8218 TcpLen: 32
TCP Options (3) => NOP NOP TS: 3100606938 236012640

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
=+

[**] activated [**]
08/03-22:36:36.778901 10.1.47.102:64724 -> 10.1.47.32:23
TCP TTL:64 TOS:0x10 ID:32179 IpLen:20 DgmLen:53 DF
***AP*** Seq: 0xCAF24BC4 Ack: 0xB08D3694 Win: 0x8218 TcpLen: 32
TCP Options (3) => NOP NOP TS: 3100606941 236012640
62 b

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
=+

[**] activated [**]
08/03-22:36:36.783351 10.1.47.32:23 -> 10.1.47.102:64724
TCP TTL:255 TOS:0x0 ID:32032 IpLen:20 DgmLen:53 DF
***AP*** Seq: 0xB08D3694 Ack: 0xCAF24BC5 Win: 0x2798 TcpLen: 32
TCP Options (3) => NOP NOP TS: 236012807 3100606941
62 b


On Aug 3, 2004, at 1:53 PM, sekure wrote:

> Are Activate/Dynamic rules still supported in the more recent releases
> of Snort?
>
> I have an interesting problem i am trying to solve, that I'd love to
> use Activate/Dynamic for. However the documentation is telling me
> that the use of those options is being phased out in favor of tagging.
>
> I don't think i can do what i want to do with tagging, so I'd like to
> know if I can still use Activate/Dynamic in 2.2.0rc1.
>
> For the curious ones, here is what i am trying to achieve:
>
> Occasionally, during some really wierd hours, the CPU utilization on
> one of my routers spikes to 70% or higher. I know it's because of a
> sudden spike in network traffic, but i don't know what the traffic is.
> I send snmp queries to the router which responds with the cpu
> utilization. I am using byte_test to check the value of the cpu
> utilization and I'd like to activate the dynamic portion if the
> utilization is above 40%. The dynamic rule would capture a million or
> so packets.
>
> I have a rule that if set to "alert" or even "activate", gets
> triggered upon seeing the correct packet. However the "dynamic" part
> never does anything, so I am nowhere.
>
> activate udp router 161 -> host any (msg:"Utilization above 12%";
> activates:1; content:"|04 01 09 02 01 39 00 02 01|"; offset:36;
> depth:9; byte_test:1,>,0x0B,0,relative;)
>
> dynamic tcp any any -> any any (activated_by: 1; msg:"Activated";
> count: 50;)
>
> I don't think i can do this with tagging because i am trying to
> capture ALL traffic, not just between the two hosts that generated the
> original event.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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