Re: Obfuscated web pages

"Jamie Riden" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 14/02/2008, Gary Flynn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Are any current network based IDS/P systems able to unwind
>  obfuscated web script to examine the final javascript product?
>  It would seem they would have to have a javascript engine to
>  do so and issues with reassembly, iterations, and delays
>  would preclude them from doing it inline.

This is a real issue these days - just try out metasploit v.3's
web-based attacks against snort and see how many you can detect.

I don't know of any sensible way to do this in IDS - you can crawl
URLs with honeypots such as CaptureHPC (
https://www.client-honeynet.org/capture.html ) to see if they are
actually malicious. However scaling this up to check all the URLs that
have been visited by your users is not a simple task.

cheers,
 Jamie
-- 
Jamie Riden / [email protected] / [email protected]
UK Honeynet Project: http://www.ukhoneynet.org/

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