Re: Intrusion Detection Evaluation Datasets

Joel Esler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> --On Thursday, March 19, 2009 14:33:29 -0400 Joel Esler <[email protected] 
> > wrote:
>
>> Would this be an appropriate use for byte_test or byte_jump?
>>
>
> That's what I was referring to when I mentioned applications.  The  
> problem with http traffic is that it's much more freeform and  
> doesn't lend itself to byte_test and byte_jump type tests.


I'd probably use a combination of isdataat and pcre for this.  As  
Marty said, 99.9999% of things can be found with plaintext Snort  
rules.  Anything else, you can use an .so rule for.

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