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    AO übergeek phishphreek's Avatar
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    snort logging

    Is there a way to log certain signatures/alerts to a specific log file or database using one instance of snort or one config?

    Example:

    I want to log all SPYWARE-DNS DNS lookup (part of the blackhole dns project) to a file and exclude them from being logged to my main alert database.

    These rules are located @ http://www.bleedingsnort.com/blackho...ware-dns.rules

    I'm currently running instance of snort with three rulesets.

    The official set http://www.snort.org/
    The community set http://www.snort.org/
    Bleeding Snort set http://www.bleedingsnort.com/

    In addition, I just want the blackhole dns just to see if/when any boxes look up spyware domains.

    I have this running, but I'd like it in either a separate database or log.

    I'm thinking that I should just create a new config and run a separate instance of snort?
    Will that cause problems running two instances of snort on one interface?
    Or, should I install yet another NIC just for that config?
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    Have you looked at trying to use the ruletype option for snort? I believe you can create a ruletype that defines a spyware ruletype

    ruletype spyware
    {
    type log
    output log_tcpdump: spyware.log
    }

    then use the rule type as an action.

    spyware tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg: "BLEEDING-EDGE MALWARE what ever"; flow: established,to_server; uricontent:"spyware.exe"; nocase; reference: url,spyware.com; classtype: trojan-activity; sid: 111111111; rev:1; )

    I am guessing, hadn't really tried it myself, but reading the documentation on snort.org, this is how I interpet it.

    http://www.snort.org/docs/snort_htma...60/node17.html
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    AO übergeek phishphreek's Avatar
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    No, I have not looked into that. I didn't realize that was there...
    I was looking more in the output section of the docs.

    Thanks for pointing that out. I'll play around with it and see what I can come up with.
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