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I have a Magento website setup on a Linux machine that is based on a Bitnami ready-made image.
Aug 15, 2018 Intrusion Detection System used for the detection of illegal and malicious attempts in the network. Snort is well-known open source intrusion detection system. Web interface (Snorby) can be used for better analysis of alerts. Snort can be used as an intrusion. How to install Intrusion Detection system in Ubuntu 12.04. It is an opensource system that was build from tcpdump (linux sniffer tool). This guide can be used for installing snort. Psad: Intrusion Detection and Log Analysis with iptables psad is a collection of three lightweight system daemons (two main daemons and one helper daemon).
The main goal is to be notified by email whenever there might be a potential attack on the site.
My setup:
- Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
- Bitnami Magento Stack 1.9.1.0-0
- Snort 2.9.7.5
To achieve that I decided to install Snort IDS and email the alerts coming to the syslog using Swatch.
I’ve installed snort by following this tutorial from Snort’s official website.
I've just finished section 9 of that tutorial which means:
- Installed all the perquisites.
- Installed Snort IDS on the machine.
- Setup a test rule to alert when ICMP requests (ping) occurs.
Next to allow Snort to log alerts to syslog I've uncommented this line in the snort.conf file:
I’ve tested the installation by running this command:
While Snort is running I’ve made a ping request from another system.I can see alerts registering in Snort’s log file but nothing was added to the syslog.
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- Run snort as user root.
- Set syslog to bounce logs to another server (remote syslog).
I don't have great deal of experience with Linux so any help to point me to the right direction will be very much appreciated.
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I've posted this question on linuxquestions.org aswell and got an answer.
Following unSpawn reply I've reviewed the rsyslog conf files and found that auth logs are sent to the auto.log file.Which led to a quick fix of adding an additional .conf file to /etc/rsyslog.d with the content:
Also as suggested I've made some changes to the snort execution command (omitting the -q -A console):
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after restarting the rsyslog service I found the missing Snort alerts in syslog.
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Introduction
“Bro has originally been developed by Vern Paxson, who continues to lead the project now jointly with a core team of researchers and developers at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA; and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana-Champaign, IL.” ^1 Liam Randall stated during a Shmoocon 2013 presentation that “Bro-IDS is only the first great application to be written in the Bro network programming language.” In other words, Bro itself is not an IDS; rather, it’s a scripting platform that is designed to work with network traffic.
The Bro framework differs from many traditional IDS as it’s designed to be flexible and efficient while being highly stageful with analyzer for multiple protocols regardless of the port they are running on. Bro-IDS spans the full range from packet capture, traffic inspection, flow recording, data alerting, and scripting. Additionally, the Bro network security monitoring framework provides the professional with comprehensive logs to drive analysis and insight into transactional data on the network. While open source, commercial supported is available by Broalla
Step One - Updating the OS
Once you login to your VPS, you should ensure your OS is up to date by executing the following command as root:
If the kernel was updated during this process you should reboot your instance prior to proceeding.
Step Two - Installing Dependencies
Next, we need to install the required dependencies by doing the following command as root. For additional information on Required Dependencies
Some of these packages may already be installed; however, it does not hurt to list all the requirements. apt-get will grab the missing ones and install them for us.
Step Three - Installing LibGeoIP
Bro can leverage the GeoIP library, which we already installed above (libgeoip-dev). To accomplish this we need to install the GeoLite database before starting Bro.
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Installing the GeoIPLite Database
Next we need to move the database files to the
/usr/share/GeoIP/
directory by executing the following commands:Now we need to create a link for the GeoLiteCit.dat and GeorLiteCityv6.data files to GeoIPCity.dat and GeoIPCityv6.dat respectively. If we build Bro with LibGeoIP installed, but fail to link the files, we will see the following type of errors in
/nsm/bro/logs/current/stderr.log
To link the files execute the following commands:
Step Four - Installing Bro-IDS
Now we will download bro-ids. To accomplish this, we will download and install the application from source. This is done by downloading the source tarball and extracting and performing a make install.
As root we can download and extract the Bro-IDS tarball with the following commands:
To build the application, we change directories with the
cd bro-2.2
command and set the directory we intend to install the Bro-IDS application by setting --prefix=
option. In the example below, we plan to install Bro-IDS into /nsm/bro with with the following command ./configure --prefix=/nsm/bro
. The following is a complete example of configuring, building, and installing the Bro-IDS application:No errors? Good. now add bro to your PATH.
You can also add
PATH=/opt/bro2/bin:$PATH
to your ~/.profile
file in your home directory to make the change permanent.Configuring Bro-IDS
Bro is a powerful tool. For the most basic of installation steps, we will follow the documentation on the project page.
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Using your favorite editor modify the following 3 files:
- $PREFIX/etc/node.cfg -> Configure the network interface to monitor (i.e. interface=eth0)
- $PREFIX/etc/networks.cfg -> Configure the local networks (i.e. 10.0.0.0/8 Private IP space )
- $PREFIX/etc/broctl.cfg -> Change the MailTo address and the log rotation
Note: $PREFIX is used to reference the Bro-IDS installation root directory, which by based upon what you set on the
./configure --prefix=
to. From the example above replace $PREFIX
with /nsm/bro
(i.e. nsm/bro/etc/node.cfg
)Configuring the node.cfg file
Assuming your system is setup with a single interface, the default node.cfg should be good to go except for possibly changing the sniffing interface. For Example if
ifconfig
and you see something like the following:From this example we see that the system has one interface eth0 and the default configuration should be good with only the following lines uncommented:
Configuring the networks.cfg file
Assuming your system is configured with one network interface as shown above the networks.cfg should be good, as this file is used to configure the local/private networks.
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Configuring the broctl.cfg file
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The broctl.cfg file is where you can configure the recipient address for all emails send out by Bro and BroControl, and log rotation intervals among other features.
Step Five - Starting Bro-IDS
Next, we need to launch the broctl shell, from where you can execute bro commands. As root type
broctl
, if you did not set the path as noted above, you can use the execute command via its full path /nsm/bro/bin/broctl
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The first command to run, since this is a new installation, is to run install. We will then run start followed by status verify Bro-IDS is running
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You now have Bro-IDS running on your system. Check out the documentation page for further information.