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Through our system KIOS you have a Knowledge Base named 110724 PDF with all the informations that the user requests. In this knowledge base are following Documents 1 MB LESS The Little Book About OS Development - Erik Helin, Adam Renberg - (PDF, HTML).pdf, 1 MB Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation - Neil D. Jones, C.K. Gomard, Peter Sestoft (PDF) jonesgomardsestoft-a4.pdf, 2 MB Intrusion Detection Systems with Snort (PDF).pdf This is the initial message to start the chat. Based on the following summary/context you should formulate an initial message greeting the user with the following user name [Gender] [Vorname] [Surname] tell them that you are the AI Chatbot Simon using the Large Language Model [Used Model] to answer all questions. Formulate the initial message in the Usersettings Language German Please use the following context to suggest some questions or topics to chat about this knowledge base. List at least 3-10 possible topics or suggestions up and use emojis. The chat should be professional and in business terms. At the end ask an open question what the user would like to check on the list. Please keep the wildcards incased in brackets and make it easy to replace the wildcards. The provided context consists of several PDF files, each focusing on different aspects of programming languages and their analysis. **File 1: Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation** This file explores the concept of partial evaluation, a technique for optimizing programs by specializing them to parts of their input. It covers various aspects of partial evaluation, including: * **Introduction:** Defines partial evaluation as program specialization and discusses its benefits, including speedup and automatic program generation. * **Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages:** Introduces functions, types, recursion, and data types. It also explains the difference between a program (text) and the function it defines. * **Programming Languages and Interpreters:** Discusses interpreters, compilers, and their running times. It presents three mini-languages: the untyped lambda calculus, first-order recursion equations, and a simple imperative flowchart language. * **Principles of Partial Evaluation:** Explores partial evaluators for the flowchart language and the first-order functional language. It delves into techniques for partial evaluation, including binding-time analysis, unfolding, and transition compression. * **Efficiency, Speedup, and Optimality:** Defines and measures speedup, analyzes the speedup of flowchart programs, and discusses the optimality of partial evaluators. * **Online, Offline, and Self-Application:** Compares online and offline partial evaluation, explores the benefits of self-application, and provides a recipe for self-application. * **Partial Evaluation for Stronger Languages:** Presents partial evaluators for the untyped lambda calculus, a Prolog subset, and a substantial subset of Scheme. * **Partial Evaluation for the C Language:** Discusses techniques for handling data structures, pointers, and dynamic memory allocation in C. * **Binding-Time Improvements:** Explores techniques for improving the binding times of programs, including bounded static variation, conversion into continuation passing style, and eta conversion. * **Applications of Partial Evaluation:** Discusses types of problems susceptible to partial evaluation and when it can be beneficial. * **Termination of Partial Evaluation:** Analyzes the termination of online and offline partial evaluators and discusses binding-time analysis for ensuring termination. * **Program Analysis:** Explains abstract interpretation, closure analysis, and higher-order binding-time analysis. It also presents Launchbury's projection-based binding-time analysis for partially static data. * **Larger Perspectives:** Relates partial evaluation to recursive function theory, discusses types for interpreters, compilers, and partial evaluators, and outlines some research problems. * **Program Transformation:** Explores the relationship between partial evaluation and classical program transformation methods, such as Burstall and Darlington's fold/unfold technique. * **Guide to the Literature:** Provides an overview of the literature on partial evaluation, grouped by subject language, techniques, and applications. **File 2: Intrusion Detection Systems with Snort** This file focuses on intrusion detection systems (IDS) and specifically on Snort, an open-source IDS. It covers: * **Introduction to Intrusion Detection and Snort:** Explains the basics of intrusion detection, including definitions of IDS, NIDS, and HIDS. It also discusses the importance of security zones and levels of trust. * **Installing Snort and Getting Started:** Provides a step-by-step procedure for compiling and installing Snort from source code. It also explains the location of Snort files. * **Working with Snort Rules:** Discusses the structure of Snort rules, including rule actions, protocols, addresses, port numbers, direction, and rule options. It also explains how to define new action types and how to automatically update Snort rules. * **Plugins, Preprocessors, and Output Modules:** Explains the role of plug-ins, preprocessors, and output modules in Snort. It provides information on configuring and using these components, including logging to databases and generating CSV output. * **Using MySQL Database with Snort:** Explains how to configure Snort to log data into a MySQL database for later analysis. * **Analysis Control for Intrusion Detection (ACID):** Describes ACID, a web-based tool for analyzing Snort alert data. 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It also discusses inodes, writable file systems, and virtual file systems. * **System Calls:** Discusses designing and implementing system calls. * **Multitasking:** Explains how to create new processes, implement cooperative scheduling with yielding, and preemptive scheduling with interrupts. It also discusses programmable interval timers, separate kernel stacks for processes, and difficulties with preemptive scheduling. This summary provides a high-level overview of the content covered in each file. The files are interconnected, with concepts introduced in earlier files being built upon in later files. 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The most popular Open Source firewallis the Netfilter/Iptables (http://www.netfilter.org)-based firewall.(cid:127)Intrusion detection systems (IDS) that are used to find out if someonehas gotten into or is trying to get into your network. The most popularIDS is Snort, which is available at http://www.snort.org.(cid:127)Vulnerability assessment tools that are used to find and plug securityholes present in your network. Information collected from vulnerabilityassessment tools is used to set rules on firewalls so that these securityholes are safeguarded from malicious Internet users. There are manyvulnerability assessment tools including Nmap (http://www.nmap.org)and Nessus (http://www.nessus.org).These tools can work together and exchange information with each other. Someproducts provide complete systems consisting of all of these products bundled together.Snort is an open source Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) which isavailable free of cost. NIDS is the type of Intrusion Detection System (IDS) that is usedfor scanning data flowing on the network. There are also host-based intrusion detectionsystems, which are installed on a particular host and detect attacks targeted to that hostonly. Although all intrusion detection methods are still new, Snort is ranked among thetop quality systems available today.The book starts with an introduction to intrusion detection and related terminology.You will learn installation and management of Snort as well as other products that workwith Snort. These products include MySQL database (http://www.mysql.org) and Analy-sis Control for Intrusion Database (ACID) (http://www.cert.org/kb/acid). Snort has thecapability to log data collected (such as alerts and other log messages) to a database.MySQL is used as the database engine where all of this data is stored. Using Apacheweb server (http://www.apache.org) and ACID, you can analyze this data. A combina-tion of Snort, Apache, MySQL, and ACID makes it possible to log the intrusion detec-tion data into a database and then view and analyze it later, using a web interface.This book is organized in such a way that the reader will be able to build a com-plete intrusion detection system by going through the following chapters in a step-by-step manner. All steps of installing and integrating different tools are explained in thebook as outlined below.Chapter 2 provides basic information about how to build and install Snort itself.Using the basic installation and default rules, you will be able to get a working IDS.You will be able to create log files that show intrusion activity.Chapter 3 provides information about Snort rules, different parts of Snort rulesand how to write your own rules according to your environment and needs. This chapter #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 22 Context: 10Chapter1 (cid:127) Introduction to Intrusion Detection and SnortIdeally a honey pot should look like a real system. You should create some fakedata files, user accounts and so on to ensure a hacker that this is a real system. This willtempt the hacker to remain on the honey pot for a longer time and you will be able torecord more activity.To have more information and get a closer look at honey pots, go to the Honey PotProject web site http://project.honeynet.org/ where you will find interesting material.Also go to the Honeyd web site at http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/ to findout information about this open source honey pot. Some other places where you canfind more information are:(cid:127)South Florida Honeynet Project at http://www.sfhn.net(cid:127)Different HOWTOs at http://www.sfhn.net/whites/howtos.html1.1.4Security Zones and Levels of TrustSome time ago people divided networks into two broad areas, secure area andunsecure area. Sometimes this division also meant a network is inside a firewall or arouter and outside your router. Now typical networks are divided into many differentareas and each area may have a different level of security policy and level of trust. Forexample, a company’s finance department may have a very high security level and mayallow only a few services to operate in that area. No Internet service may be availablefrom the finance department. However a DMZ or de-militarized zone part of your net-work may be open to the Internet world and may have a very different level of trust.Depending upon the level of trust and your security policy, you should also havedifferent policies and rules for intruder detection in different areas of your network.Network segments with different security requirements and trust levels are kept physi-cally separate from each other. You can install one intrusion detection system in eachzone with different types of rules to detect suspicious network activity. As an example,if your finance department has no web server, any traffic going to port 80 in the financedepartment segment may come under scrutiny for intruder activity. The same is not truein the DMZ zone where you are running a company web server accessible to everyone.1.2IDS PolicyBefore you install the intrusion detection system on your network, you must have a pol-icy to detect intruders and take action when you find such activity. A policy must dictateIDS rules and how they will be applied. The IDS policy should contain the followingcomponents; you can add more depending upon your requirements. #################### File: 1%20MB%20LESS%20The%20Little%20Book%20About%20OS%20Development%20-%20Erik%20Helin%2C%20Adam%20Renberg%20-%20%28PDF%2C%20HTML%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: ProgrammableInterruptController(PIC)................................43ReadingInputfromtheKeyboard....................................44FurtherReading..............................................457TheRoadtoUserMode47LoadinganExternalProgram.......................................47GRUBModules............................................47ExecutingaProgram............................................48AVerySimpleProgram.......................................48Compiling...............................................48FindingthePrograminMemory..................................49JumpingtotheCode.........................................49TheBeginningofUserMode.......................................498AShortIntroductiontoVirtualMemory51VirtualMemoryThroughSegmentation?.................................51FurtherReading..............................................519Paging53WhyPaging?................................................53Paginginx86................................................53IdentityPaging............................................55EnablingPaging...........................................55AFewDetails.............................................55PagingandtheKernel...........................................55ReasonstoNotIdentityMaptheKernel..............................56TheVirtualAddressfortheKernel.................................56PlacingtheKernelat0xC0000000.................................56Higher-halfLinkerScript.......................................57EnteringtheHigherHalf.......................................57RunningintheHigherHalf.....................................58VirtualMemoryThroughPaging.....................................58FurtherReading..............................................595 #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 18 Context: 6Chapter1 (cid:127) Introduction to Intrusion Detection and SnortSnort uses rules stored in text files that can be modified by a text editor. Rules aregrouped in categories. Rules belonging to each category are stored in separate files.These files are then included in a main configuration file called snort.conf. Snort readsthese rules at the start-up time and builds internal data structures or chains to applythese rules to captured data. Finding signatures and using them in rules is a tricky job,since the more rules you use, the more processing power is required to process captureddata in real time. It is important to implement as many signatures as you can using asfew rules as possible. Snort comes with a rich set of pre-defined rules to detect intrusionactivity and you are free to add your own rules at will. You can also remove some of thebuilt-in rules to avoid false alarms.1.1.1Some DefinitionsBefore we go into details of intrusion detection and Snort, you need to learn somedefinitions related to security. These definitions will be used in this book repeatedly inthe coming chapters. A basic understanding of these terms is necessary to digest othercomplicated security concepts.1.1.1.1IDSIntrusion Detection System or IDS is software, hardware or combination of bothused to detect intruder activity. Snort is an open source IDS available to the generalpublic. An IDS may have different capabilities depending upon how complex andsophisticated the components are. IDS appliances that are a combination of hardwareand software are available from many companies. As mentioned earlier, an IDS mayuse signatures, anomaly-based techniques or both.1.1.1.2Network IDS or NIDSNIDS are intrusion detection systems that capture data packets traveling on thenetwork media (cables, wireless) and match them to a database of signatures. Depend-ing upon whether a packet is matched with an intruder signature, an alert is generated orthe packet is logged to a file or database. One major use of Snort is as a NIDS.1.1.1.3Host IDS or HIDSHost-based intrusion detection systems or HIDS are installed as agents on a host.These intrusion detection systems can look into system and application log files todetect any intruder activity. Some of these systems are reactive, meaning that theyinform you only when something has happened. Some HIDS are proactive; they cansniff the network traffic coming to a particular host on which the HIDS is installed andalert you in real time. #################### File: 1%20MB%20Partial%20Evaluation%20and%20Automatic%20Program%20Generation%20-%20Neil%20D.%20Jones%2C%20C.K.%20Gomard%2C%20Peter%20Sestoft%20%28PDF%29%20jonesgomardsestoft-a4.pdf Page: 27 Context: Overviewofthebook171.7OverviewofthebookPrerequisitesOurpresentationstyleissemiformal.Ontheonehand,thevarioustermsandalgorithmsusedarepreciselyde(cid:12)ned.Forexample,theprogramswepresentmaybeunambiguouslyexecutedbyhand.Ontheotherhand,wedonotuseadvancedmathematicalconceptsandterminology(domains,algebras,categories,etc.);or-dinarydiscretemathematicsissu(cid:14)cient.WeassumethereadertobefamiliarwithaPascal-likeprogramminglanguage.PriorknowledgeofafunctionallanguagesuchasLisp,Scheme,ML,Miranda,orHaskellwouldmakesomepartseasiertofollow,butisnotaprerequisite.Fi-nally,someexperiencewithcompilers(e.g.anundergraduatecompilerconstructioncourse)wouldbedesirable.OutlinePartIintroducesconceptsandnotationofprogramminglanguages.Chapter2introducesfunctions,recursion,anddatatypes,andthedistinctionbetweenaprogram(text)andthefunctionitde(cid:12)nes.Chapter3de(cid:12)nestheconceptsofinterpreterandcompileranddiscussespro-gramrunningtimesandinterpretationoverhead.Thenthreemini-languagesarepresented:thelambdacalculus,(cid:12)rst-orderrecursionequations,anda(cid:13)owchartlanguage.Interpretersforexecutingthemaregivenalso,tointroducetheconceptsofabstractsyntax,environment,andclosure,whichwillbeusedinthepartialevaluatorspresentedlater.PartIIpresentspartialevaluatorsfortwoofthemini-languagesintroducedinChapter3.Thisintroducesavarietyoftechniquesforpartialevaluation,usefulalsointhepartialevaluationofstrongerlanguages.Chapter4concernsthe(cid:13)owchartlanguage.Apartialevaluatorisdevelopedinconsiderabledetail,emphasizingconcreteexamplesandcarefullymotivatingthevariousdesigndecisionsthataretaken.Enoughdetailsaregiventoallowthereadertoimplementthepartialevaluatorandgeneratecompilersonhisorherowncomputer.Itisshownbyexamplesthatpartialevaluationcancompile,generatecompilers,andevengenerateacompilergenerator.Thekeytothelattertwoisself-applicationasintheFutamuraprojectionsofSection1.5.Itmaycomeasasurprisethatself-applicationleadstoconsiderableimprovementsincompilerrunningtimes.Programtextsillustratin #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 15 Context: 3is very important, as writing good rules is the key to building a detection system. Thechapter also explains different rules that are part of Snort distribution.Chapter 4 is about input and output plug-ins. Plug-ins are parts of the softwarethat are compiled with Snort and are used to modify input or output of the Snort detec-tion engine. Input plug-ins prepare captured data packets before the actual detectionprocess is applied on these packets. Output plug-ins format output to be used for a par-ticular purpose. For example, an output plug-in can convert the detection data to a Sim-ple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap. Another output plug-in is used to logSnort output data into databases. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview ofhow these plug-ins are configured and used.Chapter 5 provides information about using MySQL database with Snort. MySQLplug-in enables Snort to log data into the database to be used in the analysis later on. Inthis chapter you will find information about how to create a database in MySQL, con-figure a database plug-in, and log data to the database.Chapter 6 describes ACID, how to use it to get data from the database you config-ured in Chapter 5, and how to display it using Apache web server. ACID is a veryimportant tool that provides rich data analysis capabilities. You can find frequency ofattacks, classify different attacks, view the source of these attacks and so on. ACID usesPHP (Pretty Home Page) scripting language, graphic display library (GD library) andPHPLOT, which is a tool to draw graphs. A combination of all of these results in webpages that display, analyze and graph data stored in the MySQL database.Chapter 7 is devoted to information about some other useful tools that can be usedwith Snort.The system that you will build after going through this book is displayed in Figure1-1 with different components. As you can see, data is captured and analyzed by Snort. Snort then stores this datain the MySQL database using the database output plug-in. Apache web server takes helpfrom ACID, PHP, GD library and PHPLOT package to display this data in a browserwindow when a user connects to Apache. A user can then make different types of querieson the forms displayed in the web pages to analyze, archive, graph and delete data.In essence, you can build a single computer with Snort, MySQL database,Apache, PHP, ACID, GD library and PHPLOT. A more realistic picture of the systemthat you will be able to build after reading this book is shown in Figure 1-2.In the enterprise, usually people have multiple Snort sensors behind every routeror firewall. In that case you can use a single centralized database to collect data from allof the sensors. 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Contents1Introduction7AbouttheBook..............................................7TheReader.................................................8Credits,ThanksandAcknowledgements.................................8Contributors................................................8ChangesandCorrections.........................................8Issuesandwheretogethelp........................................9License...................................................92FirstSteps11Tools.....................................................11QuickSetup..............................................11ProgrammingLanguages.......................................11HostOperatingSystem.......................................12BuildSystem.............................................12VirtualMachine...........................................12Booting...................................................12BIOS..................................................12TheBootloader............................................13TheOperatingSystem........................................13HelloCafebabe...............................................13CompilingtheOperatingSystem..................................13LinkingtheKernel..........................................14ObtainingGRUB...........................................15BuildinganISOImage........................................15RunningBochs............................................16FurtherReading..............................................173 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References[1]AndrewTanenbaum,2007.Modernoperatingsystems,3rdedition.PrenticeHall,Inc.,[2]Theroyalinstituteoftechnology,http://www.kth.se,[3]Wikipedia,Hexadecimal,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal,[4]OSDev,OSDev,http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page,[5]JamesMolloy,Jamesm’skerneldevelopmenttutorial,http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/,[6]CanonicalLtd,Ubuntu,http://www.ubuntu.com/,[7]Oracle,OraclevMvirtualBox,http://www.virtualbox.org/,[8]DennisM.RitchieBrianW.Kernighan,1988.Thecprogramminglanguage,secondedition.PrenticeHall,Inc.,[9]Wikipedia,C(programminglanguage),http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language),[10]FreeSoftwareFoundation,GCC,thegNUcompilercollection,http://gcc.gnu.org/,[11]NASM,NASM:Thenetwideassembler,http://www.nasm.us/,[12]Wikipedia,Bash,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29,[13]FreeSoftwareFoundation,GNUmake,http://www.gnu.org/software/make/,[14]VolkerRuppert,bochs:TheopensouceiA-32emulationproject,http://bochs.sourceforge.net/,[15]QEMU,QEMU,http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page,[16]Wikipedia,BIOS,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS,[17]FreeSoftwareFoundation,GNUgRUB,http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/,[18]Wikipedia,Executableandlinkableformat,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format,[19]FreeSoftwareFoundation,Multibootspecificationversion0.6.96,http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html,[20]GNU,GNUbinutils,http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/,[21]LarsNodeen,Bug#426419:configure:error:GRUBrequiresaworkingabsoluteobjcopy,https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/426419,[22]Wikipedia,ISOimage,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image,[23]Bochs,bochsrc,http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/bochsrc.html,[24]NASM,RESBandfriends:Declaringuninitializeddata,http://www.nasm.us/doc/nasmdoc3.htm,77 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3GettingtoC19SettingUpaStack.............................................19CallingCCodeFromAssembly......................................20PackingStructs............................................20CompilingCCode.............................................21BuildTools.................................................21FurtherReading..............................................224Output23InteractingwiththeHardware......................................23TheFramebuffer..............................................23WritingText.............................................23MovingtheCursor..........................................25TheDriver..............................................26TheSerialPorts..............................................26ConfiguringtheSerialPort.....................................27ConfiguringtheLine.........................................27ConfiguringtheBuffers.......................................29ConfiguringtheModem.......................................29WritingDatatotheSerialPort...................................30ConfiguringBochs..........................................31TheDriver..............................................31FurtherReading..............................................315Segmentation33AccessingMemory.............................................33TheGlobalDescriptorTable(GDT)...................................35LoadingtheGDT.............................................36FurtherReading..............................................376InterruptsandInput39InterruptsHandlers.............................................39CreatinganEntryintheIDT.......................................39HandlinganInterrupt...........................................40CreatingaGenericInterruptHandler..................................41LoadingtheIDT..............................................434 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InodesandWritableFileSystemsWhentheneedforawritablefilesystemarises,thenitisagoodideatolookintotheconceptofaninode.Seethesection“FurtherReading”forrecommendedreading.AVirtualFileSystemWhatabstractionshouldbeusedforreadingandwritingtodevicessuchasthescreenandthekeyboard?Avirtualfilesystem(VFS)createsanabstractionontopoftheconcretefilesystems.AVFSmainlysuppliesthepathsystemandfilehierarchy,itdelegatesoperationsonfilestotheunderlyingfilesystems.TheoriginalpaperonVFSissuccinctandwellwortharead.Seethesection“FurtherReading”forareference.WithaVFSwecouldmountaspecialfilesystemonthepath/dev.Thisfilesystemwouldhandlealldevicessuchaskeyboardsandtheconsole.However,onecouldalsotakethetraditionalUNIXapproach,withmajor/minordevicenumbersandmknodtocreatespecialfilesfordevices.Whichapproachyouthinkisthemostappropriateisuptoyou,thereisnorightorwrongwhenbuildingabstractionlayers(althoughsomeabstractionsturnoutwaymoreusefulthanothers).FurtherReading•TheideasbehindthePlan9operatingsystemsisworthtakingalookat:http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/index.html•Wikipedia’spageoninodes:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inodeandtheinodepointerstructure:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode_pointer_structure.•Theoriginalpaperontheconceptofvnodesandavirtualfilesystemisquiteinteresting:http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~fredk/Courses/cs523/fall01/Papers/kleiman86vnodes.pdf•Poul-HenningKampdiscussestheideaofaspecialfilesystemfor/devinhttp://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon02/full_papers/kamp/kamp_html/index.html70 #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 10 Context: xContents3.6.34The uricontent Keyword 1113.7The Snort Configuration File 1123.7.1Using Variables in Rules 1123.7.2The config Directives 1143.7.3Preprocessor Configuration 1163.7.4Output Module Configuration 1163.7.5Defining New Action Types 1173.7.6Rules Configuration 1173.7.7Include Files 1173.7.8Sample snort.conf File 1183.8Order of Rules Based upon Action 1193.9Automatically Updating Snort Rules 1203.9.1The Simple Method 1203.9.2The Sophisticated and Complex Method 1223.10Default Snort Rules and Classes 1253.10.1The local.rules File 1273.11Sample Default Rules 1273.11.1Checking su Attempts from a Telnet Session 1273.11.2Checking for Incorrect Login on Telnet Sessions 1283.12Writing Good Rules 1283.13References 129 Chapter4 Plugins, Preprocessors and Output Modules 1314.1Preprocessors 1324.1.1HTTP Decode 1334.1.2Port Scanning 1344.1.3The frag2 Module 1354.1.4The stream4 Module 1364.1.5The spade Module 1374.1.6ARP Spoofing 1384.2Output Modules 1394.2.1The alert_syslog Output Module 1404.2.1The alert_full Output Module 1434.2.1The alert_fast Output Module 1434.2.1The alert_smb Module 1434.2.1The log_tcpdump Output Module 1444.2.1The XML Output Module 1464.2.1Logging to Databases 1504.2.1CSV Output Module 151 #################### File: 1%20MB%20LESS%20The%20Little%20Book%20About%20OS%20Development%20-%20Erik%20Helin%2C%20Adam%20Renberg%20-%20%28PDF%2C%20HTML%29.pdf Page: 12 Context: Host Operating System All the code examples assumes that the code is being compiled on a UNIX like operating system. All code examples have been successfully compiled using Ubuntu [6] versions 11.04 and 11.10. Build System Make [13] has been used when constructing the Makefile examples. Virtual Machine When developing an OS it is very convenient to be able to run your code in a virtual machine instead of on a physical computer, since starting your OS in a virtual machine is much faster than getting your OS onto a physical medium and then running it on a physical machine. Bochs [14] is an emulator for the x86 (IA-32) platform which is well suited for OS development due to its debugging features. Other popular choices are QEMU [15] and VirtualBox [7]. This book uses Bochs. By using a virtual machine we cannot ensure that our OS works on real, physical hardware. The environment simulated by the virtual machine is designed to be very similar to their physical counterparts, and the OS can be tested on one by just copying the executable to a CD and finding a suitable machine. Booting Booting an operating system consists of transferring control along a chain of small programs, each one more “powerful” than the previous one, where the operating system is the last “program”. See the following figure for an example of the boot process: Figure 2.1: An example of the boot process. Each box is a program. BIOS When the PC is turned on, the computer will start a small program that adheres to the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) [16] standard. This program is usually stored on a read only memory chip on the motherboard of the PC. The original role of the BIOS program was to export some library functions for printing to the screen, reading keyboard input etc. Modern operating systems do not use the BIOS’ functions, they use 12 #################### File: 1%20MB%20LESS%20The%20Little%20Book%20About%20OS%20Development%20-%20Erik%20Helin%2C%20Adam%20Renberg%20-%20%28PDF%2C%20HTML%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: Chapter1IntroductionThistextisapracticalguidetowritingyourownx86operatingsystem.Itisdesignedtogiveenoughhelpwiththetechnicaldetailswhileatthesametimenotrevealtoomuchwithsamplesandcodeexcerpts.We’vetriedtocollectpartsofthevast(andoftenexcellent)expanseofmaterialandtutorialsavailable,onthewebandotherwise,andaddourowninsightsintotheproblemsweencounteredandstruggledwith.Thisbookisnotaboutthetheorybehindoperatingsystems,orhowanyspecificoperatingsystem(OS)works.ForOStheorywerecommendthebookModernOperatingSystemsbyAndrewTanenbaum[1].ListsanddetailsoncurrentoperatingsystemsareavailableontheInternet.Thestartingchaptersarequitedetailedandexplicit,toquicklygetyouintocoding.Laterchaptersgivemoreofanoutlineofwhatisneeded,asmoreandmoreoftheimplementationanddesignbecomesuptothereader,whoshouldnowbemorefamiliarwiththeworldofkerneldevelopment.Attheendofsomechapterstherearelinksforfurtherreading,whichmightbeinterestingandgiveadeeperunderstandingofthetopicscovered.Inchapter2and3wesetupourdevelopmentenvironmentandbootupourOSkernelinavirtualmachine,eventuallystartingtowritecodeinC.Wecontinueinchapter4withwritingtothescreenandtheserialport,andthenwediveintosegmentationinchapter5andinterruptsandinputinchapter6.Afterthiswehaveaquitefunctionalbutbare-bonesOSkernel.Inchapter7westarttheroadtousermodeapplications,withvirtualmemorythroughpaging(chapter8and9),memoryallocation(chapter10),andfinallyrunningauserapplicationinchapter11.Inthelastthreechapterswediscussthemoreadvancedtopicsoffilesystems(chapter12),systemcalls(chapter13),andmultitasking(chapter14).AbouttheBookTheOSkernelandthisbookwereproducedaspartofanadvancedindividualcourseattheRoyalInstituteofTechnology[2],Stockholm.TheauthorshadpreviouslytakencoursesinOStheory,buthadonlyminorpracticalexperiencewithOSkerneldevelopment.InordertogetmoreinsightandadeeperunderstandingofhowthetheoryfromthepreviousOScoursesworksoutinpractice,theauthorsdecidedtocreateanewcourse,whichfocusedonthedevelopmentofasmallOS.Anothergoalofthecoursewaswritingathorough #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 23 Context: IDS Policy11(cid:127)Who will monitor the IDS? Depending on the IDS, you may have alertingmechanisms that provide information about intruder activity. These alertingsystems may be in the form of simple text files, or they may be morecomplicated, perhaps integrated to centralized network management systemslike HP OpenView or MySQL database. Someone is needed to monitor theintruder activity and the policy must define the responsible person(s). Theintruder activity may also be monitored in real time using pop-up windows orweb interfaces. In this case operators must have knowledge of alerts and theirmeaning in terms of severity levels.(cid:127)Who will administer the IDS, rotate logs and so on? As with all systems, youneed to establish routine maintenance of the IDS. (cid:127)Who will handle incidents and how? If there is no incident handling, there is nopoint in installing an IDS. Depending upon the severity of the incident, youmay need to get some government agencies involved.(cid:127)What will be the escalation process (level 1, level 2 and so on)? The escalationprocess is basically an incident response strategy. The policy should clearlydescribe which incidents should be escalated to higher management.(cid:127)Reporting. Reports may be generated showing what happened during the lastday, week or month.(cid:127)Signature updates. Hackers are continuously creating new types of attacks.These attacks are detected by the IDS if it knows about the attack in the form ofsignatures. Attack signatures are used in Snort rules to detect attacks. Becauseof the continuously changing nature of attacks, you must update signatures andrules on your IDS. You can update signatures directly from the Snort web siteon a periodic basis or on your own when a new threat is discovered.(cid:127)Documentation is required for every project. The IDS policy should describewhat type of documentation will be done when attacks are detected. Thedocumentation may include a simple log or record of complete intruderactivity. You may also need to build some forms to record data. Reports are alsopart of regular documentation.Based on the IDS policy you will get a clear idea of how many IDS sensors andother resources are required for your network. With this information, you will be able tocalculate the cost of ownership of IDS more precisely. #################### File: 1%20MB%20Partial%20Evaluation%20and%20Automatic%20Program%20Generation%20-%20Neil%20D.%20Jones%2C%20C.K.%20Gomard%2C%20Peter%20Sestoft%20%28PDF%29%20jonesgomardsestoft-a4.pdf Page: 3 Context: ContentsPrefacex1Introduction11.1Partialevaluation=programspecialization11.2Whydopartialevaluation?51.3Computationinonestageormore71.4Partialevaluationandcompilation111.5Automaticprogramgeneration131.6Criticalassessment151.7Overviewofthebook17IFundamentalConceptsinProgrammingLanguages212Functions,Types,andExpressions232.1Functions232.2Typesinprogramminglanguages262.3Recursivedatatypes322.4Summary362.5Exercises373ProgrammingLanguagesandInterpreters383.1Interpreters,compilers,andrunningtimes383.2Theuntypedlambdacalculus:syntaxandsemantics433.3Threemini-languages503.4Compilingcompilers583.5Thecentralproblemsofcompilation603.6Summary61v #################### File: 1%20MB%20LESS%20The%20Little%20Book%20About%20OS%20Development%20-%20Erik%20Helin%2C%20Adam%20Renberg%20-%20%28PDF%2C%20HTML%29.pdf Page: 8 Context: referencematerialandmatureemulators.Thedocumentationandinformationsurroundingthedetailsofthehardwarewehadtoworkwithwasnotalwayseasytofindorunderstand,despite(orperhapsdueto)theageofthearchitecture.TheOSwasdevelopedinaboutsixweeksoffull-timework.Theimplementationwasdoneinmanysmallsteps,andaftereachsteptheOSwastestedmanually.Bydevelopinginthisincrementalanditerativeway,itwasofteneasiertofindanybugsthatwereintroduced,sinceonlyasmallpartofthecodehadchangedsincethelastknowngoodstateofthecode.Weencouragethereadertoworkinasimilarway.Duringthesixweeksofdevelopment,almosteverysinglelineofcodewaswrittenbytheauthorstogether(thiswayofworkingisalsocalledpair-programming).Itisourbeliefthatwemanagedtoavoidalotofbugsduetothisstyleofdevelopment,butthisishardtoprovescientifically.TheReaderThereaderofthisbookshouldbecomfortablewithUNIX/Linux,systemsprogramming,theClanguageandcomputersystemsingeneral(suchashexadecimalnotation[3]).Thisbookcouldbeawaytogetstartedlearningthosethings,butitwillbemoredifficult,anddevelopinganoperatingsystemisalreadychallengingonitsown.Searchenginesandothertutorialsareoftenhelpfulifyougetstuck.Credits,ThanksandAcknowledgementsWe’dliketothanktheOSDevcommunity[4]fortheirgreatwikiandhelpfulmembers,andJamesMalloyforhiseminentkerneldevelopmenttutorial[5].We’dalsoliketothankoursupervisorTorbjörnGranlundforhisinsightfulquestionsandinterestingdiscussions.MostoftheCSSformattingofthebookisbasedontheworkbyScottChaconforthebookProGit,http://progit.org/.ContributorsWeareverygratefulforthepatchesthatpeoplesendus.Thefollowingusershaveallcontributedtothisbook:•alexschneider•Avidanborisov•nirs•kedarmhaswade•vamanea•ansjobChangesandCorrectionsThisbookishostedonGithub-ifyouhaveanysuggestions,commentsorcorrections,justforkthebook,writeyourchanges,andsendusapullrequest.We’llhappilyincorporateanythingthatmakesthisbookbetter.8 #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: B RUCE P ERENS ’ O PEN S OURCE S ERIES ◆ Managing Linux Systems with Webmin: System Administration and Module Development Jamie Cameron ◆ Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System Christopher R. Hertel ◆ Embedded Software Development with eCos Anthony J. Massa ◆ The Linux Development Platform: Configuring, Using, and Maintaining a Complete Programming Environment Rafeeq Ur Rehman, Christopher Paul ◆ Intrusion Detection Systems with Snort: Advanced IDS Techniques with Snort, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and ACID Rafeeq Ur Rehman perens_series.fm Page 1 Thursday, April 10, 2003 1:43 AM #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: viiCONTENTS Chapter1 Introduction to Intrusion Detection and Snort11.1What is Intrusion Detection?51.1.1Some Definitions61.1.2Where IDS Should be Placed in Network Topology81.1.3Honey Pots91.1.4Security Zones and Levels of Trust101.2IDS Policy101.3Components of Snort121.3.1Packet Decoder131.3.2Preprocessors131.3.3The Detection Engine141.3.4Logging and Alerting System151.3.5Output Modules 151.4Dealing with Switches161.5TCP Stream Follow Up 181.6Supported Platforms181.7How to Protect IDS Itself191.7.1Snort on Stealth Interface 201.7.2Snort with no IP Address Interface201.8References21 #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 271 Context: Index259set_gid directive, 114set_uid directive, 115sid keyword, 110Signature-based intrusion detection systems, 5Signatures, 5, 7, 75attack, 11defined, 7updating, 11Simple Network Management Protocol(SNMP), 3Simple Network Modeling Language(SNML), 146, 156SLIP, 13SMB alerts, 28SMB alerts module, 139SMTP header, 14SNML DTD, 245-250SNMP header, 15SNMP information, web site, 73SNMP, sending alerts to, 69SNMP traps, 16, 23, 83output module, 154SNMPv2 trap, general format of, 154Snoop, 58Snort, 2, 7, 21binary files, 56command line options, 55–56components of, 12–16detection engine, 14–16, 155logging and alerting system, 15output modules, 15–16packet decoder, 13preprocessors, 13–14configuration file, 112–119config directives, 114–15defining new action types, 117include files, 117–118output module configuration, 116–117preprocessor configuration, 116rules configuration, 117sample, 118–119using variables in rules, 112–113daemon, 29downloading, 28FAQ, 20, 21, 29file locations, 56–57getting started with, 23–73installing, 24–53multiple Snort sensors with central-ized database, 26–28from RPM package, 28–29single sensor production IDS, 24–25single sensor with database and Web interface, 25–26single sensor with network manage-ment system integration, 25from source code, 29–42test installation, 24modes, 58–66alert modes, 66–71network intrusion detection mode, 65–66network sniffer mode, 58–65with no IP address interface, 20–21and preprocessor/output modules, 131protocols understood by, 83–84restarting, 29rule actions, 81–83activate action, 82alert action, 82dynamic action, 82log action, 82pass action, 82user-defined actions, 82–83rule headers, 81–83rule options, 88–111ack keyword, 89classtype keyword, 89–93content keyword, 93–94content-list keyword, 95depth keyword, 95dsize keyword, 95–96flags keyword, 96–97flow keyword, 108–109 #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 33 Context: References21(cid:127)Enable TCP/IP on the network interface that you want to use in the stealthmode. Disable everything other than TCP/IP.(cid:127)Enable DHCP client.(cid:127)Disable DHCP service.This will cause no address to be assigned to the interface while the interface is stillbound to TCP/IP networking.1.8References1.Intrusion detection FAQ at http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/IDFAQ/ID_FAQ.htm2.Honey Pot Project at http://project.honeynet.org/3.Snort FAQ at http://www.snort.org/docs/faq.html4.Honeyd Honey Pot at http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/5.Winpcap at http://winpcap.polito.it/6.Cisco systems at http://www.cisco.com7.Checkpoint web site at http://www.checkpoint.com8.Netscreen at http://www.netscreen.com9.Netfilter at http://www.netfilter.org10.Snort at http://www.snort.org11.The Nmap tool at http://www.nmap.org12.Nessus at http://www.nessus.org13.MySQL database at http://www.mysql.org14.ACID at http://www.cert.org/kb/acid15.Apache web server at http://www.apache.org #################### File: 1%20MB%20LESS%20The%20Little%20Book%20About%20OS%20Development%20-%20Erik%20Helin%2C%20Adam%20Renberg%20-%20%28PDF%2C%20HTML%29.pdf Page: 78 Context: [25]Wikipedia,x86callingconventions,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions,[26]Wikipedia,Framebuffer,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framebuffer,[27]Wikipedia,VGA-compatibletextmode,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA-compatible_text_mode,[28]Wikipedia,ASCII,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii,[29]OSDev,VGAhardware,http://wiki.osdev.org/VGA_Hardware,[30]Wikipedia,Serialport,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port,[31]OSDev,Serialports,http://wiki.osdev.org/Serial_ports,[32]WikiBooks,Serialprogramming/8250uARTprogramming,http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/8250_UART_Programming,[33]Intel,Intel64andiA-32architecturessoftwaredeveloper’smanualvol.3A,http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-vol-3a-part-1-manual.html/,[34]NASM,Multi-linemacros,http://www.nasm.us/doc/nasmdoc4.html#section-4.3,[35]SIGOPS,i386interrupthandling,http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/i386/irq.html,[36]AndriesBrouwer,Keyboardscancodes,http://www.win.tue.nl/,[37]SteveChamberlain,Usingld,thegNUlinker,http://www.math.utah.edu/docs/info/ld_toc.html,[38]OSDev,Pageframeallocation,http://wiki.osdev.org/Page_Frame_Allocation,[39]OSDev,Programmableintervaltimer,http://wiki.osdev.org/Programmable_Interval_Timer,78 #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 88 Context: 76Chapter3 • Working with Snort Rulesare usually placed in a configuration file, typically snort.conf. Youcan also use multiple files by including them in a main configuration file.This chapter provides information about different types of rules as well asthe basic structure of a rule. You will find many examples of commonrules for intrusion detection activity at the end of this chapter. After read-ing this chapter, along with the two preceding chapters, you should haveenough information to set up Snort as a basic intrusion detection system.3.1TCP/IP Network LayersBefore you move to writing rules, let us have a brief discussion about TCP/IP layers.This is important because Snort rules are applied on different protocols in these layers.TCP/IP is a five layer protocol. These layers interact with each other to make thecommunication process work. The names of these layers are: 1.The physical layer.2.The data link layer. In some literature this is also called the network interfacelayer. The physical and data link layers consist of physical media, the networkinterface adapter, and the driver for the network interface adapter. Ethernetaddresses are assigned in the data link layer.3.The network layer, which is actually IP (Internet Protocol) layer. This layer isresponsible for point-to-point data communication and data integrity. All hostson this layer are distinguished by IP addresses. In addition to IP protocol,ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) is another major protocol in thislayer. Information about IP protocol is available in RFC 791 available at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc791.txt. Information about ICMP protocol is avail-able at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc792.txt.4.The transport layer, which is actually TCP/UDP layer in the TCP/IP protocol.TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is used for connection-oriented and reli-able data transfer from source to destination. UDP (User Datagram Protocol),on the other hand, is used for connectionless data transfer. There is no assur-ance that data sent through UDP protocol will actually reach its destination.UDP is used where data loss can be tolerated. Information about UDP protocolis available in RFC 768 at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc768.txt. Informationabout TCP protocol is available in RFC 793 at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793.txt. #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 140 Context: 128Chapter3 (cid:127) Working with Snort Rules(cid:127)The variable $EXTERNAL_NET is defined in the snort.conf file andshows all addresses which are outside the private network. The rule will applyto those telnet sessions which originate from outside of the private network. Ifsomeone from the internal network starts a Telnet session, the rule will notdetect that traffic.(cid:127)The flow keyword is used to apply this rule only to an established connectionand traffic flowing from the server.(cid:127)The content keyword shows that an alert will be generated when a packetcontains “to su root”.(cid:127)The nocase keyword allows the rule to ignore case of letters while matching thecontent.(cid:127)The classtype keyword is used to assign a class to the rule. The attempted-admin class is defined with a default priority in classification.config file.(cid:127)The rule ID is 715.(cid:127)The rev keyword is used to show version of the rule.3.11.2Checking for Incorrect Login on Telnet SessionsThe following rule is similar to the rule for checking su attempts. It checks incor-rect login attempts on the Telnet server port.alert tcp $TELNET_SERVERS 23 -> $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:"TELNET login incorrect"; content:"Login incorrect"; flow:from_server,established; reference:arachnids,127; classtype:bad-unknown; sid:718; rev:6;)There is one additional keyword used in this rule which is “reference: arachnids,127”. This is a reference to a web site where you can find more information about thisvulnerability. The URLs for external web sites are placed in the reference.con-fig file in the Snort distribution. Using the information in reference.config, theURL for more information about this rule is http://www.whitehats.com/info/IDS=127.127 is the ID used for searching the database at the arachnids web site.3.12Writing Good RulesThere is a large list of predefined rules that are part of Snort distribution. Looking atthese rules gives you a fairly good idea of how to write good rules. Although it is notmandatory, you should use the following parts in the options for each rule:(cid:127)A message part using the msg keyword.(cid:127)Rule classification, using the classification keyword. #################### File: 1%20MB%20LESS%20The%20Little%20Book%20About%20OS%20Development%20-%20Erik%20Helin%2C%20Adam%20Renberg%20-%20%28PDF%2C%20HTML%29.pdf Page: 59 Context: FurtherReading•Chapter4(andtosomeextentchapter3)oftheIntelmanual[33]areyourdefinitivesourcesforthedetailsaboutpaging.•Wikipediahasanarticleonpaging:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging•TheOSDevwikihasapageonpaging:http://wiki.osdev.org/Pagingandatutorialformakingahigher-halfkernel:http://wiki.osdev.org/Higher_Half_bare_bones•GustavoDuarte’sarticleonhowakernelmanagesmemoryiswellwortharead:http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/anatomy-of-a-program-in-memory•DetailsonthelinkercommandlanguagecanbefoundatSteveChamberlain’swebsite[37].•MoredetailsontheELFformatcanbefoundinthispresentation:http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs422/doc/ELF_Format.pdf59 #################### File: 1%20MB%20Partial%20Evaluation%20and%20Automatic%20Program%20Generation%20-%20Neil%20D.%20Jones%2C%20C.K.%20Gomard%2C%20Peter%20Sestoft%20%28PDF%29%20jonesgomardsestoft-a4.pdf Page: 238 Context: 228AspectsofSimilix:APartialEvaluatorforaSubsetofSchemeUsingSimilix,tryspecializingpathtoydynamic,x=1,n=1,andG=((a.(bc));;edgesfromatobandc(b.(d));;edgefrombtod(c.(d));;edgefromctod(d.(e));;edgefromdtoe(e.()));;noedgesfromeSpecializeagainnowwithn=3.Notation:a!nbmeansthatthereexistsapathfromatoboflengthn.Abetteralgorithmcanbebasedonthefollowingobservation:a!mbifandonlyifeitherm=0anda=b,orm>0andthereexistsanodecwitha!mdiv2candc!m(cid:0)(mdiv2)b.ImplementthebetteralgorithminScheme,andspecializeittovariouscombinationsofknownarguments.2Exercise10.8Implementtheinterpreterforthecall-by-valuelambdacalculusinFigure3.1inScheme.UseSimilixtospecializetheinterpretertovariouslambdaex-pressions,therebycompilingthemtoScheme.SpecializeSimilixtotheinterpreter,therebygeneratingalambda-to-Schemecompiler.Usethegeneratedcompileronthesamelambda-expressionsasbefore.Whichisthemoste(cid:14)cientwaytocompile?Why?2Exercise10.9Eliminationoftypecheckingbypartialevaluation.Assumethatahypothetical,veryadvancedpartialevaluatorsupermixisavailable.Itistheinten-tiontousesupermixtocompileastaticallytyped(likePascal,C,ML,Miranda)languageStoLgivenaninterpretersintforthatlanguageS.1.Applysupermixtotheinterpretersint,anS-programp,andthetypeoftheinputtop.Howmuchtypecheckingwillbeleftintheresidualprogram?2.Samequestion,butforadynamicallytyped(likeLisp,Scheme)languageD.2 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Typesofproblemssusceptibletopartialevaluation283follow,withsomeoverlapwithSections13.1.1and13.1.2sincetheconceptsofmodularity,varyingratesofparametervariation,andinterpretationarehardtoseparateandoftenappearinthesameprogram.Interpretationevolvesnaturallyinthequestforgeneralityandmodi(cid:12)abilityoflarge-scaleprogrammingproblems.Weoutlineacommonscenario.Onceseveralrelatedproblemsinanapplicationsareahavebeenunderstoodandsolvedindivid-ually,thenextstepisoftentowriteasinglegeneralprogramabletosolveanyoneofafamilyofrelatedproblems.Thisleadstoaprogramwithparameters,sometimesnumerous,tospecifyprobleminstances.Useoftheprogramfornewapplicationsandbynewusergroupsmakeitdesir-abletodeviseauser-orientedlanguage,tospecifysuchparametersinawaymorerelatedtotheproblemsbeingsolvedthantotheprogramminglanguageorthealgorithmsusedtosolvethem.Theexistinggeneralprogramwillthusbemodi(cid:12)edtoacceptproblemdescriptionsthataremoreuser-oriented.Theresultisa(cid:13)ex-ibleandproblem-orientedtoolwhichmay,incomparisonwiththetimespentontheunderlyingcomputationalmethods,spendrelativelymuchofitstimetestingand/orcomputingonparameters,anddecipheringcommandsintheuser-orientedlanguage.Inotherwordsitisaninterpreter,andassuchsubjecttooptimizationbyourmethods.CircuitsimulationCircuitsimulatorstakeasinputanelectricalcircuitdescription,constructdi(cid:11)er-entialequationsdescribingitsbehaviour,andsolvethesebynumericalmethods.Thiscanbethoughtofasinterpretingthecircuitdescription.BerlinandWeise[21]citelargespeedupsresultingfromspecializingageneralcircuitsimulatorwritteninSchemetoa(cid:12)xedcircuit.NeuralnetworksTraininganeuralnetworktypicallyusesmuchcomputertime.PartialevaluationhasbeenappliedtoasimulatorwritteninCfortrainingneuralnetworksbyback-propagation[126].Theresultinggeneratortransformsagivennetworkintoafastersimulator,specializedtothe(cid:12)xednetworktopology.Observedspeedupswerefrom25%to50%|notdramaticbutsigni(cid:12)cantgiventheamountofcomputertimethatneuralnettrainingtakes.ComputinginnetworksC #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 224 Context: 212Chapter7 (cid:127) Miscellaneous Toolsagent system will then update configuration of the firewall or routers depending on thepolicy. Documentation, examples, and information about how to install SnortSam areavailable on its web site. You can find information about the changes you need to makefor a particular type of firewall in the snort.conf file. You should think twice aboutmodifying firewall policy; it may lead to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. For example,if someone sends you a message resulting in the blocking of root name serveraddresses, your DNS server will fail.7.2IDS Policy ManagerIDS policy manager is a Microsoft Windows based GUI. It is used to manage the Snortconfiguration file and Snort rules on a sensor. It is available from its web site http://activeworx.com/idspm/. At the time of writing this book, beta version 1.3 is availablefrom this web site and it supports Snort versions up to 1.9.0. You can download the soft-ware and install it using normal Windows installation procedures. When you start thesoftware, a window like the one shown in Figure 7-3 is displayed.As you can see, this window is initially empty. It has three tabs at the bottom, asexplained below:(cid:127)The “Sensor Manager” tab shows the sensors that you are managing with thistool. Initially there is no sensor listed in the window because you have to addsensors after installing IDS Manager. This is the default tab when you start thePolicy Manager.(cid:127)The “Policy Manager” tab shows configured policies. A policy includessnort.conf file parameters (variables, input and output plug-ins, includefiles) as well as a list of rules that belong to that policy.(cid:127)The “Logging” tab shows log messages.You can click on any of these tabs to switch to a particular window. To add a newsensor, you can click on the “Sensor” menu and chose the “Add Sensor” option. A pop-up window like the one shown in Figure 7-4 appears where you fill out informationabout the sensor. #################### File: 1%20MB%20Partial%20Evaluation%20and%20Automatic%20Program%20Generation%20-%20Neil%20D.%20Jones%2C%20C.K.%20Gomard%2C%20Peter%20Sestoft%20%28PDF%29%20jonesgomardsestoft-a4.pdf Page: 71 Context: Summary611.Changinglanguagestyle,forexamplefromnon-linear,value-orientedexpres-sionstolinear,command-orientedmachinecode.2.Sequentializingnaturallynon-sequentialprocesses,e.g.devisingastacktoremembertemporaryresultsobtainedwhileevaluatingthepartsofanarith-meticexpressioninaparticularsequence.3.Loweringthelevelofabstractionfromsourcelevel(e.g.‘higher-levellan-guage’)toatargetcodeleveltailoredtothatparticularsourcecode,e.g.P-codeforimplementingPascal.4.Devisingdatastructuresatthemachinecodelevelsuitableforimplement-inghigher-leveldata(products,sums,recursivelyde(cid:12)neddata,functionsasvalues,etc.),allimplementedinalinearstoragespace.5.Implementingvaluemanagement,e.g.goingfromimplicitlast-in(cid:12)rst-outscoperulestostackedactivationblockscontainingenvironmentbindings.3.6SummaryThischapterconcernedinterpreters:operationalsemanticsforprogramminglan-guagesinadirectlyexecutableform.Importanttopicsincludedthefollowing:(cid:15)interpretedprogramsusuallyrunslowerthandirectlyexecutedones;(cid:15)thespeeddi(cid:11)erenceisoftenapracticallysigni(cid:12)cantfactor;(cid:15)theinterpretationoverheadisnearlyconstantforagivensourceprogrambeinginterpreted|theconstantdependsontheprogrambutnottheinput;(cid:15)thelambdacalculusisausefulnotationforde(cid:12)ningfunctions;(cid:15)computationinthelambdacalculuscanbede(cid:12)nedbyreductionrelations;(cid:15)evaluationstrategiesusedinfunctionallanguagesarerestrictionsoftheserelations;(cid:15)call-by-nameevaluationterminatesmoreoftenthancall-by-value.WealsopresentedinterpreterswritteninMLforthreemini-languages:thecall-by-valuelambdacalculus,(cid:12)rst-orderrecursionequations,andasimpleimperative(cid:13)owchartlanguage.Finally,wesummarizedtheachievementsandnon-achievementsofcompilationbyautomaticprogramspecialization. #################### File: 1%20MB%20Partial%20Evaluation%20and%20Automatic%20Program%20Generation%20-%20Neil%20D.%20Jones%2C%20C.K.%20Gomard%2C%20Peter%20Sestoft%20%28PDF%29%20jonesgomardsestoft-a4.pdf Page: 16 Context: query.Thegeneratedprogrammaybediscardedafterwards.Heretheinputtotheprogramgeneratorisageneralqueryanswerer,andtheoutputisa‘compiler’fromqueriesintosearchprograms.Neuralnetworks.Traininganeuralnetworktypicallyusesmuchcomputertime,butcanbeimprovedbyspecializingageneralsimulatortoa(cid:12)xednetworktopology.Scienti(cid:12)ccomputing.Generalprogramsforseveraldiverseapplicationsincludingorbitcalculations(then-bodyproblem)andcomputationsforelectricalcircuitshavebeenspedupbyspecializationtoparticularplanetarysystemsandcircuits. #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 25 Context: Components of Snort13A brief introduction to these components is presented in this section. As you gothrough the book and create some rules, you will become more familiar with these com-ponents and how they interact with each other.1.3.1Packet DecoderThe packet decoder takes packets from different types of network interfaces andprepares the packets to be preprocessed or to be sent to the detection engine. The inter-faces may be Ethernet, SLIP, PPP and so on.1.3.2PreprocessorsPreprocessors are components or plug-ins that can be used with Snort to arrangeor modify data packets before the detection engine does some operation to find out ifthe packet is being used by an intruder. Some preprocessors also perform detection byfinding anomalies in packet headers and generating alerts. Preprocessors are veryimportant for any IDS to prepare data packets to be analyzed against rules in the detec-tion engine. Hackers use different techniques to fool an IDS in different ways. Forexample, you may have created a rule to find a signature “scripts/iisadmin” in HTTPpackets. If you are matching this string exactly, you can easily be fooled by a hackerwho makes slight modifications to this string. For example:(cid:127)“scripts/./iisadmin”(cid:127)“scripts/examples/../iisadmin”(cid:127)“scripts\iisadmin”(cid:127)“scripts/.\iisadmin”To complicate the situation, hackers can also insert in the web Uniform ResourceIdentifier (URI) hexadecimal characters or Unicode characters which are perfectly legalas far as the web server is concerned. Note that the web servers usually understand allof these strings and are able to preprocess them to extract the intended string “scripts/iisadmin”. However if the IDS is looking for an exact match, it is not able to detect thisattack. A preprocessor can rearrange the string so that it is detectable by the IDS.Preprocessors are also used for packet defragmentation. When a large data chunkis transferred to a host, the packet is usually fragmented. For example, default maxi-mum length of any data packet on an Ethernet network is usually 1500 bytes. This valueis controlled by the Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) value for the network interface.This means that if you send data which is more than 1500 bytes, it will be split into mul-tiple data packets so that each packet fragment is less than or equal to 1500 bytes. The #################### File: 1%20MB%20Partial%20Evaluation%20and%20Automatic%20Program%20Generation%20-%20Neil%20D.%20Jones%2C%20C.K.%20Gomard%2C%20Peter%20Sestoft%20%28PDF%29%20jonesgomardsestoft-a4.pdf Page: 25 Context: Criticalassessment151.5.5HierarchiesofmetalanguagesAmodernapproachtosolvingawide-spectrumproblemistodeviseauser-orientedlanguagetoexpresscomputationalrequests,viz.thewidespreadinterestinexpertsystems.Aprocessorforsuchalanguageusuallyworksinterpretively,alternatingbetweenreadinganddecipheringtheuser’srequests,consultingdatabases,anddoingproblem-relatedcomputing|anobviousopportunitytooptimizebypartialevaluation.Suchsystemsareoftenconstructedusingahierarchyofmetalanguages,eachcontrollingthesequenceandchoiceofoperationsatthenextlowerlevel[234].Here,e(cid:14)ciencyproblemsareyetmoreserioussinceeachinterpretationlayermultipliescomputationtimebyasigni(cid:12)cantfactor.Weshallseethatpartialevaluationallowsonetousemetaprogrammingwithoutorder-of-magnitudelossofe(cid:14)ciency.1.6CriticalassessmentPartialevaluationandself-applicationhavemanypromisingapplications,andworkwellinpracticeforgeneratingprogramgenerators,e.g.compilersandcompilergen-erators,andotherprogramtransformers,forexamplestylechangersandinstru-menters.Theyare,however,stillfarfromperfectlyunderstoodineithertheoryorpractice.Signi(cid:12)cantproblemsremain,andweconcludebylistingsomeofthem.GreaterautomationanduserconvenienceTheusershouldnotneedtogiveadviceonunfoldingorongeneralization,thatistosay,wherestaticallycomputablevaluesshouldberegardedasdynamic.(Suchadviceisrequiredinsomecurrentsystemstoavoidconstructinglargeorin(cid:12)niteoutputprograms.)Theusershouldnotbeforcedtounderstandthelogicofaprogramresultingfromspecialization.Ananalogyisthatonealmostneverlooksatacompiler-generatedtargetprogram,oraYacc-generatedparser.Further,usersshouldn’tneedtounderstandhowthepartialevaluatorworks.Ifpartialevaluationistobeusedbynon-specialistsinthe(cid:12)eld,itisessentialthattheuserthinksasmuchaspossibleabouttheproblemheorsheistryingtosolve,andaslittleaspossibleaboutthetoolbeingusedtoaiditssolution.Aconsequenceisthatdebuggingfacilitiesandinterfacesthatgivefeedbackaboutthesubjectprogram’sbinding-timeseparationareessentialforuseb #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 26 Context: 14Chapter1 (cid:127) Introduction to Intrusion Detection and Snortreceiving systems are capable of reassembling these smaller units again to form theoriginal data packet. On IDS, before you can apply any rules or try to find a signature,you have to reassemble the packet. For example, half of the signature may be present inone segment and the other half in another segment. To detect the signature correctly youhave to combine all packet segments. Hackers use fragmentation to defeat intrusiondetection systems.The preprocessors are used to safeguard against these attacks. Preprocessors inSnort can defragment packets, decode HTTP URI, re-assemble TCP streams and so on.These functions are a very important part of the intrusion detection system.1.3.3The Detection EngineThe detection engine is the most important part of Snort. Its responsibility is todetect if any intrusion activity exists in a packet. The detection engine employs Snortrules for this purpose. The rules are read into internal data structures or chains wherethey are matched against all packets. If a packet matches any rule, appropriate action istaken; otherwise the packet is dropped. Appropriate actions may be logging the packetor generating alerts.The detection engine is the time-critical part of Snort. Depending upon how pow-erful your machine is and how many rules you have defined, it may take differentamounts of time to respond to different packets. If traffic on your network is too highwhen Snort is working in NIDS mode, you may drop some packets and may not get atrue real-time response. The load on the detection engine depends upon the followingfactors:(cid:127)Number of rules(cid:127)Power of the machine on which Snort is running(cid:127)Speed of internal bus used in the Snort machine(cid:127)Load on the networkWhen designing a Network Intrusion Detection System, you should keep all ofthese factors in mind.Note that the detection system can dissect a packet and apply rules on differentparts of the packet. These parts may be:(cid:127)The IP header of the packet.(cid:127)The Transport layer header. This header includes TCP, UDP or other transportlayer headers. It may also work on the ICMP header. #################### File: 1%20MB%20Partial%20Evaluation%20and%20Automatic%20Program%20Generation%20-%20Neil%20D.%20Jones%2C%20C.K.%20Gomard%2C%20Peter%20Sestoft%20%28PDF%29%20jonesgomardsestoft-a4.pdf Page: 304 Context: 294ApplicationsofPartialEvaluationprocedureMinmax(i,j);ifj-i=1then[ifA[i]>A[j]then[tem:=A[i];A[i]:=A[j];A[j]:=tem]]else[i1:=(i+j-1)/2;j1:=(i+j+1)/2;Minmax(i,i1);Minmax(j1,j);A[i]:=Min(A[i],A[j1]);A[j]:=Max(A[i1],A[j]);]1.Handspecializeptoi=0;j=7,unfoldingallcalls,toobtainprogramp07.2.Comparetheruntimeofpwiththatofp0nforn=2m(cid:0)1,asafunctionofn,includingaconstanttimectoperformoneprocedurecall.3.Howlargeisprogramp0nforn=2m(cid:0)1,asafunctionofn?Givenyourconclusion,underwhatcircumstanceswouldspecializationofpbeworthwhile?4.Letpkijbepspecializedtoj(cid:0)i+1(cid:20)2kasinSection13.1.3.Notethatforeachk,programpkijhasa(cid:12)xedsizeindependentofi,j.Comparetheruntimeforpk0nwiththoseofpandpij.Doesthespeedupfor(cid:12)xedk‘propagate’toarraysofarbitrarilylargesize?5.Doesasimilarspeeduppropagationoccurwhenspecializingamergesortprogramto(cid:12)xedarraysize?2Exercise13.3The‘table-directedinput’ofSection13.1.4canbeimplementedbyatleastthreemethods:1.byageneralinterpreter,takingasparametersthetable,itsdimensions,andanarrayofactionroutineaddresses;2.byaninterpretertailoredtoa(cid:12)xedtablewithknowndimensionsandknownactionroutines;or3.bya‘compiled’versionofthetable,realizedbytestsandgoto’swithinlinecodefortheactions.Comparetheruntimeofthesethreeapproaches.WhichmethodisusedbyscannergeneratorssuchasYacc?2Exercise13.4ResidualprogramsizeexplosionsasseeninSection13.2.4canmakepartialevaluationunpro(cid:12)table.Canthesizeexplosionproblemalwaysbesolvedbychoosingamoreconservativebinding-timeanalysis(i.e.onewithfewerstaticvariables)?SuggestaBTAtacticforavoidingsuchsizeexplosions.2 #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 74 Context: 62Chapter2 (cid:127) Installing Snort and Getting Started --== Initialization Complete ==---*> Snort! <*-Version 1.9.0 (Build 209)By Martin Roesch (roesch@sourcefire.com, www.snort.org)05/27-12:11:10.063820 0:D0:59:6C:9:8B -> FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF type:0x800 len:0xFC192.168.1.100:138 -> 192.168.1.255:138 UDP TTL:128 TOS:0x0 ID:48572 IpLen:20 DgmLen:238Len: 21811 0E 82 D5 C0 A8 01 64 00 8A 00 C4 00 00 20 46 .......d...... F43 46 43 43 4E 45 4D 45 42 46 41 46 45 45 50 46 CFCCNEMEBFAFEEPF41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 41 41 00 ACACACACACACAAA.20 41 42 41 43 46 50 46 50 45 4E 46 44 45 43 46 ABACFPFPENFDECF43 45 50 46 48 46 44 45 46 46 50 46 50 41 43 41 CEPFHFDEFFPFPACA42 00 FF 53 4D 42 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 B..SMB%.........00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................00 00 11 00 00 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E8 .....*..........03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2A 00 56 00 03 00 01 .........*.V....00 01 00 02 00 3B 00 5C 4D 41 49 4C 53 4C 4F 54 .....;.\MAILSLOT5C 42 52 4F 57 53 45 00 0C 00 A0 BB 0D 00 42 41 \BROWSE.......BA54 54 4C 45 43 4F 57 53 00 00 00 00 01 00 03 0A TTLECOWS........00 10 00 80 D4 FE 50 03 52 52 2D 4C 41 50 54 4F ......P.RR-LAPTO50 00 P.=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+11/20-16:20:38.459702 0:D0:59:6C:9:8B -> 0:50:BA:5E:EC:25 type:0x800 len:0x3C192.168.1.100:2474 -> 192.168.1.2:22 TCP TTL:128 TOS:0x0 ID:4506 IpLen:20 DgmLen:40 DF***A**** Seq: 0x9DAEFD9C Ack: 0xF568E2FA Win: 0x3F20 TcpLen: 20=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+11/20-16:20:38.460728 0:50:BA:5E:EC:25 -> 0:D0:59:6C:9:8B type:0x800 len:0x86192.168.1.2:22 -> 192.168.1.100:2474 TCP TTL:64 TOS:0x10 ID:57303 IpLen:20 DgmLen:120 DF***AP*** Seq: 0xF568E34A Ack: 0x9DAEFD9C Win: 0x6BD0 TcpLen: 20F9 7B 4B 96 3F C8 0A BC DF 9E EE 4F DA 27 6F B4 .{K.?......O.'o.92 BD A7 C5 1D E4 35 AB DB BF 7B 56 B9 F8 BA A1 ......5...{V....86 BB FE 6E FD 41 55 FF D0 51 04 AF 73 80 13 29 ...n.AU..Q..s..)D7 62 67 A4 B5 0C 5F 32 30 36 81 C2 9C 31 53 AD .bg..._206...1S.3A 65 46 EE F1 52 59 ED 57 C7 6A 85 88 5A 3E D8 :eF..RY.W.j..Z>.=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 222 Context: 210Chapter7 • Miscellaneous ToolsAnother topic discussed in this chapter is the security of the web serverwhere ACID is installed. Up to now you have not done anything to securethe web server. Anybody can access the ACID console and delete the datacollected by Snort. Here you will learn a few methods of securing the webserver itself.7.1SnortSamSnortSam is a tool used to make Snort work with most commonly used firewalls. It isused to create a Firewall/IDS combined solution. You can configure your firewall auto-matically to block offending data and addresses from entering your system whenintruder activity is detected. It is available from http://www.snortsam.net/ where youcan find the latest information. The tool consists of two parts:1.A Snort output plug-in that is installed on the Snort sensor.2.An agent that is installed on a machine close to Firewall or Firewall itself. Snortcommunicates to the agent using the output plug-in in a secure way.At the time of writing this book, the tools support the following firewalls:(cid:127)IP filter-based firewalls(cid:127)Checkpoint Firewall-1(cid:127)Cisco PIX(cid:127)NetscreenThe output plug-in, which is compiled with Snort, provides new keywords thatcan be used to control firewall behavior. For compiling Snort, refer to Chapter 2.In a typical scheme where you are using Checkpoint Firewall, you can run theSnortSam agent on the firewall itself. Figure 7-1 shows a typical scheme where a Snortsensor is controlling two Checkpoint firewalls. These firewalls may be running onLinux, Windows or other UNIX platforms supported by Checkpoint. In a typical situation where you don’t have a Checkpoint firewall, you will run theagent on another system, located close to the firewall. Depending on the type of yourfirewall, you will add plug-ins to the SnortSam agent to control a particular type of fire-wall. For example, to control a Cisco router access list, you will use the relevant plug-inavailable from the SnortSam web site. The scheme is shown in Figure 7-2 where thesensor sends messages to the agent system where the SnortSam agent is running. The #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 27 Context: Components of Snort15(cid:127)The application layer level header. Application layer headers include, but arenot limited to, DNS header, FTP header, SNMP header, and SMTP header. Youmay have to use some indirect methods for application layer headers, like offsetof data to be looked for.(cid:127)Packet payload. This means that you can create a rule that is used by thedetection engine to find a string inside the data that is present inside the packet.The detection engine works in different ways for different versions of Snort. In all1.x versions of Snort, the detection engine stops further processing of a packet when arule is matched. Depending upon the rule, the detection engine takes appropriate actionby logging the packet or generating an alert. This means that if a packet matches criteriadefined in multiple rules, only the first rule is applied to the packet without looking forother matches. This is fine except for one problem. A low priority rule generates a lowpriority alert, even if a high priority rule meriting a high priority alert is located later inthe rule chain. This problem is rectified in Snort version 2 where all rules are matchedagainst a packet before generating an alert. After matching all rules, the highest priorityrule is selected to generate the alert.The detection engine in Snort version 2.0 is completely rewritten so that it is a lotfaster compared to detection in earlier versions of Snort. While Snort 2.0 is still not inrelease at the time of writing this book, earlier analysis shows that the new detectionengine may be up to eighteen times faster.1.3.4Logging and Alerting SystemDepending upon what the detection engine finds inside a packet, the packet maybe used to log the activity or generate an alert. Logs are kept in simple text files, tcp-dump-style files or some other form. All of the log files are stored under /var/log/snort folder by default. You can use –l command line options to modify the locationof generating logs and alerts. Many command line options discussed in the next chaptercan modify the type and detail of information that is logged by the logging and alertingsystem.1.3.5Output ModulesOutput modules or plug-ins can do different operations depending on how youwant to save output generated by the logging and alerting system of Snort. Basicallythese modules control the type of output generated by the logging and alerting system.Depending on the configuration, output modules can do things like the following: #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 105 Context: Rule Options93config classification: string-detect,A suspicious string was detected,3config classification: suspicious-filename-detect,A suspicious filename was detected,2config classification: suspicious-login,An attempted login using a suspicious username was detected,2config classification: system-call-detect,A system call was detected,2config classification: tcp-connection,A TCP connection was detected,4config classification: trojan-activity,A Network Trojan was detected, 1config classification: unusual-client-port-connection,A client was using an unusual port,2config classification: network-scan,Detection of a Network Scan,3config classification: denial-of-service,Detection of a Denial of Service Attack,2config classification: non-standard-protocol,Detection of a non-standard protocol or event,2config classification: protocol-command-decode,Generic Protocol Command Decode,3config classification: web-application-activity,access to a potentially vulnerable web application,2config classification: web-application-attack,Web Application Attack,1config classification: misc-activity,Misc activity,3config classification: misc-attack,Misc Attack,2config classification: icmp-event,Generic ICMP event,3config classification: kickass-porn,SCORE! Get the lotion!,1config classification: policy-violation,Potential Corporate Privacy Violation,1config classification: default-login-attempt,Attempt to login by a default username and password,23.6.3The content KeywordOne important feature of Snort is its ability to find a data pattern inside a packet.The pattern may be presented in the form of an ASCII string or as binary data in theform of hexadecimal characters. Like viruses, intruders also have signatures and thecontent keyword is used to find these signatures in the packet. Since Snort version 1.xdoes not support application layer protocols, this keyword, in conjunction with the off-set keyword, can also be used to look into the application layer header.The following rule detects a pattern “GET” in the data part of all TCP packets thatare leaving 192.168.1.0 network and going to an address that is not part of that network.The GET keyword is used in many HTTP related attacks; however, this rule is onlyusing it to help you understand how the content keyword works.alert tcp 192.168.1.0/24 any -> ![192.168.1.0/24] any \ (content: "GET"; msg: "GET matched";) #################### File: 1%20MB%20Partial%20Evaluation%20and%20Automatic%20Program%20Generation%20-%20Neil%20D.%20Jones%2C%20C.K.%20Gomard%2C%20Peter%20Sestoft%20%28PDF%29%20jonesgomardsestoft-a4.pdf Page: 10 Context: xiiPrefaceThisbookWegiveseveralexamplesofsuchapplications,butthemainemphasisofthebookisonprinciplesandmethodsforpartialevaluationofavarietyofprogramminglanguages:functional(thelambdacalculusandScheme),imperative(a(cid:13)owchartlanguageandasubsetofC),andlogical(Prolog).Weexplainthetechniquesnecessaryforconstructionofpartialevaluators,forinstanceprogram(cid:13)owanalysis,insu(cid:14)cientdetailtoallowtheirimplementation.Manyofthesetechniquesareapplicablealsoinotheradvancedprogrammingtasks.Thebookisstructuredasfollows.The(cid:12)rstchaptergivesanoverviewofpartialevaluationandsomeapplications.ThenPartIintroducesfundamentalprogram-minglanguageconcepts,de(cid:12)nesthreemini-languages,andpresentsinterpretersforthem.PartIIdescribestheprinciplesofself-applicablepartialevaluation,il-lustratedusingtwoofthemini-languages:(cid:13)owchartsand(cid:12)rst-orderrecursionequations.PartIIIshowshowtheseprinciplesapplytostrongerlanguages:thelambdacalculus,andlargesubsetsoftheProlog,Scheme,andCprogramminglanguages.PartIVdiscussespracticalaspectsofpartialevaluation,andpresentsawiderangeofapplications.PartVpresentsmoreatheoreticalviewandanumberofadvancedtechniques,andprovidesextensivereferencestootherresearch.Thebookshouldbeaccessibleeventobeginninggraduatestudents,andthususefulforbeginnersandresearchersinpartialevaluationalike.Theperspectiveonpartialevaluationandtheselectionofmaterialre(cid:13)ecttheex-perienceofourgroupwithconstructionofseveralpartialevaluators.Theseincludethe(cid:12)rstnon-trivialself-applicablepartialevaluatorsforafunctionallanguage,animperativelanguage,thelambdacalculus,aPrologsubset,andasubsetofC.ThisworkhasbeencarriedoutattheUniversityofCopenhagen.AcknowledgementsManyhavecontributedtoboththesubstanceandtheideasappearinginthisbook.InparticularwewanttothankLarsOleAndersenandTorbenMogensenwhowrotetwospecialistchapters,andOlivierDanvywhoprovidednumerousconstructivecommentsandsuggestions.Morebroadlywewouldliketoexpressourthanksto:PeterHolstAndersen,HenkBarendregt,JobBa #################### File: 2%20MB%20Intrusion%20Detection%20Systems%20with%20Snort%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 146 Context: 134Chapter4 (cid:127) Plugins, Preprocessors and Output Modulesrule to attempt access to “/wwwboard/passwd.txt”, an attacker can defeat the rule byusing hexadecimal characters in the request. So if the attacker sends a request to getURI “%2Fwwwboard%2Fpasswd.txt”, the Snort rule will not detect the attack becausethe rule is looking for “/wwwboard/passwd.txt”. However, if you are using HTTPdecode preprocessor, this attempt can detected. 4.1.2Port ScanningPort scanning is a process of finding out which ports are open on a particular hostor all hosts on a network. The first step in any intruder activity is usually to find outwhat services are running on a network. Once an intruder has found this information,attacks for known vulnerabilities for these services are tried. The portscan preprocessoris designed to detect port scanning activities. The preprocessor can be used to log theport scanning activities to a particular location in addition to standard logging. Hackerscan use multiple port scanning methods. Refer to man pages or documentation of thenmap utility (http://www.nmap.org/) to learn more about port scanning methods. Thenmap utility is a widely used tool for port scanning.The following is the general format of the preprocessor used in the snort.conffile.preprocessor portscan: