Documents

The following setup guides have been contributed by members of the Snort Community for your use. Comments and questions on these documents should be submitted directly to the author by clicking on their names below.

Snort 3 Setup Guides
Rules Writers Guide to Snort 3 Rules
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3 on FreeBSD 11
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3 Multiple Packet Threads Processing
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3.0.0-a4 on OpenSuSe 42.3
Boris Gomez
Snort 3.1.0.0 on CentOS Stream
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3.1.0.0 on OracleLinux 8
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3.1.0.0 on Ubuntu 18 & 20
Noah Dietrich
Snort Deployment Guides
RSyslog rate limiting configuration
William Parker
Snort IPS using DAQ AFPacket
Yaser Mansour
Snort IPS Tutorial
Vladimir Koychev
Changing from IDS to IPS with NFQueue
James Lay
How to make some Home Routers mirror traffic to Snort
William Parker
Snort Related Whitepapers
Inline Normalization using Snort 2.9.0
Russ Combs
Target Based Stream Reassembly
Judy Novak
Using Perfmon and Performance Profiling to Tune Snort Preprocessors and Rules
Steve Sturges
HTTP Evasions Revisited
Daniel Roelker
Target Based Fragmentation Reassembly
Judy Novak
VRT Methodology Whitepaper
Vulnerability Research Team (VRT)
Optimization of Pattern Matches for IDS
Marc Norton
Snort Setup Guides
Snort Setup Guides for Windows
WinSnort.com
Snort 2.9.9.x on OpenSuSE Leap 42.2
Boris Gomez
Snort 2.9.16.1 on CentOS8
Milad Rezaei
Snort 2.9.0.x with PF_RING inline deployment
Metaflows Google Group
Webcast Slides
Introduction to Snort: Part 1
Nick Moore
Pimp My Snort
Leon Ward
Writing Effective Rules, Part II
Matt Olney
Performance Tuning: Rules & Preprocessors
Writing Effective Rules, Part I
Matt Olney
OpenAppId Detection Webinar
Costas Kleopa
Effective Problem Reporting: How to Get Your Problems Noticed and Fixed
Intro to Snort
Ed Mendez
Using the Host Attribute Table in Snort
OpenAppId Community Webinar
Costas Kleopa
Snort Tuning 101
Nick Moore
Using Multiconfig
John Gay
Open Source Community Webinar
Joel Esler
Latest rule documents - Search
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Buffer overflow in Lotus Domino Mail Server 5.0.5 and earlier allows a remote attacker to crash the server or execute arbitrary code via a long "RCPT TO" command.
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This event is generated when SMTP_SPECIFIC_CMD_OVERFLOW is detected by Snort's preprocessor.
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This rule detects the communication of APT41 backdoor IPsecHelper with its CnC
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This rule detects the communication of APT41 backdoor IPsecHelper with its CnC
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This rule detects the communication of APT41 backdoor IPsecHelper with its CnC
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This rule detects outbound requests to a Bazaloader CNC that may be used to exfiltrate data from an already compromised machine. Networks that that see hosts issue this request may be infected with Bazaloader malware.