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Snort Setup Guides
Snort Setup Guides for Windows
WinSnort.com
Snort 3 Multiple Packet Threads Processing
Yaser Mansour
Snort 2.9.16.1 on CentOS8
Milad Rezaei
Snort 2.9.0.x with PF_RING inline deployment
Metaflows Google Group
Snort 2.9.9.x on OpenSuSE Leap 42.2
Boris Gomez
Snort Deployment Guides
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
RSyslog rate limiting configuration
William Parker
Snort Related Whitepapers
Target Based Stream Reassembly
Judy Novak
VRT Methodology Whitepaper
Vulnerability Research Team (VRT)
Inline Normalization using Snort 2.9.0
Russ Combs
Optimization of Pattern Matches for IDS
Marc Norton
Using Perfmon and Performance Profiling to Tune Snort Preprocessors and Rules
Steve Sturges
HTTP Evasions Revisited
Daniel Roelker
Target Based Fragmentation Reassembly
Judy Novak
Webcast Slides
Writing Effective Rules, Part I
Matt Olney
Performance Tuning: Rules & Preprocessors
Pimp My Snort
Leon Ward
Writing Effective Rules, Part II
Matt Olney
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
Introduction to Snort: Part 1
Nick Moore
OpenAppId Detection Webinar
Costas Kleopa
CONF files
snort.2091101.conf
Talos
classification.config
Talos
reference.config
Talos
Snort 3 Setup Guides
Snort 3.1.0.0 on OracleLinux 8
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 Ubuntu 18 & 20
Noah Dietrich
Snort 3 on FreeBSD 11
Yaser Mansour
Latest rule documents - Search
1-57253
This rule is looking for post-authentication file write attempts using the Microsoft Exchange server Set-OabVirtualDirectory commands.
1-57252
This rule is looking for post-authentication file write attempts using the Microsoft Exchange server Set-OabVirtualDirectory commands.
1-57251
This rule detects a request that leak a cert file which results in a CSRF token to be generated. The CSRF token then can be used to escalate privileges to an administrative account
1-57248
This rule is looking for a tell-tale string that identifies a malicious Windows binary as ColdChristmas ransomware.
1-57247
This rule is looking for a tell-tale string that identifies a malicious Windows binary as ColdChristmas ransomware.
1-57246
This rule detects an arbitrary file write attempt against vulnerable versions of Microsoft Exchange Server by looking for specific information supplied to a vulnerable cookie parameter.