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 Setup Guides
Snort 3.0.3 on CentOS8
Yaser Mansour
Snort 2.9.0.x with PF_RING inline deployment
Metaflows Google Group
Snort 3 on Ubuntu 18 & 19
Noah Dietrich
Snort 3.0.0-a4 on OpenSuSe 42.3
Boris Gomez
Snort 2.9.9.x on OpenSuSE Leap 42.2
Boris Gomez
Snort Setup Guides for Windows
WinSnort.com
Snort 2.9.16.1 on CentOS8
Milad Rezaei
Snort 3 on FreeBSD 11
Yaser Mansour
Snort Deployment Guides
Snort IPS Tutorial
Vladimir Koychev
How to make some Home Routers mirror traffic to Snort
William Parker
RSyslog rate limiting configuration
William Parker
Changing from IDS to IPS with NFQueue
James Lay
Snort IPS using DAQ AFPacket
Yaser Mansour
Snort Related Whitepapers
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
Target Based Stream Reassembly
Judy Novak
Inline Normalization using Snort 2.9.0
Russ Combs
Webcast Slides
Using the Host Attribute Table in Snort
Intro to Snort
Ed Mendez
Effective Problem Reporting: How to Get Your Problems Noticed and Fixed
Using Multiconfig
John Gay
OpenAppId Detection Webinar
Costas Kleopa
Writing Effective Rules, Part II
Matt Olney
Introduction to Snort: Part 1
Nick Moore
Performance Tuning: Rules & Preprocessors
Open Source Community Webinar
Joel Esler
Pimp My Snort
Leon Ward
Writing Effective Rules, Part I
Matt Olney
OpenAppId Community Webinar
Costas Kleopa
Snort Tuning 101
Nick Moore
CONF files
classification.config
Talos
reference.config
Talos
snort.2091101.conf
Talos
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1-56892
This rule looks for communication related to BASICPIPESHELL
1-56891
This rule looks for communication related to BASICPIPESHELL
1-56890
This rule will look for patterns used in the malicious BumbleBee webshell when any access attempt to is detected in the local network. This webshell allows an attacker to control a remote windows server with the execution of commands and the upload and download of files.
1-56889
This rule will look for patterns used in the malicious BumbleBee webshell when any access attempt to is detected in the local network. This webshell allows an attacker to control a remote windows server with the execution of commands and the upload and download of files.
1-56888
This rule will look for patterns used in the malicious BumbleBee webshell when any access attempt to is detected in the local network. This webshell allows an attacker to control a remote windows server with the execution of commands and the upload and download of files.
1-56887
This rule will look for patterns used in the malicious BumbleBee webshell when any access attempt to is detected in the local network. This webshell allows an attacker to control a remote windows server with the execution of commands and the upload and download of files.