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 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
1-56966
This rule triggers if an HTTP request is detected being sent to a cnc server from a Win.Trojan.IceId variant.
1-56965
This rule alerts when an attempt to download an executable matching ClamAV signature Win.Malware.Kovter-9822841-0 is detected
1-56964
This rule alerts when an attempt to download an executable matching ClamAV signature Win.Malware.Kovter-9822841-0 is detected
1-56952
This rule alerts when an attempt to download an executable matching ClamAV signature Win.Packed.Medfos-9822521-0 is detected
1-56951
This rule alerts when an attempt to download an executable matching ClamAV signature Win.Packed.Medfos-9822521-0 is detected
1-56949
This rule alerts when an attempt to download an executable matching ClamAV signature Win.Malware.Stantinko-9822477-0 is detected