[Oisf-devel] filemd5?

Josh White josh at securemind.org
Thu Feb 16 14:51:08 UTC 2012


Victor,

That's great, we can do known MW matching with md5sum's this way. Very
useful!

Josh

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Victor Julien <victor at inliniac.net> wrote:

> So I guess the best development happens when you're actually doing
> boring stuff and you allow yourself to spend 30 minutes on a hunch. Of
> course the 30 minutes becomes a couple of hours, but who cares :)
>
> Anyway, the hunch here was integrating libnss' md5 calculation code into
> the Suricata file inspection/extraction code, calculating the md5
> checksum of files on the fly.
>
> Turns out it works and at decent speeds too. In a test pcap I extract
> 8393 files in 16.9 seconds. With md5 on the fly it's 17.6 seconds.
> Sounds acceptable, no?
>
> Right now all I have is writing the md5 to the .meta file, like so:
>
> TIME:              10/02/2009-21:35:10.556990
> PCAP PKT NUM:      6225
> SRC IP:            61.191.61.40
> DST IP:            192.168.2.7
> PROTO:             6
> SRC PORT:          80
> DST PORT:          1091
> FILENAME:          /ww/aa7.exe
> MAGIC:             PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
> STATE:             CLOSED
> MD5:               e148eaaadceecb2e3e25fd25809cb5db
> SIZE:              25712
>
> But obviously this needs to be made available to the rule language. I
> was thinking a simple filemd5 keyword to start, allowing matching on
> single md5's. But the real value is probably in a keyword that allows
> you to check an entire db of md5's all at once. I'm sure there are ppl
> sitting on large collections of known bad md5.
>
> Does this all make sense? Any other ideas?
>
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