[Oisf-devel] File MD5 inconsistent checksums.

Nikolay Denev ndenev at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 06:27:35 UTC 2012


On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Nikolay Denev wrote:

> On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Nikolay Denev wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm seeing some strange behaviour while testing the filemd5 and md5 checksumming in general.
>> 
>> I have a server which serves a file over http and the server port on the switch is mirrored to a box running suricata.
>> 
>> I have the md5 of the file as it is on the server : c2ddef96c8a1aeddf316ff3cba37f318
>> When I do a curl download and pipe it to md5 the checksum matches.
>> 
>> :~ ndenev$ curl http://testserver.example.com/test.img | md5
>> % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>>                                Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>> 100  117k  100  117k    0     0  1744k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1933k
>> c2ddef96c8a1aeddf316ff3cba37f318
>> 
>> However the filemd5 rule I've created never matches, and files-json.log shows completely different checksums, which also are not consistent?
>> And the filesize too differs, and as I said the curl on the client machine gives the same md5 each time.
>> 
>> { "timestamp": "07\/12\/2012-07:56:15.944637", "ipver": 4, "srcip": "10.128.2.35", "dstip": "10.46.16.9", "protocol": 6, "sp": 80, "dp": 51135, "http_uri": "\/test.img", "http_host": "testserver.example.com", "http_referer": "<unknown>", "filename": "\/test.img", "magic": "ASCII text", "state": "CLOSED", "md5": "7890dc88c2f0f4d0706eef8bbfc33d75", "stored": false, "size": 4152 }
>> { "timestamp": "07\/12\/2012-07:56:25.033265", "ipver": 4, "srcip": "10.128.2.35", "dstip": "10.46.16.9", "protocol": 6, "sp": 80, "dp": 51136, "http_uri": "\/test.img", "http_host": "testserver.example.com", "http_referer": "<unknown>", "filename": "\/test.img", "magic": "ASCII text", "state": "CLOSED", "md5": "4b9fda98fbee8f4afea75b7b466b2e1a", "stored": false, "size": 3839 }
>> { "timestamp": "07\/12\/2012-07:56:30.232624", "ipver": 4, "srcip": "10.128.2.35", "dstip": "10.46.16.9", "protocol": 6, "sp": 80, "dp": 51138, "http_uri": "\/test.img", "http_host": "testserver.example.com", "http_referer": "<unknown>", "filename": "\/test.img", "magic": "ASCII text", "state": "CLOSED", "md5": "7890dc88c2f0f4d0706eef8bbfc33d75", "stored": false, "size": 4152 }
>> { "timestamp": "07\/12\/2012-07:56:35.410789", "ipver": 4, "srcip": "10.128.2.35", "dstip": "10.46.16.9", "protocol": 6, "sp": 80, "dp": 51140, "http_uri": "\/test.img", "http_host": "testserver.example.com", "http_referer": "<unknown>", "filename": "\/test.img", "magic": "ASCII text", "state": "CLOSED", "md5": "7890dc88c2f0f4d0706eef8bbfc33d75", "stored": false, "size": 4152 }
>> { "timestamp": "07\/12\/2012-07:56:39.225699", "ipver": 4, "srcip": "10.128.2.35", "dstip": "10.46.16.9", "protocol": 6, "sp": 80, "dp": 51142, "http_uri": "\/test.img", "http_host": "testserver.example.com", "http_referer": "<unknown>", "filename": "\/test.img", "magic": "ASCII text", "state": "CLOSED", "md5": "7890dc88c2f0f4d0706eef8bbfc33d75", "stored": false, "size": 4152 }
>> 
>> 
>> This is the latest entry in my stats.log :
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Date: 7/12/2012 -- 08:00:24 (uptime: 0d, 00h 11m 20s)
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Counter                   | TM Name                   | Value
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> tcp.sessions              | Detect                    | 11097
>> tcp.ssn_memcap_drop       | Detect                    | 0
>> tcp.pseudo                | Detect                    | 6762
>> tcp.invalid_checksum      | Detect                    | 22
>> tcp.no_flow               | Detect                    | 0
>> tcp.reused_ssn            | Detect                    | 0
>> tcp.memuse                | Detect                    | 72351744
>> tcp.syn                   | Detect                    | 11520
>> tcp.synack                | Detect                    | 10973
>> tcp.rst                   | Detect                    | 7998
>> tcp.segment_memcap_drop   | Detect                    | 0
>> tcp.stream_depth_reached  | Detect                    | 0
>> tcp.reassembly_memuse     | Detect                    | 156557860
>> tcp.reassembly_gap        | Detect                    | 3646
>> detect.alert              | Detect                    | 24
>> decoder.pkts              | RxPcapix01                | 7799419
>> decoder.bytes             | RxPcapix01                | 6619532090
>> decoder.ipv4              | RxPcapix01                | 7732780
>> decoder.ipv6              | RxPcapix01                | 181
>> decoder.ethernet          | RxPcapix01                | 7799419
>> decoder.raw               | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> decoder.sll               | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> decoder.tcp               | RxPcapix01                | 4036503
>> decoder.udp               | RxPcapix01                | 767312
>> decoder.sctp              | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> decoder.icmpv4            | RxPcapix01                | 1957
>> decoder.icmpv6            | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> decoder.ppp               | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> decoder.pppoe             | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> decoder.gre               | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> decoder.vlan              | RxPcapix01                | 15588470
>> decoder.avg_pkt_size      | RxPcapix01                | 849
>> decoder.max_pkt_size      | RxPcapix01                | 1518
>> defrag.ipv4.fragments     | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> defrag.ipv4.reassembled   | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> defrag.ipv4.timeouts      | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> defrag.ipv6.fragments     | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> defrag.ipv6.reassembled   | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> defrag.ipv6.timeouts      | RxPcapix01                | 0
>> flow_mgr.closed_pruned    | FlowManagerThread         | 9036
>> flow_mgr.new_pruned       | FlowManagerThread         | 3033
>> flow_mgr.est_pruned       | FlowManagerThread         | 4478
>> flow.memuse               | FlowManagerThread         | 5401024
>> flow.spare                | FlowManagerThread         | 10034
>> flow.emerg_mode_entered   | FlowManagerThread         | 0
>> flow.emerg_mode_over      | FlowManagerThread         | 0
> 
> I've now setup a rule to "filestore" the downloads so I can check them, and the stored files seem truncated.
> 
> Also files-json.log continues to log "stored: false" while the files are actually saved.
> 
> 

The file on the server is about 120K, but the saved files are about 4K.
Which also reminds me that I've never actually saw a file much bigger than a few KBs in my files dir.




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