[Oisf-users] Suricata 1.4 Meta Files and Data Files produced from File Extraction

Victor Julien lists at inliniac.net
Tue Jun 11 07:17:01 UTC 2013


On 06/10/2013 08:55 PM, Vincent Fang wrote:
> Ok that's good to know. I found one oddity with the file extraction with
> magic and md5 hash enabled in the Suricata.yaml file and I'm not sure if
> it's a bug or an issue on my end.
> 
> The alert signature looks like this
> 
> alert ip any any -> any any (msg:"file store all"; filestore; sid:5;)
> 
> and I examined all the meta and data files in the files directory
> /usr/local/var/log/suricata/files
> 
> and I ran the linux command after observing all meta data files had 16 lines
> 
> wc -l *.meta | grep -v 16
> 
> and I came across one meta file that only had 12 lines that was missing
> the last 4 lines MAGIC, STATE, MD5, and SIZE. The pcap file I was
> running Suricata against in offline mode was me visiting a
> businessweek.com <http://businessweek.com> site. Does anyone know why
> this oddity would have occurred?

Can you (privately) share this pcap?

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