[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1410) tx_hosts and rx_hosts switched in files.log

Robin Sommer (JIRA) jira at bro-tracker.atlassian.net
Mon Jun 1 13:28:01 PDT 2015


     [ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1410?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Robin Sommer updated BIT-1410:
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    Fix Version/s: 2.4

> tx_hosts and rx_hosts switched in files.log
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIT-1410
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1410
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: Problem
>          Components: Bro
>         Environment: Linux Ubuntu 
>            Reporter: Ali Hadi
>            Priority: High
>              Labels: analyzer
>             Fix For: 2.4
>
>
> Hi,
> _Based on Robin's request I opened this ticket.
> _
> If you use the PCAP below and analyze it using Bro:
> https://www.bro.org/static/traces/email.pcap
> Then when checking the files.log, the tx_hosts is supposed to show the host who transmitted the file, and rx_hosts is for the host who received the file based on Bro's documentation: https://www.bro.org/sphinx-git/scripts/base/frameworks/files/main.bro.html
> If you do the following:
> cat files.log | bro-cut fuid tx_hosts rx_hosts | grep <ID OF THE LEAKED PDF FILE>
> You'll get that the TX Host IP (SrcIP) is 192.168.121.176 and not 192.168.121.179 !!!
> It seems that Bro switched their positions in the output. I found this in an assignment given to my students, and one of them gave me a result completely different. So when I double checked with Wireshark, I found that the IPs have been switched by Bro.
> Hope this helps.
> Ali



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