[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1427) rare SSH successful login heuristic FPs
Vern Paxson (JIRA)
jira at bro-tracker.atlassian.net
Sat Jun 20 11:30:00 PDT 2015
Vern Paxson created BIT-1427:
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Summary: rare SSH successful login heuristic FPs
Key: BIT-1427
URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1427
Project: Bro Issue Tracker
Issue Type: Problem
Components: Bro
Affects Versions: 2.3
Reporter: Vern Paxson
During a bruteforce attack that made 27M attempted logins, 2 were flagged as successful by one instance of Bro monitoring the traffic, but not by another running an identical config on the same traffic stream. I wasn't able to reproduce the FPs from bulk traces of the event. Both instances were associated with two Weirds, "SYN_after_close" and "excessive_data_without_further_acks" that were otherwise quite rare in the traffic. This suggests that there's a flaw in the heuristic whereby it's analyzing traffic streams that have confused state. Perhaps an adequate fix is to track whether a given flow has experienced those Weirds, and if so, don't apply the heuristic to it.
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