[Bro] How does @prefixes = local work again?

Randolph Reitz rreitz at fnal.gov
Mon Aug 20 08:09:24 PDT 2007


Feeling empowered by having attended the recent BRO workshop, I  
decided I wanted to make a change to the scan.bro policy script.  I  
recall that I heard that I should not change any scripts in the /usr/ 
local/bro/policy directory.  Rather I should move the desired script  
to /usr/local/bro/site and change the name to local.scan.bro for  
example.  Having done this, when I start bro I get ...

[root at rhyolite ~]# /etc/init.d/bro start
bro.rc: Running as non-root user root
bro.rc: Starting ..........bro.rc: Failed to start Bro
/usr/local/bro/site/local.scan.bro, line 1: error: can't open scan
... FAILED

Hummm, looking at permissions in /usr/local/bro/site I see ...

[root at rhyolite rreitz]# ls -l /usr/local/bro/site
total 452
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      6 Apr 17 00:55 incident_counter
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  13639 Aug 20 09:37 local.scan.bro
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    464 Jul 24 00:42 local.site.bro
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   2026 Aug 14 14:49 rhyolite.fnal.gov.bro
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 424977 Aug  6 09:47 signatures.sig
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    926 Jul 25 11:06 watchdarknets.bro

The script /usr/local/bro/site/local.scan.bro begins with ...

[root at rhyolite ~]# head /usr/local/bro/site/local.scan.bro
# $Id: scan.bro 4613 2007-07-06 04:16:51Z vern $

@load notice
@load port-name
@load hot
@load trw-impl

redef enum Notice += {
         AddressDropped,         # connectivity w/ given address has  
been dropped
         AddressDropIgnored,     # a request to drop connectivity has  
been ignored


One more question.  In scan.bro I want to call a script that will  
create an event in Fermilab's issue tracker whenever a scanner is  
found.  I used the drop_connectivity_script variable to point to my  
script.  Will the system() call use the existing $PATH to find the  
script?  Should the script be in /usr/local/bro/scripts directory?

I'm using Bro Version 1.3.2.  My bro start policy looks like this...

[root at rhyolite ~]# cat /usr/local/bro/site/rhyolite.fnal.gov.bro
# $Id: local.lite.bro 1115 2005-03-20 06:51:11Z vern $

# This file is intended for host-specific Bro policy.

# What is host-specific?  It can be anything that is not the default
# after installation.  This is the place to make tweaks and changes
# to modify policy to suit your network environment and preferences.

# The following causes Bro to load local.XXX.bro anytime you
# "@load XXX" (along with first loading XXX.bro).
#
@prefixes = local

#@load brolite  # root policy which loads all other default policies.
#
# brolite is too much for this system to handle, copy initial part
# of brolite policy down to scan.
#
# General policy - these scripts are more infrastructural than service
# oriented, so in general avoid changing anything here.

@load site      # defines local and neighbor networks from static config
@load tcp       # initialize BPF filter for SYN/FIN/RST TCP packets
@load weird     # initialize generic mechanism for unusual events
@load conn      # access and record connection events
@load hot       # defines certain forms of sensitive access
@load frag      # process TCP fragments
@load print-resources   # on exit, print resource usage information

# Scan detection policy.
@load scan      # generic scan detection mechanism
# Do drop scanning addresses
redef can_drop_connectivity = T;
redef drop_connectivity_script = "tissue-event";
@load trw       # additional, more sensitive scan detection
#@load drop     # include if installation has ability to drop hostile  
remotes

# now add selected policies
@load notice
@load login
@load irc
@load irc-bot

# Record system statistics to the notice file
@load stats

# File generated by the network script for dynamic configuration of
# the local network subnets.
#@load site


# Make any changes to policy starting HERE:

# To run signatures, uncomment the following line.
#@load brolite-sigs

@ifdef ( use_signatures )
         # Load Bro signatures.  This is the default file containing Bro
         # signatures.
         redef signature_files += "signatures";
@endif


Thanks,
Randy




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