[Bro] Bro programming intro

[Seth Hall]

On Mar 18, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Tritium Cat <tritium.cat at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to modify the SQL Injection detection in policy/protocols/http/detect-sqli.bro to include a vector that tracks the associated http request uids and includes them in an additional log field.  After getting it working I would like to apply it generally to other Notices such as SSH Password_Guessing.

The upcoming release actually results in this script getting rewritten a bit because of a rewrite of the metrics (now measurement) framework.  The new version actually keeps samples of the requests.  It will be relatively easy to write your own script that tracks uid's instead of urls but the benefit to sampling the urls is that if you have Bro send you email for the notice it will add those sample urls to the email (it's been very convenient for determining if something is a false positive without even searching logs).

Otherwise, with the metrics framework in 2.1 there isn't a good way to do it.

 .Seth

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