[Bro] Conn log shows massive file transfer inbetween normal browsing

Azoff, Justin S jazoff at illinois.edu
Wed May 16 14:15:58 PDT 2018


> On May 16, 2018, at 4:54 PM, Eric Hacecky <hacecky at jlab.org> wrote:
> 
> Justin,
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
>> You can figure out how high it needs to be based on how frequently you are seeing that connection logged.
> 
> Here are some more of the logs (chopped down for readability).  You can see there are multiple "large transfers" in a small time window, less than 5 minutes.  Does this mean setting the window higher isn't going to make a difference since I'm already seeing connections more frequently than 5 minutes?
> 
> 4:38:33.098 PM	-  10.10.10.10	63962	20.20.20.20	443	tcp	-	0.015809	73288814	0	S0
> 4:38:31.815 PM	-  10.10.10.10	63951	20.20.20.20	443	tcp	-	0.015764	1834934747	0	S0
> 4:38:31.565 PM	-  10.10.10.10	63949	20.20.20.20	443	tcp	-	0.015718	616216164	0	S0
> 4:38:28.952 PM	-  10.10.10.10	64031	20.20.20.20	443	tcp	-	3.014994	1213244309	0	S0
> 4:38:28.701 PM	-  10.10.10.10	64028	20.20.20.20	443	tcp	-	3.023816	1777413339	0	S0
> 4:38:28.329 PM	-  10.10.10.10	64024	20.20.20.20	443	TCP_ack_underflow_or_misorder	-	F	worker-2
> 4:38:28.313 PM	-  10.10.10.10	64024	20.20.20.20	443	tcp	-	3.017128	0	0	S0
> 4:38:28.272 PM	-  10.10.10.10	64022	20.20.20.20	443	TCP_ack_underflow_or_misorder	-	F	worker-2
> 4:38:28.257 PM	-  10.10.10.10	64022	20.20.20.20	443	tcp	-	3.010362	0	0	S0

hmm, that is showing 7 different tcp source ports, so this wouldn't be the same connection.  If you search for 63949 do you find earlier matches?

> 
> I included the tcp_ack_underflow_or_misorder from weird log too in case that sheds any light.
> 
> -Eric

It's probably realted..

— 
Justin Azoff




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