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HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System Administrator’s Guide
Manufacturing Part Number J5083-90013 December
Warranty
Government License
Trademarks
Iii
Conventions
Contents
System Manager Screen
Schedule Manager Screen
Network Node Screen
Host Manager Screen
Vii
Templates and Alerts
Preferences Screen
Viii
Idsagent Command
Idsadmin Command
Automated Response
Agent Configuration File
Messages
Troubleshooting
HP Software License
Original SSLeay License HP Software License Terms
Xii
Overview
Summary
Documentation
Why Do You Need Intrusion Detection?
Loss of Financial Assets
Loss of Intellectual Property
Loss of Computing Resources
Who Are the Perpetrators?
How Are These Threats Realized?
Misplaced Trust
Malicious Code
Why Existing Tools Are Only Part of the Solution
Excessive Privilege for Simple Tasks
Being Used as a Springboard to Attack the Next Victim
Firewalls
Encryption
Security Auditing Tools
Where Does Intrusion Detection Fit In?
What Is Intrusion Detection?
What HP-UX Hids Does
What HP-UX Hids Does Not Do
HP-UX Hids Components
Graphic Representation
How the Components Interact to Detect Intrusions
HP-UX Hids Components
HP-UX Hids Secure Communications
Detection Templates
Surveillance Groups
Surveillance Schedules
Glossary of HP-UX Hids Terms
Intrusion Detection Data
Intrusion Detection System
Kernel
Node
Virus
System Manager
Vulnerability
Glossary of HP-UX Hids Terms Chapter
Configuration
Configuration
Required
Introduction
Optional
Setting Up the HP-UX Hids Secure Communications
Overview of Procedures to Set Up Secure Communications
Script to Use Where Used End Product
Create the X.509 Certificates
$ IDSgenAdminKeys install
$ IDSgenAgentCerts
TIP
Transport the Certificates
Install the Keys on Each Host
$ IDSimportAgentKeys /var/opt/ids/tmp/myhost1.tar.Z myadmin
Configuring a Multihomed Agent System
Step
Example
$ nslookup large2
Configuring a Multihomed Administration System
To configure a multihomed administration system
Edit the agent configuration file for example
Configuring a Loopback System
To configure a loopback system
Working with NIS
Configuring Ports
Working with Firewalls
Enabling Large Numbers of Agents
Enabling Over 23 Agents Thread Limits
To change the value of maxthreadproc
Select Kernel Configuration Select Configurable Parameters
Enabling Over 20 Inbound Requests
To view and change the value of tcpconnrequestmax
Accessing Manpages
Restricting Permissions
Runtime File Permissions
Files Permissions
Accessing Manpages Chapter
Getting Started
Getting Started
Agents
System Manager
Set up hosts and run schedules
Starting HP-UX Hids for the First Time
See , Host Manager Screen, on
Operations Screens
Schedule Manager
Host Manager
Network Node
Basic Screen Actions
Selecting Entries in Lists
Searching Entries
Sorting Entries
Basic Screen Actions Chapter
System Manager Screen
System Manager Screen
System Manager Screen
Starting the HP-UX Hids System Manager
Stopping the HP-UX Hids System Manager
To start the HP-UX Hids System Manager
To stop the HP-UX Hids System Manager
Status Field Values
On the System Manager Screen
Status Value Description
To get the status of agent hosts
Getting the Status of Agent Hosts
On the System Manager screen
Resynchronizing Agent Hosts
To resynchronize agent hosts
To activate a surveillance schedule on agent hosts
Activating a Schedule on Agent Hosts
Choose the Actions Activate Schedule menu item
Stopping Schedules on Agent Hosts
To stop a surveillance schedule on agent hosts
Starting HP-UX Hids Agents
To start the agent
To halt agents remotely from the System Manager
Halting HP-UX Hids Agents
To halt the agent locally on the agent host
Accessing Other Screens
Go to Schedule Manager Screen
Go to Host Manager Screen
To go to the Schedule Manager screen
Go to Preferences Screen
Go to Network Node Screen
Return to System Manager Screen
Accessing Other Screens Chapter
Schedule Manager Screen
Schedule Manager Screen
Schedule Manager
Creating a Surveillance Schedule
To create a surveillance schedule
Displaying the Schedule Manager Screen
Closing the Schedule Manager Screen
To display the Schedule Manager screen
To close the Schedule Manager screen
Configuring Surveillance Schedules
Creating a New Surveillance Schedule
Copying a Surveillance Schedule
To create a new surveillance schedule
Modifying a Surveillance Schedule
To modify a surveillance schedule
To rename a surveillance schedule
Renaming a Surveillance Schedule
Choose File Save Selected Schedule As
Undoing and Redoing Changes
Deleting a Surveillance Schedule
To delete a surveillance schedule
To save a surveillance schedule
Saving a Surveillance Schedule
Choose File Save Selected Schedule
Configuring Surveillance Groups
Creating a New Surveillance Group
Copying a Surveillance Group
To create a new surveillance group
Modifying a Surveillance Group
To modify a surveillance group
Rename Surveillance Group Dialog
Renaming a Surveillance Group
To rename a surveillance group
Saving a Surveillance Group
Deleting a Surveillance Group
To delete a surveillance group
Modifying a Property Value In a Template
Configuring Detection Templates
To change the value of a property in a detection template
Edit List Dialog
To add a new value
Suggested Best Practices
11Edit Dialog Edit
Some Template Configuration Guidelines
Setting Surveillance Schedule Timetables
Specifying When a Schedule Will Run
To specify when a schedule will run
Canceling Changes
See Saving a Surveillance Schedule on
Viewing Surveillance Schedule Details
Viewing the Source of a Surveillance Schedule
Refreshing the Details Display
To view the source of a surveillance schedule
Clearing the Details Display
Saving the Details Display
Save Dialog
To clear the display
Predefined Surveillance Schedules and Groups
Predefined Surveillance Schedules
Predefined Surveillance Schedules
Host Manager Screen
Host Manager Screen
Managing Hosts
Displaying the Host Manager Screen
Closing the Host Manager Screen
Adding New Hosts
Adding a New Host Manually
Add Host Dialog
To add a new host manually
Address field
Host Name
IP Address
Adding New Hosts from /etc/hosts
Name field
Host Name and IP Address
To add new hosts from /etc/hosts
Adding New Hosts from a File
Rules for Host Lists Files
Open Dialog
To add new hosts from a file
Modifying a Host
To modify a host entry
Deleting Hosts
To delete a host entry
To enable or disable an agent host for monitoring
Enabling and Disabling Hosts
Managing Tags
Add, modify or delete tags To add a tag
To edit a tag
To delete a tag
Saving the Host List in the Current File
Maintaining Host Files
Saving the Host List in a Different File
Using an Alternate Host List File
Using Multiple Host Files
Maintaining Host Files Chapter
Network Node Screen
100
Network Node Screen
Opening a Network Node Screen
Closing a Network Node Screen
To display the Network Node screen for an agent host
Alerts Tab
102
HP-UX Hids Alerts What They Mean, What to Do
HP-UX Hids Errors What They Mean, What to Do
Errors Tab
104
General Operations
Selecting Entries
Selecting with the Mouse
Simple Version
Searching for a String
Searching for the Next Unseen Entry
Find Dialog
To delete one or more alerts or errors
Deleting an Entry
Marking Entries as Seen or Unseen
To search again
Unseen
108
Saving a Log File Set
Network Node screen from the System Manager screen
Saving the Current Log File Set
Saving a New Log File Set
Save Dialog Box
Press Ctrl-A
Example Creating a New File Set
Example Saving the File Set over Another File Set
Log File Rotation
Opening a Log File Set
Open Dialog Box
112
Preferences Screen
114
Preferences Screen
Option Default Description
General Preferences
To choosing Actions Status Poll from the System Manager
116
Actions Resync from the System Manager screen
Column Name Default Description
Browser Preferences
Alert Events Preferences
118
Error Events Preferences
Column Default Description Name
System Manager Subtab
120
Templates and Alerts
Alerts
Limitations
Property Types
Templates
Table A-1 Detection Templates
Alert Summary
Attack Detected Alert Alert Severity Detection Template
124
Appendix a 125
Examples
Unix Regular Expressions
126
Appendix a 127
Limitations
128
Template Property Types
Type I Pathnames to Not Monitor
Type II Pathnames/Programs Pairs
130
Type III UIDs
Type IV UID Pairs
Type VI Time Strings
Type V Network Triplets
132
Type VII Flags
Type Viii Scalars
Buffer Overflow Template
134
Name Type Default Value
Execute on Stack
Table A-2 Template Properties
Table A-3 Execute on Stack Alert Properties
136
Unusual Argument Length
Table A-4 Unusual Argument Length Alert Properties
Argument with Non-printable Character
138
Appendix a 139
140
Race Condition Template
Table A-6 Template Properties
Table A-7 File Reference Modification Alert Properties
File Reference Modification
142
Appendix a 143
Table A-8 Setuid Script Executed Alert Properties
Privileged Setuid Script Executed
144
Appendix a 145
Table A-9 Template Properties
Modification of Files/Directories Template
146
Properties
148
File Being Modified
Table A-10 File Being Modified Alert Properties
150
Appendix a 151
Table A-11 Template Properties
Changes to Log File Template
152
Append-Only File Being Modified
Table A-12 Append-Only File Being Modified Alert Properties
154
Creation of Setuid File Template
Table A-13 Template Properties
Alerts generated
By this template
Table A-14 Setuid File Created Alert Properties
Setuid File Created
156
Appendix a 157
Table A-15 Template Properties
Creation of World-Writable File Template
158
World-Writable File Created
Table A-16 World-writable File Created Alert Properties
160
Appendix a 161
162
Modification of Another User’s File Template
Table A-17 Template Properties
Table A-18 Non-owned File Being Modified Alert Properties
Non-owned File Being Modified
164
Appendix a 165
Limitations 166
Login/Logout Template
Table A-19 Template Properties
168
Login/Logout
Table A-20 Login/Logout Alert Properties
Table A-21 Successful su Detected Alert Properties
Successful su Detected
170
Appendix a 171
172
Table A-22 Template Properties
Repeated Failed Logins Template
Template How this template
Table A-23 Failed Login Attempts Alert Properties
Failed Login Attempts
174
Appendix a 175
Repeated Failed su Commands Template
Repeated Failed su Attempts
Table A-24 Template Properties
Table A-25 Repeated Failed Su Attempts Alert Properties
Appendix a 177
Template Configuration Syntax
178
Appendix a 179
180
Automated Response
182
General Guidelines
Response Methods
184
How Automated Response Works in HP-UX Hids
Alert Process
Security checks
Programming Notes
Table B-1 Additional Arguments Passed to Response Programs
186
Appendix B 187
Name Value Description
Table B-3 Environment Variables Set for Response Programs
188
Appendix B 189
Programming Guidelines
Writing Perl vs. Shell Response Scripts
Writing Privileged Response Programs
190
Code Examples
Solution a
Code for scriptA.sh
Solution B
Code for privA program
Code for PrivB program
192
Solution C
Code for scriptC.sh script #!/usr/bin/sh
Code for privC program
194
Sample C Language Program Source Code
Sample Response Programs
Sample Shell Script Alert Responses
Forwarding Information
196
Appendix B 197
Halting any further attacks
198
Appendix B 199
Preservation of evidence
200
Appendix B 201
Restoration of a known good state
202
OVO Enablement in HP-UX Hids
HP OpenView Operations Smart Plug-In
204
Idsagent Command
206
Idsagent Command
Synopsis Options
Example
208
Idsadmin Command
210
Idsadmin Command
Synopsis Startup Options
Commands
212
Agent Configuration File
214
Agent Configuration File
Forcing Active Agent to Reread Configuration File
Name Default Value
Global Configuration
Table E-1 Global Configuration Variables
216
Data Source Process Configuration
Kernel Audit Data DSP
Table E-2
DSP idskernDSP Parameters
218
Table E-3
Remote Communication Configuration
Correlator Configuration Variables
220
Messages
222
Agent Messages
Idsagent failed to reopen stderr in append mode
Idsagent internal error in handling signature groups
Idsagent failed to initialize configuration module
Idsagent failed to start group
Idsagent unable to setup Sigchld signal handler
Idsagent unable to setup Sighup signal handler
Idsagent unable to setup signal handler
Idsagent unable to setup Sigsegv signal handler
Idsagent error trying to shutdown a process
Idsagent failed to allocate memory
Idsagent failed to create schedule path filename
Idsagent failed to execute correlator corr
Idsagent internal error no correlator in PMStartProcesses
Idsagent internal error occurred in PMStopGroup
Idsagent failed to initialize schedule
Idsagent failed to initialize schedule in crontab
Idsagent not enough disk space to create schedule
Idsagent not enough disk space to parse schedule
Idsagent not enough disk space to save config file
Idsagent out of process table space
Internal error unknown state
Internal error
Unable to open the response script directory dir
System Manager Messages
Exception while opening file filename File Save Error
Incomplete or Invalid Entry Data Entry Error
Invalid Host State Unable to disable host
Invalid Property Value value Property Value Error
No more instances of searchstring found Find Error
Only one property may be edited at a time Selection Error
Searchstring not found Find Error
Select Property to be edited Selection Error
Select Surveillance Group Name to delete Selection Error
Select Surveillance Group to copy Selection Error
Select Surveillance Schedule to copy Selection Error
Select Surveillance Schedule to delete Selection Error
Surveillance Schedule not selected Schedule Selection Error
Following hosts are in an invalid state for this command
Unable to Overwrite filename File Save Error
234
Unknown Host unable to resolve IP Address IPaddress
Unknown IP Address unable to resolve Host Name
236
Troubleshooting
238
Appendix G 239
Agent and System Manager cannot communicate with each other
Troubleshooting
240
Agent does not start on system boot
$ /usr/sbin/kmtune -q enableidds
Agent needs further troubleshooting
To clean up the IDS message queues
Agent host appears to hang and/or you see message disk full
242
Agent does not start after installation
Agents appear to be stuck in polling status
Alert date/time sort seems inconsistent
Alerts are not being displayed in the alert browser
Idsadmin needs installed agent certificates
Buffer overflow triggers false positives
Duplicate alerts appear in System Manager
244
IDScheckInstall fails with a kmtune error
IDSgenAdminKeys or idsgui quits early
Large files in /var/opt/ids
Log files are filling up
No Agent Available
246
SSH does not perform a clean exit after idsgent is started
Schedule Manager timetable screen appears to hang
System Manager does not start after idsgui is started
System Manager appears to hang
248
Unknown program and arguments in certain alert messages
Using HP-UX Hids with IPFilter and SecureShell
IPFilter rules for HP-UX Hids
How to allow the SecureShell daemon to forward X11 traffic
250
Appendix G 251
252
HP Software License
Appendix H 253
OpenSSL License
254
Original SSLeay License
Appendix H 255
256
HP Software License Terms
258
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