Creating a String TCP Engine Signature

Chapter 7 Defining Signatures

Creating Custom Signatures

•no—Removes an entry or selection setting.

•regex-string—Specifies a regular expression to search for in a single TCP packet.

•service-ports—Specifies the ports or port ranges where the target service may reside. The valid range is 0 to 65535. It is a separated list of integer ranges a-b[,c-d] within 0 to 65535. The second number in the range must be greater than or equal to the first number.

•specify-exact-match-offset {yes no}—(Optional) Enables exact match offset:

–exact-match-offset—Specifies the exact stream offset the regular expression string must report for a match to be valid. The value is 0 to 65535.

•specify-min-match-length {yes no}—(Optional) Enables minimum match length:

–min-match-length—Specifies the minimum number of bytes the regular expression string must match. The value is 0 to 65535.

•strip-telnet-options {true false}—Strips the Telnet option characters from the data before the pattern is searched.

•swap-attacker-victim {true false}—Swaps the attacker and victim addresses and ports (source and destination) in the alert message and in any actions taken. The default is false.

To create a signature based on the String TCP engine, follow these steps:

Step 1 Log in to the CLI using an account with administrator or operator privileges.

Step 2 Enter signature definition submode.

sensor# configure terminal

sensor(config)# service signature-definition sig1

Step 3 Specify a signature ID and subsignature ID for the signature. Custom signatures are in the range of 60000 to 65000.

sensor(config-sig)# signatures 60025 0

Step 4 Enter signature description submode.

sensor(config-sig-sig)# sig-description

Step 5 Specify a name for the new signature. You can also specify a additional comments about the sig using the sig-commentcommand or additional information about the signature using the sig-string-infocommand.

sensor(config-sig-sig-sig)# sig-name This is my new name

Step 6 Exit signature description submode.

sensor(config-sig-sig-sig)# exit

Step 7 Specify the string TCP engine.

sensor(config-sig-sig)# engine string-tcp

Step 8 Specify the service ports.

sensor(config-sig-sig-str)# service-ports 23

Step 9 Specify the direction.

sensor(config-sig-sig-str)# direction to-service

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