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IPS not dropping traffic despite custom "drop" rule ID (id="2101")

alan weir

I have a lot of IPS alerts lately originating from and going to my DNS server (192.168.1.X). I have created a custom rule to block, alert the attacks for the ID but the IPS is still only warning of the intrusion.

My DNS server is not listening from the internet (no DNAT rule is setup in the firewall to forward port 53 to the DNS server)

2023:04:02-11:25:03 XX snort[4955]: id="2101" severity="warn" sys="SecureNet" sub="ips" name="Intrusion protection alert" action="alert" reason="PROTOCOL-DNS TMG Firewall Client long host entry exploit attempt" group="241" srcip="91.189.91.139" dstip="192.168.1.X" proto="17" srcport="53" dstport="64024" sid="19187" class="Attempted User Privilege Gain" priority="1" generator="1" msgid="0"

2023:04:01-00:17:16 mysophosutm snort[11680]: id="2101" severity="warn" sys="SecureNet" sub="ips" name="Intrusion protection alert" 
action="drop" reason="INDICATOR-COMPROMISE Suspicious .top dns query" group="241" srcip="192.168.1.X" dstip="192.5.5.241" proto="17" 
srcport="53376" dstport="53" sid="43687" class="Misc activity" priority="3" generator="1" msgid="0"

Here, is the screenshot of the alerts with the rule ID in the IPS manual rule modification. These alerts began a few days ago, and I enabled "add extra warnings" for the DNS server setting in the IPS and now these alerts have come up.



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    I'm a little confused, Alan - I thought all Snort IDs were 5 digits.

    The first IPS log line is a response from a name server, ns3.canonical.com.

    The second looks like a request for an IP for a *.top FQDN from one of the root name servers.

    But, I think you know all of that - maybe time for a second cup of coffee before starting work in the morning? Wink

    Cheers - Bob

     
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  • 0 in reply to BAlfson

    I see....the snort rule is sid="43687".

    I thought the ID was the snort rule. The logs don't say what Sort rule was detected but after I searched the database for it. So you learn something new every day.

    snort.org/.../1-43687

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