Suricata difficult matching of rules in evebox to categories

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#1

When looking at alerts in evebox, the rules have a Signature, Category and Signature ID. However neither the category names in the web admin interface of nethserver nor the names in /etc/pulledpork/dropsid.conf are matching these names exactly. There are only similar names, and it it a very difficult to match these, if you want to disable categories or rules.

Is there any means to match these items? How can I identify, which names to use in the web admin interface and in *sid.conf files?

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#2

@support_team Can anybody help here?

#3

@jfernandez @Jclendineng @filippo_carletti @mark_nl can help here @mrmarkuz

#4

In general it’s the word after ET shown in the signature.

ET SCAN refers to Scan in the web UI, ET POLICY refers to Policy and so on.

Only exception I found is ET CINS for CIArmy.

You can see the rule category names in /etc/suricata/rules/*.rules or here.

http://docs.nethserver.org/en/v7/suricata.html
http://docs.nethserver.org/projects/nethserver-devel/en/latest/nethserver-pulledpork.html

Please note that it’s not necessary to edit /etc/pulledpork/dropsid.conf manually as using the web UI will overwrite your changes. If you really need some special config you need to use a custom template for templated files.

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