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The Cyber Security Library
  • The Library
  • Offensive Security
    • Solar, Exploiting log4j
      • Reconnaissance
      • Discovery
      • Proof of Concept
      • Exploitation
    • Basic Authentication Bypass
      • Username Enumeration
      • Brute Force
      • Logic Flaw
      • Cookie Tampering
    • Insekube
      • Recon with Nmap
      • Checking out the web address
      • Creating a Reverse shell
      • Inside the Kubernetes pod
      • CVE-2021-43798
    • Snort
      • What is Snort? (For the uninitiated)
      • Task exercise
      • Traffic Generator
      • Brief overview of IDS and IPS
      • Checking Snort
      • Snort Sniffer mode
      • Packet Logger mode
    • Runtime Detection Evasion
      • Learning Objectives of AMSI
      • Runtime detections
      • AMSI Overview
      • AMSI Instrumentation
      • Powershell Downgrade
      • Powershell Reflection
      • Patching AMSI
    • Red team recon using OSINT
      • Taxonomy of Reconnaissance
      • Built-in tools
      • Advanced Searching
      • Specialized Search Engines
  • Malware
    • Introduction to Malware Analysis
      • What are the different types of malware analysis
      • Doing different types of analysis
      • Anti analysis techniques
    • Ransomeware: Maze
    • Exploring Steganography
    • Simple Trojan with Python
      • The Python Trojan
      • Breaking down the python code
  • Vulnerability Management
    • Nessus
      • Introduction
      • Nessus Essentials
      • Scans
      • Authenticated Scans
      • Results
      • Running custom scans
  • Cloud
    • AWS
      • AWS CDK: Deploy and using amazon SQS Que from Repo
        • Node modules and Bootstrapping troubleshooting
        • Sending and Receiving information from the stack
        • Destroying the stack and cleaning up
      • Using Different AWS Services with Splunk
        • AWS Config
          • How Does Config work?
          • How to enable Config
          • Settings
          • Aggregation
          • Creating Config Resource
          • Creating Aggregator
          • Adding Rules
        • CloudTrail
          • What is CloudTrail?
          • Features of CloudTrail
          • Benefits of CloudTrail
          • CloudTrail Event History
          • Securing CloudTrail
        • EventBridge
          • Configuring EventBridge and Event Patterns
          • EventBridge Targets
        • CloudWatch
          • The CloudWatch Dashboard
            • Virtual Machine
          • CloudWatch Alarms and Metric Filters
            • Searching logs using metric filters
            • CloudWatch Alarms
          • CloudWatch CIS Alarms
            • SNS
        • Configuring VPC Flow Logs
          • An introduction to VPC flow logs
        • Automating Incident Response with EventBridge
          • Creating Lambda functions
        • CloudTrail SIEM Integration (Splunk)
          • AWS architecture for integrating with Splunk
      • AWS DevOps EBS Volumes
        • CloudWatch
        • EBS Volume
        • Lambda
      • EKS Creating a deployment with AWS in the command Line
        • Setting up AWS Cloud9
        • Creating a Cluster
        • Creating Deployment
      • How to CloudShell SSH in to ec2 Instances
    • Azure
      • Worker CTF (Azure DevOps)
        • Enumeration
        • Using SVN
        • Exploring the Domain
        • Cracking Azure DevOps console
      • Software development environments and Azure DevOps pipeline abuse
        • Accessing Azure Devops
        • Exploring Project Pages
  • Splunk
    • Splunk SIEM Integration
      • AWS architecture for integrating with Splunk
    • Splunk Threat Hunting Ep.6 Credential Access
  • DevOps
    • Using AWS, Docker, Jenkins and SonarQube to improve code quality
      • Updating the Cloud Instance and Getting Docker
      • Installing SonarQube
      • Creating Jenkins Server
      • Manaing SonarQube and Jenkins
    • Creating a Codebuild project and getting the output with CloudWatch Logs
      • IAM
      • CodeBuild
  • CTF's
    • THM Wonderland
      • Nmap and Gobuster
      • Entering Wonderland
      • Privilege Escalation
    • Healthcare OpenEMR system -THM Plotted EMR
      • Recon with Nmap
      • Exploring the ports found
      • Gobuster
      • Searchsploit Open emr
    • Steam Cloud CTF Exploiting Kubernetes
      • SteamCloud Privilege Escalation
    • THM Flatline CTF
      • Recon with Nmap
      • Searchsploit for freeswitch
      • Using the exploit
      • Escalating my privileges
      • Gaining access inside the Windows RDP
    • Biteme CTF
      • Recon
      • Looking into the PHP code and decoding hexadecimal
      • Python script and Bash script
      • Bruteforcing MFA Code
      • Trying to gain access via SSH
      • Inside SSH
      • Fail2ban Privilege Escalation
    • Devoops CTF
      • Enumeration
      • Exploiting Web Page
      • Creating Python exploit
    • GoBox CTF
      • Enumeration
      • Using Burpsuite and creating Reverse shell
    • Explore: Android Box
      • Enumeration
      • Initial foothold
      • Privilege escalation
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Last updated 3 years ago

Here "-T" is used for testing configuration, and "-c" is identifying the configuration file (snort.conf). Note that it is possible to use an additional configuration file by pointing it with "-c".

Once we use a configuration file, snort becomes much more power! The configuration file is an all-in-one management file of the snort. Rules, plugins, detection mechanisms, default actions and output settings are identified here. It is possible to have multiple configuration files for different purposes and cases but can only use one at runtime.

Checking to see if snort is installed.
V / --version | This parameter provides information about the instance version
with sudo snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -T .. I can see also see information about the rules