NAME¶

u2spewfoo - tool for dumping the contents of unified2 files to stdout

SYNOPSIS¶

u2boat <infile>

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the u2spewfoo command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

u2spewfoo is a lightweight tool for dumping the contents of Snort's Unified2 log files to stdout. In order to use it Snort first has to be configured to use this format in its configuration file.

The tool will take the log file and dump the information on the events in Standard output. This information includes the event and relevant information about it (such as IP addresses and ports, the time the event was detected, etc.) as well as the packet that triggered the event (if Snort has been configured to store a packet capture associated with events).

EXAMPLES¶

To use it run it against a unified2 log file by running: u2spewfoo snort.log

The following is a sample output of this tool:

(Event)


    sensor id: 0    event id: 4 event second: 1299698138    event microsecond: 146591


    sig id: 1   gen id: 1   revision: 0  classification: 0


    priority: 0 ip source: 10.1.2.3 ip destination: 10.9.8.7


    src port: 60710 dest port: 80   protocol: 6 impact_flag: 0  blocked: 0
Packet


    sensor id: 0    event id: 4 event second: 1299698138


    packet second: 1299698138   packet microsecond: 146591


    linktype: 1 packet_length: 54
[    0] 02 09 08 07 06 05 02 01 02 03 04 05 08 00 45 00  ..............E.
[   16] 00 28 00 06 00 00 40 06 5C B7 0A 01 02 03 0A 09  .(....@........
[   32] 08 07 ED 26 00 50 00 00 00 62 00 00 00 2D 50 10  ...&.P...b...-P.
[   48] 01 00 A2 BB 00 00                                ......
(ExtraDataHdr)


    event type: 4   event length: 33
(ExtraData)


    sensor id: 0    event id: 2 event second: 1299698138


    type: 9 datatype: 1 bloblength: 9   HTTP URI: /
(ExtraDataHdr)


    event type: 4   event length: 78
(ExtraData)


    sensor id: 0    event id: 2 event second: 1299698138


    type: 10    datatype: 1 bloblength: 12  HTTP Hostname: example.com

SEE ALSO¶

snort (8)

AUTHOR¶

This program was written by Adam Keeton.

This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).