Installing a GUI for Snort

**sark_89** · 2013-08-13

Hi all!

This is my first post on this forum!

I've been using Kali for a few weeks now and love it! I've been playing with snort and read an article online about different GUI's for snort. Sounds interesting. So I tried to install a few different ones but I had no joy with it. (I tried Snorby and Base). My question is, has anyone else been able to get a GUI for snort going on Kali? If so what are your thoughts on the GUI compared to using the command line and did you use an online tutorial on how to install a GUI?

Thanks in advance guys!
Really hope I've got this in the right part of the forum!

Sark.

**Rocketballz** · 2013-08-17

First you need to go to this website and download the source code http://www.snort.org/snort-downloads. Then open the terminal and enter these commands..

cd /usr/src

wget -O snort-2.8.6.1.tar.gz http://www.snort.org/downloads/116

tar xvzf snort-2.8.6.1.tar.gz

You need this as well dev packages of libpcap and libpcre
# apt-cache policy libpcap0.8-dev
libpcap0.8-dev:
Installed: 1.0.0-2ubuntu1
Candidate: 1.0.0-2ubuntu1

# apt-cache policy libpcre3-dev
libpcre3-dev:
Installed: 7.8-3
Candidate: 7.8-3

Then enter in terminal
# cd snort-2.8.6.1

# ./configure

# make

# make install

Create the directories

# mkdir /etc/snort

# mkdir /etc/snort/rules

# mkdir /var/log/snort

And finally create snort.conf and icmp.rules files:
# cat /etc/snort/snort.conf
include /etc/snort/rules/icmp.rules

# cat /etc/snort/rules/icmp.rules
alert icmp any any -> any any (msg:"ICMP Packet"; sid:477; rev:3

That should work!

**sark_89** · 2013-08-17

Your sir are a gentleman. Thank you for taking the time to write such a detail reply. I've followed what you have said but unfortunately I had no joy. However I will continue to tinker around with it. Seems a shame that I can't get the thing to work, it would be a nice addition to my network to have an IDS like snort running in a GUI along side Wireshark.

Once again, thank you for your reply.

**zule** · 2014-02-20

i have instaled psad + iptables + fail2ban , but i need to know how to install and configure fwsnort in kali linux with
psad and iptables . please help

**aditya_prakash90** · 2014-03-20

hi i m new to this group and also to snort. my doubt is that when snort action is BLOCK then the signature is getting triggered in the alert file only for the first time for specific attack. for regenerating it ,i need to kill snort and run it again. but when this is in ALERT mode ,for each attack of same type the alert is getting triggered everytime .

for example : when i m doing svmap for 1st time with BLOCK mode alert is getting triggered, again i do the same svmap the alert is not getting triggered eventhough attack is prevented from happening.
but when in ALERT mode for each attempt of svmap(attacking tool) signature is getting triggered without running the snort again.

so is this behaviour normal keeping snort function in mind that when in drop mode the snort blocks the attack and alert is triggered only once(that is for the 1st time) or it should triggered for each attempt.

i will be highly obliged if somebody helps me out
aditya prakash

**BlAd373** · 2014-03-22

I'm trying to install GUI for snort
following the guidance above
after giving the configure command
I get this error

ERROR! daq_static library not found, go get it from
http://www.snort.org/.
Someone can help I use 64bit kali

**majickmann** · 2014-03-23

Originally Posted by BlAd373

I'm trying to install GUI for snort
following the guidance above
after giving the configure command
I get this error

ERROR! daq_static library not found, go get it from
http://www.snort.org/.
Someone can help I use 64bit kali

The first hit using google is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...rt/qgDSSRsEgVk

Hope that helps...
:-)

**OS-13115** · 2014-06-05

I'm glad to see this post because I have a question... since I am not interested in the GUI for snort, how do I enable snort to sniff traffic on wlan0 rather than a seemingly default sniff on eth0? Actually, I'm not picking up any traffic on either interface. What explaination or package/configurations am I missing? ?

here's my output:

Code:

 root@kali:~# snort
Running in packet dump mode

        --== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output Plugins!
pcap DAQ configured to passive.
The DAQ version does not support reload.
Acquiring network traffic from "eth0".
Decoding Ethernet

        --== Initialization Complete ==--

   ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
  o"  )~   Version 2.9.2.2 IPv6 GRE (Build 121) 
   ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/snort/snort-team
           Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
           Using libpcap version 1.3.0
           Using PCRE version: 8.30 2012-02-04
           Using ZLIB version: 1.2.7

Commencing packet processing (pid=19656)

After a short time this is the additional output once I killed the process with ctlr+c:

Code:

 ^C*** Caught Int-Signal
===============================================================================
Run time for packet processing was 118.402001 seconds
Snort processed 0 packets.
Snort ran for 0 days 0 hours 1 minutes 58 seconds
   Pkts/min:            0
   Pkts/sec:            0
===============================================================================
Packet I/O Totals:
   Received:            0
   Analyzed:            0 (  0.000%)
    Dropped:            0 (  0.000%)
   Filtered:            0 (  0.000%)
Outstanding:            0 (  0.000%)
   Injected:            0
===============================================================================
Breakdown by protocol (includes rebuilt packets):
        Eth:            0 (  0.000%)
       VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
        IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
       Frag:            0 (  0.000%)
       ICMP:            0 (  0.000%)
        UDP:            0 (  0.000%)
        TCP:            0 (  0.000%)
        IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Opts:            0 (  0.000%)
      Frag6:            0 (  0.000%)
      ICMP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       UDP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       TCP6:            0 (  0.000%)
     Teredo:            0 (  0.000%)
    ICMP-IP:            0 (  0.000%)
      EAPOL:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP4/IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP4/IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6/IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6/IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
        GRE:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE Eth:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
GRE IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE PPTP:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
       MPLS:            0 (  0.000%)
        ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
        IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP4 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   TCP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   UDP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
  ICMP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
All Discard:            0 (  0.000%)
      Other:            0 (  0.000%)
Bad Chk Sum:            0 (  0.000%)
    Bad TTL:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 1:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 2:            0 (  0.000%)
      Total:            0
===============================================================================
Snort exiting
root@kali:~#

Any input is greatly appreciated.

Additional info:

./sort-conf is not installed (so options such as '-vd' are not available)

This is the output of running snort on -i wlan0:

Code:

  root@kali:~# snort -i wlan0
Running in packet dump mode

        --== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output Plugins!
pcap DAQ configured to passive.
The DAQ version does not support reload.
Acquiring network traffic from "wlan0".
Decoding Ethernet

        --== Initialization Complete ==--

   ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
  o"  )~   Version 2.9.2.2 IPv6 GRE (Build 121) 
   ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/snort/snort-team
           Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
           Using libpcap version 1.3.0
           Using PCRE version: 8.30 2012-02-04
           Using ZLIB version: 1.2.7

Commencing packet processing (pid=20510)
^C*** Caught Int-Signal
===============================================================================
Run time for packet processing was 5.383593 seconds
Snort processed 0 packets.
Snort ran for 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 5 seconds
   Pkts/sec:            0
===============================================================================
Packet I/O Totals:
   Received:            0
   Analyzed:            0 (  0.000%)
    Dropped:            0 (  0.000%)
   Filtered:            0 (  0.000%)
Outstanding:            0 (  0.000%)
   Injected:            0
===============================================================================
Breakdown by protocol (includes rebuilt packets):
        Eth:            0 (  0.000%)
       VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
        IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
       Frag:            0 (  0.000%)
       ICMP:            0 (  0.000%)
        UDP:            0 (  0.000%)
        TCP:            0 (  0.000%)
        IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Opts:            0 (  0.000%)
      Frag6:            0 (  0.000%)
      ICMP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       UDP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       TCP6:            0 (  0.000%)
     Teredo:            0 (  0.000%)
    ICMP-IP:            0 (  0.000%)
      EAPOL:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP4/IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP4/IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6/IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6/IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
        GRE:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE Eth:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
GRE IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE PPTP:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
       MPLS:            0 (  0.000%)
        ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
        IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP4 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   TCP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   UDP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
  ICMP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
All Discard:            0 (  0.000%)
      Other:            0 (  0.000%)
Bad Chk Sum:            0 (  0.000%)
    Bad TTL:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 1:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 2:            0 (  0.000%)
      Total:            0
===============================================================================
Snort exiting
root@kali:~#

The current documentation I am following for all snort related commands is the snort user manual: http://s3.amazonaws.com/snort-org/ww...ort_manual.pdf

UPDATE: Everything is working fine now...I never visited a page to test my configuration. "nooby-mistake.sh"

**BlAd373** · 2017-06-14

Originally Posted by majickmann

The first hit using google is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...rt/qgDSSRsEgVk

Hope that helps...
:-)

Thank you so much

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