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COMPLETE

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Nmap protocol scan detection

Automated tests to verify correct behavior for command line

options (and potentially other things such as correctness of psad alerts).

Take into account whether a destination port is in /etc/services for

the danger level calculaion. A SYN packet to tcp/22 is worse than a stray SYN packet to an arbitrary high port (as long as there isn’t a backdoor, etc.). There are (probably) historically more vulnerabilities in sshd than for some service that isn’t even listed in /etc/services.

Idle scan detection through seeing combination of SYN/ACK and RST

packets (i.e. the iptables box was used as a zombie host).

XML logging format.

  • HTML output mode, and ability to create IP directories/pages under a web root directory.
  • Add the ability to install.pl to restore the “latest” syslog config backup file (fwknop may have been installed for example) at uninstall time.

Infer NMAP scan if OPT does not exist in the iptables log (because tcp options are missing)?

  • Play with SHOW_ALL_SIGNATURES = “Y” since this may not really cause hugely long email alerts. This trick would be to perhaps associate a “last seen” timestamp with each old signature.

MRTG scripts.

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Add a DNS_TIMEOUT config keyword.

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Add a threshold danger level for ENABLE_EXT_SCRIPT_EXEC functionality.

Ability to remove email block for a specific ip from a running psad process.

Summary report emails like dshield does.

Ability to elevate scan danger level based on specific iptables prefixes.

Replace full ascii signature listings in <ip>_signatures with sid numbers and packet counts.

Rework IGNORE_CONNTRACK_BUG_PKTS strategy to maximze signature detection.

More syslog messages from psad, psadwatchd, and kmsgsd.

Put a “psad signature strategy” link in all alert emails.

Extract default behavior into psad.conf.

Custom logging line upon auto-blocking an ip.

Add difference notification (via syslog) for changed variables after receiving a HUP signal.

Include the ability to specify a network in CIDR notation with –Status output.

Drop root privileges if not running in auto-blocking mode.

Extend install.pl to provide an option to dowload the latest perl modules (Date::Calc, Unix::Syslog, etc.) from CPAN.

Extend passive OS fingerprinting to make use of more types of packets than just tcp/syn packets.

Extend passive OS fingerprinting to include signatures from Xprobe from http://www.sys-security.com.

  • Add a density calculation for a range of scanned ports, and also add a “verbose” mode that will display which of the scanned ports actually resolve to something in the IANA spec.

Packet grapher mode with annotated scan alerts.

Mysql database support?

psad.conf option to disable signature detection; useful if fwsnort is already deployed for this.

Include a verbose message in the body of certain emails that as of psad-1.0.0-pre2 only contain a subject line.

  • Deal with the possibility that psad could eat lots of memory over time if $ENABLE_PERSISTENCE=”Y”. This should involve periodically deleting entries in %scan (or maybe the entire hash), but this should be done in a way that allows some scan data to persist.

ipfw/pf/ipfilter support on *BSD platforms.

Take into account syslog message summarization; i.e. “last message repeated n times”.

  • Possibly add a daemon to take into account ACK PSH, ACK FIN, RST etc. packets that the client may generate after the ip_conntrack module is reloaded. Without anticipating such packets psad will interpret them as a belonging to a port scan. NOTE: This problem is mostly corrected by the conntrack patch to the kernel. Also, the IGNORE_CONNTRACK_BUG_PKTS variable was added to mitigate this problem.
  • Improve check_firewall_rules() to check for a state rule (iptables) since having such a rule greatly improves the quality of the data stream provided to psad by kmsgsd since more packet types will be denied without requiring overly complicated firewall rules to detect odd tcp flag combinations.

Configurable iptables prerequisite checks.

  • Handle “pass” action on Snort rules in the signatures file. This will allow ignore rules to be written in the Snort rules language itself (this will far more powerful than any of the IGNORE_* keywords).

Allow auto-response blocking based on either src or dst of a signature match.

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Include IP options decode information in email alert if a signature matched against IP options.

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Include input/output interfaces, as well as physin and physout interfaces.

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IPCop integration.

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Script to turn pcap files into equivalent iptables log messages.

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