Bro Basics Follow-Up

In my post Bro Basics I outlined the steps I took to install Bro. Since Friday I've taken a few more steps to get reports working.

First, I re-ran make brolite-install as root.

Next, I noticed errors in mail from bro:

Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 00:10:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: analyst@cel433.taosecurity.com (Cron Daemon)
To: analyst@cel433.taosecurity.com
Subject: Cron <analyst@cel433> ( nice -n 19
+/usr/local/bro-1.2.1/scripts/site-report.pl )
X-Cron-Env: <BROHOME=/usr/local/bro-1.2.1>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/analyst>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=analyst>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=analyst>
  
Can't locate Bro/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
+/usr/local/bro/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN
+/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
+/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach
+/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at /usr/local/bro-1.2.1/scripts/site-report.pl
+line 25.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bro-1.2.1/scripts/site-report.pl
+line 25.

I looked around and found Bro/Config.pm in /usr/local/bro-1.2.1/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Bro/Config.pm.

I looked at site-report.pl and saw this:

# look for our modules first
use lib '/usr/local/bro/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl';

Since I installed Bro in /usr/local/bro-1.2.1 I thought making a symlink from /usr/local/bro to /usr/local/bro-1.2.1 was the best approach.

The next time the report script tried to run I got a new error.

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so:
 Undefined +symbol "__h_errno"

Weird. I compared libperl.so on cel433 (the Bro sensor) with the same file on poweredge, another FreeBSD box.

cel433:/home/analyst$ file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object,
 Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), not stripped
cel433:/home/analyst$ md5 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so
MD5 (/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so) =
 a5d4a3b0bbc9b4b9e0cf136e35546651

cel433:/home/analyst$ ls -al /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1143233 Sep  2  2006
 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so

poweredge:/home/richard$ file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object,
 Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), not stripped
poweredge:/home/richard$ md5 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so
MD5 (/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so) = 
 061ee20f36b76dc5a2fb22de37caa987

poweredge:/home/richard$ ls -al /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1143233 Jun 21  2006
 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so

The files appear the same but the MD5 hashes don't match. I fixed that by copying what I presumed was the good copy from poweredge:

cel433:/root# scp richard@poweredge:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so
 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so
Password:
libperl.so                                    100% 1116KB   1.1MB/s   00:00    
cel433:/root# md5 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so
MD5 (/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so) =
 061ee20f36b76dc5a2fb22de37caa987

That was the last fix. I got an email with the following report, saved at /usr/local/bro-1.2.1/reports/taosecuritycom.1176091803.24141.rpt.

Site Report for taosecuritycom, from 2007/04/08 00:00:30 to 2007/04/09 00:00:30
generated on Mon Apr  9 00:11:27 2007
========================================================================
Summary
========================================================================
  Incident Count: 0

========================================================================
Incident Details
========================================================================
     No data to report
========================================================================
Signature Distributions
========================================================================
  No data to report

========================================================================
Scans
========================================================================
     No data to report

========================================================================
Connection Log Summary
========================================================================
Site-wide connection statistics

    Successful:   7506
    Unsuccessful: 19341
    Ratio: 1:2.576


Top 20 Sources

               Host                      IP         Bytes   Conn. Count
  -------------------------------  ---------------  ------  ------------
  ...3-202-28.hsd1.va.comcast.net  69.143.202.28      17 M          7504
               sd-6260.dedibox.fr  88.191.38.164         0             1
  ...46.static.newcomamericas.net  200.30.136.146        0             1


Top 20 Destinations

               Host                      IP         Bytes   Conn. Count
  -------------------------------  ---------------  ------  ------------
            eh-in-f191.google.com  72.14.207.191      52 M          2103
         vhost.identityvector.com  209.40.96.212     175 M           660
                  207.159.120.151  207.159.120.151   141 K           501
        208-45-133-152.excite.com  208.45.133.152    222 K           373
                  207.159.120.146  207.159.120.146   72528           258
                    64.147.181.34  64.147.181.34     1.8 M           258
                      ad.turn.com  70.42.138.14      1.6 M           146
         208-45-133-13.excite.com  208.45.133.13     1.7 M           138
        208-45-133-134.excite.com  208.45.133.134    91943           131
                    38.96.134.241  38.96.134.241     85585           127
         208-45-133-23.excite.com  208.45.133.23     2.2 M           127
  ...9.142.97.available.above.net  209.249.142.97    66912           106
                     204.176.49.2  204.176.49.2      15182           101
     lib1.store.vip.mud.yahoo.net  68.142.205.139    175 K            85
                    64.147.181.44  64.147.181.44     1.2 M            84
                    64.147.181.32  64.147.181.32     3.3 M            80
  ...49.142.8.available.above.net  209.249.142.8     23520            73
                  wzus.wc.ask.com  65.214.37.120     25009            65
  ...eploy.akamaitechnologies.com  72.247.28.57      518 K            55
                    38.96.134.245  38.96.134.245     17459            54


Top 20 Local Email Senders

                 Hostname                        IP          Conn. Count
  ---------------------------------------  ---------------  ------------
      c-69-143-202-28.hsd1.va.comcast.net  69.143.202.28               7


Top 20 Services

  Service        Conn. Count  % of Total   Bytes In  Bytes Out
  ------------  ------------  ----------  ---------  ---------
  http                  7003       93.30      275 M       12 M
  https                  254        3.38      3.1 M      1.0 M
  other                  193        2.57      1.2 M      3.9 M
  pop-3                   23        0.31      46361       1187
  whois                   19        0.25      16646        309
  smtp                     7        0.09       1536       7542
  spop                     5        0.07      35772       3283
  ssh                      2        0.03          0         82

========================================================================
Byte Transfer Pairs
========================================================================
Hot Report - Top 20
                                                    Local      Remote    Conn.
     Local Host               Remote Host           Bytes      Bytes     Count
-----------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ---------  -------
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   ....identityvector.com      153296      175 M  1276
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   eh-in-f191.google.com       812404     52.5 M  6320
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   ...maitechnologies.com       12997     12.2 M  4
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   64.147.181.31               4503 K      15328  32
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   64.147.181.32               142095     3414 K  164
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   ...-70.mc.videotron.ca      2492 K       4261  1
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   194.117.143.76                6885     2360 K  6
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   ...5-133-23.excite.com      212442     2213 K  254
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   64.147.181.34               1145 K     1867 K  516
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   66.11.53.136                  1084     1811 K  4
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   ...5-133-13.excite.com      340294     1751 K  276
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   ad.turn.com                 136361     1665 K  292
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   38.99.76.85                  12127     1648 K  42
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   ntserver-4d41.4dv.net          673     1478 K  5
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   81.216.125.158              1409 K       2932  1
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   64.147.181.44               574291     1250 K  198
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   ...ices.brightcove.com       36951     1073 K  92
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   194.117.143.77                4037     1042 K  6
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   gfo-cm.nexcess.net           43809     725792  86
...hsd1.va.comcast.net   ...-133-152.excite.com      674704     227462  746

It's basically connection logging information, since I'm running a default brolite installation. As I enable other components I expect to see other details.

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