Re: Automated analysis of logs?

From: K. K. Mookhey <cto(at)nii.co.in>
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 01:25:02 EDT

Hi Mark,
I am not sure if this is useful, and I am aware that there are tools to do this for syslog and Apache logs. But, we at NII just released a generic log analyzer, called, um..Log Analyzer. Its available for download with source code at http://www.nii.co.in/research/tools.html You need to point it to the directory containing your IIS log files and a pattern file containing attack signatures. In fact, the download comes with a default match.pat file which contains IIS attack signatures. However, it won't give you any statistics, only the lines which match the signatures and the log files in which they occur. Since its a command-line tool you can schedule its running with 'at'. You can also specify the file names to match. For instance if you only want files from a certain day onwards, you can specify those files names with the -t switch. Cheers,
K. K. Mookhey
CTO,
Network Intelligence India Pvt. Ltd.
Web: www.nii.co.in

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• Original Message ----- From: "Mark G. Spencer" <mspencer@evidentdata.com> To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 10:57 PM Subject: Automated analysis of logs?

I read through much of the prior thread on analysis of logs and apparently the applications mentioned will provide statistics, but they don't actually make any determinations about activity.

Are there any open-source applications that I can drop various kinds of logs into (especially IIS logs) and get not only statistics, but information and/or "warnings" about various kind of known activity? Things like Nimda scanning, backdoor attempts, etc. I'm not looking for 100% precision when identifying activity, but if I can identify or in some cases filter out all known activity and concentrate on unknown, that would be really helpful.

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Received on Wed Apr 9 12:32:50 2003