cipherdyne.org

Michael Rash, Security Researcher



psad Features

  • Detection for TCP SYN, FIN, NULL, and XMAS scans as well as UDP scans.
  • Support for both IPv4 and IPv6 logs generated by iptables and ip6tables respectively.
  • Detection of many signature rules from the Snort intrusion detection system.
  • Forensics mode iptables/ip6tables logfile analysis (useful as a forensics tool for extracting scan information from old iptables/ip6tables logfiles).
  • Passive operating system fingerprinting via TCP syn packets. Two different fingerprinting strategies are supported; a re-implementation of p0f that strictly uses iptables/ip6tables log messages (requires the --log-tcp-options command line switch), and a TOS-based strategy.
  • Email alerts that contain TCP/UDP/ICMP scan characteristics, reverse dns and whois information, snort rule matches, remote OS guess information, and more.
  • Content-based alerts for buffer overflow attacks, suspicious application commands, and other suspect traffic through the use of the iptables string match extension and fwsnort.
  • Icmp type and code header field validation.
  • Configurable scan thresholds and danger level assignments.
  • Iptables ruleset parsing to verify "default drop" policy stance.
  • IP/network danger level auto-assignment (can be used to ignore or automatically escalate danger levels for certain networks).
  • DShield alerts.
  • Auto-blocking of scanning IP addresses via iptables/ip6tables and/or tcpwrappers based on scan danger level. (This feature is NOT enabled by default.)
  • Parsing of iptables/ip6tables log messages and generation of CSV output that can be used as input to AfterGlow. This allows iptables/ip6tables logs to be visualized. Here are some example graphs created by parsing the iptables/ip6tables logs provided by the Honeynet Project: Scan30 and Scan34.
  • Status mode that displays a summary of current scan information with associated packet counts, iptables/ip6tables chains, and danger levels.