Snort Rules Monitoring User-Agents

I think some Snort rules like these could be used to monitor specific user-agents that sometimes are common with recon, vulnerability scans, and exploits.

WPScan

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"WPScan"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20[^\r\n]*WPScan/Hm"; metadata:service http; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string WPScan - vulnerability scanner"; classtype:network-scan; rev:1; )

Wget

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"Wget"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20Wget/Hm"; metadata:service http; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string Wget non-browser"; classtype:network-scan; rev:1; )

Synapse

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"Synapse"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20[^\r\n]*Synapse/Hm"; metadata:service http; reference:url,http://www.spambotsecurity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=2876; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string Synapse - SQLi IoC"; classtype:network-scan; rev:1; )

SqlMap

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"sqlmap"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20[^\r\n]*sqlmap/Hm"; metadata:service http; reference:url,http://sqlmap.org/; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string sqlmap - vulnerability scanner"; classtype:network-scan; rev:1; )

Python

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"Python-urllib"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20Python/Hm"; metadata:service http; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string Python non-browser"; classtype:network-scan; rev:3; )

PycURL

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"PycURL"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20[^\r\n]*PycURL/Hm"; metadata:service http; reference:url,http://pycurl.io/; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string PycURL - non Browser"; classtype:network-scan; rev:1; )

Paros

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"Paros"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20[^\r\n]*Paros/Hm"; metadata:service http; reference:url,http://sectools.org/tool/paros/; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string Paros - vulnerability scanner"; classtype:network-scan; rev:1; )

OpenVAS

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"OpenVAS"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20[^\r\n]*OpenVAS/Hm"; metadata:service http; reference:url,http://www.openvas.org/; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string OpenVAS - vulnerability scanner"; classtype:network-scan; rev:2; )

Nmap

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"Nmap"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20[^\r\n]*Nmap/Hm"; metadata:service http; reference:url,https://nmap.org/book/nse.html; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string Nmap - scanner"; classtype:network-scan; rev:2; )

Nikto

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"Nikto"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20[^\r\n]*Nikto/Hm"; metadata:service http; reference:url,http://sectools.org/tool/nikto/; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string Nikto - vulnerability scanner"; classtype:network-scan; rev:1; )

Kazehakase

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"Kazehakase"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20[^\r\n]*Kazehakase/Hm"; metadata:service http; reference:url,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazehakase; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string Kazehakase - suspicious browser"; classtype:network-scan; rev:1; )

curl

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (sid:xxx; gid:1; flow:established,to_server; content:"curl"; http_header; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/^User\x2dAgent\x3a\x20[^\r\n]*curl/Hm"; metadata:service http; msg:"BLACKLIST User-Agent known malicious user-agent string curl - non browswer"; classtype:network-scan; rev:1; )

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