Barnyard2 Alert View for Snort

I’ve been working on a Snort project recently and started logging alerts to a MySQL database. The Barnyard2 MySQL schema is great and effective, but since I don’t have time in my sprints to rewrite the tool in a way that would work best for me, I just tossed together a quick view. This way, a simple Sinatra ruby app can use active record to pull the data is a simple query rather than a million joins in your app’s source code:

The SQL

Because I only wanted 1 query for both TCP and UDP/Other, I left join both of the tables and if it’s TCP I will output the data, else null. Some of the columns may not be the best named, as that’s the downside to rapid development.

select
    e.sid,
    e.cid,
    sig.sig_name as rule,
    sig.sig_rev as rule_revision,
    sig.sig_sid,
    sigc.sig_class_id as rule_class_id,
    sigc.sig_class_name as rule_class,
    e.signature as sig,
    e.timestamp as time,
    d.data_payload as payload,
    INET_NTOA(i.ip_src) as pkt_src,
    i.ip_src as ip_src,
    INET_NTOA(i.ip_dst) as pkt_dst,
    i.ip_dst as ip_dst,
    i.ip_proto as protocol_num,
    CASE WHEN i.ip_proto = 6 THEN 'tcp' WHEN i.ip_proto = 17 THEN 'udp' ELSE 'other' END as protocol,
    s.hostname as sensor,
    s.interface as sensor_iface,
    enc.encoding_text as sensor_encoding,
    CASE WHEN i.ip_proto = 6 THEN tcp.tcp_sport ELSE udp.udp_sport END as pkt_sport,
    CASE WHEN i.ip_proto = 6 THEN tcp.tcp_dport ELSE udp.udp_dport END as pkt_dport,
    CASE WHEN i.ip_proto = 6 THEN tcp.tcp_flags ELSE null END as pkt_flags,
    CASE WHEN i.ip_proto = 6 THEN tcp.tcp_res ELSE null END as pkt_tcp_reset,
    CASE WHEN i.ip_proto = 6 THEN tcp.tcp_ack ELSE null END as pkt_tcp_ack,
    CASE WHEN i.ip_proto = 6 THEN tcp.tcp_seq ELSE null END as pkt_tcp_seq

from event as e

left join data as d on d.cid=e.cid
left join sensor as s on s.sid = e.sid
left join encoding as enc on enc.encoding_type=s.encoding
left join signature as sig on sig.sig_id=e.signature
left join sig_class as sigc on sigc.sig_class_id=sig.sig_class_id

left join iphdr as i on i.cid=e.cid
left join tcphdr as tcp on tcp.cid=e.cid
left join udphdr as udp on udp.cid=e.cid

You will also get a column of sensor_encoding which will tell you how to decode the payload column. Leave this out of the MySQL query to speed it up, especially if you are pushing as many packets as we are.

Enjoy.