[Bridge] IPS HLBR 1.0 released (off-topic)

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:09:59 -0300
Eriberto <eriberto at eriberto.pro.br> wrote:

> IPS HLBR - Version 1.0 can detect malicious traffic using regular
> expressions
> 
> Version 1.0 of Hogwash Light BR, released march 5th 2006, brings two
> interesting new features. The first one is the ability of using
> regular expressions to detect intrusion attempts and e-mails with
> virus or phishing. The second is the use of lists with banned words.
> 
> HLBR is an IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) that reads network
> traffic in the layer 2 of the OSI model. Since it works like a bridge,
> it stays in-line in the network topology and doesn't need an IP
> address. So, HLBR is invisible to attackers. Traffic filtering
> (including the packets contents) can be done with simple rules.
> Version 1.0 can use regular expressions to filter the packets. Below
> is an example of rule with regular expressions:
> 
> <rule>
> ip dst(email)
> tcp dst(25)
> tcp regex(filename="[^\n]+\.scr")
> message=(mailvirus-1-re) .scr attach
> action=virus
> </rule>
> 
> In short, all TCP traffic destined to port 25 of the e-mail server
> will be filtered. If the text:
> 
> filename="anything_different_of_line_breaks.scr"
> 
> is found inside the packet, that means there are an attachment .scr in
> the e-mail (virus). So this packet will suffer the action named 'virus'.
> This action logs the event, dumps the malicious traffic in tcpdump
> format and drops the packet. Below is an example of rule against a type
> of buffer overflow attempt against DNS servers:
> 
> <rule>
> ip dst(dns)
> udp dst(53)
> udp nocase(|41cd 80c7 062f 6269 6ec7 4604 2f73 6800  89f0 83c0 0889 4608|)
> message=(dnsattacks-1) tsl bind attack
> action=action1
> </rule>
> 
> In this case, due to the use of pipe characters (|), HLBR will check
> the traffic for the hexadecimal sequence given as an attack signature.
> 
> HLBR lets you use rules for blocking attacks against network servers.
> In order to fully understand it please read our documentation at
> http://hlbr.sourceforge.net/ips-en.html - explanations about the IPS
> concept including charts.
> 
> HLBR site is at http://hlbr.sourceforge.net.
> 
> (Translated from Portuguese by André Bertelli - andre (a) bertelli.name)
> 
>

Ebtables can do the same thing and it does it with in the existing
general netfilter framework.  Or is this just a wrapper on existing netfilters?