What's rule 700001?

I don't see anyone wrong really, but I haven't played with the
if_matched_ options much.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, BP9906 <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I have an event that triggers for a custom decoder.
>
> Decoder reads IP's written to a file.
>
>  <rule id="100001" level="1" >
>    <decoded_as>iplog</decoded_as>
>    <description>IPs</description>
>    <group>ipaddy,</group>
>  </rule>
>
>  <rule id="100002" level="9" frequency="4" timeframe="300">
>    <if_matched_group>ipaddy</if_matched_group>
>    <same_source_ip />
>    <description>Mult-Group ipaddy same IP - 6 in 5min</description>
>    <group>ipaddy,reoccurring,</group>
>  </rule>
>
>  <rule id="100003" level="7" frequency="4" timeframe="300">
>    <if_matched_sid>700001</if_matched_sid>
>    <same_source_ip />
>    <description>Multiple ipaddy same IP - 6 in 5min</description>
>    <group>ipaddy,reoccurring,</group>
>  </rule>
>
>  <rule id="100005" level="8" frequency="9" timeframe="600">
>    <if_matched_sid>700001</if_matched_sid>
>    <same_source_ip />
>    <description>Multiple ipaddy same IP - 12 in 10min</description>
>    <group>ipaddy,reoccurring,</group>
>  </rule>
>
> Basically, Rule 100003 alerts when it should and 100005 does sometimes
> too, but I dont trust 100005. 100002 never alerts.
>
> I would expect 100002 to alert more often then the rest, but it never
> alerts. Originally we wrote the rules 100003/5 but realized that when
> we get the same IPs over multiple devices that the rule doesnt flag
> (hence the need for if_matched_group instead of if_matched_sid).
>
> I've played with alert levels and didnt seem to help. Any ideas?

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