🦝Installing and Configuring Network Based IDS In Ubuntu: Suricata

2. Quickstart guide — Suricata 8.0.0-dev documentation

Install Suricata In Ubuntu

$ sudo apt install suricata

Modify The Configuration File

sudo gedit /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml

• In the Line no 15 Change the HOME_NET IP address subnet to your machines IP subnet

• In the Line no 580 change the Interface from eth0 to your local interface name (In my case it is enp0s3)

• In the Line no 661 change the Interface from eth0 to your local interface name (In my case it is enp0s3)

• In the Line no 129 change the community-id from false to true

• You can add custom rules after Line no 1875

Update Suricata

$ sudo suricata-update

List Suricata Rules

$ sudo ls -al /var/lib/suricata/rules/

Download Rulesets

$ sudo suricata-update list-sources

Enable A Source

$ sudo suricata-update enable-source malsilo/win-malware

malsilo/win-malware is the name of the source. You can choose any name after running sudo suricata-update list-sources

Update suricata after enabling a new source.

Test The Suricata Configuration File

$ sudo suricata -T -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -v

Run Suricata

$ sudo systemctl start suricata.service

View The Logs

$ ls -al /var/log/suricata

Test If The Data Is Logged Or Not?

Make a Curl Request

$ surl http://testmynids.org/uid/index.html

View The Logs

$ sudo cat /var/log/suricata/fast.log

Suricata Custom Rules

Create a Custom Rule

$ sudo gedit /etc/suricata/rules/local.rules

Add the Below Line In local.rules file

alert icmp any any -> $HOME_NET (msg:"icmp ping"; sid:1; rev:1;)

Add the local.rules file name/path in suricata.yaml file

• Add the below text after the Line no 1875 in suricata.yaml file

 - /etc/suricata/rules/local.rules

• Save the file and exit

Install jq

sudo apt-get install jq

View the Latest Logs

$ sudo tail -f /var/log/suricata/eve.json | jq 'select(.event_type=="alert")'