Zeek connection records

Every connection, summarised

Zeek summarises each connection into one line in conn.log (a tab-separated table). The connection state column is gold: SF is a normal, finished connection, while S0 means a SYN was sent and nothing came back — exactly what a port scan looks like:

cat /srv/soc-data/nids/conn.log

In the terminal

student@vulntech:~$ cat /srv/soc-data/nids/conn.log
#fields	ts	id.orig_h	id.resp_h	id.resp_p	proto	service	conn_state
1773130200.0	203.0.113.66	10.10.10.5	22	tcp	-	S0
1773130200.0	203.0.113.66	10.10.10.5	80	tcp	-	S0
1773130200.0	203.0.113.66	10.10.10.5	443	tcp	-	S0
1773130200.0	203.0.113.66	10.10.10.5	445	tcp	-	S0
1773130200.0	203.0.113.66	10.10.10.5	3389	tcp	-	S0
1773130290.0	10.10.10.5	10.10.10.1	53	udp	dns	SF

A row of S0 connections from one source to many ports is the same scan you saw in the packet capture, now summarised by the sensor.

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