PADS(8)PADS(8)NAMEpads - Passive Asset Detection System
SYNOPSISpads <DhUvV> <-c file > <-d file > <-g group > <-i interface > <-n net‐
work(s) > <-p file > <-r file > <-u file > <-w file > <expression>
DESCRIPTION
PADS is a libpcap based detection engine used to passively detect net‐
work assets. It is designed to complement IDS technology by providing
context to IDS alerts.
Goals:
- Passive: Records and identifies traffic seen on a network without
actively
"scanning" a system. There will never be a packet sent from the
pads
application.
- Portable: Has the ability to be placed easily on a remote system.
Does not
require additional external libraries other than those associated
with
libpcap.
- Lightweight: Logging is sent to a simple CSV file. There is no need
for a
database or other data repository installed on the local machine.
All
correlation is done outside of the pads program.
OPTIONS-h Display help / usage information.
-D Run PADS in the background (daemon mode).
-d file
Dump banner data into a libpcap formatted file. This feature
will dump the matched packet or the first 4 packets of an
unmatched connection into a specified file. This can be used to
further identify a service and also aid with signature develop‐
ment.
Please keep in mind that this feature must be compiled into the
application in order to use it. This can be done by adding
'--enable-banner-grab' to the
-g group
This switch allows you to specify a group that PADS will drop to
after the libpcap interface has been initialized.
-h Display help
-i interface
Specify an interface to be used.
-n network list
Specify a set of networks to be monitored. Only assets that
exist within these networks will be recorded. The networks
should be specified in the following format:
10.10.10.0/24,192.168.0.0/16 .
-p pid file
This switch allows you to specify a PID file to be used in con‐
junction with daemon (-D) mode.
-r file
Read packets from a libpcap formatted file.
-u user
This switch allows you to specify a user that PADS will drop to
after the libpcap interface has been initialized.
-w file
Dump data into a file other than assets.csv.
expression
selects which packets will be processed. Please see tcpdump(1)
for details on the libpcap primitives.
SEE ALSOpads.conf(8), pads-report(8), pads-archiver(8), tcpdump(8), pcre(3)COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004 Matt Shelton <matt@mattshelton.com>
BUGS
Please send bug reports to the author.
AUTHORS
Matt Shelton <matt@mattshelton.com>
2005/06/17 PADS(8)
