Remember my parsetds.py script to extract data from MS-SQL TDS streams? Well here is a bit of an introduction to the Bro Network Security Monitoring software which implements my parsetds.py functionality using Bro‘s scripting language.
If you find monitoring networks for security related artefacts interesting, or it’s your job, then read on as I demonstrate some of Bro‘s scripting flexibility by using it to extract MS-SQL commands and login information from network traffic.