How to read text file from Snort?

Question

I have a worm that its signature is in .txt file. Now I wanna check it with Snort IDS. I read the the manual page of Snort, But I couldn't find anything. How can I do this?(Is there a command for detecting worms signature using Snort something like snort -r worm.txt -c /etc/snort/snort.conf ?)

Answer 1

Try to send this file with "nc" in your local machine (just an idea)

You will need two terminal and Snort must be listening in you network interface :

The first terminal

nc -l 1234 > filename.out

The first terminal

nc host.example.com 1234 < Worm.txt