Set Up Alerts for Malware

Configure an email server profile.
Select
Device
Server Profiles
Email
.
Click
Add
and then enter a
Name
for the profile. For example, WildFire-Email-Profile.
(
Optional
) Select the virtual system to which this profile applies from the
Location
drop-down.
Click
Add
to add a new email server entry and enter the information required to connect to the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) server and send email (up to four email servers can be added to the profile):
Server
—Name to identify the mail server (1-31 characters). This field is just a label and does not have to be the host name of an existing SMTP server.
Display Name
—The name to show in the From field of the email.
From
—The email address where notification emails are sent from.
To
—The email address to which notification emails are sent.
Additional Recipient(s)
—Enter an email address to send notifications to a second recipient.
Gateway
—The IP address or host name of the SMTP gateway to use to send the emails.
Click
OK
to save the server profile.
Click
Commit
to save the changes to the running configuration.
Test the email server profile.
Select
Monitor
PDF Reports
Email Scheduler
.
Click
Add
and select the new email profile from the
Email Profile
drop-down.
Click the
Send test email
button and a test email should be sent to the recipients defined in the email profile.
Configure a log forwarding profile to enable WildFire logs to be forwarded to Panorama, an email account, SNMP, a syslog server, and as HTTP requests.
In this example you will set up email logs for when a sample is determined to be malicious. You can also enable Benign and Grayware logs to be forwarded, which will produce more activity if you are testing.
The firewall does not forward WildFire logs for blocked files to an email account.
Select

Objects

Log Forwarding

.

Add

and name the profile, for example, WildFire-Log-Forwarding. Optionally, you can add a

Description

of the log forwarding profile.

Add

to configure forwarding methods.



Provide a name for the
Log Fowarding Profile Match List
.
Select the
WildFire
Log Type.
Filter
the logs using
(verdict eq malicious)
query.
Under the
Forward Method
options, choose the Email profile that was created in step 1 (in this case, WildFire-Email-Profile), and click
OK
to save the match list updates.

Click

OK

again to save the Log Forwarding Profile updates.


Add the log forwarding profile to a security policy being used for WildFire forwarding (with a WildFire Analysis profile attached).
The WildFire Analysis profile defines the traffic that the firewall forwards for Advanced WildFire analysis. To set up a WildFire analysis profile and attach it to a security policy rule, see Forward Files for Advanced WildFire Analysis.
Select
Policies
Security
and click on the policy that is used for WildFire forwarding.
In the
Actions
tab
Log Setting
section, select the
Log Forwarding
profile you configured.
Click
OK
to save the changes and then
Commit
the configuration.