PAN-OS & Panorama

(
PA-7000 Series Firewalls Only
) To enable a PA-7000 Series firewall to forward samples for analysis, you must first configure a data port on an NPC as a Log Card interface. If you have a PA-7000 series appliance equipped with an LFC (log forwarding card), you must configure a port used by the LFC. When configured, the log card port or the LFC interface takes precedence over the management port when forwarding samples.
Specify the Advanced WildFire Deployments to which you want to forward samples.
Select
Device
Setup
WildFire
and edit the General Settings based on your WildFire cloud deployment (public, government, private, or hybrid).
The WildFire U.S. Government Cloud is only available to U.S. Federal agencies as an optional analysis environment.
Advanced WildFire Public Cloud:
Enter the
WildFire Public Cloud
URL:
United States:
wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Europe:
eu.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Japan:
jp.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Singapore:
sg.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
United Kingdom:
uk.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Canada:
ca.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Australia:
au.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Germany:
de.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
India:
in.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Switzerland:
ch.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Poland:
pl.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Indonesia:
id.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Taiwan:
tw.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
France:
fr.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Qatar:
qatar.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
South Korea:
kr.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Israel:
il.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Saudi Arabia:
sa.wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com
Make sure the
WildFire Private Cloud
field is clear.
WildFire U.S. Government Cloud:
Enter the
WildFire U.S. Government Cloud
URL: wildfire.gov.paloaltonetworks.com
Make sure the
WildFire Private Cloud
field is clear.
Define the size limits for files the firewall forwards and configure logging and reporting settings.
Continue editing General Settings (
Device
Setup
WildFire
).
Review the
File Size Limits
for files forwarded from the firewall.
It is a Advanced WildFire Best Practices to set the
File Size
for PEs to the maximum size limit of 10 MB, and to leave the
File Size
for all other file types set to the default value.
Select
Report Benign Files
to allow logging for files that receive a verdict of benign.
Select
Report Grayware Files
to allow logging for files that receive a verdict of grayware.
Define what session information is recorded in WildFire analysis reports by editing the Session Information Settings. By default, all session information is displayed in WildFire analysis reports. Clear the check boxes to remove the corresponding fields from WildFire analysis reports and click
OK
to save the settings.
(
Panorama Only
) Configure Panorama to gather additional information about samples collected from firewalls running a PAN-OS version prior to PAN-OS 7.0.
Some WildFire Submissions log fields introduced in PAN-OS 7.0 are not populated for samples submitted by firewalls running earlier software versions. If you are using Panorama to manage firewalls running software versions earlier than PAN-OS 7.0, Panorama can communicate with WildFire to gather complete analysis information for samples submitted by those firewalls from the defined
WildFire Server
(the WildFire global cloud, by default) to complete the log details.
Select
Panorama
Setup
WildFire
and enter a
WildFire Server
if you’d like to modify the default setting to instead allow Panorama to gather details from the specified WildFire cloud or from a WildFire appliance.
Define traffic to forward for analysis.
Select
Objects
Security Profiles
WildFire Analysis
,
Add
a new WildFire analysis profile, and give the profile a descriptive
Name
.
Add
a profile rule to define traffic to be forwarded for analysis and give the rule a descriptive
Name
, such as local-PDF-analysis.
Define the profile rule to match to unknown traffic and to forward samples for analysis based on:
Applications
—Forward files for analysis based on the application in use.
File Types
—Forward files for analysis based on file types, including links contained in email messages. For example, select
PDF
to forward unknown PDFs detected by the firewall for analysis.
Direction
—Forward files for analysis based the transmission direction of the file (upload, download, or both). For example, select
both
to forward all unknown PDFs for analysis, regardless of the transmission direction.
Click
OK
to save the WildFire analysis profile.
Attach the WildFire Analysis profile to a security policy rule.
Traffic allowed by the security policy rule is evaluated against the attached WildFire analysis profile; the firewalls forwards traffic matched to the profile for WildFire analysis.
Select

Policies

Security

and

Add

or modify a policy rule.

Click the

Actions

tab within the policy rule.

In the Profile Settings section, select

Profiles

as the

Profile Type

and select a

WildFire Analysis

profile to attach to the policy rule


Make sure to enable the firewall to also Forward Decrypted SSL Traffic for Advanced WildFire Analysis.
This is a recommended best practice.
(Optional)
Enable Advanced WildFire Inline ML
(Optional)
Enable Hold Mode for Real-Time Signature Lookup
Review and implement Advanced WildFire Best Practices.
Click
Commit
to apply the updated settings.
(Optional)
Install a Device Certificate to update to the latest version of the certificate used by the firewall to communicate with Palo Alto Networks cloud services.
(Optional)
Configure the Content Cloud FQDN Settings.
Choose what to do next...
Verify WildFire Submissions to confirm that the firewall is successfully forwarding files for analysis.
Monitor WildFire Activity to assess alerts and details reported for malware.