Bmw Advertisements

[Karlyn Hemmerling]

Wheni set our URL filter to block category 'web advertisements' it works as expected. However, it also blocks many of the results of Google and Bing searches. I understand that is because the results in question are web advertisements, strictly speaking.

Im certainly not well-versed in how the search engine ads specifically work, but you could try cloning the rule you're matching, and specify google/bing applications in that policy. Define a URL Filtering profile that doesn't block web-adverts in the rule.

so basically I had the same issue with a customer once. They've blocked a lot of stuff include the "Google - I am no robot - capture" which was required to enter the website. So we allowed it, analyzed the webpage (in Chrome presss F12), found the respective URL and allowed it trough. Strange enough even allowing *.google.* was not working out. However you can try to go on with your category blocking and starting whitlisting those advertisements. Unfortunately I am unaware of best practice here. I good way to start is within the URL filtering log. Setup filters like (url contains 'bing') and (action eq block) so see whats blocked and allow it if suitable. For testing you can clone the respective rule and add a UserID to it so the setup can be tested on live environment without interrupting. (if no UserID in place nail the source ip down to something)

I have implemented a couple of cloud SWG's from other companies and they do not block search results but do block Ads really well, Palo Alto does block search results on every PAND implementation I have experienced. This is a problem for retail/ marketing companies who have to allow all ADS and then utilize Ad-blockers in browsers which is not an optimum solution.

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I am attempting to block web advertisements on our PA-3020. We have two of these devices which utilize Panorama. We have blocked anything categorized as "web-advertisement" on the firewall, which is great, but a ton of ads are still getting through. What we would like to do is as follows:

Does anyone have any suggestions we can use? For our typical malware blacklisting, the sites just do not resolve and show a "page cannot be displayed" message. This is logged, which is great, but for the web advertisement blocking, our CIO wants it to show an "Ad Blocked" message. This message works for anything classified as "web-advertisement."

One great way I could think of doing this is to go under Objects, External Dynamic Lists... and create a new Dynamic Domain Lists via Add and selecting Type = Domain List. No doubt, you put the URL and the frequency it updates.

Now it is just a matter of going to your policy that lets your Internet traffic go out and changing the profile to that Anti Spyware profile. Personally, I would recommend doing a Security Profile Group, so you can have consistency.throughout all of your Policies that do filtering via some preconfigured templates that you make.

You would generally apply these via a security policy before your Internet policy. Might make a policy that says something like your normal Inside TO Outside (Destination Address Dynamic IP List YOURBLOCKLIST) ... DENY

Then it ends up in the firewall logs with that rule showing it dropped if the IP address is in the list.

For example, blocking IPs more or less simply show up in the log. If you do this, you want to reset-client or reset-both... otherwise the browser will just hang a while before timing out its TCP session, but you don't really get a block message.

If you are doing a Domain Block, that will give you your Antivirus / Anti-Spyware Block Page...

If you are doing an Extra Dynamic List on the URL Filtering, which is what you most likely want to do then it would use your normal URL Filtering block page.

To the best of my knowledge, if you are using an EBL then you will simply 'deny' the connections from being made. I don't believe that PA has a 'denied' responce page in the context of denying hosts from the network, you can only get that with application response pages.

It might be a better option to look into rolling out ad-blocking via group policy. There are plenty of guides that you can follow and it doesn't take long at all, you also get the added benefit of disabling it when the user wants to access a site that would have otherwise denied access if it couldn't reach it's ad servers.

Thanks for the reply, BPry. I had it configured previously to just block the sites, however, without showing the "ad blocked" message, our CIO wasn't pleased with that. The GPO is managed by our large company, so it would be worth reaching out to them I believe. I appreciate your input very much.

With the URL type, you can block access to the Ads when the host already has a cached IP for the domain, and submits a Client Hello with a matching SNI, or matching the HTTP GET. For HTTPS sessions you need to combine this solution with SSL Decryption to be able to pick up on the HTTP GET message inside the encrypted session.

Note that the drawback of this solution is that the Threat logs will still get filled up with 'Suspicious DNS query' drop alerts for TID 12000000 - I couldn't find a way to create a logging exception.

The next step was to configure a Security Policy that precedes my 'Internet access' rule to block any Client Hello messages containing a matching SNI. This will take care of HTTPS sessions that got as far as resolving to an IP and attempting to initiate an SSL session to the Ad servers in the list.

Note that this should be combined with SSL decryption to extend coverage for encrypted HTTP(S) traffic. To make SSL Decryption effective for Chrome browsers, configure a security policy that precedes these rules to Deny 'quic' traffic.

(The Sinkhole rule ties to the sinkhole action for Palo Alto Networks DNS Signatures in the Anti-Spyware profile, you can alternatively choose to sinkhole your 'Yoyo Ads - Domains', but as a result, that will mix your Traffic log entries for compromised host detection, as both, an infected host, or a host browsing to an advertisement will result in a 'subsequent' connection to the Sinkhole IP - so instead - using block for Ads will help you prevent the unintended Traffic log pollution).

With the release of PAN-OS 8.0, there are a couple things to add. Even though you won't be able to except TID 12000000 from writing to the Threat Logs, you can actually define a log forwarding filter to prevent these from propagating to Panorama or Splunk (Syslog).

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