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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:08 am    Post subject: Blocking ssh hammering Reply with quote

Hey, I was just checking my logs lately and I notice something strange, and quite obvious a brute-force hacking attempt.. so I believe :P

I see this in my messages, flooding every second:

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Jul 16 16:09:30 hibecentral sshd[11191]: Invalid user prelude from 65.87.1.238
Jul 16 16:09:31 hibecentral sshd[11193]: Invalid user premed from 65.87.1.238
Jul 16 16:09:32 hibecentral sshd[11195]: Invalid user premed from 65.87.1.238
Jul 16 16:09:33 hibecentral sshd[11197]: Invalid user premed from 65.87.1.238
Jul 16 16:09:33 hibecentral sshd[11199]: Invalid user presto from 65.87.1.238
Jul 16 16:09:34 hibecentral sshd[11201]: Invalid user presto from 65.87.1.238
Jul 16 16:09:35 hibecentral sshd[11203]: Invalid user presto from 65.87.1.238
Jul 16 16:09:36 hibecentral sshd[11205]: Invalid user prince from 65.87.1.238
Jul 16 16:09:37 hibecentral sshd[11207]: Invalid user prince from 65.87.1.238
Jul 16 16:09:38 hibecentral sshd[11209]: Invalid user prince from 65.87.1.238


and so on

Is there a way to 'ban' or block this IP, or better yet, set up a set of "Acceptable" Public ip's for use of ssh?

Not only am I worried about my security, but this guy is using 8 kb/s of my bandwidth 24/7 :@

For the time being, I have actually shutdown ssh just in case this guy's script actually breaks through.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

there is fail2ban... that uses iptables to ban the offenders from connecting to your services.

but what really grinds my gears is that we all sign a eula/tos saying we won't do this to others, so why can they do it to us? hosting companies are the worst for this, along with asian and south american countries. i've been CIDR-banning them at the router level for quite some time now, but they still keep coming.

give fail2ban a try, i've never used it myself, but from what i hear it works quite well and is highly customizable.

cheers
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can use iptables for that. This is a good place to start:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_for_newbies

I haven't checked everything there so it could be fine, but the Gentoo Wiki has been known to be wrong about things. Grain of salt and all that.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Use the iptables module recent, here's an example:
Code:
$IPT -t filter -A INPUT --in-interface ppp0 -m recent --update --seconds 60 --name ppp0 -j DROP
$IPT -t filter -A INPUT --in-interface ppp0 -m recent --set                 --name ppp0 -j DROP
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If it is doable for you (firewalls at work, etc) then you can also just run sshd on a different port...
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

pdr wrote:
If it is doable for you (firewalls at work, etc) then you can also just run sshd on a different port...


you can... until they probe the port and see ssh running on it... and besides, for rfc saneness, why should we run our daemons on alternate ports? the ports specified for the services (ftp/ssh/etc) are the ones we're supposed to use. imagine running an ssh server on 80 and then google comes crawling around...
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moving SSH to a different port will cut down hacking attempts by like 90% (Like all statistics, I am pulling this out my proverbial ;))

Most of them are automated, launched by 'script-kiddies', so they aren't very thorough.
I've only had one really determined attack, and that was only possible because my IP was static (I asked my ISP to put me back on dynamic after that...!)

A better solution than moving the port is to implement some sort of log-scanning that uses either IPTABLES or hosts.deny to block attacks.

I made my own one using SEC (Simple Event Correlator) and some custom rule scripts.

Off the top of my head, specifically written alternatives include:
denyhosts
fail2ban
sshguard
sshdfilter
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the replies!

I've got fail2ban set up, and things appear to have stopped!!

My password shouldn't be too easy to crack, and I will make sure to change it on a regular basis, to prevent further scares :)
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

for a lengthy discussion on this topic, and techniques that can be used:
[HOWTO] Get rid of SSH Brute Force Attempts / Script Kiddies
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oooh, good call! I forgot about that... :)
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Networking & Security to Duplicate Threads.
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