Re: intrusion via ssh

From: Greg Folkert (greg_at_gregfolkert.net)
Date: 04/03/05

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    On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 12:55 +0200, Frederic Guillet wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > i just checked my mail log on my server (that runs sarge with postfix)
    > and got this kind of lines:
    >
    > MAR 30 20:01:33 servername sshd[17890] illegal user john from 24.15.134.130
    >
    > I have about 500 attemps with different usernames and the same IP so i
    > guess it is a robot which is trying to enter my system.
    >
    > the pb with such log is that it does not say if the user has succeeded
    > to enter the machine or if the attempt has failed.
    >
    > any config advice or tutorial are welcome.
    >
    > Thank in advance for your help.

    I have a short summary of my tracking of these Bruteforce SSH2 attempts
    that are taking up bandwidth.

    Here is what I have come up with ending 21mar2005 2100 GMT:
          * Starting July 26th, 2004 totals for recent Bruteforce attempts
            on knight.gregfolkert.net and ending March 28th, 2005
          * Total of 8,988 events seperated by minutes sometimes, hours,
            days, never weeks, months or years
          * 158,913 bruteforce total attempts to password guess or stumble
            onto a no password user
          * 3727 unique combinations of username-(from)IP Address
          * 663 unique names used
          * 210 unique IP Addresses have been identified as sources of the
            attempts

    Amazing ain't it?

    So, indeed It has been on the increase. Time to review those password
    policies.

    This is just the SSH2 problems, not to mention the Apache related
    applications. We can basically quadruple the counts as a total for
    everything that machine has seen.

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