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We’ve noticed that most of our servers have been under heavy attack from random IP addresses to break via SSH.

With the help of the last post on how to ban an IP, and the following python script, you’ll be able to have a cronjob that runs once or twice a day and automagically bans all the offending ips from ever trying to brute force their way in ever again.

touch and make executable a file called “detect_ssh_hostiles”

touch detect_ssh_hostiles
chmod +x detect_ssh_hostiles

Then copy the following code inside:

# Usage:
# python detect_ssh_hostiles [auth.log file path]
#
# Requirement: There should be "ban_ip" and "unban_ip" command availability on the path
#
# Note: you gotta have read permissions on the auth.log file and sudo
#       permissions for the script to ban the ips.

#If an IP meets this number of failed login attemmpts it will be banned
BAN_THRESHOLD = 7
SUSPECTS = {}

#Put here IP addresses you trust, could be making genuine login errors
SAFE_IPS = ['81.73.111.49','101.73.111.160','72.31.171.235','72.36.23.234','82.36.180.210','202.132.82.16']

import os
import sys
import re

BANNED = {}
def loadBanned():
  '''
  This function will load all the banned IPS into the BANNED Dict.
  It will also count how many times (by mistake) the same IP has
  been banned, and it will unban it, so that it will appear only once.
  '''
  global BANNED
  command = 'sudo iptables --list --numeric'
  try:
    p = os.popen(command,'rb')
  except Exception,e:
    print e
    sys.exit(1)

  line = '-'

  while line != '':
    line = p.readline().strip()

    if line.startswith("DROP"):
      parts = line.split()
      ip = parts[3]

      #add hit or register banned ip
      if BANNED.has_key(ip):
        BANNED[ip]+=1
      else:
        BANNED[ip]=1

  #Make sure banned IPs are banned only once
  for ip in BANNED:
    if BANNED[ip] > 1:
      print "IP %s has been banned %d times" % (ip, BANNED[ip])
      n=BANNED[ip]-1
      while n > 0:
        os.system("unban_ip %s" % ip)
        print ("unban_ip %s" % ip)
        n=n-1

  p.close()

# ---- here we go ----
loadBanned()

#read auth log
logfile = '/var/log/auth.log'

if len(sys.argv)==2:
  logfile = sys.argv[1]

command = 'grep "Failed password for " %s' % logfile
#print command

try:
  p = os.popen(command,'rb')
except Exception,e:
  print e
  sys.exit(1)

line = "123"

while line != '':
  line = p.readline()

  #Sample line:
  # May 25 03:29:49 main sshd[6933]: Failed password for root from 202.118.236.132 port 54863 ssh2
  pattern = "(.*)(froms)(d+.d+.d+.d+)(.*)"
  matchObject = re.match(pattern, line)

  suspect = None
  if matchObject is not None:
    suspect = matchObject.groups()[2]

    #skip safe IPs
    if suspect in SAFE_IPS:
      continue

    if SUSPECTS.has_key(suspect):
      #add a hit
      SUSPECTS[suspect] += 1
    else:
      #add first hit
      SUSPECTS[suspect] = 1

p.close() #close the pipe

print "=="*30

import time
t = time.localtime()
#(2008, 6, 6, 9, 35, 21, 4, 158, 1)

timestr = "%d-%d-%d@%d:%d:%d" % (t[0],t[1],t[2],t[3],t[4],t[5])
print timestr
print "--"*30
if len(SUSPECTS) > 0:
  for suspect in SUSPECTS:
    if SUSPECTS[suspect] >= BAN_THRESHOLD and not BANNED.has_key(suspect):
      print "Banning %s with %d attempts" % (suspect,SUSPECTS[suspect])
      BANNED[suspect]=1
      os.system("ban_ip %s" % suspect)
    elif BANNED.has_key(suspect):
      print "Ip %s has already been banned" % (suspect)
    else:
      print "Suspect candidate? %s with %d attempts" % (suspect,SUSPECTS[suspect])
else:
  print "Found no suspects to ban"

print "=="*30

Then add this as a cronjob of your root user, and it will automatically ban all those IPs that have tried to break in. See the script for configuration. You can always make some IPs immune to banning by adding them on the SAFE_IPS list.

In case you’re not an iptables guru, you might want to create a couple scripts and put em somewhere on your $PATH. I’ve created two scripts called ban_ip and unban_ip.

Create a file called ban_ip

touch ban_ip
chmod +x ban_ip

Edit it and copy the following code inside:

#!/bin/bash
sudo iptables -A INPUT -s $1 -j DROP
echo IP Address $1 has been banned
echo

To ban an IP, you must invoke

ban_ip <someIpAddressHere>

e.g.

ban_ip 211.32.44.111

And the IP will be banned.

Do the same now for the unban_ip script

touch unban_ip
chmod +x unban_ip

Open your fav. text editor and copy the following code inside:

#!/bin/bash
iptables -D INPUT -s $1 -j DROP
echo Unbanned ip $1
echo

Save it, and use it.

To unban an IP, you must invoke

unban_ip <someIpAddressHere>

e.g.

unban_ip 211.32.44.111

Requirements
Have sudo access, have iptables installed.

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Now we have 64-bit CPUs, that means they can address up to 2^64, that’s 18446744073709551616 different memory addresses, better said, 16.8 million terabytes which is the same as 16 exabytes, which as of now (May 2008), represents way more than the total RAM ever created for all computers summed together.

Let’s see if in 20 years, 16 exabytes will be enough, I personally don’t think so, it never is, we always laugh at the tech limitations of the past, in no time we’ll end up with 128-bit processors and I’ll leave you the homework to find out how much memory those CPUs will be able to address.

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