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Re: Distributed Bruteforce against SSH

From: Gary Baribault <gary () baribault net>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:56:09 -0400

Yep, that's what I use, and that's what the distributed atack is allabout, since the same IP is not always used, then the DenyHost scriptdows not kick in .. I actually get about 30 DenyHost messages per hour,so there is some re-use of IPs happening, but not that many.


Gary B




Joel Esler wrote:

 Have you looked into a tool called "denyhosts"?

 J

 On May 12, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Gary Baribault wrote:
> I guess what I reported last week was the warmup round .. Where now

getting thousands of attemped logins with the standars dictionary ofpotential login names.

>
> As I stated, I'm not interested in avoiding these attacks, so please

don't sugges that I change the SSH port, my machines are safe enough ..

>
> For those who missed it, I have three servers on the Internet, two

cable modems and one static and again, two of them are getting about 100attacks per hour but instead of using Root for every attempt, we are nowseeing the standars alphabetical list of users.

>
> What wories me is all of the Linux/Unix servers out there (and I

guess to a lesser degree Windows boxes with an SSH Daemon) that havemany normal remote users who are allowed remote access with SSH and haveweak passwords.

>
> This attack seems to be aimed at them, and will certainly succeed.
>
> See a sample of one of my logs below
>
> Gary B
>
> messages:May 11 21:59:39 salle sshd[5493]: Invalid user a'marie from

213.251.185.54

> messages:May 11 21:59:39 salle sshd[5493]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user a'marie from 213.251.185.54port 33943 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:01:34 salle sshd[5519]: Invalid user aaliyah from

62.206.228.188

> messages:May 11 22:01:34 salle sshd[5519]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user aaliyah from 62.206.228.188port 49207 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:03:11 salle sshd[5524]: Invalid user aaralyn from

212.220.166.26

> messages:May 11 22:03:11 salle sshd[5524]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user aaralyn from 212.220.166.26port 1408 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:04:05 salle sshd[5528]: Invalid user aaron from

83.151.29.86

> messages:May 11 22:04:05 salle sshd[5528]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user aaron from 83.151.29.86 port55756 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:05:34 salle sshd[5533]: Invalid user abbie from

70.43.165.34

> messages:May 11 22:05:34 salle sshd[5533]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abbie from 70.43.165.34 port48681 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:06:41 salle sshd[5537]: Invalid user abbott from

194.204.62.2

> messages:May 11 22:06:41 salle sshd[5537]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abbott from 194.204.62.2 port7799 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:08:33 salle sshd[5543]: Invalid user abdukrahman

from 62.206.22.124

> messages:May 11 22:08:34 salle sshd[5543]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abdukrahman from 62.206.22.124port 50525 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:12:11 salle sshd[5558]: Invalid user abdulrahman

from 196.211.191.58

> messages:May 11 22:12:12 salle sshd[5558]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abdulrahman from196.211.191.58 port 58081 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:12:55 salle sshd[5562]: Invalid user abe from

217.172.164.130

> messages:May 11 22:12:55 salle sshd[5562]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abe from 217.172.164.130 port56462 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:13:53 salle sshd[5566]: Invalid user abel from

80.68.94.169

> messages:May 11 22:13:54 salle sshd[5566]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abel from 80.68.94.169 port2229 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:15:47 salle sshd[5592]: Invalid user abia from

86.49.7.207

> messages:May 11 22:15:47 salle sshd[5592]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abia from 86.49.7.207 port1407 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:16:32 salle sshd[5595]: Invalid user abiba from

200.117.122.206

> messages:May 11 22:16:33 salle sshd[5595]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abiba from 200.117.122.206port 53258 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:18:02 salle sshd[5599]: Invalid user abie from

208.189.14.194

> messages:May 11 22:18:02 salle sshd[5599]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abie from 208.189.14.194 port36420 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:18:24 salle sshd[5602]: Invalid user abigail from

69.128.70.86

> messages:May 11 22:18:25 salle sshd[5602]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abigail from 69.128.70.86 port3154 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:19:53 salle sshd[5605]: Invalid user abner from

62.147.203.49

> messages:May 11 22:19:53 salle sshd[5605]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abner from 62.147.203.49 port38321 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:20:17 salle sshd[5608]: Invalid user abra from

61.29.122.140

> messages:May 11 22:20:17 salle sshd[5609]: input_userauth_request:

invalid user abra

> messages:May 11 22:20:17 salle sshd[5608]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abra from 61.29.122.140 port53367 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:20:57 salle sshd[5612]: Invalid user abra from

200.166.58.108

> messages:May 11 22:20:58 salle sshd[5612]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abra from 200.166.58.108 port41499 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:21:28 salle sshd[5615]: Invalid user abraham from

82.193.22.18

> messages:May 11 22:21:28 salle sshd[5616]: input_userauth_request:

invalid user abraham

> messages:May 11 22:21:28 salle sshd[5615]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abraham from 82.193.22.18 port33116 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:22:36 salle sshd[5619]: Invalid user abram from

66.159.198.155

> messages:May 11 22:22:37 salle sshd[5619]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abram from 66.159.198.155 port45869 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:22:53 salle sshd[5622]: Invalid user abram from

89.110.144.212

> messages:May 11 22:22:53 salle sshd[5623]: input_userauth_request:

invalid user abram

> messages:May 11 22:22:53 salle sshd[5622]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abram from 89.110.144.212 port35527 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:23:29 salle sshd[5625]: Invalid user abrianna from

204.13.164.75

> messages:May 11 22:23:29 salle sshd[5625]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abrianna from 204.13.164.75port 36896 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:24:22 salle sshd[5629]: Invalid user abrienda from

87.234.200.80

> messages:May 11 22:24:22 salle sshd[5629]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abrienda from 87.234.200.80port 17603 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:25:04 salle sshd[5632]: Invalid user abrienda from

168.234.199.84

> messages:May 11 22:25:04 salle sshd[5632]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abrienda from 168.234.199.84port 47504 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:25:52 salle sshd[5635]: Invalid user abril from

83.246.96.70

> messages:May 11 22:25:52 salle sshd[5635]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abril from 83.246.96.70 port48594 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:25:55 salle sshd[5638]: Invalid user abril from

62.2.99.174

> messages:May 11 22:25:56 salle sshd[5638]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abril from 62.2.99.174 port1424 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:27:00 salle sshd[5642]: Invalid user absolom from

200.117.122.206

> messages:May 11 22:27:01 salle sshd[5642]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user absolom from 200.117.122.206port 45918 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:27:15 salle sshd[5645]: Invalid user abu from

85.14.219.67

> messages:May 11 22:27:15 salle sshd[5645]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user abu from 85.14.219.67 port38085 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:28:48 salle sshd[5649]: Invalid user acacia from

64.83.58.161

> messages:May 11 22:28:48 salle sshd[5649]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user acacia from 64.83.58.161 port39750 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:30:48 salle sshd[5675]: Invalid user ace from

61.29.122.140

> messages:May 11 22:30:48 salle sshd[5676]: input_userauth_request:

invalid user ace

> messages:May 11 22:30:48 salle sshd[5675]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user ace from 61.29.122.140 port60660 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:32:25 salle sshd[5680]: Invalid user acton from

217.98.80.5

> messages:May 11 22:32:25 salle sshd[5680]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user acton from 217.98.80.5 port10497 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:32:57 salle sshd[5683]: Invalid user acton from

88.198.47.143

> messages:May 11 22:32:57 salle sshd[5683]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user acton from 88.198.47.143 port39369 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:33:21 salle sshd[5686]: Invalid user ada from

200.74.136.246

> messages:May 11 22:33:21 salle sshd[5686]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user ada from 200.74.136.246 port35651 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:33:51 salle sshd[5689]: Invalid user ada from

69.15.102.215

> messages:May 11 22:33:51 salle sshd[5689]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user ada from 69.15.102.215 port50657 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:34:57 salle sshd[5693]: Invalid user adah from

216.197.204.76

> messages:May 11 22:34:57 salle sshd[5693]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user adah from 216.197.204.76 port43581 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:35:17 salle sshd[5696]: Invalid user adair from

76.160.167.251

> messages:May 11 22:35:17 salle sshd[5696]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user adair from 76.160.167.251 port50495 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:38:36 salle sshd[5715]: Invalid user adamina from

201.21.210.151

> messages:May 11 22:38:36 salle sshd[5716]: input_userauth_request:

invalid user adamina

> messages:May 11 22:38:37 salle sshd[5715]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user adamina from 201.21.210.151port 34881 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:38:54 salle sshd[5718]: Invalid user adamina from

133.6.61.76

> messages:May 11 22:38:54 salle sshd[5718]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user adamina from 133.6.61.76 port44428 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:39:29 salle sshd[5721]: Invalid user adamma from

212.51.52.244

> messages:May 11 22:39:29 salle sshd[5721]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user adamma from 212.51.52.244 port41180 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:39:51 salle sshd[5724]: Invalid user adamma from

83.244.156.204

> messages:May 11 22:39:51 salle sshd[5724]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user adamma from 83.244.156.204port 50954 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:41:02 salle sshd[5735]: Invalid user adara from

88.198.47.143

> messages:May 11 22:41:02 salle sshd[5735]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user adara from 88.198.47.143 port33031 ssh2

> messages:May 11 22:42:28 salle sshd[5738]: Invalid user addison from

62.2.211.46

> messages:May 11 22:42:28 salle sshd[5738]: Failed

keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user addison from 62.2.211.46 port29580 ssh2

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