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Re: Creating a rule for RDP


From: Johnathan Wiltberger <johwiltb () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 07:22:45 -0500

If someone wanted to, though, could you look at the response size coming
back?

As in, a failed login for RDP is A bytes, a successful login is B bytes (or
maybe just ~A), then if you see your server response be A bytes 3 times,
then trigger a block on the source IP.  Not the best technique maybe, but
it was one of the ways I would try to detect failed SSH logins a while ago.

John Wiltberger

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Samuel M Westerfeld <sam () utexas edu> wrote:

No need to reinvent the wheel. This can (and should) be done through Group
Policy or Local Security Policy in Windows.
On Feb 7, 2015 1:36 AM, "Dave Killion" <dave.killion () gmail com> wrote:

While that's true - RDP is encrypted - a poor man's brute-force detection
is to detect n-connections in y seconds between IP peers.  Say... 5
connections in 10 seconds?

A real user wouldn't go that fast unless they were rapidly trying
credentials, and a script would go much faster.   You may need to tune the
interval, however, to something that makes sense in your network.

Yes, this has problems with NAT, and yes, it has problems with slow
brute, but... It's better than nothing, and I know with certainty that many
commercial IDS' do exactly this.

Dave Killion


On Feb 6, 2015, at 4:57 PM, Jason Haar <Jason_Haar () trimble com> wrote:

On 23/01/15 12:06, Richard Giles wrote:
Hello,

I am trying to write a simple snort rule that will block RDP traffic
if the password is failed more then 3-5 times. I have been experimenting
using something like the following:

As far as I'm aware RDP is a fully encrypted channel, so any failed
login messages are sent by the server to the client over that encrypted
channel. In other words, it's just like SSH

ie snort can't read it.

The only way I can think of to detect RDP failed logins is to monitor
the eventlogs of Windows servers for failed login events :-(
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