I’ve been running Amavisd-new with scanner components like ClamAV and SpamAssassin on the mail relay for my personal mail for several years. Lately I’ve been thinking that since Amavis supports multiple content scanners I should add another antivirus product. Unfortunately there’s a limited number of free (for home/individual use) antivirus products running on Linux, and […]
Seems a new bot, possibly a strain of Mirai, is in the wild, targeting TCP port 37777. The last 24 hours I’ve seen close to 200 different IP addresses trying to connect to this port. DShield is also registering an increase. At the moment I can only guess what kind of product they’re probing for, […]
Those familiar with port scanning tools (like nmap), have probably heard of the Xmas scan option. This scanning strategy sets some unusual TCP flags, as the man page describes it: Sets the FIN, PSH, and URG flags, lighting the packet up like a Christmas tree. Yesterday, my firewall was systematically scanned with a combination of […]
Since yesterday I’ve registered a significant increase in probes for TCP port 7547. Over the last 12 hours, more than 1000 different IP addresses have tried to contact one of my networks. 1000 probes is of course no big deal, but the port that’s suddenly become of interest can be. The image below shows the […]
Installing IDS sensors in your network for monitoring traffic is not always feasible, for several possible reasons. Perhaps the network infrastructure is too complex, leading to blind spots. Maybe the affected network links have higher capacity than your ad hoc IDS sensor, causing packet loss on the sensor. Or your company may be organized in […]
Building a toolbox around threat intelligence can be done with freely available tools. Shared information about malicious behaviour allows you to detect and sometimes prevent activity from – and to – Internet resources that could compromise your systems’ security. I’ve already described how to use lists of malicious domain names in a BIND RPZ (Response […]
Note: This may very well be well-known information, but I found it difficult to get exact answers from the official ClamAV documentation, available man pages, and other kinds of documentation. The most useful hint originated from a mailing list thread considering ClamAV version 0.70, which is getting rather outdated. My original issue was getting antivirus […]
My Cowrie honeypot is now seeing a surge of outbound SSH tunnel probes, both towards different mail servers but also towards a specific web server, probably with the purpose of informing about a successful intrusion. The honeypot has seen outbound attempts before, but not as persistent as with this bot from .ru. Cowrie fakes successful […]
Previously I’ve written about visualizing firewall activity. Revitalizing a fireplot graphing tool gives a nice day-to-day overview, but after being reminded of Logstalgia in this Imgur post I wanted to give live visualization a shot. Logstalgia is a neat tool for visualizing activity, by feeding it log files or live feeds. It’s originally designed for […]
Today I came across this blog article, explaining how to make WordPress log suspicious activity to an audit log file, which in turn can be monitored by OSSEC. Everything mentioned in the article was all fine and dandy, until I read the last paragraph: “Note that for this feature to work, you have to use […]