Hi, >> I thought someone might be familiar with apache and expected behavior >> to know whether the access_log entries below are attack attempts, or >> something less alarming. I'm seeing repeated entries like these from a >> handful of IP addresses at a time, all with 404 errors using "POST >> /index.php": >> >> 222.186.24.108 - - [01/Nov/2011:16:56:29 -0400] "POST /index.php >> HTTP/1.1" 404 7168 "http://www.example.com/index.php"; "Mozilla/5.0 >> (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2" 31508 7609 >> 222.186.24.108 - - [01/Nov/2011:16:56:46 -0400] "POST /index.php >> HTTP/1.1" 404 7169 "http://www.example.com/index.php"; "Mozilla/5.0 >> (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2" 85912 7610 >> >> Is this a known exploit attempt? The server has been responding >> slowly, and I believe this is partly the cause. > > I've installed OSSEC and set a rule that drops an IP address for 30 > minutes after 10 404s in a reasonably short time. Yes, I've implemented iptables to drop the attempts. I was really just curious if it was a specific attack with a known pattern so I could investigate further. fail2ban is great for things like this. Thanks, Alex -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
