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Old 19th July 2012
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Question massive ssh login attempts

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When I check my authlog it's filled with ssh login attempts, mostly from China and Malaysia. It constantly filles up with failed logins for diffrent random users including root. I think it's around 600/day...

Is this normal for a home server?
It's an OpenBSD 5.1 box, what is your toughts on the best way to protects your server from these massive attacks? Should I block IP adresses with more than 3 attempts for 24 hours?
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Perfectly normal.

I block 3 attempts in 30 seconds, do not allow root login, and do not allow password authentication.
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It constantly filles up with failed logins for diffrent random users including root. I think it's around 600/day...
It is most likely a dictionary attack. Someone has assembled a list of "common" account names, & by brute force is determining whether any accounts on your system are so named. If an account is found, it will then attempt to open the account with "common" passwords.

One of the things this sort of act proves is that as a sysadmin, you should ensure that common passwords are being used on your system(s). Dissuading use of common account names isn't such a bad idea either.
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Old 19th July 2012
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Follow the recommendation of jggimi, and also change ssh to listen to a different port.
This will stop almost all these login attempts
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Old 20th July 2012
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Thumbs up Thanks!

I already have disabled root logins (by default), so next will be to disable password authentication.
It feels good to know that this is normal, but I feel like an teenager by saying that!
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How appropriate you feel that way. These are just script kiddies attacking you.
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Old 21st July 2012
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Smile solution

So the solution also become script running every 10 minutes:
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cat /var/log/authlog | grep "sshd" | grep -i "failed" | rev  | cut -d\  -f 4 | grep '[.]' | rev | sort | uniq -c | awk '{ if ($1 >= 10) print $2}' > /etc/ssh_block
and in pf is checking this file...pf.conf:
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table <ssh_block> persist file "/etc/ssh_block"

block drop in from <ssh_block> to any
The authlog is rotated weekly, so this makes that every ip that makes 10 or more failed ssh logins during a week is blocked.
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Old 21st July 2012
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I suggest dropping that script and using an "overload <ssh_block>" state option in pf.conf. See pf.conf(5) for details, and probably a bunch of other posts here on this forum too. Its a really really good feature to add to your skillset imho.
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