(code) One-liner parses ippl log for suspicious packets

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I've been using this for some time, and having a wee bit o'spare time lately, decided it might possibly maybe perhaps be of use to fellow monks. So without further ado, I offer for your consideration a perl one-liner that can help you to know when your box is being probed by sckiddies and crackers.

ippl is a *nix packet logger. By configuring it to log suspicous packets in a longer format than mundane packets, and by resolving their source address, you can trivially extract info on nefarious goings-on. The example log below illustrates my web server being probed for nonexistant FTP, DNS, and WINS services.

* relevent chunk from ippl.conf:

noresolve all
logformat normal all
log options resolve,detaild tcp port ftp
log options resolve,detaild tcp port domain        # zone xfer
log options resolve,detaild udp port netbios-ns
etc...
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* sample lines from ippl.log:

Nov  2 20:14:19 www connection attempt from 199.8.65.44
Nov  2 22:03:34 last message repeated 47 time(s)
Nov  2 22:34:49 ftp connection attempt from ts1-850.f1781.quebectel.co
+m [142.169.225.139] (142.169.225.139:21->204.27.0.137:21)
Nov  3 18:03:09 domain connection attempt from cha213245016252.chello.
+fr [213.245.16.252] (213.245.16.252:4709->204.27.0.137:53)
Nov  4 09:34:28 netbios-ns connection attempt from pD905543D.dip.t-dia
+lin.net [217.5.84.61] (217.5.84.61:4642->204.27.0.137:137)
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* sample munged output:

Nov  2 22:34:49 ftp connection attempt from ts1-850.f1781.quebectel.co
+m [142.169.225.139] (142.169.225.139:21->204.27.0.137:21)
Nov  3 18:03:09 domain connection attempt from cha213245016252.chello.
+fr [213.245.16.252] (213.245.16.252:4709->204.27.0.137:53)

Nov  4 09:34:28 netbios-ns connection attempt from pD905543D.dip.t-dia
+lin.net [217.5.84.61] (217.5.84.61:4642->204.27.0.137:137)
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* from a perlish perspective, it matches any line containing an open-paren *unless* the paren is immediately preceeded by the word "time". perldoc perlre says that's a zero-width positive lookahead assertion.

Update: Hmmm... props to blakem for cleaner and more recognizable syntax below. I vaguely recall seeing that in perlre, but must've already had this'un working.

perl -ne 'print if (/\(/ && $` !~ /time$/)' < ippl.log > ippl.noteworthy

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Re: One-liner parses ippl log for suspicious packets
by blakem (Monsignor) on Jan 09, 2002 at 04:20 UTC

perlre

`(?<!pattern)'
        A zero-width negative look-behind assertion.
        For example `/(?<!bar)foo/' matches any
        occurrence of "foo" that does not follow "bar".
        Works only for fixed-width look-behind.
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perl -ne 'print if /(?<!time)\(/' < ippl.log > ippl.noteworthy
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-Blake

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