Distributed ssh attack / 2018-06-25

SSH attacks are on the rise. But fail2ban isn't blocking as much of those attacks as it used to since the attacks are quite distributed. This morning I noticed clear correlation between a subset of the attempts, they were all using names of websites hosted on the same system.

Jun 25 06:18:44 greenblatt sshd[10092]: Invalid user campwireless from 95.111.97.96
Jun 25 06:29:21 greenblatt sshd[10993]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 206.189.158.105
Jun 25 06:30:51 greenblatt sshd[11073]: Invalid user campwireless from 211.118.23.85
Jun 25 06:41:43 greenblatt sshd[12213]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 80.191.115.125
Jun 25 06:50:01 greenblatt sshd[12962]: Invalid user campwireless from 46.24.225.3
Jun 25 06:59:39 greenblatt sshd[13794]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 58.221.14.202
Jun 25 07:35:27 greenblatt sshd[16771]: Invalid user virtualbookcase from 98.248.65.243
Jun 25 07:35:36 greenblatt sshd[16779]: Invalid user campwireless from 109.95.210.175
Jun 25 07:39:28 greenblatt sshd[17175]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 88.170.50.242
Jun 25 07:46:01 greenblatt sshd[17570]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 166.70.198.80
Jun 25 07:54:59 greenblatt sshd[18273]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 187.104.5.246
Jun 25 07:59:48 greenblatt sshd[18754]: Invalid user idefix from 188.19.15.188
Jun 25 08:02:08 greenblatt sshd[18926]: Invalid user idefix from 179.219.129.91
Jun 25 08:05:54 greenblatt sshd[19358]: Invalid user virtualbookcase from 118.114.237.235
Jun 25 08:09:45 greenblatt sshd[19809]: Invalid user urlurl from 111.231.89.130
Jun 25 08:26:35 greenblatt sshd[21183]: Invalid user urlurl from 212.156.83.146
Jun 25 08:29:07 greenblatt sshd[21357]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 37.205.177.106
Jun 25 08:43:04 greenblatt sshd[22400]: Invalid user campwireless from 190.85.83.230
Jun 25 08:45:45 greenblatt sshd[22558]: Invalid user campwireless from 35.161.235.34
Jun 25 09:01:30 greenblatt sshd[23883]: Invalid user urlurl from 180.76.160.50
Jun 25 09:08:17 greenblatt sshd[24516]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 60.251.223.115
Jun 25 09:23:47 greenblatt sshd[26042]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 106.51.76.93
Jun 25 09:45:27 greenblatt sshd[27812]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 62.254.31.162
Jun 25 09:56:02 greenblatt sshd[28617]: Invalid user campwireless from 212.77.72.170
Jun 25 10:06:47 greenblatt sshd[29707]: Invalid user campwireless from 123.207.139.72
Jun 25 10:14:58 greenblatt sshd[30250]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 81.95.114.163
Jun 25 10:15:43 greenblatt sshd[30317]: Invalid user camp-wireless from 193.112.166.253
Jun 25 10:19:17 greenblatt sshd[30698]: Invalid user campwireless from 211.54.146.250
Jun 25 10:19:25 greenblatt sshd[30702]: Invalid user urlurl from 178.91.253.138
Jun 25 10:32:42 greenblatt sshd[31743]: Invalid user idefix from 85.120.15.35
Jun 25 11:04:33 greenblatt sshd[2346]: Invalid user campwireless from 213.138.110.89

This suggests coordination between the attacking systems.

But the simpler attacks do continue:

Jun 25 09:17:31 greenblatt sshd[25579]: Invalid user cristina from 202.29.224.50
Jun 25 09:17:35 greenblatt sshd[25582]: Invalid user cristina from 202.29.224.50
Jun 25 09:17:39 greenblatt sshd[25586]: Invalid user cristina from 202.29.224.50
Jun 25 09:17:39 greenblatt sshd[25585]: Invalid user cristina from 202.29.224.50