Jeff,
I've thought the same thing about "FAIL"2ban. We use it at $work and
it can block an IP within a couple of seconds. There are other
similar packages, but fail2ban is worth a try if you find no other
solution.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 5:48 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 6:38 PM Keith Christian
<keith1christian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Try fail2ban, it is an excellent filtering system that blocks IP
addresses based on what it finds in log files, you'd point fail2ban at
the web server logs, e.g. Apache logs or whatever http server is on
your Mediawiki server.
Thanks Keith.
It does not look a fail (to me). The 301's are redirects from http to
https. The 200's are successes.
It seems like Mediawiki should know it is incorrect for someone to
request load.php. The request should be killed in the application.
Mediawiki has the specialized knowledge required to stop the
shenanigans.
Jeff
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:51 PM Jeffrey Walton
<noloader(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
We see a continuous flow of requests like shown below. We are fairly
certain it is a botnet probing for weaknesses or vulnerabilities. The
source IP address slowly moves around. It looks like there was a bug
in load.php some time ago [1].
I don't have time to manually monitor this. We are looking for one of
those wiki plugins to handle it at the application layer.
How do we ban the host for making these probes for a day or a week?
Thanks in advance.
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sl0d755pv10sjxl0
92.32.245.123 - - [19/Apr/2020:14:41:12 -0400] "GET
/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.helplink%2Cspecial%2Cui%7Cmediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.skinning.interface%7Cmediawiki.special.search.styles%7Cmediawiki.ui.button%2Cinput%7Cmediawiki.widgets.SearchInputWidget.styles%7Cmediawiki.widgets.styles%7Coojs-ui-core.styles%7Coojs-ui.styles.icons-alerts%2Cicons-content%2Cicons-interactions%2Cindicators%2Ctextures%7Cskins.vector.styles&only=styles&skin=vector
HTTP/1.1" 200 28580
92.32.245.123 - - [19/Apr/2020:14:41:13 -0400] "GET
/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.SmjCDN%7Cjquery%2Coojs%2Coojs-ui-core%2Coojs-ui-widgets%2Csite%7Cjquery.accessKeyLabel%2CcheckboxShiftClick%2Cclient%2CgetAttrs%2ChighlightText%2Csuggestions%2CtabIndex%2Cthrottle-debounce%7Cmediawiki.RegExp%2CString%2CTitle%2Capi%2Cbase%2Ccldr%2Clanguage%2CsearchSuggest%2Cutil%2Cwidgets%7Cmediawiki.libs.pluralruleparser%7Cmediawiki.page.ready%2Cstartup%7Cmediawiki.special.search%7Cmediawiki.widgets.SearchInputWidget%7Coojs-ui.styles.icons-editing-advanced%2Cicons-moderation%2Cicons-movement%7Cskins.vector.js%7Cuser.defaults&skin=vector&version=1rf1ap1
HTTP/1.1" 200 144182
92.32.245.123 - - [19/Apr/2020:14:41:15 -0400] "GET
/wiki/Debug_Symbols HTTP/1.1" 200 7733
92.32.245.123 - - [19/Apr/2020:14:41:16 -0400] "GET
/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.skinning.interface%7Cmediawiki.toc.styles%7Cskins.vector.styles&only=styles&skin=vector
HTTP/1.1" 200 8880
92.32.245.123 - - [19/Apr/2020:14:41:16 -0400] "GET
/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.SmjCDN%7Cjquery%2Csite%7Cjquery.accessKeyLabel%2CcheckboxShiftClick%2Cclient%2Ccookie%2CgetAttrs%2ChighlightText%2Csuggestions%2CtabIndex%2Cthrottle-debounce%7Cmediawiki.RegExp%2CString%2CTitle%2Capi%2Cbase%2Ccookie%2CsearchSuggest%2Ctoc%2Cutil%7Cmediawiki.page.ready%2Cstartup%7Cskins.vector.js%7Cuser.defaults&skin=vector&version=1j07wt1
HTTP/1.1" 200 68744
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