Question

bye bye messages from ssh attempts

Asked by: jools

Hi All,

This is really just out of curiosity, I get loads of messages which look something like;
   Received disconnect from 129.1.64.81: 11: Bye Bye

Now I'm happy I'm OK and I have denyhosts enabled and secure passwords etc etc
I was wondering what is used to generate the "Bye Bye" message...

Anyone know?

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2009-04-11 at 03:53:30ID24314357
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Answers

 

by: tl121000Posted on 2009-04-11 at 07:57:25ID: 24122235

These as you know are hacking attempts, since SSH is a well known port (22).

you can tighten your firewall to allow only valid users

or

check this out...

http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/?p=183

 

by: DaveHowePosted on 2009-04-11 at 08:15:23ID: 24122314

sadly, its pretty common - one of the "common currency" ssh haxxor scripts uses that disconnect string, and usually tries to log in as guest/guest or test/test before trying a brute force attack.

Each entry should *also* have a number in square brackets, which is the process ID - once you see the byebye, you can use that number with grep to locate any other records in the log for the same process ID - its also worth grepping on the IP address given, to see if there are any other threads that share that IP.

problematic lines will be something like "failed password" - showing attempts to log in.

 

by: tl121000Posted on 2009-04-11 at 08:26:44ID: 24122351

If you do not have the rights to configure your FW, you can also configure the hosts.allow file to minimize these occurences...

Please refer to these articles and threads to figure out the best way to resolve your problem (or at least minimize it).

http://closedsrc.org/_static/dn-articles/hosts_allow.html

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-May/122583.html

 

by: DaveHowePosted on 2009-04-11 at 08:36:32ID: 24122384

really, its just background noise - I did a bit of checking, and of the three scripts I could find that left this trace in the log, they did so by use of a freeware ssh library called "libssh" (logically enough) - for which this is the default disconnect string.

if you *really* want security from ssh, disallow password logins entirely and require use of a client rsa or dsa key to gain access.

 

by: tl121000Posted on 2009-04-12 at 07:35:21ID: 24125813

DaveHowe,

I agree with you about background noise, but if there is a particular IP address that is always attempting...  why not block it out completely and minimize a potential  hacking oppurtunity all together.

T

 

by: joolsPosted on 2009-04-12 at 13:52:20ID: 24126855

Thanks Dave,

So if the message is logged as bye bye I can almost guarantee it is a hack attempt by someone using a "haxxor script" rather than someone making a mistake and guessing the address wrong.

Thats great.... I've been hit a lot by the ip address above which seems to belong to an educational establishment in Ohio USA. I may, if it continues, get in touch with their abuse account to see if they can have a word in the offenders shell-like or perhaps shut down the offending server if it's been compromised.

As I said before, I'm happy my setup is secure, I just wondered what generated the Bye Bye message in the logs.

 

by: joolsPosted on 2009-04-12 at 13:57:57ID: 24126886

Dave,

You mentioned in http:#a24122384 you found three scripts, do you have the names, I'd like to do a bit more digging around.

I've been logging the connections using wireshark and netcat.

 

by: DaveHowePosted on 2009-04-12 at 14:43:25ID: 24127055

one was from 'haita team'  -  sshf.c - and another was sshbrute.c from 'lizard', but which credits haita team for some code. the third was a scanning module for metasploit, but as I say, the commonality is use of http://0xbadc0de.be/wiki/ (not to be confused with http://www.libssh2.org/ which has a similar name)

 

by: DaveHowePosted on 2009-04-12 at 16:04:10ID: 24127242

this would appear to be applicable too:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/12/2110257

 

by: joolsPosted on 2009-04-12 at 16:07:12ID: 31569157

Thanks Dave, all the  comments have been most helpful

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