Re: Server Attack

Jeffrey V. Merkey
2006-08-28T02:42:54Z

altendew wrote:

>Hi someone is currently sending requests to our server 20x a second.
>
>Here is what one of the logs look like.
>
>[CODE]
>Host: 84.77.19.46 /signUp.php?ref=1945777
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:38 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; MTQ; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/578.4
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v643.68e=C:
>
>Host: 82.234.98.65 /signUp.php?ref=ec0lag
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:38 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; CDB; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/126.0
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v554.35
>
>Host: 84.94.31.161 /signUp.php?ref=ec0lag
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:38 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; TLD; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/502.6
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v401.63ive=C:
>
>Host: 81.49.24.92 /signUp.php?ref=1945777
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:38 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; SZS; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/230.1
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v710.56ive=C:
>
>Host: 80.129.248.17 /signUp.php?ref=1945777
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:38 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; OST; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/243.6
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v846.88
>
>Host: 87.235.49.194 /signUp.php?ref=ec0lag
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:38 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; SDD; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/430.1
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v145.34
>
>Host: 125.129.12.61 /signUp.php?ref=1945777
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:38 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; WCG; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/455.3
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v042.84stemDrive=\x81
>
>Host: 66.110.153.47 /signUp.php?ref=ec0lag
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:38 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; ZAM; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/387.2
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v456.02ve=C:
>
>Host: 62.2.177.250 /signUp.php?ref=ec0lag
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:38 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; LMZ; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/206.1
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v204.07es
>
>Host: 200.115.226.143 /signUp.php?ref=1945777
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:37 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; EDE; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/647.0
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v760.47emDrive=C:\x81
>
>Host: 84.171.125.189 /signUp.php?ref=1945777
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:37 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; QHA; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/778.0
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v456.03=C:
>
>Host: 83.242.79.70 /signUp.php?ref=1945777
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:37 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; GFS; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/537.0
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v313.01rive=C:
>
>Host: 86.69.194.172 /signUp.php?ref=ec0lag
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:37 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; ZCV; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/468.2
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v026.14stemDrive=\x81
>
>Host: 196.203.176.26 /signUp.php?ref=ec0lag
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:37 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; BXT; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/840.3
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v767.50s
>
>Host: 201.41.241.190 /signUp.php?ref=1945777
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:37 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; TYZ; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/742.0
>(KHTML, like Geco, Safari) OmniWeb/v715.65C:
>
>Host: 200.84.144.234 /signUp.php?ref=ec0lag
> Http Code: 403 Date: Aug 27 17:44:37 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in
>Bytes: -
> Referer: -
> Agent: Mozilla/5.0
>[/CODE]
>
>We are currently blocking this user through our Apache.
>
>.htaccess
>[CODE]
>RewriteEngine On
>RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla/5\.0\ \(Macintosh;\ (.+)\ PPC\ Mac\
>OS\ X;\ en-US\)\ AppleWebKit/(.+)\ \(KHTML,\ like\ Geco,\ Safari\)\
>OmniWeb/v([0-9]+).([0-9]+)(.+)$
>RewriteRule .* - [F]
>[/CODE]
>
>That works fine and is giving the user a 403 (Forbidden), but the problem is
>that half of our Apache processes are from this user.
>
>Is there a way to block his user agent before he gets to Apache? Sometimes
>this brings our server to a crash.
>
>Thanks
>Andrew
>
>
iptables -J drop <ip address>