This query will display a bar chart of all successful Internal vs External SSH connections. Useful for identifying any spikes in connectivity coming from within your network remit or outside of it. Simply change the CIDR matches to match your required LANs. “sshd” AND “Accepted password” | rex “[a-zA-z]{3}\s\d+\s\d+:\d+:\d+\s[a-zA-Z0-9-.]*\s[a-zA-z]{3}\s\d+\s\d+:\d+:\d+\s(?<hostname>.*)\ssshd\[\d+\]:\sAccepted\spassword\sfor\s(?<username>.*)\sfrom\s(?<sourceip>.*)\sport\s(?<sourceport>.*)\sssh2” | eval network=case(cidrmatch(“192.168.0.0/24″, sourceip),”Internal”, cidrmatch(“10.10.0.0/16″,sourceip),”Internal”, […]
Top Offending SSH Failure by Source IP
This displays a list of failed attempts against each connecting IP. Can be used to detect brute force from a particular source IP. You can then put a block up via ACL or whatever method you chose to mitigate the issue. The NOT clause on the first line ignore all attempts to logon to “invalid […]
