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=Intro=
=Intro=
Sometimes it is annoying to see that people try tog into your terminalserver with bad credentials doing
Sometimes it is annoying to see that people try to logon into your terminalserver with bad account credentials, they try to do this all day long to find a valid user and password combination in the hope that the guessed account is valid.  
this all day long to find a valid user and password combination.  


This is like a burglar in front of your house, trying one key pair after the other with no one interrupting him.
This is like a burglar in front of your door, trying one key pair after the other with no one interrupting him.


That's why we came up with evt2fw, we search the eventlog for intruders and block them on our local firewall.
That's why we came up with evt2fw, we search the eventlog for intruders and block them on our local firewall.


Eventlog to Firewall is a tool to prevent hackers to get into your system.
Eventlog to Firewall is a tool to prevent hackers to get into your system.
It runs on Windows and looks into the Eventlog and searches invalid logons due to wrong user credentils, if it find those then block it for a certain timespan.
It runs on Windows and looks into the Eventlog and it searches invalid logons due to wrong access credentials, if it finds them then block it for a certain amount of time.
Eventlog to Firewall is a script called '''evt2fw'''. it is designed to run on Windows2008 Terminalservers.
Eventlog to Firewall is a script called '''evt2fw'''. it is designed to run on Windows2008 Terminalservers.


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*Add unauthorized users / ip addresses to the local Windows Firewall
*Add unauthorized users / ip addresses to the local Windows Firewall
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Latest revision as of 13:09, 4 March 2022

Intro

Sometimes it is annoying to see that people try to logon into your terminalserver with bad account credentials, they try to do this all day long to find a valid user and password combination in the hope that the guessed account is valid.

This is like a burglar in front of your door, trying one key pair after the other with no one interrupting him.

That's why we came up with evt2fw, we search the eventlog for intruders and block them on our local firewall.

Eventlog to Firewall is a tool to prevent hackers to get into your system. It runs on Windows and looks into the Eventlog and it searches invalid logons due to wrong access credentials, if it finds them then block it for a certain amount of time. Eventlog to Firewall is a script called evt2fw. it is designed to run on Windows2008 Terminalservers.


Features

  • Add unauthorized users / ip addresses to the local Windows Firewall
  • Remove ip addresses after a specified time from the local Windows Firewall
  • Logging of logon and logoff requests to syslog



System Requirements

  • Windows 2008 (32/62)
  • RDP/Terminalserver enabled
  • Windows Firewall enabled and properly configured
  • Active State Perl
  • A scheduled task to run the script



Windows Firewall

  • Add a new rule and name it of your choice
  • Please don't enable the rule, the script is managing this by itself.
  • Set Block as Action

Properties

  • Set all Profiles for this rule
  • Allow edge traversal

Properties



  • Nothing needs to be added in Scope but you can check this later for blocked IPs by the script

Properties





Script Files

Script Files
File Purpose
evt2fw.pl The Perl Script
evt2fw.xml The Script Configuration
evt2fw.dat Internal Database (CSV), this is where we hold our data
evt2fw.sta Status File, this is where we save the last execution time





Configuration

  • Configuration of evt2fw.xml
  • XML Version: <?xml version="1.0"?>
  • Root Element: <Config>
evt2fw.xml
Element Attribute Array Purpose
Setup TimeBack No Integer value to specify the time which the script should check behind the current time.
By default this value is set to 0 or is remarked out.
We use the last given time in fw2fw.sta to get the time setting automatically.
BlockTimeDelta No Integer value to define the time delta in seconds to check for intruders

Example: 86400 will check the last 24 hours for intruders

ExpireDelta No Integer value to define the time delta in seconds. This is to specify for how long we keep the ip address of the intruder blocked
MaxRequest No Amount of requests or login attemos which a intruder can send before we block the ip
FirewallRuleName No The Name of the Windows Firewall Rule
UseGMT No The Terminalserver uses UTC for the eventlog. Set this value to 1 to calculate a GMT offset for the time behind
IgnoreSystemWhitelist No The default is 0, we will whitelist private ip addresses anytime, this is making sure

that you don't lock out yourself.

Logage No Amount of days before we delete our logfiles
Syslog IP Yes IP of Syslog Server
Whitelist IP Yes Whitlist Ip address, no wildcard or CIDR format but you may set parts of the IP,

Example: IP="192.168" would whitelist all addresses beginning with 192.168 (the first two octets)




Example Configuration

  • Check behind 24 hours for intruders
  • Keep intruders blocked for 24 hours
  • Max 3 login attemps using bad passwords
  • use GMT offset calculation
  • Whitelist private ip addresses
  • Write Log
  • Use SyslogServer 192.168.100.1/2
  • Whitelist 213.10
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<CONFIG>
<Setup 
	BlockTimeDelta="86400"
	ExpireDelta="86400"
	MaxRequest="3"
	FirewallRuleName="Script-Dynamic"
	UseGMT="1"
	IgnoreSystemWhitleist="0"
        Syslog="1"  
 />   
 <Syslog IP="192.168.100.1"/>
 <Syslog IP="192.168.100.2"/>
 <Whitelist IP="213.10"/>
</CONFIG>





Syslog

evt2fw can send data via UDP to a syslog server, we will use parsing friendly key value pairs.

Script Files
Field Description
SRV Server name from where the script runs
M The modus, set S2F (Syslog 2 Firewall)
LFR Local Firewall Rule Name, in our sample it is 'ScriptDynamic'
LOF Logoff User
LOU Logon User (will be zero in case of a intrusion)
WID (0/1) Whitelisted Intrusion Detection
DIP Detected IP
IDU Intrusion Detected User (will be zero in case of a secussful logon)
TGE Time generated (WMI Timestamp)





Script Internals

evt2fw is checking the following IDs from the Eventlog

  • 4624 - Logon Type 10 - Successfull login
  • 4625 - Logon Type 10 - Bad Login attemp
  • 4647 - Logoff event

Message parsing

  • Source Network Address
  • Logon Type
  • Account Name

WMI Query: ("Select * from Win32_NTLogEvent Where Logfile = 'Security' and (eventcode = '4625' or eventcode = '4624' or eventcode = '4647') and TimeGenerated > TimegivenFromScrip



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