November honeypot report
First, the data from our Telnet & SSH honeypot. The USA is back to the top place this month, followed by Ireland and the Netherlands:
Here is how the hourly activity looks like. The frequency with which the honeypot is being attacked has dropped significantly. Now we see averagely one attack every 1.3 seconds, while it used to be more than one attack per second in the past:
More than 71% of the attacks are via Telnet, the rest are via SSH:
The top-5 URLs from which malware was most actively uploaded to the honeypot. Mirai variants all of them, as usual, although the original variant is not among them:
Indeed, as you can see, uploads of various Mirai variants (IMO, "Svirtu" is a Mirai variant too) dominate heavily. The only exceptions are four generic downloader (Downloader-AAN), two Gafgyt variants (KS and DZ), and some generic DDoS program (DDoS-S):
Details about the top-20 most actively attacking IPs:
The top-20 most actively attacking organizations. DigitalOcean was displaced from the top spot this month again, but just barely:
Speaking of DigitalOcean, as you can see, I've been sending them averagely more than 59 abuse reports every day but it doesn't seem to be helping very much:
The top-20 passwords that are the most often used by the attackers; nothing unusual here:
Moving on to our SMB honeypot.
First, the big picture. Vietnam has the top spot again, although Russia is again very active:
Hourly activity, showing on average around 2.36 attacks per second; pretty steady traffic - and again more than against the Telnet & SSH honeypot. The gap was caused by the honeypot being down for maintenance:
Unique uploaded malware variants, according to Symantec's scanner. The corrupted WannaCry variants (no kill switch check, no encryption) dominate, as usual, although their total number has decreased significantly:
Even if we don't count only the unique variants, WannaCry is well-represented:
Details about the top-20 most actively attacking IPs. Nothing unusual here:
The top-20 organizations from which most of the attacks are coming from. Nothing unusual here, either:
Next, the data from our ADB honeypot.
The big picture. This month the Netherlands holds the top spot, displacing the USA:
The hourly connection data, showing averagely 2.3 attacks per hour:
The unique malware uploaded to the honeypot, according to Fortinet's scanner. The two parts of same old Monero mining worm (Trinity) is causing all the identified malicious uploads:
Details about the top-20 most actively attacking IPs:
The top-20 organizations that own the IP addresses attacking us:
Next, moving to the Remote Desktop Protocol honeypot.
First, the big picture. The Netherlands holds the top spot this month:
Hourly activity, showing 2.28 attacks per minute:
Details about the top-20 attacking IP addresses. You can see why the Netherlands is occupying the top spot:
The top-20 organizations that own the IP addresses attacking us:
Moving on to our Elasticsearch honeypot.
First, the big picture. China is back on the top spot this month:
Hourly activity, showing 1.7 attacks per hour:
The scans dominate although there are a significant number of attempts to exploit the seemingly vulnerable server and to run code on it (mostly a crypto miner). There are also a couple of unusual scans using a HEAD request; probably somebody's overly cautious vulnerability scanner:
Details about the top-20 IP addresses that have connected to the honeypot. You can see at the top the Chinese IP address whose entire purpose in life seems to be periodically scanning the Internet for open Elasticsearch servers:
Information about the top-20 organizations that own the IP addresses attacking the honeypot:
The top-20 queries most often used by the attackers:
The top-10 payloads used by the attackers. Mostly trying to install a Monero miner (there is probably a worm or a botnet that does this):
Finally, moving to our Internet Printer Protocol honeypot.
First, the big picture. This month, too, not all attacks come from the USA - there is one from Germany as well. (There are also generic HTTP hits from other countries as well - from machines that scan random IP addresses for the presence of an HTTP server on any port - but I have filtered only the attacks which explicitly use the IPP protocol.)
The attacks come roughly 3 times per day. So far they have been only scans - the attackers are using only the Get-Printer-Attributes operation and are not actually trying to print anything:
Details about the top-20 IP addresses scanning the honeypot. As you can see, almost all of them are in the USA and belong to a very small set of ISPs. Each address has scanned the honeypot only a few times, though (1-3), suggesting that whoever is doing this (probably Censys), is rotating VMs at these ISPs when doing the scanning from them:
Information about the top-20 organizations that own the IP addresses attacking the honeypot - except that there are only 7 different ones:
This concludes the November honeypot report.