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      ASIC
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      Hi, I have exactly the same problem - weird incoming connections from the same ip (103.240.140.10). UPnP is disabled. No open WAN ports, no floating rules. Pfsense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 (amd64). I googled this IP and realize it has been blacklisted at some places:
      http://sanyalnet-cloud-vps.freeddns.org/mirai-ips.txt
      https://whatismyipaddress.eu/downloads/ip-blacklist.txt
      I have only Windows 7 PC's in my LAN. They all were shut down when this traffic appear. Sorry for my bad English.
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      • provelsP
        provels
        last edited by

        https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/103.240.140.10
        But not why the traffic was passed.

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        • johnpozJ
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
          last edited by

          Your not even showing your rule Ids or description. For all we know you have an any any rule on your wan?

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            ASIC
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            When I place the mouse over the green check on left on the rule, it shows "pass/0". When I click it opens a popup: "The rule that triggered this action is:" Nothing else.

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              ASIC
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              Rule description is @4294967295.

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                hulleyrob @ASIC
                last edited by hulleyrob

                Does anyone have an idea where the rule id comes from as it looks like we all have the same rule ID number creating these rules maybe this will give us an idea of where they are coming from?

                Ideally there would be some logging or history but as everyone has said upnp is a bad idea for most people so i guess thats why it doesnt exist.

                Also they are also 8 seconds apart in batches but this could be the time that the service runs each time?

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                  last edited by johnpoz

                  So I just turned UPnP on - to test.. And then set my plex to use UPnP vs the static forward I have setup.

                  So I disabled my normal port forward.. Then enable UPnP

                  And I get this.
                  upnp.jpg

                  After doing a can you see me for the port listed in the UPnP status 21735

                  Is not coming up with that ID number.. A google for that ID and pfsense came up with this thread
                  https://forum.netgate.com/topic/128685/firewall-log-showing-strange-pass-entry

                  Can we see the raw firewall logs for these entries. Like in that thread.

                  example - here is the raw entry for one of those passed via upnp

                  Oct 15 06:10:27 	filterlog: 224,0,miniupnpd,0,igb1,match,pass,in,4,0x0,,42,13284,0,DF,6,tcp,60,52.202.215.126,192.168.9.10,58368,32400,0,S,2623792563,,26883,,mss;sackOK;TS;nop;wscale
                  

                  You can see from the log that miniupnpd there.. So lets see the raw for these entries.

                  From that other thread
                  Mar 25 14:42:05 pfSense filterlog: 4294967295,,,0,re0,short,pass,in,4,0x0,,239,10359,0,DF,6,tcp,36,105.212.87.78,[MYIPADDRESS],2123,23,-4,S,errormsg='[bad hdr length 20 - too long, > 16]',

                  Not exactly sure what "short" means as the reason...

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                    hulleyrob @johnpoz
                    last edited by

                    @johnpoz yeah sure i did look at those last night but couldnt see anything that looked much differant from in the screenshot but maybe you will see something i cannot. Will post as soon as i get home from work. Thanks to everyone for input and testing this.

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                      ASIC
                      last edited by

                      Here is my raw filter log for this:
                      Oct 14 20:42:00 filterlog: 4294967295,,,0,pppoe0,short,pass,in,4,0x0,,241,53405,0,none,17,udp,27,103.240.140.10,[MYIPADDRESS],1810,1985,7

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                        last edited by johnpoz

                        @ASIC said in Had my pfSense been compromised?:

                        short,

                        I have no idea what that means... Have never seen that in the logs before.

                        Found this;
                        reason res - the reason that action was taken. Possible reasons are match, bad-offset, fragment, short, normalize, memory, bad-timestamp, congestion, ip-option, proto-cksum, state-mismatch, state-insert, state-limit, src-limit and synproxy.

                        But not sure what "short" actually means?

                        edit: Ok looks there have been some that match on short (2) - but still not actually finding anything that describes what it actually means

                        [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/root: pfctl -s info
                        Status: Enabled for 30 days 22:17:00          Debug: Urgent
                        
                        Interface Stats for igb0              IPv4             IPv6
                          Bytes In                    350478233746         69232705
                          Bytes Out                  1405455628533       1128183040
                          Packets In
                            Passed                       466867557           311496
                            Blocked                           8876                1
                          Packets Out
                            Passed                       999590646          1171599
                            Blocked                              0                0
                        
                        State Table                          Total             Rate
                          current entries                      404               
                          searches                      3535810440         1323.2/s
                          inserts                         15778842            5.9/s
                          removals                        15778438            5.9/s
                        Counters
                          match                           16542390            6.2/s
                          bad-offset                             0            0.0/s
                          fragment                              64            0.0/s
                          short                                  2            0.0/s
                          normalize                             21            0.0/s
                          memory                                 0            0.0/s
                          bad-timestamp                          0            0.0/s
                          congestion                             0            0.0/s
                          ip-option                            125            0.0/s
                          proto-cksum                            0            0.0/s
                          state-mismatch                      2834            0.0/s
                          state-insert                           0            0.0/s
                          state-limit                            0            0.0/s
                          src-limit                              0            0.0/s
                          synproxy                               0            0.0/s
                          map-failed                             0            0.0/s
                        [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/root: 
                        

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                          bchan @ASIC
                          last edited by

                          @ASIC said in Had my pfSense been compromised?:

                          Rule description is @4294967295.

                          Same id as mine.🤔

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                            ASIC @bchan
                            last edited by

                            @bchan said in Had my pfSense been compromised?:

                            4294967295

                            Maybe because 4294967295(Dec) is equal to FFFFFFFF(Hex).

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                            • johnpozJ
                              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                              last edited by johnpoz

                              Ok so from research so fare

                              short packets dropped

                              Is that that is suppose to mean.. but why does it say passed then?

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                              • provelsP
                                provels
                                last edited by provels

                                So there is no outbound traffic to 103.240.140.10 from some device that creates this return Allow temp rule? Since all return traffic is allowed? Create a rule that allows (but logs) all traffic to 103.240.140.10? (LOL, ignore as needed! :)

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                                • johnpozJ
                                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  To be honest I think this is log of traffic that IP or transport header is too short.. But not sure why its saying pass... But I don't think that traffic is actually being passed to anything, not even pfsense.

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                                    hulleyrob
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                                    Oct 13 09:14:13 pfSense filterlog: 4294967295,16777216,,0,pppoe0,short,pass,in,4,0x0,,245,35606,0,none,17,udp,27,103.240.140.10,IP_REMOVED,3266,990,7
                                    Oct 13 09:14:13 pfSense filterlog: 4294967295,16777216,,0,pppoe0,short,pass,in,4,0x0,,245,35608,0,none,17,udp,27,103.240.140.10,IP_REMOVED,2427,389,7
                                    Oct 13 09:14:13 pfSense filterlog: 4294967295,16777216,,0,pppoe0,short,pass,in,4,0x0,,245,35605,0,none,17,udp,27,103.240.140.10,IP_REMOVED,1862,1025,7
                                    Oct 13 09:14:13 pfSense filterlog: 4294967295,16777216,,0,pppoe0,short,pass,in,4,0x0,,245,35607,0,none,17,udp,27,103.240.140.10,IP_REMOVED,570,995,7
                                    Oct 13 09:14:13 pfSense filterlog: 4294967295,16777216,,0,pppoe0,short,pass,in,4,0x0,,245,35604,0,none,17,udp,27,103.240.140.10,IP_REMOVED,493,514,7
                                    Oct 13 09:14:13 pfSense filterlog: 4294967295,16777216,,0,pppoe0,short,pass,in,4,0x0,,245,35609,0,none,17,udp,27,103.240.140.10,IP_REMOVED,2375,445,7
                                    Oct 13 09:14:13 pfSense filterlog: 4294967295,16777216,,0,pppoe0,short,pass,in,4,0x0,,245,35602,0,none,17,udp,27,103.240.140.10,IP_REMOVED,162,546,7
                                    Oct 13 09:14:13 pfSense filterlog: 4294967295,16777216,,0,pppoe0,short,pass,in,4,0x0,,245,35603,0,none,17,udp,27,103.240.140.10,IP_REMOVED,3871,547,7
                                    

                                    Here are the entries from my log file.

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                                    • johnpozJ
                                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      So it seems these are short, ie something wrong with them... But the question is why are they getting logged as passed.. If they are short - they should just be dropped.

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                                        hulleyrob @johnpoz
                                        last edited by

                                        @johnpoz if thats all it is it will be a relief as you saw on the screenshot above it looked like something had opened up all those ports.

                                        What do I do now, is it worth reporting this somewhere for investigation?

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                                        • johnpozJ
                                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          I would hope @jimp or @Derelict might be able to give more details of these "short" log entries..

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                                          • jimpJ
                                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                            last edited by

                                            I can't remember the last time I saw one marked short. It might be a fragment.

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