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    Had my pfSense been compromised?

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      ASIC @jimp
      last edited by

      @jimp I have PfBlockerNG installed, and GeoIP Asia IP list, which includes 103.240.140.10, and it is applied as denied outbound connections on LAN, so there cannot be any existing connection to that IP.Clipboard01.jpg

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        NogBadTheBad
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        @ASIC said in Had my pfSense been compromised?:

        103.240.140.10

        Are you blocking Hong Kong ?

        andy@mac-pro ~ % whois 103.240.140.10
        % IANA WHOIS server
        % for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org
        % This query returned 1 object

        refer: whois.apnic.net

        inetnum: 103.0.0.0 - 103.255.255.255
        organisation: APNIC
        status: ALLOCATED

        whois: whois.apnic.net

        changed: 2011-02
        source: IANA

        whois.apnic.net

        % [whois.apnic.net]
        % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html

        % Information related to '103.240.140.1 - 103.240.142.255'

        % Abuse contact for '103.240.140.1 - 103.240.142.255' is 'abuse@clear-ddos.com'

        inetnum: 103.240.140.1 - 103.240.142.255
        netname: CTCL-HK
        descr: ClearDDoS Technologies
        country: HK
        admin-c: CTCL1-AP
        tech-c: CTCL1-AP
        status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE
        mnt-by: MAINT-CTCL-HK
        mnt-irt: IRT-CTCL-HK
        last-modified: 2014-09-28T08:41:28Z
        source: APNIC

        irt: IRT-CTCL-HK
        address: Flat C, 23/F, Lucky Plaza,, 315-321 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, Hongkong Hongkong 999999
        e-mail: abuse@clear-ddos.com
        abuse-mailbox: abuse@clear-ddos.com
        admin-c: CTCL1-AP
        tech-c: CTCL1-AP
        auth: # Filtered
        mnt-by: MAINT-CTCL-HK
        last-modified: 2013-08-06T10:03:29Z
        source: APNIC

        role: CLEARDDOS TECHNOLOGY CO LIMITED administrator
        address: Flat C, 23/F, Lucky Plaza,, 315-321 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, Hongkong Hongkong 999999
        country: HK
        phone: +86 755 8453 0553
        fax-no: +86 755 8453 0553
        e-mail: abuse@clear-ddos.com
        admin-c: CTCL1-AP
        tech-c: CTCL1-AP
        nic-hdl: CTCL1-AP
        mnt-by: MAINT-CTCL-HK
        last-modified: 2013-08-06T10:03:28Z
        source: APNIC

        % This query was served by the APNIC Whois Service version 1.88.15-46 (WHOIS-UK4)

        andy@mac-pro ~ %

        Andy

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          ASIC @NogBadTheBad
          last edited by

          @NogBadTheBad said in Had my pfSense been compromised?:

          @ASIC said in Had my pfSense been compromised?:

          103.240.140.10

          Are you blocking Hong Kong ?

          Yes, I am.

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          • NogBadTheBadN
            NogBadTheBad
            last edited by

            Just thought I'd check as some people think Hong Kong is China ☺

            Andy

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              hulleyrob
              last edited by

              Its also interesting that we all saw clear DDOS technologies as passed in our logs and no-one else.

              Ive not seen any other IP addresses associated with this problem.

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                I've looked through the pf source code and any place I see where PFRES_SHORT (short) reason gets set is only associated with the PF_DROP (block) action. So I'm not quite sure why it is being logged as a pass. The only difference is that when scrub is enabled, the code path that does packet normalization sets things slightly differently, so maybe that affects how the log entry is interpreted, but the packet is still dropped on that code path.

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                  last edited by johnpoz

                  Is there anyway to make sure they are logged as blocked vs pass?

                  Yeah everything I was reading is short should be blocked, so not sure why they are logged as pass either.. Odd.. While I do have some hits in the counter for short via the info command.. I can not find anything in the logs on my syslog showing them... But then again those might of been before sending to syslog, and the counter has not gone up in the week since last did, still showing only 2.

                  If someone is seeing a lot of them, possible they could turn off scrub for testing to see if they are now logged blocked.

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                    hulleyrob @johnpoz
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                    @johnpoz ive not seen anymore since the day three of us all saw them.

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                      bchan @hulleyrob
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                      @hulleyrob said in Had my pfSense been compromised?:

                      @johnpoz ive not seen anymore since the day three of us all saw them.

                      I saw them on 11 & 14Oct and then not anymore.

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                      • kiokomanK
                        kiokoman LAYER 8
                        last edited by kiokoman

                        maybe there is an explanation here @johnpoz
                        http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/pf-logs-def-short-pass-in-but-should-say-block-td192809.html

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                          hulleyrob @bchan
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                          @bchan was only on the 13th for me. But reading the link below from 2012 it looks like it is just a issue that it is being displayed as a pass and was actually blocked which is the best scenario for what we are seeing.

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                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @kiokoman
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                            @kiokoman

                            That clearly seems some how related for sure, but no responses and its quite old from 2012.. But yeah good find..

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                              provels @kiokoman
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                              @kiokoman Poor Leonardo. Unappreciated in his own time.

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