OpenWRT support for fail2ban with special additions of support for PPtP scan banning (optional).
![NOTE] This repo has recently switched to using nftables for blocking pptp attackers. If you're still using iptables, check out the iptables branch of this repo.
It is tested on Turris OS 7.1, which is based on OpenWRT 21.02 and it only works on Python 3.
If you don't already have fail2ban installed, just opkg update && opkg install fail2ban.
Install additional configs by calling ./install_f2b_config.sh.
You can enable automatic startup of fail2ban by calling
/etc/init.d/fail2ban enable
To get support for a PPtP server filter that bans users who failed authentication, run
./install_pptp_support.sh. Please note that it sets the ppp daemon to debug mode
(by editing /etc/ppp/options.pptpd). This might result in sensitive information appearing
in the system log. If you don't like this, you'll have to reconfigure your syslog, because
the debug mode is essential for the pptp fail2ban filter to work.
It also configures syslog to create named pipe /var/log/ppp which collects only logs from
pptpd and pppd. This pipe is then processed by a script installed to OpenWRT as
fail2ban_pptp that transforms it into file /var/log/ppp.login. This is a concise log of
login attempts (both successful and unsuccessful). These attempts are then given to fail2ban
to extract and ban the attackers.
Start the fail2ban server with /etc/init.d/fail2ban start. It should spawn a fail2ban process
and you should see some output in syslog and possibly also in /var/log/fail2ban.log.
Fail2ban stores a database of already banned IP addresses. It is best if this file survives
restarts of the router. By default, it is put in /var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3. If your
/var directory resides in memory only, you might want to change the config in /etc/config/fail2ban
to point to a persistent place. But be aware that if your router's system is on an an eMMC
flash memory, it is possibly not meant to keep often-changing files and you should rather
connect an external drive and set it as the location for fail2ban database, otherwise it can destroy
your router. You have been warned.
By default, fail2ban blocks traffic directed at your router. But if you e.g. collect logs from other
LAN devices or virtual containers and want fail2ban to block traffic to these devices, too (in case they
are reachable from Internet e.g. via port redirects or DMZ), you will need to adjust the jail config to
use FORWARD chain instead of the default INPUT chain. The fail2ban jail config to set that is
chain = FORWARD.
If something doesn't work and the fail2ban daemon doesn't start, try running manually
/usr/bin/fail2ban-server -v -xf --logtarget=sysout start to see what the problem is.
Watch the contents of /var/log/ppp and /var/log/ppp.login and connect to the VPN server.
There should be some content in both of these files. In /var/log/ppp.login, you should see
something like:
OK pptpd PID: 1234, pppd PID: 1235, IP: 1.2.3.4, prefix: 5 Jun 13:14:15 router
You can also try running
fail2ban-regex /var/log/ppp.login /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/pptp.conf
to see whether the processed PPtP log parses correctly. It should output something like:
Running tests
=============
Use failregex filter file : pptp, basedir: /etc/fail2ban
Use datepattern : MON Day 24hour:Minute:Second
Use log file : /var/log/ppp.login
Use encoding : UTF-8
Results
=======
Failregex: 36 total
|- #) [# of hits] regular expression
| 1) [36] ^FAIL.*IP: <HOST>,.*$
`-
Ignoreregex: 0 total
Date template hits:
|- [# of hits] date format
| [58] MON Day 24hour:Minute:Second
`-
Lines: 58 lines, 0 ignored, 36 matched, 22 missed
[processed in 0.03 sec]
Missed line(s): too many to print. Use --print-all-missed to print all 22 lines
To see statistics of the banning, call
fail2ban-client status pptp
