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🛡️ UFW AbuseIPDB Reporter

A tool that analyzes UFW firewall logs and reports malicious IP addresses to the AbuseIPDB database. If you like this repository or find it useful, I would greatly appreciate it if you could give it a star ⭐. Thanks a lot!

See also this: sefinek/Node-Cloudflare-WAF-AbuseIPDB

Important

If you'd like to make changes to any files in this repository, please start by creating a public fork.

⚙️ How does it work in detail?

1. Monitoring UFW logs: The tool continuously monitors logs generated by the UFW firewall, looking for unauthorized access attempts or other suspicious activities.
2. Analyzing the reported address: After identifying a suspicious IP address, the script checks if the address has already been reported.
3. Reporting IP to AbuseIPDB: If the IP meets the criteria, the address is reported to the AbuseIPDB database with information about the protocol, source port, destination port, etc.
4. Cache of reported IPs: The tool stores a list of reported IPs in a temporary file to prevent multiple reports of the same IP address in a short period.

📋 Requirements

• Operating System: Linux with UFW firewall installed and configured.
• AbuseIPDB Account: An account on the AbuseIPDB service with a valid API token. The API token is required.
• Installed packages:
  • wget or curl: One of these tools is required to download the installation script from the GitHub repository and to send requests to the AbuseIPDB API.
  • jq: A tool for processing and parsing JSON data returned by the AbuseIPDB API.
  • openssl: Used to encode and decode the API token to secure authentication data.
  • tail, awk, grep, sed: Standard Unix tools used for text processing and log analysis.

🧪 Tested operating systems

• Ubuntu Server: 20.04 & 22.04

If the distribution you're using to run the tool isn't listed here and the script works correctly, please create a new Issue. I'll add its name to the list.

📥 How to install?

🌍 Perform repository and software updates (highly recommended)

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

🌌 Install required dependencies

sudo apt install -y ufw curl jq openssl

✅ Installation

To install this tool, run the following command in the terminal (sudo is required):

sudo bash -c "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter/main/install.sh)"

The installation script will automatically download and configure the tool on your server. During installation, you will be asked to provide an AbuseIPDB API token.

🖥️ Usage

After successful installation, the script will run continuously in the background, monitoring UFW logs and automatically reporting malicious IP addresses. The tool requires no additional user action after installation. However, it's worth occasionally checking its operation and updating the script regularly (by running the installation command).

Servers open to the world are constantly scanned by bots, usually looking for vulnerabilities or other security gaps. So don't be surprised if the next day, the number of reports to AbuseIPDB exceeds a thousand.

🔍 Checking service status

If the tool was installed as a system service, you can check its status using the following command:

sudo systemctl status abuseipdb-ufw.service

To see the current logs generated by the process, use the command:

journalctl -u abuseipdb-ufw.service -f

📄 Example report

Blocked by UFW (TCP on port 80).
Source port: 28586
TTL: 116
Packet length: 48
TOS: 0x08

This report (for 46.174.191.31) was generated by:
https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter

🤝 Development

If you want to contribute to the development of this project, feel free to create a new Pull request. I will definitely appreciate it!

🔑 GPL-3.0 License

Copyright 2024 © by Sefinek. All rights reserved. See the LICENSE file for more information.