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Access to sensitive files over HTTP

Attack scenariohttp:scanMITRE T1595.003

By: crowdsecurity
Version: 0.5
Name: crowdsecurity/http-sensitive-files
Remediation: Ban

Detect attempt to access to sensitive files (.log, .db ..) or folders (.git)

Install with a top-level collection

16 collections include it

sudo cscli collections install crowdsecurity/aws-cloudfront

Installs 2 parsers and 47 scenarios, via HTTP - Generic Protection.

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Installation

sudo cscli scenarios install crowdsecurity/http-sensitive-files

Then reload CrowdSec: sudo systemctl reload crowdsec

Configuration

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scenarios/crowdsecurity/http-sensitive-files.yaml· 25 linesGitHub

1type: leaky1
2format: 2.0
3#debug: true
4name: crowdsecurity/http-sensitive-files
5description: "Detect attempt to access to sensitive files (.log, .db ..) or folders (.git)"
6filter: 'evt.Meta.log_type in ["http_access-log", "http_error-log"] and any(File("sensitive_data.txt"), { evt.Parsed.request endsWith #})'2
7groupby: "evt.Meta.source_ip"3
8distinct: evt.Parsed.request4
9data:
10  - source_url: https://hub-data.crowdsec.net/web/sensitive_data.txt
11    dest_file: sensitive_data.txt
12    type: string
13capacity: 45
14leakspeed: 5s6
15blackhole: 5m7
16labels:
17  remediation: true8
18  classification:9
19    - attack.T1595.003
20  behavior: "http:scan"
21  intent: malicious
22  label: "Access to sensitive files over HTTP"
23  spoofable: 0
24  service: http
25  confidence: 3

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Documentation

HTTP Sensitive files

Detect tentative of dangerous file scanning such as logs file, database backup, zip archive etc ...

Rule

More than 3 access to sensitive files in this list