Ongoing IMAP Scan, Anyone Else?

Published: 2016-09-10
Last Updated: 2016-09-10 07:07:37 UTC
by Xavier Mertens (Version: 1)
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I'm operating a mail server which handles email flows from multiple domains (<20 domains). The server is under a massive IMAPS (port 993) scan for a few days. More details about the ongoing attack:

  • Some logins are valid
  • Some logins seem to be part of a dictionary
  • Some logins are old or unused (like scraped from web pages)
  • Some logins have a format 'user@domain.tld', other just the 'user'

[Update: some IP addresses are also testing SMTP AUTH]

There is a strong password policy in place and no credentials were compromized. This is not a brute-force attack, connection attempts are coming by waves. The only impact until now was a pollution of my logs!

There is an OSSEC active-response[1] with the 'repeated_offender' feature enabled (at 30, 60, 120, 240, 480 minutes) but new IP addresses are always detected (like being part of a bot):

I searched for more information about the offending IP addresses, they do not seem to belong to a known botnet. They are not Tor exit-nodes. Here is the top-10 of active IP addresses:

155.133.82.55
%%ip:184.71.40.22%%
%%ip:50.39.0.12%%
%%ip:185.130.6.226%%
%%ip:119.29.229.87%%
%%ip:80.200.28.68%%
%%ip:80.82.64.102%%
%%ip:212.118.124.109%%
%%ip:139.255.51.42%%
%%ip:151.253.48.108%%

Someone else has already detected the same kind of scan?

[1] http://ossec-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/ar/

Xavier Mertens (@xme)
ISC Handler - Freelance Security Consultant
PGP Key

Keywords: botnet imap scan
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