On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:56 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> We noticed that our courier pop3 service was getting attacked by the email
> alerts coming from Ossec rule 40111 level 10 fired but we weren't getting
> any active response actions.
>
> Received From: plesk1->/usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog
> Rule: 40111 fired (level 10) -> "Multiple authentication failures."
> Started to debug why active response wasn't working and found that when we
> ran ossec-logtest on the string below we noticed no phase 2 decoder was
> detected.
>
> echo "Aug  5 04:49:56 plesk1 courier-pop3d: LOGIN FAILED,
> [email protected], ip=[::ffff:221.130.14.18]" |
> /var/ossec/bin/ossec-logtest -v
>
> Then opened up decoder.xml, found the courier section and realized that
> program_name field was the culprit.  On the new courier systems it uses
> courier-pop3d/pop3s/imapd/imaps which wasn't listed in the program_name
> field.
>
> Current courier section of decoder.xml
> <decoder name="courier">
>   <program_name>^pop3d|^courierpop3login|^imaplogin</program_name>
> </decoder>
>
> When then updated the program_name section and added a few more options.
> <decoder name="courier">
>
> <program_name>^courier-pop3d|^courier-pop3s|^courier-imapd|^courier-imaps|^pop3d|^courierpop3login|^imaplogin</program_name>
> </decoder>
>
> After making this change, we re-ran our ossec-logtest above and was suprised
> that now phase 2 decoder was detected and active response started to work.
>
> We wanted to post this to the internet to help others with this issue.
>
> Sincerely
>
> [email protected]
>

Someone on IRC recently had this same issue, and I recommended a
similar strategy to get it working. I believe the atomic corp guys
were going to provide a fix at some point.

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