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Easy way to find bots and block them from logs

Discussion in 'System Administration' started by pamamolf, Mar 23, 2015.

  1. pamamolf

    pamamolf Well-Known Member

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    Hi

    I am looking for an easy way to find bots or wired user agents from log file so i can block them but my access.log is very big and is not so easy to search each line :(


    Any other way or any useful grep command?

    Thanks
     
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  2. Steve Tozer

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    Hello,

    The closest I can get it at the moment is using which will extract them into the bots.txt file

    Code:
    grep 'spider\|bot' access.log | sort -u -f >> bots.txt
    Still trying to work out how to just print out the spider / bot name and remove the duplicates
     
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    pamamolf Well-Known Member

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    Thanks Steve :)
    Is there anything else that can use with spider/bot so i can get also other known bad enties?

    I thought that -u was for unique ......
     
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    I think spider and bots is most common one if you can find a list of other ones you could add them into the grep command or even grep the file against a list.

    I have a solution its a bit hacky but works:

    Code:
    grep 'spider\|bot' access.log | sort -u -f >> bots.txt
    grep -o -E '\w+' bots.txt | sort -u -f >> bots2.txt
    grep 'spider\|bot' bots2.txt
    To input the final results into a file to make it easier:

    Code:
    grep 'spider\|bot' bots2.txt >> botsfinal.txt
    There's prob a cleaner way but it works ;)
     
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    You could even make the above into a quick script

    Code:
    #!/bin/bash
    grep 'spider\|bot' access.log | sort -u -f >> bots.txt
    grep -o -E '\w+' bots.txt | sort -u -f >> bots2.txt
    grep 'spider\|bot' bots2.txt >> botsfinal.txt
    rm -f bots.txt bots2.txt
    The results in botsfinal.txt that you want to block, you could add them into:
    Code:
    /usr/local/nginx/conf/block.conf
    With an additional
    Code:
    if ($http_user_agent ~ "Name of user agent") {
            set $block_user_agents 1;
        }
    Also aslong as the below line is uncommented in your Vhost.

    Code:
    # block common exploits, sql injections etc
    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/block.conf;
    Once added to block.conf and that line is uncommented restart nginx for the changes to take affect. Sorry if thats a bit long winded :woot: