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https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/telnetlogger

Simulates enough of a Telnet connection in order to log failed login attempts.
https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/telnetlogger

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Simulates enough of a Telnet connection in order to log failed login attempts.

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# telnetlogger



This is a simple program to log login attempts on Telnet (port 23).



It's designed to track the Mirai botnet. Right now (Oct 23, 2016) infected Mirai

machines from around the world are trying to connect to Telnet on every IP address about once

per minute. This program logs both which IP addresses are doing the attempts, and which

passwords they are using.



I wrote it primarily because installing `telnetd` on a Raspberry Pi wasn't sufficient.

For some reason, the Mirai botnet doesn't like the output from Telnet, and won't try

to login. So I needed something that produced the type of Telnet is was expecting. While

I was at it, I also wrote some code to parse things and extract the usernames/passwords.



# Usage



Just run the program in order to see passwords and IP addresses appear on stdout.



    telnetlogger

  

To log the information to files, use the `-p` and `-i` options.



    telnetlogger -p passwds.txt -i ips.txt

  

To listen on another port (for testing and whatnot), use `-l`.



    telnetlogger -l 2323



Note that on many systems, you'll get an "access denied" error message, because programs

that open ports below 1024 need extra priveleges. So you may need to `sudo` the program.



# Compiling



Type `make` or:



    gcc telnetlogger.c -o telnetlogger -lpthread



It'll also compile/run on Windows.



# Output



There are two sample output files, `passwords.txt` and `ips.txt` that

I generated by running this for the last day.



The program prints the username/password combination one line at a time.



    admin 7ujMko0admin

    root root

    root 54321

    root xmhdipc

    root root

    guest 12345

    root 888888

    root 123456

    admin smcadmin



It doesn't filter duplicates. The easiest way to get rid of duplicates is

just to `sort`/`uniq` the output.



    sort passwords.txt | uniq

  

The IP addresses work the same way as the passwords, with one per line.



    153.99.123.134

    114.35.226.25

    114.35.226.25

    1.52.107.87

    2001:db8:a0b:12f0::1

    114.35.226.25

    1.52.107.87

    1.52.107.87

    153.99.123.134

  

Note that IPv6 is supported. Also note that you'll get lots of duplicates, 

so you'll be doing `sort`/`uniq` a lot in order to reduce the list size. The

duplicates will make it easier to count how often individual IP address's attempt

to connection. Thus, you can run the following:



    sort ips.txt | uniq -c | sort -n

  

This produces results like:



     69 187.136.91.145

     75 79.115.23.228

     90 178.220.226.25

     94 153.99.123.134

    120 171.83.163.1

    168 111.73.37.102

    169 122.96.31.201

    414 119.121.165.137

    

# Geolocation



This project can help you geo-locate the IPs, to see which country

they are coming from.



	https://github.com/danielmiessler/HoneyCredIPTracker