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detect wordpress scanning of txt and md files
GNU-Plus-Windows-User Mar 1, 2025
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Merge branch 'master' into wordpress-vuln-hunting
GNU-Plus-Windows-User Mar 6, 2025
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Update http-wordpress-scan.yaml
LaurenceJJones Mar 6, 2025
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions .tests/http-wordpress-scan/http-wordpress-scan.log
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127.0.0.1 - - [19/Apr/2024:14:41:25 +0200] "GET /activate/wp-content/plugins/advanced-dewplayer/admin-panel/download-file.php HTTP/1.1" 404 153 "-" "curl/7.68.0"
127.0.0.1 - - [19/Apr/2024:14:41:26 +0200] "GET /wp-content/plugins/sniplets/modules/syntax_highlight.php HTTP/1.1" 404 153 "-" "curl/7.68.0"
127.0.0.1 - - [19/Apr/2024:14:41:26 +0200] "GET /wp-content/plugins/sniplets/view/sniplets/warning.php HTTP/1.1" 404 153 "-" "curl/7.68.0"
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Mar/2025:18:09:52 +1100] "HEAD /wp-content/plugins/blocksy-companion/README.txt HTTP/2.0" 404 0 "https://example.com" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1092.0 Safari/536.6"
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Mar/2025:18:09:53 +1100] "HEAD /wp-content/plugins/blocksy-companion/README.md HTTP/2.0" 404 0 "https://example.com" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1092.0 Safari/536.6"
12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions scenarios/crowdsecurity/http-wordpress-scan.yaml
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name: crowdsecurity/http-wordpress-scan
description: "Detect WordPress scan: vuln hunting"
filter: |
evt.Meta.service == 'http' and
evt.Meta.log_type in ['http_access-log', 'http_error-log'] and
evt.Meta.service == 'http' and
evt.Meta.log_type in ['http_access-log', 'http_error-log'] and
evt.Meta.http_status in ['404', '403'] and
(
Lower(evt.Meta.http_path) contains "/wp-" and
Lower(evt.Meta.http_path) endsWith ".php"
Lower(evt.Meta.http_path) endsWith ".(php)"
) ||
(
Lower(evt.Meta.http_path) contains "/wp-content/plugins" and
Lower(evt.Meta.http_path) matches "\\.(txt|md)$"
)
groupby: evt.Meta.source_ip
distinct: evt.Meta.http_path
capacity: 3
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