Maintain a Good Security Posture

Malicious actors are sadly everywhere these days so maintaining a good security posture for servers is essential. Last night I was enjoying watching this Mexican IP – 187.205.205.34 (dsl-187-205-205-34-dyn.prod-infinitum.com.mx) “lifting the door handles”.

You’d hardly call three to four attempts per minute a brute force attack. Perhaps it was to keep “off the radar”. Well that didn’t work… The malicious actor made 154 attempts before giving up (including some duplicate username/password pairs).

I’m still trying to figure out what the end game was, unless his collection of usernames and passwords are actually common.

Anyway. Here’s what was tried:

  1. postmaster / password
  2. postmaster / P@ssw0rd
  3. postmaster / 123456
  4. postmaster / postmaster1
  5. postmaster / 12345678
  6. postmaster / 123456789
  7. postmaster / asdfgh
  8. postmaster / Postmaster
  9. postmaster / qwerty
  10. postmaster / qwerty123
  11. postmaster / abc123
  12. postmaster / abc123456
  13. postmaster / pass123
  14. postmaster / Postmaster123
  15. postmaster / 1q2w3e
  16. postmaster / Postmaster123
  17. postmaster / POSTMASTER1
  18. postmaster / 123qwe
  19. postmaster / Postmaster1
  20. postmaster / 1q2w3e4r
  21. postmaster / POSTMASTER
  22. postmaster / qwertyuiop
  23. postmaster / POSTMASTER
  24. admin / password
  25. admin / P@ssw0rd
  26. admin / P@ssw0rd
  27. admin / 123456
  28. admin / admin
  29. admin / admin1
  30. admin / 12345678
  31. admin / Admin
  32. admin / asdfgh
  33. admin / 123456789
  34. admin / qwerty123
  35. admin / 654321
  36. admin / abc123
  37. admin / abc123456
  38. admin / Admin123
  39. admin / ADMIN1
  40. admin / 1q2w3e
  41. admin / 1q2w3e4r
  42. admin / Admin1
  43. admin / 123qwe
  44. admin / ADMIN
  45. admin / qwertyuiop
  46. test / P@ssw0rd
  47. test / password
  48. test / test
  49. test / test123
  50. test / test1
  51. test / 123456
  52. test / 12345678
  53. test / asdfgh
  54. test / qwerty
  55. test / 654321
  56. test / qwerty123
  57. test / abc123
  58. test / abc123456
  59. test / Test123
  60. test / TEST1
  61. test / 1q2w3e
  62. test / 1q2w3e4r
  63. test / 123qwe
  64. test / Test1
  65. test / TEST
  66. test / qwertyuiop
  67. test / qwertyuiop
  68. root / password
  69. root / P@ssw0rd
  70. root / root
  71. root / 123456
  72. root / 12345678
  73. root / 123456789
  74. root / asdfgh
  75. root / Root
  76. root / qwerty
  77. root / 654321
  78. root / pass123
  79. root / abc123456
  80. root / 1q2w3e
  81. root / Root123
  82. root / ROOT1
  83. root / ROOT1
  84. root / ROOT1
  85. root / 1q2w3e4r
  86. root / 123qwe
  87. root / qwertyuiop
  88. root / ROOT
  89. backup / password
  90. backup / backup
  91. backup / 123456
  92. backup / backup1
  93. backup / backup1
  94. backup / backup1
  95. backup / backup123
  96. backup / Backup
  97. backup / 12345678
  98. backup / Backup
  99. backup / asdfgh
  100. backup / 123456789
  101. backup / 654321
  102. backup / qwerty
  103. backup / qwerty123
  104. backup / abc123
  105. backup / pass123
  106. backup / abc123456
  107. backup / Backup123
  108. backup / 1q2w3e
  109. backup / BACKUP1
  110. backup / Backup1
  111. backup / 1q2w3e4r
  112. backup / 123qwe
  113. backup / BACKUP
  114. backup / qwertyuiop
  115. info / P@ssw0rd
  116. info / password
  117. info / info
  118. info / info1
  119. info / 123456
  120. info / info
  121. info / info123
  122. info / 12345678
  123. info / 123456789
  124. info / asdfgh
  125. info / qwerty
  126. info / 654321
  127. info / qwerty123
  128. info / abc123
  129. info / pass123
  130. info / abc123456
  131. info / Info123
  132. info / 1q2w3e4r
  133. info / INFO1
  134. info / Info1
  135. info / INFO
  136. info / qwertyuiop
  137. postgres / P@ssw0rd
  138. postgres / password
  139. postgres / postgres
  140. postgres / postgres1
  141. postgres / postgres123
  142. postgres / asdfgh
  143. postgres / Postgres
  144. postgres / 123456789
  145. postgres / qwerty123
  146. postgres / 654321
  147. postgres / qwerty
  148. postgres / abc123
  149. postgres / pass123
  150. postgres / abc123
  151. postgres / abc123
  152. postgres / abc123456
  153. postgres / Postgres123
  154. postgres / 1q2w3e