Anomaly detection for Nginx
Detecting suspicious error log events which lead to potential security threats
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1title: Anomaly detection for Nginx
2id: e95462df-c49a-4598-b789-b3953a9f29d7
3status: experimental
4description: Detecting suspicious error log events which lead to potential security threats
5author: Loginsoft Research Unit
6references:
7 - Internal Research
8date: 2020/07/24
9logsource:
10 product: nginx
11 category: webserver
12 service: error
13detection:
14 keywords:
15 - 'http alloc large header buffer'
16 - 'the \"*\" size must be equal to or greater than \"*\"'
17 - 'http large header free:'
18 - 'http large header alloc:'
19 - 'http large header copy:'
20 - 'client sent too long URI'
21 - 'unsafe URI \"*\" was detected'
22 - 'client sent invalid \"Destination\" header:'
23 - 'SSL renegotiation *'
24 - '\"*\" mp4 atom too large:*'
25 - 'client sent invalid chunked body'
26 - 'state buffer overflow: * bytes required'
27 - 'buffer overflow'
28 condition: keywords
29falsepositives:
30 - Unknown
31level: critical```