sshidentifierlogger

sshidentifierlogger is a small tool that I started writing about 5 years ago and have been using on some of my hosts.

Its purpose is to listen to network traffic and passively collect identification strings during SSH handshakes.
Initially I had a lot of fail2ban activity on my jumphost, blocking many SSH scanning/enumeration/bruteforcing attempts and wanted to know what software the attackers use.

A bit particular is that sshidentifierlogger does not depend on the classic C library libpcap, but rather uses the go-native pcapgo implementation by gopacket.
Thus it can be cross-compiled on any platform, which comes in handy when you do not want to install the full go buildchain on your jumphost.

The collected data is quite interesting (most of the scanning used to be done with libssh2).
Which I did leverage to write iptables rules blocking packets with undesired SSH identification strings.
This has been quite successfull in reducing the amount of fail2ban activity :-)

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