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Cisco LDP Authentication Failures

Detects LDP failures which may be indicative of brute force attacks to manipulate MPLS labels

MITRE ATT&CK

initial-accesspersistenceprivilege-escalationdefense-evasioncredential-accesscollection

Detection Query

selection_protocol:
  - LDP
selection_keywords:
  - SOCKET_TCP_PACKET_MD5_AUTHEN_FAIL
  - TCPMD5AuthenFail
condition: selection_protocol and selection_keywords

Author

Tim Brown

Created

2023-01-09

Data Sources

ciscoldp

Platforms

cisco

References

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh-us-03-convery-franz-v3.pdf

Tags

attack.initial-accessattack.persistenceattack.privilege-escalationattack.defense-evasionattack.credential-accessattack.collectionattack.t1078attack.t1110attack.t1557

Raw Content

title: Cisco LDP Authentication Failures
id: 50e606bf-04ce-4ca7-9d54-3449494bbd4b
status: test
description: Detects LDP failures which may be indicative of brute force attacks to manipulate MPLS labels
references:
    - https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh-us-03-convery-franz-v3.pdf
author: Tim Brown
date: 2023-01-09
tags:
    - attack.initial-access
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.defense-evasion
    - attack.credential-access
    - attack.collection
    - attack.t1078
    - attack.t1110
    - attack.t1557
logsource:
    product: cisco
    service: ldp
    definition: 'Requirements: cisco ldp logs need to be enabled and ingested'
detection:
    selection_protocol:
        - 'LDP'
    selection_keywords:
        - 'SOCKET_TCP_PACKET_MD5_AUTHEN_FAIL'
        - 'TCPMD5AuthenFail'
    condition: selection_protocol and selection_keywords
falsepositives:
    - Unlikely. Except due to misconfigurations
level: low