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Huawei BGP Authentication Failures

Detects BGP failures which may be indicative of brute force attacks to manipulate routing.

MITRE ATT&CK

initial-accesspersistenceprivilege-escalationdefense-evasioncredential-accesscollection

Detection Query

keywords_bgp_huawei:
  "|all":
    - :179
    - BGP_AUTH_FAILED
condition: keywords_bgp_huawei

Author

Tim Brown

Created

2023-01-09

Data Sources

huaweibgp

Platforms

huawei

Tags

attack.initial-accessattack.persistenceattack.privilege-escalationattack.defense-evasionattack.credential-accessattack.collectionattack.t1078attack.t1110attack.t1557
Raw Content
title: Huawei BGP Authentication Failures
id: a557ffe6-ac54-43d2-ae69-158027082350
status: test
description: Detects BGP failures which may be indicative of brute force attacks to manipulate routing.
references:
    - https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh-us-03-convery-franz-v3.pdf
author: Tim Brown
date: 2023-01-09
modified: 2023-01-23
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: huawei
    service: bgp
    definition: 'Requirements: huawei bgp logs need to be enabled and ingested'
detection:
    keywords_bgp_huawei:
        '|all':
            - ':179' # Protocol
            - 'BGP_AUTH_FAILED'
    condition: keywords_bgp_huawei
falsepositives:
    - Unlikely. Except due to misconfigurations
level: low