Ansible Role: IPBan

Deploy IPBan, a software to block hackers and botnets.

Requirements

This role depends on the ansible.windows.win_service_info module, so you must have installed the ansible.windows >= 1.10.0 collection. To install, run ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.windows.

Role Variables

All variables which can be overridden are stored in defaults/main.yml file as well as in table below.

Name	Default Value	Description
ipban_version	latest	IPBan version
ipban_append_config	yes	Whether to add or overwrite the default configuration
ipban_log_files_to_parse	[]	List of log files to check periodically
ipban_expressions_to_block	[]	Event viewer expression list to check for failed logins on Windows
ipban_expressions_to_notify	[]	Event viewer expression list to check for successful logins on Windows
ipban_failed_login_attempts_before_ban	5	How many failed logins before banning an ip address
ipban_ban_time	01:00:00:00	Time to ban an ip address in DD:HH:MM:SS format to ban forever
ipban_reset_failed_fogin_count_for_unbanned_ip_addresses	no	Ignored if only a single ipban_ban_time is specified. If this value is true, the failed login count will be reset to 0, causing the next failed login to start at 1 and then the ip address will move to the next ban time once the failed login count reaches ipban_failed_login_attempts_before_ban. If this value is false, then the failed login count will not be reset, and the next failed login will cause an immediate ban of the ip address into the next ban time in the ipban_ban_time list
ipban_clear_banned_ip_addresses_on_restart	no	Whether to remove all banned ip addresses from the ipban database and firewall upon startup of the service
ipban_clear_failed_logins_on_successful_login	no	Whether to clear all failed logins for an ip address if there is a successful login from that ip address
ipban_process_internal_ip_addresses	no	Whether to process internal ip addresses. Set to true if you want to allow internal ip addresses to be detected and/or banned
ipban_expire_time	01:00:00:00	Remove failed logins that have not yet been banned after this time in DD:HH:MM:SS format. 00:00:00:00 to never forget a failed login
ipban_cycle_time	00:00:00:15	How often to run processing and housekeeping, in DD:HH:MM:SS format
ipban_minimum_time_between_failed_login_attempts	00:00:00:01	The minimum time between failed login attempts for an ip address to increment the ban counter, in DD:HH:MM:SS format
ipban_minimum_time_between_successful_login_attempts	00:00:00:05	Same as ipban_minimum_time_between_failed_login_attempts but for successful logins
ipban_firewall_rule_prefix	IPBan_	The firewall rule prefix
ipban_whitelist	""	Comma separated list of ip addresses, urls or DNS names that are never banned. If you use a url, each ip entry in the response should be newline delimited
ipban_whitelist_regex	""	Regular expression for whitelisting, allows for pattern matching or range of ip addresses
ipban_blacklist	""	Comma separated list of ip addreses, urls or DNS names to always ban and never unban. Same format as ipban_whitelist
ipban_blacklist_regex	""	Regular expression for blacklisting, allows for pattern matching or banning of range of ip addresses
ipban_user_name_whitelist	""	Comma separated list of user names that are allowed
ipban_user_name_whitelist_regex	""	Regular expression for whitelisting, allows user names for pattern matching
ipban_user_name_whitelist_minimum_edit_distance	2	If the edit distance of a failed user name is greater than this distance away, the user name is immediately banned
ipban_failed_login_attempts_before_ban_user_name_whitelist	20	If a user name is on the user name whitelist, then the failed login attempts before ban is this value instead of ipban_failed_login_attempts_before_ban
ipban_process_to_run_on_ban	""	Run an external process when a ban occurs. Separate the process and any arguments with a pipe `
ipban_process_to_run_on_unban	""	Run an external process when a ban is removed. Separate the process and any arguments with a pipe `
ipban_firewall_rules	""	Firewall rules to create to allow or block ip addresses, one per line
ipban_use_default_banned_ip_address_handler	yes	Whether to use the default banned ip address handler for banned ip address sharing. Set to false to turn this off
ipban_external_ip_address_url	https://checkip.amazonaws.com/	Specify an external url to get the remote ip address of the machine
ipban_firewall_uri_rules	""	External firewall uri rules to block, format is one per line: [RulePrefix],[Interval in DD:HH:MM:SS],[URI][Newline]
ipban_get_url_update	""	Url to get when the service cycle runs, empty for none
ipban_get_url_start	""	Url to get when the service starts, empty for none
ipban_get_url_stop	""	Url to get when the service stops, empty for none
ipban_get_url_config	""	Url to get config file from, empty for none

For more details on options check the official configuration.

Example Playbook

Example of executing the role:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - lsgalves.ipban

License

MIT

Author Information

Leonardo Galves leonardosgalves@gmail.com