README.md

Break-In Analyzer

A script that analyze the log files /var/log/auth.log*, /var/log/secure*, utmp/wtmp for illegal break-in attempts and writes all output to text file.

Features

• Analyze logs from:
  • /var/log/auth.log*
  • /var/log/secure*
  • /var/log/wtmp
  • /var/run/utmp
• Script tested on Ubuntu 20.04.

How to Run

• Copy break-in_analyzer your host machine
• Give execution permission by running chmod +x breakins_analyzer.sh
• Then run the script as below:

  $ ./breakins_analyzer.sh

• Specify with logs to be analyzed e.g. auth, secure, utmp or wtmp
• Specify FULL path of the logs location together with wildcard symbol (if you analyzing more than 1 logs) e.g. /home/user/var_logs/auth*
• Wait until it finished analyzing the logs
• The result with be shown on the terminal & written into output folder together with file named:
  • auth_output.log
  • secure_output.log
  • utmp_output.log
  • wtmp_output.log

Screenshot

Changelogs

• 1.0 (15 Oct 2021): First version of the script.
• 1.1 (17 Oct 2021): Refined few search pattern.
• 1.2 (18 Oct 2021): Add save output/result into txt file.

To-Do-List (In Future)

• Adding more file to be analyzed

License

MIT License. Copyright (c) 2021 Mohd Khairulazam. See License.