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unknown1020
Explorer III
July 26, 2023
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malicious connections from the fortigate

  • July 26, 2023
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friends good day a question:
In our review of malicious connections from the internal network, we observed that there are many malicious connections from the fortigate IP. 

Could you help me with your comments, why is this happening?

currently the fortigate has a vulnerable version and I don't know if it might be related to this.

Best answer by srajeswaran

Yes, source IP will be of the Firewall if NAT is enabled.

6 replies

mpandya
Staff
Staff
July 27, 2023

Hi ,

Could you kindly elaborate on the issue?

 

  1. where is discovered
  2. Any FortiGate malicious detection
  3. Any security profile applied to policy

 

 

 

chauhans
Staff
Staff
July 27, 2023

Hi @unknown1020 

As I understand from your query, you are observing malicious traffic from Fortigate IP.

+ May I know where is the IP located in Fortigate Firewall?
+ Could you please share security event logs and forward traffic logs with respect to the Malicious IP?
+ Also, you may create Local in policies to block the malicious IP by following below doc. article.
https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.15/cookbook/363127/local-in-policies

Thanks,

@chauhans 

srajeswaran
Staff
Staff
July 27, 2023

You may be hitting https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-398 , can you check if you are seeing connections to below IPs?

Connections to suspicious IP addresses from the FortiGate:

188.34.130.40:444
103.131.189.143:30080,30081,30443,20443
193.36.119.61:8443,444
172.247.168.153:8033
139.180.184.197
66.42.91.32
158.247.221.101
107.148.27.117
139.180.128.142
155.138.224.122
185.174.136.20


More details on https://www.fortinet.com/blog/psirt-blogs/analysis-of-fg-ir-22-398-fortios-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-sslvpnd

asengar
Staff
Staff
July 27, 2023

Kindly share the malicious IP details and also the forward traffic logs filter with the malicious IP

Do confirm where the IP is configured on the firewall from which you are seeing the malicious connections.

 

Share the below output

dia sys session filter src x.x.x.x  

dia sys session list

 

Thanks

unknown1020
Explorer III
July 27, 2023

hello, I discovered that the policy of the publication (vip) had the NAT enabled. So when nat is enabled, that causes the source ip to be nated by the firewall ip, right?

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