The document discusses configuration options for F5's Bot Defense profile in version 14.1 for mitigating brute force and credential stuffing attacks. It provides details on how to configure the bot profile settings such as the template mode, mitigation actions, browser verification, whitelisting, and reporting to classify and block bot traffic while allowing legitimate users. DNS and logging configurations are also required to be set up for proper bot detection and analytics.
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BIG-IP 13.1.x reaches end of software development on December 31, 2022. F5 Advance WAF provides capabilities to detect and mitigate bot traffic accessing web applications. It uses anomaly detection to identify increases in request rates from sources like IP addresses, device IDs, URLs, or geolocations. It also has a dedicated anti-bot engine using bot signatures and anti-bot impersonation. When anomalies or bot detections occur, prevention options like client-side integrity checks, CAPTCHAs, or rate limiting can be applied. Reporting and dashboards provide visibility into bot activity and mitigation actions.
Script based malware detection in online bankingJakub Kałużny
Online banking applications are particularly exposed to malware attacks. In order to prevent stealing from customer accounts, banks have invested in malware detection mechanisms. These programs are not installed on clients’ computers but rather implemented server-side or by including some JavaScript code on protected websites. We have tested such solutions which are using different detection methods. To name a few:
behavioral patterns,
web injects signatures,
user input analysis.
Our research points out clearly that even products sold as a „100% malware proof solutions” have serious implementation errors and it is only a matter of time when malware creators start targeting their guns against these vulnerabilities, effectively bypassing or abusing these countermeasures. Is it a road to failure or is there still time to improve these solutions? In this document we present security analysis of those solutions from attacker point of view and recommendations for improvement.
See also our presentation from Black Hat Asia and Confidence: „Bypassing malware detection mechanisms in online banking„
Verizon DMS' Bot Mitigation from Paul HobbsPaul Hobbs
The Verizon bot-mitigation solution helped StubHub identify and block bots performing scraping and fraud, which helped reduce transaction fraud and account takeovers. The solution uses device fingerprinting and behavioral analysis to detect and block 99.9% of malicious bots without impacting legitimate users. Verizon provides a dedicated security team and access to a database of known violators to help customers stay protected from emerging bot threats.
How To Protect Your Website From Bot Attacks is a one-hour continuing education course. After successfully completing the course and final exam, you will be awarded a certificate of completion that you can use towards fulfilling your continuing education requirements.
Bots mitigations overview with Advance WAF - Anti ... - DevCentral.pdfLior Rotkovitch
BIG-IP 13.1.x reaches end of software development on December 31, 2022. F5 Advance WAF provides capabilities to detect and mitigate bot traffic accessing web applications. It uses anomaly detection to identify increases in request rates from sources like IP addresses, device IDs, URLs, or geolocations. It also has a dedicated anti-bot engine using bot signatures and anti-bot impersonation. When anomalies or bot detections occur, prevention options like client-side integrity checks, CAPTCHAs, or rate limiting can be applied. Reporting and dashboards provide visibility into bot activity and mitigation actions.
Script based malware detection in online bankingJakub Kałużny
Online banking applications are particularly exposed to malware attacks. In order to prevent stealing from customer accounts, banks have invested in malware detection mechanisms. These programs are not installed on clients’ computers but rather implemented server-side or by including some JavaScript code on protected websites. We have tested such solutions which are using different detection methods. To name a few:
behavioral patterns,
web injects signatures,
user input analysis.
Our research points out clearly that even products sold as a „100% malware proof solutions” have serious implementation errors and it is only a matter of time when malware creators start targeting their guns against these vulnerabilities, effectively bypassing or abusing these countermeasures. Is it a road to failure or is there still time to improve these solutions? In this document we present security analysis of those solutions from attacker point of view and recommendations for improvement.
See also our presentation from Black Hat Asia and Confidence: „Bypassing malware detection mechanisms in online banking„
Verizon DMS' Bot Mitigation from Paul HobbsPaul Hobbs
The Verizon bot-mitigation solution helped StubHub identify and block bots performing scraping and fraud, which helped reduce transaction fraud and account takeovers. The solution uses device fingerprinting and behavioral analysis to detect and block 99.9% of malicious bots without impacting legitimate users. Verizon provides a dedicated security team and access to a database of known violators to help customers stay protected from emerging bot threats.
How To Protect Your Website From Bot Attacks is a one-hour continuing education course. After successfully completing the course and final exam, you will be awarded a certificate of completion that you can use towards fulfilling your continuing education requirements.
WSO2 App Manager: Managing Application Lifecycles Across Your EnterpriseWSO2
WSO2 App Manager allows organizations to centrally manage application lifecycles across the enterprise. It provides a single dashboard for users to access all apps they are authorized to use with single sign-on. For developers, it offers an app publishing portal and collects analytics on app usage. The App Manager acts as a proxy, passing authenticated calls to backend apps while intercepting requests for SSO, authorization, analytics collection and more.
This document describes a web vulnerability scanner and reporting tool developed by researchers. The tool scans websites for various vulnerabilities like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and file inclusion vulnerabilities. It performs scans both without login and with login credentials provided by the website owner. The without login scan checks if the site is reachable and identifies vulnerabilities, while the with login scan allows for deeper scanning. The tool uses machine learning, DOM, and aggregation algorithms. It produces a report with the number and types of vulnerabilities found, and URLs of affected pages. The researchers validated the tool and believe it can help developers identify and address security issues on their websites.
Security Design Considerations In Robotic Process Automation.docxSridevi Kakolu
Robotic process automation (RPA) can automate repetitive tasks to save time and money but also poses security risks if not implemented properly. RPA bots handle sensitive data as they move between systems, so if not secured, data could be exposed and cost organizations millions. Key security challenges include compromised privileged access, system outages from bot activity spikes, data breaches if bots are improperly trained, and lack of visibility on bot executions without proper logging and monitoring. When designing RPA security, best practices include ensuring accountability for bot actions, automating credential management, implementing a strong governance framework with defined roles and access controls, and regularly validating and auditing bots and logs.
The document discusses the emerging threat of man-in-the-browser attacks that can modify online transactions without the user's knowledge. These attacks circumvent all existing authentication methods by targeting transactions after authentication. Potential solutions discussed include developing a secure, hardened browser without extensions or scripts that is tightly coupled to cryptography. However, there would be no way for servers to reliably identify use of a secure browser versus an insecure one.
HP WebInspect is a web application security scanning tool that helps identify vulnerabilities. It crawls a website to build an application tree, then audits the site using various techniques to detect issues. Some key features include customizable scanning policies and views, reporting vulnerabilities and suggested fixes, and the ability to simulate attacks. Proper configuration of the scan settings is required to tailor what is tested.
Ajin Abraham presented Mobile Security Framework (MobSF), an open source tool for mobile application security testing. MobSF includes static and dynamic analysis as well as a web API fuzzer. Static analysis scans the app code and binaries to detect vulnerabilities. Dynamic analysis monitors the app's network traffic and behavior through an agent. The web API fuzzer tests APIs for issues like IDOR, SSRF, and XXE. MobSF provides automated security testing to help mobile app developers and penetration testers.
AppSec EU 2016: Automated Mobile Application Security Assessment with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Application market is growing like anything and so is the Mobile Security industry. With lots of frequent application releases and updates happening, conducting the complete security analysis of mobile applications becomes time consuming and cumbersome. In this talk I will introduce an extendable, and scalable web framework called Mobile Security Framework (https://github.com/ajinabraham/YSO-Mobile-Security-Framework) for Security analysis of Mobile Applications. Mobile Security Framework is an intelligent and automated open source mobile application (Android/iOS) pentesting and binary/code analysis framework capable of performing static and dynamic analysis. It supports Android and iOS binaries as well as zipped source code. During the presentation, I will demonstrates some of the issues identified by the tool in real world android applications. The latest Dynamic Analyzer module will be released at OWASP AppSec. Attendees Benefits * An Open Source framework for Automated Mobile Security Assessment. * One Click Report Generation and Security Assessment. * Framework can be deployed at your own environment so that you have complete control of the data. The data/report stays within the organisation and nothing is stored in the cloud. * Supports both Android and iOS Applications. * Semi Automatic Dynamic Analyzer for intelligent application logic based (whitebox) security assessment.
Squashing bugs: Introduction to Bug Bounties ISSA Dehradun ChapterAvi Sharma
Introduction to Bug Bounties
How to find bugs hands-on
How to use popular bug bounty programs
Case evaluation: Facebook page takeover bug
Conclusions and surprises
На собеседованиях часто спрашивают, как протестировать логин форму, и на этом знакомство большинства тестировщиков с тестированием аутентификации заканчивается.
Мы поговорим об авторизации и аутентификации (AuthN & AuthZ): в чем их отличие и как перестать их путать; какие виды AuthN & AuthZ существуют на рынке; в чем специфика работы протоколов Oauth 2.0 и OpenID; какие лучшие практики тестирования безопасности AuthN & AuthZ и где попрактиковаться в тестирования той самой логин формы.
Доклад будет полезен функциональным тестировщикам и тем, кто интересуется технологическими аспектами AuthN & AuthZ.
This document summarizes an OWASP meeting that included discussion of phishing techniques. The meeting started at 7:05PM and included discussion of the Evilginx phishing framework. Evilginx is an open source man-in-the-middle attack framework that can bypass multifactor authentication by capturing session cookies. The document provided details on how Evilginx works, examples of its usage, and information on creating custom phishing templates ("phishlets") for targeting specific websites and applications.
Blackhat Europe 2009 - Detecting Certified Pre Owned SoftwareTyler Shields
The document discusses detecting "certified pre-owned" software, or software containing backdoors. It describes how static analysis of software binaries can detect various types of application backdoors, including special credentials, unintended network activity, and deliberate information leakage. The document focuses on detecting indicators that software is trying to hide its behavior, such as rootkit behavior and anti-debugging techniques, through static analysis of the software code. Rules can be developed for static analyzers to inspect software for these types of backdoor behaviors and indicators.
PHP is one of the most commonly used languages to develop web sites because of i
ts simplicity, easy to
learn and it can be easily embedded with any of the databases. A web developer with his basic knowledge
developing an application without practising secure guidelines, improper validation of user inputs leads to
various source code
v
ulnerabilities. Logical flaws while designing, implementing and hosting the web
application causes work flow deviation attacks.
In this paper, we are analyzing the complete behaviour of a
web application through static and dynamic analysis methodologies
This document provides an overview of configuring Spring Security for authentication and authorization in a stateless single-page application backed by a Java/Spring backend. It begins with creating a basic Spring web application with sample controllers. Adding Spring Security dependency automatically enables security and requires authentication. The document then discusses Spring Security architecture and components like filters, authentication manager, providers, and user details service. It provides code samples for configuring JWT authentication with a custom user details service and password encoder. It also covers configuring Spring Security for stateless operation with JWT tokens, enabling CORS, and adding a JWT filter. Finally, it discusses setting up role-based authorization with URL and annotation-based configurations.
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This document provides a checklist of secure coding practices for software developers. It covers topics such as input validation, output encoding, authentication, session management, access control, cryptography, error handling, data protection, and general coding practices. Implementing the practices in this checklist can help mitigate common software vulnerabilities and security issues. The document recommends defining security roles and responsibilities, providing training, and following a secure software development lifecycle model.
The document describes a project to develop an Intelligent Adware Blocker. It discusses adware and the need for an adware blocker application. The application will use Squid proxy server and Snort to operate in IDS and IPS modes to block adware. Technologies used include Java, JSP, HTML, Perl and shell scripts. Requirements include hardware, software and references used. The project won first prize in a competition.
1) The document discusses various methods for securing RESTful APIs, including choosing the right security protocol, understanding authentication vs authorization, and exploring specific protocols like basic authentication, JSON web tokens, OAuth1.0a, and OAuth2.
2) It provides details on each protocol, including how they work, benefits, structures like the JWT header and payload, and code examples for implementation flows.
3) The key takeaways are to never use basic authentication without TLS, favor HMAC algorithms over bearer tokens, and use OAuth1.0a or OAuth2 (preferably MAC) for authentication, as OAuth is an authorization protocol rather than authentication standard.
Did you know 30% of Ecommerce website visitors are unsavory competitors, hackers, and fraudsters?
Fact is, online retailers are particularly susceptible to the effects of advanced bot threats, including competitive tactics like price scraping, product matching, variation tracking and availability targeting. Even worse, security breaches such as transaction fraud and account takeovers endanger the overall security of your website, customer base, and brand.
When aggressive scrapers caused repeated site slowdowns, Brian Gress, Director of IT Systems & Governance at Hayneedle, said enough was enough.
Key takeaways include how to:
- Stop competitors from scraping your prices and monitoring your inventory
- Reduce chargeback fees due to transaction fraud, carding and account hijacking
- Optimize your conversion funnel and enjoy clean analytics and KPIs
- Protect your brand image, reputation and SEO rankings
"Don’t Run with Scissors: Serverless Security Survival Guide" | Hillel Solow,...LCloud
Hillel Solow, who is CTO and Co-Founder @ Protego Labs. Prior to co-founding Protego, he was CTO in Cisco’s IoT Security Group, where he worked on innovative security solutions for new technology markets. He covered the topic and conducted the workshop titled Don’t Run with Scissors: Serverless Security Survival Guide on Meetup AWS & Serverless UG Poland in Warsaw
- The document discusses security challenges and opportunities in serverless computing environments, where applications are composed of small independent functions that have no servers to manage.
- It introduces Protego's serverless security platform, which uses deep code flow analysis to automatically determine security policies and runtime protections for serverless functions.
- The workshop guides users through installing a vulnerable serverless application, connecting it to Protego, and demonstrating how Protego can harden applications by enforcing least privilege permissions and blocking exploits through behavioral analysis and runtime protections for functions.
Software management, the seasonal return of DDoS - This Week in Security.pdfLior Rotkovitch
This weekly security summary from F5 discusses several recent cybersecurity events:
- A proof of concept was published for a critical Fortinet vulnerability, leading to mass exploitation attempts.
- Automotive security threats are increasing as vehicles contain more software.
- Over 45,000 VMware ESXi servers reached end of support, leaving them vulnerable.
- A Minecraft server was hit with a record 2.5 terabit DDoS attack launched by the Mirai botnet.
- A pro-Russian group is paying people to participate in DDoS attacks against Western targets.
The 1B Data Leak, TrickBot Gang Shift and Cyber Espionage - F5 SIRT This Week...Lior Rotkovitch
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How to find bugs hands-on
How to use popular bug bounty programs
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Conclusions and surprises
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Мы поговорим об авторизации и аутентификации (AuthN & AuthZ): в чем их отличие и как перестать их путать; какие виды AuthN & AuthZ существуют на рынке; в чем специфика работы протоколов Oauth 2.0 и OpenID; какие лучшие практики тестирования безопасности AuthN & AuthZ и где попрактиковаться в тестирования той самой логин формы.
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HTTP Brute Force Mitigation Playbook Bot Profile for Brute Force Mitigations - Chapter 5.pdf
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HTTP Brute Force Mitigation Playbook: Bot Profile for Brute Force Mitigations - Chapter 5
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Bots traffic can be challenging to handle in general and bots that do brute force or credentials staffing In
specific requires powerful bot detection. Advance WAF bot profile released in version 14.1. is a powerful bot
manager for protecting your web application
As of version 14.1 Bot profile is a dedicated service that works in parallel to the ASM policy and to the Dos
profile.
This article describes the configuration options of the bot profile in the Advance WAF version 14.1 and above
when dealing with brute force or credential stuffing attacks.
When to use it:
General use and visibility :
Bot profile is a powerful on premises bot manager that allows control over the type of traffic accessing the
web application. By classifying the bots traffic to known good or known bad it is easier to manage the bot
traffic.
Bot profile can be used before or during automated attack. The optimize approach is to set the bot profile in
transparent mode (no traffic will be blocked) and understand the traffic arriving at the application. Only then
make educated decisions on traffic SAP (site access policy)
The trusted bot allows search engines and monitoring tools to continue working as expected and the
reporting provides valuable information on the traffic
Brute force
2. For brute force attacks bot profile can detect and prevent the automation of the attack agent by anomalies,
user agent and other detection technique.
Pre configuration
Bot profile and logging profile
The new bot profile should be assign to the relevant virtual server. Under: Local Traffic -> Virtual
Servers : Virtual Server List -> virtual_server_name -> Bot Defense Profile -> from the defaults options
choose “bot-defense”
The bot defense should also be assigned with log profile. Choose the local-bot-defense from the available
and move it to the selected. While the default logging profile is good enough you can create a new logging
profile for bot defense under Security -> Event Logs -> Logging Profiles -> create -> choose
Click update.
DNS resolver
Bot profile uses a revers DNS lookup check to identify known good search engines. Therefor a DNS server
and a DNS resolver must be configured on the BIGIP.
DNS server is under System -> Configuration -> Device -> DNS
DNS resolver is under Network -> DNS Resolver -> DNS Resolver List
Caution : using bot profile to mitigate attacks and NOT configuring the DNS resolver may affect analytics data
or monitoring crawlers such as google analytics etc .
Bot profile concept
3. Bot profile is the unification of several mechanism into one that is now called bot profile.
The new bot profile allows the automation of classifying request to bots types and according to it the applied
prevention policy is done.
Browser – classified as a browser, additional checks will be done such as browser capabilities, sources
scoring and more
Mobile App - Mobile App with SDK, Mobile App
Trusted bot - Signature categories: Search Engine
Untrusted bot - Signature categories: Crawler, HTTP Library, Headless Browser, RSS Reader, Search
Bot, Service Agent, Site Monitor, Social Media Agent, Web Downloader
Suspicious Browser - Anomaly categories: Suspicious Browser Type, Suspicious Browser Extension
Malicious Bot :
Signature categories: DOS Tool, E-Mail Collector, Exploit Tool, Network Scanner, Spam Bot, Spyware,
Vulnerability Scanner, Web Spider
Anomaly categories: Browser Automation, Malicious Browser Extensions, Headless Browser Anomalies,
Browser Masquerading, Mobile App Automation, Mobile App Masquerading, Illegal Mobile App, Search
Engine Masquerading, OWASP Automated Threat Anomalies, Classification Evasion
Each class type is getting the prevention policy that was defined in the template.
Bot profile - General settings
Profile Template is defied once when the bot profile is created and includes several modes:
Relaxed Mode – security policy that is not instructive because no java script is injected for source
identification nor for device ID java script. The only blocked bots are the ones that are classified as
malicious bots. The rest of the bots will be in alarm only.
Balanced Mode – security policy that is more intrusive and includes java script injection to identify the
sources and inject the java script to generate device ID. This mode is considered more intrusive
because the java script is injected in the first response ( after access). The blocked by default bots
classification are malicious bot, suspicious browser will get CATPCHA and unknown bots will get rate
limit.
Strict Mode – security policy that is most intrusive and inject the java script on the first request ( before
access) ,. This approach is considered intrusive but much more accurate in detection. By default all
classified bot types will be blocked except trusted bot that will be alarmed.
4. It is recommended to do the initial implementation with relaxed policy mode for visibility and false positive
reduction so that when an attack starts the profile can be moved to blocking mode immediately.
When under brute force attack the setting should be changed to set to strict mode so that the attackers will
be blocked from any bot types. Note that this includes blocking other bots that might be legitimate but during
attack the priority is to prevent the “you got hacked” scenario.
In cases where the web application must have availably over confidentiality then the relax template should
be used and gradually adding other policy elements that will tradeoff between the attack mitigation
(confidentiality ) and the web application performance ( availability )
Mitigation settings tab
5. Bot profile classify the bots traffic into the following types:
Trusted Bot - Bots that are detected using search engine signatures. Note that there is no anomaly detection
for Trusted Bots, It means that even if anomalies where found, we pass this request.
Untrusted Bot - Bots that are detected using signatures for untrusted bots. This group is covered by bot
signature category Benign (excluding the Search Engines).
Suspicious Browser - browser clients for which anomalies of Suspicious Browser category were detected.
Malicious Bot - Bots that are detected using malicious bot signatures or malicious behavioral anomalies.
Unknown - Bots that were not detected by neither bot signatures nor behavioral anomalies.
6. For example
TOR bowsers - should get a captcha to verify that it is not automated . but it will get blocking if the SAP
defines that it is not allowed.
Suspicious HTTP Headers Presence or Order - A missing header can be indicative of bot activity
Browser verification tab
Allows to fine tune and override the template setting for the level of intrusiveness
Browser verification - defines the intrusive level of the browser classification process.
Challenge free – means that no java script injection will be done and only passive detection will be
done
Verify after access – means the java script will be injected in the first response
Verify before access – means that the java script will be injected in the first request
The grace period is the time between a successful CAPTCHA challenge solution and when another
CAPTCHA challenge can be sent for a request.
Device ID mode – define when the java script for generating Device ID will be injected, after access or before
access which is first request or first response corresponding.
Verification and Device-ID Challenges in Transparent Mode enables to allow challenges and JavaScript
injects even though the profile is configured with Transparent Enforcement Mode and no mitigations will be
done. The challenges will be logged.
Single Page Application if your website is a Single Page Application, meaning a web application that loads
new content without triggering a full page-reload. The system will inject JavaScript code to every HTML
response. This will allow handling browser verification challenges, Device ID challenges and CAPTCHA
without requiring to reload the page.
7. Mobile Applications tab
In Mobile Applications setting you can define how requests from mobile application built with the Anti-Bot
Mobile SDK clients are handled. This feature requires an Anti-Bot Mobile SDK license to be operational.
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For applications that don’t use Anti-Bot Mobile SDK add an “Allowed Application” signature in Applications
without Anti-Bot Mobile SDK
Note that this relies on analyzing the User-Agent header field only, which can be easily spoofed, and should
be used with care.
Signature Enforcement tab
Bot signature are powerful first line of defense tool that should be enabled in transparent mode to
understand the traffic arriving to the web application.
When under brute force it is recommended to enforce the bot signature to filter and eliminate traffic access
to the web application.
Note that white listed sources including IP’s and search engines are allowed if configured properly as noted
in the white list tab.
In Signature Enforcement setting you can change the enforcement setting.
If a signature is in staging, one of two states are shown:
Ready to be enforced
Waiting for more traffic samples
8. Use the filter to find one or more signatures from the list.
Bot defense signature pool
The lists of Bot Signatures and Signatures Categories are located under Security ›› Bot Defense : Bot
Signatures.
A new signature for a specific bot can be created manually
This is covered in more details : Writing Custom Attack Signatures
Bot signatures are being update periodically by F5 , this process is document : Updating Attack and Bot
Signatures
Whitelist tab
The Whitelist setting is used to disable mitigation actions or browser verification and Device ID challenges.
It is recommended to white list known to be good to exempt them from being classified by the browser
verifications process.
There is also an option to white list specific IP’s to specific URL’s
Each IP that is added to the white list can be exempt from :
mitigation action – the actual action done on the classified source e.g. alarm, CAPTCHA ,Rate Limit, Block ,
TCP Reset, Honeypot page , Redirect to Pool
browser verification and Device ID challenges - the classification process of injecting java script to classify
the source with capabilities script or device ID injection.
Reporting
9. The Bot Traffic summary is located under Security ›› Event Logs : Bot Defense : Bot Traffic.
The graph display the bot types and traffic statistics which will indicate the percentages of human traffic
versus bots traffic.
When under brute force attack this graph helps in investigating the offending sources.
The bot request page provides a list of requests that got caught on the bot profile.
Drilling down on requests allows the view by bot type or by incident as well as the mitigation type that was
done on them
The list of bots is powerful tool to see the sources that are hitting the site and helps understand the type of
bots used to execute the brute force attack.
The request log shows the reasons for the request classification in the Request details section ( click on all
details )
10. The bot details describe the bot name, calls and category , in cases where the attack is done via browser the
bot name will be the browser name.
For example: if a brute force is done via burp proxy and a Firefox the bot name will be :
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36
The bot request page allows various filters to be applied to help with better search of the offending brute
force bot, the following filter options are helpful when tracking the brute force sources:
Specific URL – specify the login URL to see the type of bots access the login. One if those sources is an
offending boter (under advance filter)
Time range – specify the time range that the brute force occur to examine the bots that access the web
application during the attack. (under advance filter)
Source IP address – specify the suspicious source IP to see the type of bots arriving from this Ip.