BGP IP prefix hijack detection times

Tue Feb 28 06:17:56 UTC 2017

The Goal is not to mitigate or take action against the malicious activity.
Goal is to detect the hijacking event by trying to reduce false posivites
as much as possible.
I know false positives is one of the key factor to consider.
I am just trying to distinguish between a legitimate advertisement against
hijack event.

Regards,
Nagarjun

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:31 AM Hank Nussbacher <hank at efes.iucc.ac.il>
wrote:

> On 28/02/2017 07:15, Nagarjun Govindraj via NANOG wrote:
>
> So what if you detect in 1.4 minutes of 3.1 minutes?  Or even 8
> minutes?  What then?
> You certainly couldn't do anything to prevent it after 3.1 minutes.
> First you need to analyze whether the BGP hijack is a false positive or
> not.
> Could be the customer you are watching is testing out some cloud based
> anti-DDOS mitigation and is allowing some other ASN to announce their
> /24 (intentional).
> Could be the ASN on the other side of the world has implemented some BGP
> optimization box which announces prefixes internally  to do TE but they
> also happen to be sending BGP updates to Dyn/BGPMON/Team Cymru/whoever.
> Could be the customer you are monitoring has decided to blackhole some
> malicious IP and has started to announce a /32 internally and they too
> feed BGP announcements to Dyn/BGPMON/Team Cymru/whoever.
> I have many other examples.
> After you get an announcement of a BGP hijack, you start investigating.
> You determine the extent of the hijack - is it localized to one
> geographic area or is it worldwide.  Is it just you or are there
> thousands of other prefixes affected.  After 15 minutes you sit down and
> write an email to the ASN doing the announcement.  For that you hope
> whois is up to date which 60% of the time it is not.  So you start
> scraping Google for possible email addresses to contact.
> After not getting a response for 24 hours you send an email to their
> upstream ASN (also contingent on finding proper email addresses that
> will respond).
> After waiting another day you send an email to the upstream of the
> upstream and you keep repeating the process until you find someone
> responsive.
> Stopping a BGP hijack does not take 1.4 minutes or 3.1 minutes.  It is
> usually hours and sometimes days until the hijack is stopped.
>
> -Hank
>
>
> > Well, the idea behind the mail was to know if anyone in the community are
> > doing real time BGP IP prefix hijacking.
> > Like Artemis detection tool claims to be detecting in 1.4 ~ 3.1 minutes.
> So
> > I wanted to know if anyone in the community are using such tools for
> > detecting hijacks, if yes how much time does the system take to detect.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nagarjun
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:59 PM Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Christopher Morrow wrote:
> >>> Also: "How reliable are the alerts being sent?"
> >> also: do the smtp servers which handle mail for the domain of the
> >> alerting email address use the IP address space as they're notifying
> about?
> >>
> >> Nick
> >>
> >>
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