Rules defining attack counters¶

Rules overview¶

Rules Tag requests as a forced browsing attack and Tag requests as a brute-force attack are used to add tags to specific requests. The postanalytics module uses these tags to detect dirbust (forced browsing) and brute‑force attacks respectively.

Creating and applying the rule¶

To create and apply the rule:

1. Create the rule Tag requests as a forced browsing attack or Tag requests as a brute-force attack in the Profile & Rules section of the Wallarm Console. The rule consists of the following components:

   • Condition describes the request to add the brute‑force or forced browsing tags to.
   • Counter name defines the name of the tag which will be added to the request. The name should correspond to the following format:
     • d:<name> for the rule Tag requests as a forced browsing attack
     • b:<name> for the rule Tag requests as a brute-force attack

   Message about inherited counter

   If you have a Default rule defining attack counter, you can get a message Inherited counter: <name> when creating a rule with defined conditions that will trigger this rule. Default rule is applied to all incoming requests as it does not have defined conditions that trigger the rule.

   The message is for informational purposes only. Operation of the rule with defined trigger conditions will not be affected as it has a higher priority than the Default rule.

   Number of tags created for one condition

   • Only one tag of any type (b: or d:) can be created for one condition.
   • One tag cannot be reused with several conditions.

2. Create a trigger with the filter by the tag and a threshold for request blocking. Examples of triggers are available at this link.

Rule examples¶

• Add a forced browsing attack tag d:api_fr_user_passwords to requests sent to the path api/frontend/user/passwords of the protected resource

• Add a brute-force attack tag b:api_fr_user_login to requests sent to the path api/frontend/user/login of the protected resource