Unix & Linux Asked on October 31, 2021
My iptables keeps growing…
When I do sudo iptables -L | wc -l, it shows a number, if I do it again later that number goes up.
It seems to increase by 1 every 2 seconds.
I tried to reboot, not changing anything…
I’m on Ubuntu 16.04.6
I did like @Artem mentioned :
sudo iptables-save > /tmp/ipt.dump1
# Wait a few seconds
sudo iptables-save > /tmp/ipt.dump2
diff -u /tmp/ipt.dump1 /tmp/ipt.dump2
And I got this result :
--- /tmp/ipt.dump1 2020-07-20 17:39:27.443308154 +0900
+++ /tmp/ipt.dump2 2020-07-20 17:39:40.831173660 +0900
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# Generated by iptables-save v1.6.0 on Mon Jul 20 17:39:27 2020
+# Generated by iptables-save v1.6.0 on Mon Jul 20 17:39:40 2020
*nat
-:PREROUTING ACCEPT [545:78025]
-:INPUT ACCEPT [545:78025]
-:OUTPUT ACCEPT [2686:163879]
-:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [2686:163879]
+:PREROUTING ACCEPT [547:78264]
+:INPUT ACCEPT [547:78264]
+:OUTPUT ACCEPT [2726:166287]
+:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [2726:166287]
:DOCKER - [0:0]
-A PREROUTING -m addrtype --dst-type LOCAL -j DOCKER
-A OUTPUT ! -d 127.0.0.0/8 -m addrtype --dst-type LOCAL -j DOCKER
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@
-A POSTROUTING -s 172.17.0.2/32 -d 172.17.0.2/32 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8501 -j MASQUERADE
-A DOCKER -i docker0 -j RETURN
COMMIT
-# Completed on Mon Jul 20 17:39:27 2020
-# Generated by iptables-save v1.6.0 on Mon Jul 20 17:39:27 2020
+# Completed on Mon Jul 20 17:39:40 2020
+# Generated by iptables-save v1.6.0 on Mon Jul 20 17:39:40 2020
*filter
-:INPUT ACCEPT [11:1274]
+:INPUT ACCEPT [38:5571]
:FORWARD DROP [0:0]
-:OUTPUT ACCEPT [7:464]
+:OUTPUT ACCEPT [9:720]
:DOCKER - [0:0]
:DOCKER-ISOLATION-STAGE-1 - [0:0]
:DOCKER-ISOLATION-STAGE-2 - [0:0]
@@ -829,6 +829,14 @@
-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
+-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
+-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
+-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
+-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
+-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
+-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
+-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
+-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1/32 -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -j DOCKER-USER
-A FORWARD -j DOCKER-ISOLATION-STAGE-1
-A FORWARD -o docker0 -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
@@ -841,4 +849,4 @@
-A DOCKER-ISOLATION-STAGE-2 -j RETURN
-A DOCKER-USER -j RETURN
COMMIT
-# Completed on Mon Jul 20 17:39:27 2020
+# Completed on Mon Jul 20 17:39:40 2020
I followed this to track processes :
git clone https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools.git
cd perf-tools
sudo ./execsnoop
I then filtered to see only things related to iptables :
sudo ./execsnoop | grep iptables
And every 1.5 seconds I have 2 new processes :
8596 8595 iptables -L INPUT
8599 8534 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
8705 8704 iptables -L INPUT
8708 8643 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
8814 8813 iptables -L INPUT
8817 8752 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
8923 8922 iptables -L INPUT
8926 8861 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
9033 9032 iptables -L INPUT
9036 8971 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
9142 9141 iptables -L INPUT
9145 9080 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
9251 9250 iptables -L INPUT
9254 9189 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
9360 9359 iptables -L INPUT
9363 9298 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
9469 9468 iptables -L INPUT
9472 9407 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
9578 9577 iptables -L INPUT
9581 9516 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
9687 9686 iptables -L INPUT
9690 9625 iptables -I INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
But it doesn’t help me finding the root cause…
Turned out, it was a virus...
I opened another stack exchange post on what to do next.
I'm accepting this answer because it's the answer of my specific case, but be sure to check comments and other answers, which provide really useful tools to track the potential cause of this.
Answered by Astariul on October 31, 2021
This awk script might help you find who's calling iptables. It pieces together a process tree from execsnoop's output (pid ppid command ...). The parents are indented and appear after the children, sorry; with more time, I could get it to look like pstree, but this may do.
Run execsnoop for a few seconds with its output diverted to a file, then run this with input from that file.
awk -v search=iptables '
$1 ~ /^[0-9]+$/ {
p = $1
ppid[p] = $2
# command is in $3..$NF, so we'll
# remove the first 2 fields, then store $0
for (i = 3; i <= NF; i++) {
$(i-2) = $i
}
NF -= 2
cmd[p] = $0
}
END {
for (p in cmd) {
if (cmd[p] ~ search) {
prefix = ""
do {
print prefix, p, cmd[p]
p = ppid[p]
prefix = prefix " "
} while (p)
}
}
}'
Answered by Mark Plotnick on October 31, 2021
Please do the following:
sudo iptables-save > /tmp/ipt.dump1
a few seconds later
sudo iptables-save > /tmp/ipt.dump2
Then please post diff -u /tmp/ipt.dump1 /tmp/ipt.dump2
At least you'll know what you're dealing with.
As a last resort, I'd do the following:
sudo mv /sbin/iptables /sbin/iptables.real
and then create a bash script instead, e.g.
#! /bin/bash
echo "`date`: I was called by $PPID `readlink /proc/$PPID/exe` " >> /tmp/iptables.log
/sbin/iptables.real "$@"
This will let you find out what process is calling iptables incessantly.
Answered by Artem S. Tashkinov on October 31, 2021
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