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A tool (with a simple installer) that monitors UFW firewall logs in real time and reports IP addresses to the AbuseIPDB database.

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🛡️ UFW AbuseIPDB Reporter

A utility designed to analyze UFW logs and report IP addresses blocked by the firewall to the AbuseIPDB database.
To prevent excessive reporting of the same IP address within a short period, the tool uses a temporary cache file to track previously reported IP addresses.

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Also, check this out: sefinek/Cloudflare-WAF-To-AbuseIPDB

Important

📋 Requirements

  1. Node.js + npm
  2. PM2 (npm i pm2 -g)
  3. Git
  4. Linux

✅ Features

  1. Easy Configuration – The config.js file allows for quick and simple customization.
  2. Simple Installer – Enables fast and seamless integration deployment.
  3. Bulk Reporting Support – If the script encounters a rate limit, it will start buffering collected IPs and send a bulk report.
  4. Self-IP Protection (IPv4 & IPv6) – The script will never report IP addresses belonging to you or your server, even if you're using a dynamic IP address.
  5. Local IP Filtering (beta) – Local IP addresses will never be reported.
  6. Discord Webhooks Integration:
    • Critical notifications
    • Script error alerts
    • Daily summaries of reported IPs
  7. Automatic Updates – The script regularly fetches and applies the latest updates. You can disable this if you prefer.

📥 Installation (Ubuntu & Debian)

Automatic (easy & fast & recommenced)

Via curl

bash <(curl -fsS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter/main/install.sh)

Via wget

bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter/main/install.sh)

Manually

Node.js installation

sudo apt install -y curl
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo -E bash nodesource_setup.sh && sudo apt install -y nodejs

Git installation

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install git 

Commands

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter.git --recurse-submodules && cd UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
npm install
cp config.default.js config.js
sudo chmod 644 /var/log/ufw.log
node .
^C
npm install pm2 -g
sudo mkdir -p /var/log/ufw-abuseipdb
sudo chown -R "$USER":"$USER" /var/log/ufw-abuseipdb
sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/sefinek
sudo chown -R "$USER":"$USER" /var/cache/sefinek
pm2 start
pm2 startup
[Paste the command generated by pm2 startup]
pm2 save

🖥️ Usage

After a successful installation, the script will run continuously in the background, monitoring UFW logs and automatically reporting IP addresses.

Servers are constantly scanned by bots, usually looking for security vulnerabilities and similar weaknesses. So don't be surprised if the number of reports sent to AbuseIPDB exceeds a thousand the next day.

🔍 Check logs

pm2 logs ufw-abuseipdb

📄 Example reports

1️⃣

Blocked by UFW on homeserver1 [80/tcp]
Source port: 23639
TTL: 247
Packet length: 40
TOS: 0x00

This report was generated by:
https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter

2️⃣

Blocked by UFW on homeserver1 [30049/tcp]. Generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter

🤝 Development

If you want to contribute to the development of this project, feel free to create a new Pull request. I will definitely appreciate it!

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