* feat: first implementation of honeypot logic
This is a bit of an experiment, stick with me.
The core idea here is that badly written crawlers are that: badly
written. They look for anything that contains `<a href="whatever" />`
tags and will blindly use those values to recurse. This takes advantage
of that by hiding a link in a `<script>` tag like this:
```html
<script type="ignore"><a href="/bots-only">Don't click</a></script>
```
Browsers will ignore it because they have no handler for the "ignore"
script type.
This current draft is very unoptimized (it takes like 7 seconds to
generate a page on my tower), however switching spintax libraries will
make this much faster.
The hope is to make this pluggable with WebAssembly such that we force
administrators to choose a storage method. First we crawl before we
walk.
The AI involvement in this commit is limited to the spintax in
affirmations.txt, spintext.txt, and titles.txt. This generates a bunch
of "pseudoprofound bullshit" like the following:
> This Restoration to Balance & Alignment
>
> There's a moment when creators are being called to realize that the work
> can't be reduced to results, but about energy. We don't innovate products
> by pushing harder, we do it by holding the vision. Because momentum can't
> be forced, it unfolds over time when culture are moving in the same
> direction. We're being invited into a paradigm shift in how we think
> about innovation. [...]
This is intended to "look" like normal article text. As this is a first
draft, this sucks and will be improved upon.
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* fix(honeypot/naive): optimize hilariously
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* feat(honeypot/naive): attempt to automatically filter out based on crawling
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* fix(lib): use mazeGen instead of bsGen
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* docs: add honeypot docs
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* chore(test): go mod tidy
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* Implement FCrDNS and other DNS features
* Redesign DNS cache and methods
* Fix DNS cache
* Rename regexSafe arg
* Alter verifyFCrDNS(addr) behaviour
* Remove unused dnsCache field from Server struct
* Upd expressions docs
* Update docs/docs/CHANGELOG.md
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* refactor(dns): simplify FCrDNS logging
* docs: clarify verifyFCrDNS behavior
Add a note to the documentation for `verifyFCrDNS` to clarify that it returns true when no PTR records are found for the given IP address.
* fix(dns): Improve FCrDNS error handling and tests
The `VerifyFCrDNS` function previously ignored errors returned from reverse DNS lookups. This could lead to incorrect passes when a DNS failure (other than a simple 'not found') occurred. This change ensures that any error from a reverse lookup will cause the FCrDNS check to fail.
The test suite for FCrDNS has been updated to reflect this change. The mock DNS lookups now simulate both 'not found' errors and other generic DNS errors. The test cases have been updated to ensure that the function behaves correctly in both scenarios, resolving a situation where two test cases were effectively duplicates.
* docs: Update FCrDNS documentation and spelling
Corrected a typo in the `verifyFCrDNS` function documentation.
Additionally, updated the spelling exception list to include new terms and remove redundant entries.
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* chore: add dependabot cooldown
One of the things I need to worry about with Anubis is the idea that
could pwn a dependency and then get malicious code into prod without
realizing it, a-la Jia Tan. Given that Anubis relies on tools like
Dependabot to manage updating dependencies (good for other reasons),
it makes sense to have Dependabot have a 7 day cooldown for new
versions of dependencies.
This follows the advice from Yossarian on their blog at [1]. Thanks
for the post and easy to copy/paste snippets!
[1]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
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* refactor: move lib/policy/config to lib/config
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* refactor: don't set global loggers anymore
Ref #864
You were right @kotx, it is a bad idea to set the global logger
instance.
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* feat(config): add log sink support
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* chore(test): go mod tidy
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* docs(admin/policies): add logging block documentation
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* docs: update CHANGELOG
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* fix(cmd/anubis): revert this change, it's meant to be its own PR
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* chore: go mod tidy
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* test: add file logging smoke test
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* fix: don't expose the old log file time format string
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* feat(internal): add ListOr[T any] type
This is a utility type that lets you decode a JSON T or list of T as a
single value. This will be used with Redis Sentinel config so that you
can specify multiple sentinel addresses.
Ref TecharoHQ/botstopper#24
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* feat(store/valkey): add Redis(R) Sentinel support
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* chore(store/valkey): remove pointless comments
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* docs: document the Redis™ Sentinel configuration options
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* fix(store/valkey): Redis™ Sentinel doesn't require a password
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* (feat) Add cluster support to redis/vaultkey store
* (chore) Update CHANGELOG.md
* (fix) Disable maintenance notification on the Valkey store
* (fix) Valkey text fix and allow maintnotifications in spelling.
* fix(data): add ruleset to explicitly allow Docker / OCI clients
Fixes#1252
This is technically a regression as these clients used to work in Anubis
v1.22.0, however it is allowable to make this opt-in as most websites do not
expect to be serving Docker / OCI registry client traffic.
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* test(docker-registry): export the right envvars
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* ci: add simdjson dependency for homebrew node
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* ci: install go/node without homebrew
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* test: use right github commit variable
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* ci: remove simdjson dependency
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* ci: install ko with an action
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* docs: add OCI registry caveat docs
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* feat(default-config): block tencent cloud by default
This is what happens when you don't have an abuse contact.
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* fix(lib): show error message detail when hitting some common flows
Instead of giving the user nothing to go off of, this patch gives them
an opaque blob of ROT-13 encoded base64. The logic is that if you are
smart enough to figure out how to decode this, you're probably smart
enough to either fix your broken client or give it to the adminstrator.
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* fix(worker): constrain nonce value to be a whole integer
Closes#1043
Sometimes the worker could get into a strange state where it has a
decimal nonce, but the server assumes that the nonce can only be a whole
number. This patch constrains the nonce to be a whole number on the
worker end by detecting if the nonce is a decimal number and then
truncating away the decimal portion.
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* fix(algorithms/fast): truncate decimal place on number of threads
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* fix(default-config): block Huawei Cloud
Closes#978
Huawei Cloud has been egregious about its scraping. All attempts to
contact their abuse team have failed. If you work for Huawei Cloud,
please raise this issue internally and get the scraping to just stop.
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* fix(lib): ensure issued challenges don't get double-spent
Closes#1002
TL;DR: challenge IDs were not validated at time of token issuance. A
dedicated attacker could solve a challenge once and reuse it across
multiple sessons in order to mint additional tokens.
With the advent of store based challenge issuance in #749, this means
that these challenge IDs are only good for 30 minutes. Websites using
the most recent version of Anubis have limited exposure to this problem.
Websites using older versions of Anubis have a much more increased
exposure to this problem and are encouraged to keep this software
updated as often and as frequently as possible.
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* refactor: make challenge pages return the challenge component
This means that challenge pages will return only the little bit that
actually matters, not the entire component.
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* fix(web): move Anubis version info to be implicitly in the footer
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* fix(web): embed challenge ID into generated pages
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* fix(lib): make tests pass
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* test(lib/policy/config): amend tests
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* test(lib): fix tests again
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* chore(web/js): delete proof-of-work-slow.mjs
This code has served its purpose and now needs to be retired to the
great beyond. There is no replacement for this, the fast implementation
will be used instead.
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* chore(web): handle building multiple JS entrypoints and web workers
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* feat(web): rewrite frontend worker handling
This completely rewrites how the proof of work challenge works based on
feedback from browser engine developers and starts the process of making
the proof of work function easier to change out.
- Import @aws-crypto/sha256-js to use in Firefox as its implementation
of WebCrypto doesn't jump directly from highly optimized browser
internals to JIT-ed JavaScript like Chrome's seems to.
- Move the worker code to `web/js/worker/*` with each worker named after
the hashing method and hash method implementation it uses.
- Update bench.mjs to import algorithms the new way.
- Delete video.mjs, it was part of a legacy experiment that I never had
time to finish.
- Update LibreJS comment to add info about the use of
@aws-crypto/sha256-js.
- Also update my email to my @techaro.lol address.
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* fix(web): don't hard dep webcrypto anymore
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* chore(lib/policy): start the deprecation process for slow
This mostly adds a warning, but the "slow" method is in the process of
being removed. Warn admins with slog.Warn.
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* feat(web/js): allow running Anubis in non-secure contexts
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* fix(lib): block XSS attacks via nonstandard URLs
This could allow an attacker to craft an Anubis pass-challenge URL that
forces a redirect to nonstandard URLs, such as the `javascript:` scheme
which executes arbitrary JavaScript code in a browser context when the
user clicks the "Try again" button.
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* feat(anubis): add /healthz route to metrics server
Also add health check test for Docker Compose and update documentation
for health checking Anubis with Docker Compose.
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This is not used yet, but it will be part of a larger strategy around
adding/removing weight based on JA4H (and other) fingerprint matches
with Thoth.
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* correct gitea.botPolicies extension to be yaml, not json
while Anubis probably doesn't care about the extension, and would parse a JSON file just fine too, the rest of the page talks about `gitea.botPolicies.yaml`, so let's be consistent
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* docs(known-instances): update list of known instances
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* feat(lib/policy/expressions): add system load average to bot expression inputs
This lets Anubis dynamically react to system load in order to
increase and decrease the required level of scrutiny. High load? More
scrutiny required. Low load? Less scrutiny required.
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