🛡️ 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.

This project was originally written in Bash but has been rewritten in Node.js. All my integration tools are now written in Node, hence this change. If you were using the old version, please uninstall it as it will no longer be supported.

If you like this repository or find it useful, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could give it a star ⭐. Many thanks!
Also, check this out: sefinek/Cloudflare-WAF-To-AbuseIPDB

Important

• If you'd like to make changes to any files in this repository, please start by creating a public fork.
• According to AbuseIPDB's policy, UDP traffic should not be reported!

📋 Requirements

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

✅ Features

1. A config.js file enabling easy configuration.
2. A simple installer allowing quick integration deployment.
3. Integration with Discord Webhooks (coming soon):
   • Alerts in case of script errors
   • Daily summaries of reported IP addresses
4. Automatic updates.

📥 Installation (Ubuntu & Debian)

Automatic (easy & recommenced)

Via curl

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

Via wget

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

Manually

Node.js installation

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

Git installation

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

Script

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

🗑️ Uninstall the deprecated version if you have it

sudo systemctl stop abuseipdb-ufw.service && sudo systemctl disable abuseipdb-ufw.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/abuseipdb-ufw.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo rm -r /usr/local/bin/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter

🖥️ Usage

After successful installation, the script will run continuously in the background, monitoring UFW logs and automatically reporting malicious IP addresses. The tool requires no additional user action after installation. However, it's worth occasionally checking its operation and updating the script regularly (by running the installation command).

Servers open to the world are constantly scanned by bots, usually looking for vulnerabilities or other security gaps. So don't be surprised if the next day, the number of reports to AbuseIPDB exceeds a thousand.

🔍 Checking 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!

🔑 GPL-3.0 License

Copyright 2024-2025 © by Sefinek. All rights reserved.