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My first attempt at a honeypot/blacklist

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Using a thread on the MikroTik forums as inspiration, I’ve taken the idea and made my first incarnation of a fairly brutal honeypot & blacklist. This is only the interesting part of the full router script but it’s my baseline for starting.

# SET WHITELIST IF NEEDED
# SET IN-INTERFACE
/ip firewall address-list
add address=8.8.8.8 list=WHITELIST
/ip firewall filter
add action=accept chain=input comment="ACCEPT ESTABLISHED & RELATED SERVICE" connection-state=established,related in-interface=WAN.INTERFACE
add action=accept chain=input comment="ACCEPT WHITELIST" src-address-list=WHITELIST in-interface=WAN.INTERFACE
add action=accept chain=input comment="ACCEPT PING" protocol=icmp in-interface=WAN.INTERFACE
add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list=honeypot-blacklist address-list-timeout=none-dynamic chain=input comment="BLACKLISTING TCP" in-interface=WAN.INTERFACE protocol=tcp src-address-list=!WHITELIST
add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list=honeypot-blacklist address-list-timeout=none-dynamic chain=input comment="BLACKLISTING UDP" in-interface=WAN.INTERFACE protocol=udp src-address-list=!WHITELIST
add action=drop chain=input comment="DROP BLACKLISTED INPUT" in-interface=WAN.INTERFACE src-address-list=honeypot-blacklist
add action=drop chain=input comment="DROP ALL (SHOULD NOT FILL UP)" in-interface=WAN-INTERFACE log=yes log-prefix=non-bl-dropped-traffic

It’s quite strict in that anything that sniffs at it gets added to the blacklist and then blocked until reboot. As I push it further I will probably time the sniffers out for a few days rather than perma-block.