README.md

Forter Exercise by Eliran Pe'er

A login page, with some client-side bot detection tricks.

Instructions

1. Clone the project, and run npm install
2. Run the project using npm start
3. Navigate to http://localhost:3000/user/login

Login credentials

Email: eliran013@gmail.com

Password: Aa123456

Tech

Client

• Vanilla JavaScript
• Bulma, just for fun

Server

• JavaScript
• ExpressJS
• ElasticSearch

What's in there?

Bot detection

• Two bot traps - A semi-invisible anchor and an invisible password input. Using these elements will fire the onBotDetected event
• Required mouse movement
• Fast input prevention - Type too fast and you're considered a bot
• Fast submit - Submit the form too fast and you're considered a bot
• Login attempts spam - Spam the form submittion while changing the input fields will fire the onBotDetected event

onBotDetected

The event itself isn't implemented, but you can think about it as if it bans the IP address or present a CAPTCHA (Same as Google CAPTCHA)

Server security

• I implemented access tokens middleware (Could have used JWT, but I thought it will be more fun)
• All of the passwords are hashed using a NPM package called credential (https://www.npmjs.com/package/credential). It uses pbkdf2.

ElasticSearch

The ElasticSearch is hosted on AWS. It's a trial, so it'll be available until 29.07.2017

Things I could have done

• HTTPS
• Serverside generation of bot traps - Generation of random bot traps in random places in the HTML, will make them less predictable
• JWT
• Detect bots by clicks
• RDP detections using mouse tracking
• Much more... :)