104.199.113.234
Blocked Brute Night Owl Toolkit
Blocked since UTC, no end date. Our servers refuse it, web requests included, and it is in feed.txt.
Record
- Score
- 42/100each request counts half as much after 30 days
- Worst level
- Persistent
- Attack-shaped requests
- 259all time
- Active days
- 1UTC days
- First seen
- Last seen
- Servers hit
- 2
- Targets
- 1site
- Times blocked
- 0by the evidence rules
First seen on UTC, most recently active on UTC.
Recorded 259 attack-shaped requests across 1 separate day.
Its traffic requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials (133 requests); it also used a directory-traversal segment (literal or percent-encoded ../) in the request path to try to escape the web root (39); it also requested a common cloud/app secrets or credentials filename (AWS, GCP, Firebase, Kubernetes service-account token, SSH, master key) from a wordlist, hoping one was left in the webroot (19).
Seen by our edge and web sensors, against 4emx.com.
Scored into the "Brute" level now; the highest it has reached is "Persistent". Badges: Night Owl and Toolkit.
Its busiest hour on record began UTC, with 259 requests.
Routed via AS396982 (Google LLC), a cloud network.
Surfaces: web-app. Attack types: fake crawlers, known exploits, injection, scanning, hunting for secrets. Seen by: edge, web.
Activity, last 90 days
Active on 1 of the last 90 UTC days. Current block: , with no end date.
Daily counts
| Day (UTC) | Requests |
|---|---|
| 259 |
- At least 136 requests a minute at its peak ( UTC; identical requests in the same second are stored once).
- Methods: GET 247, POST 17.
- The servers we watch answered: 404 244, 403 20 (totals only, from our web servers).
Evidence
Newest first, the latest 50 stored requests grouped into runs. Times are UTC. The user agent is shown as its family only.
| Time | Site | What happened | Request | User agent | Seen by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4emx.com | claimed to be Googlebot while POSTing, something the real crawler never does | POST /webhook/ | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | 2× tried to abuse a PHP-CGI argument-injection flaw (allow_url_include/auto_prepend_file) to execute code (2 distinct paths) | POST /cgi-bin/php? | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | fuzzed a short, random filename looking for a forgotten script that responds | POST /index.php? | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | 2× tried to abuse a PHP-CGI argument-injection flaw (allow_url_include/auto_prepend_file) to execute code (2 distinct paths) | POST /cgi-bin/php? | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | tried to abuse a local or remote file inclusion parameter such as allow_url_include | POST /php-cgi/php-cgi.exe? | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | fuzzed a short, random filename looking for a forgotten script that responds | POST /index.php? | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | claimed to be Googlebot while POSTing, something the real crawler never does | POST /api/v1/build_public_tmp/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/flow | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | 2× swept a generic login/signup/account/dashboard route this site does not expose, consistent with an automated app-framework scanner | /api | none | web | |
| 4emx.com | 3× triggered Cloudflare's managed rule for a Next.js server-action request-smuggling/RCE attempt (3 distinct paths) | POST /dashboard | declared bot | edge | |
| 4emx.com | claimed to be Googlebot while POSTing, something the real crawler never does | POST /api/functionRouter | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | GET /.env.mail | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | made a request that matched no known pattern | GET /samconfig.toml | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | 5× requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials (5 distinct paths) | GET /config/env/aws_credentials.env | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | probed for an exposed .svn directory to read the site's version-control metadata | /.svn | none | web | |
| 4emx.com | requested a config.json file, hoping it exposes API keys or internal settings | GET /.docker/config.json | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | probed for an exposed .svn directory to read the site's version-control metadata | GET /.svn/entries | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | requested a common cloud/app secrets or credentials filename (AWS, GCP, Firebase, Kubernetes service-account token, SSH, master key) from a wordlist, hoping one was left in the webroot | GET /firebase-config.js | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | made a request that matched no known pattern | GET /terraform.tfstate.backup | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | requested a common cloud/app secrets or credentials filename (AWS, GCP, Firebase, Kubernetes service-account token, SSH, master key) from a wordlist, hoping one was left in the webroot | GET /firebaseConfig.js | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | 2× requested a private SSH key file by its conventional name (2 distinct paths) | GET /id_ed25519 | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | GET /docker-compose/.env | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | requested a private SSH key file by its conventional name | GET /id_rsa | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | 2× requested docker-compose.yml, which often contains embedded passwords and connection strings (2 distinct paths) | GET /docker-compose.production.yml | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | requested a private SSH key file by its conventional name | GET /.ssh/id_dsa | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | 3× requested docker-compose.yml, which often contains embedded passwords and connection strings (3 distinct paths) | GET /docker-compose.override.yml | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | requested a common cloud/app secrets or credentials filename (AWS, GCP, Firebase, Kubernetes service-account token, SSH, master key) from a wordlist, hoping one was left in the webroot | GET /.docker/secrets.json | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | made a request that matched no known pattern | GET /.gitconfig | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | 3× requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials (3 distinct paths) | GET /application/.env.sample | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | made a request that matched no known pattern | GET /config/settings.local.yml | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | 2× requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials (2 distinct paths) | GET /.env.live | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | made a request that matched no known pattern | GET /config/environment.json | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | GET /.env.stage | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | made a request that matched no known pattern | GET /config/database.json | declared bot | web | |
| 4emx.com | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | GET /config/.env.staging | declared bot | web | |
Network
- ASN
- AS396982 Google LLC
- Network type
- cloud
- Reverse DNS
234.113.199.104.bc.googleusercontent.com- Country
- United States US
- Flags
- cloud range (GCP)
- Abuse contact
- found in the registry
- Checked
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