146.190.254.16
In feed.txt Brute Regular Night Owl Toolkit
Blocked indefinitely since UTC on our servers, including web requests through Cloudflare, and in feed.txt. A hosting-network block has no end date; it ends only through the delisting path.
Record
- Score
- 33/100each request counts half as much after 30 days
- Worst level
- Brute
- Attack-shaped requests
- 15all time
- Active days
- 2UTC days
- First seen
- Last seen
- Servers hit
- 1
- Targets
- 3sites
- Times blocked
- 1by the evidence rules
First seen on UTC, most recently active on UTC.
Recorded 15 attack-shaped requests across 2 separate days.
Its traffic probed a list of common site paths looking for an unprotected admin panel or staging copy (6 requests); it also tried to run code through an exposed PHPUnit test helper (CVE-2017-9841) (3); it also requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials (2).
Seen by our web sensor, against 3 of the sites we watch: foundyourjob.com, techauthors.eu and techwriters.eu.
Scored into the "Brute" level, its highest so far. Badges: Regular, Night Owl and Toolkit.
Its busiest hour on record began UTC, with 7 requests.
Routed via AS14061 (DigitalOcean, LLC), a hosting network.
Surfaces: web-app. Attack types: known exploits, scanning, hunting for secrets. Seen by: web.
Activity, last 90 days
Active on 2 of the last 90 UTC days. Current block: , with no end date.
Daily counts
| Day (UTC) | Requests |
|---|---|
| 1 | |
| 14 |
- At least 7 requests a minute at its peak ( UTC; identical requests in the same second are stored once).
- Methods: GET 10, POST 3.
- The servers we watch answered: 404 9, 403 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| techwriters.eu | requested the .git directory itself, hoping it is exposed and browsable | /.git | none | web | |
| techwriters.eu | 3× probed a list of common site paths looking for an unprotected admin panel or staging copy (3 distinct paths) | GET /blog | browser claim | web | |
| techwriters.eu | probed for an exposed .git directory to download the site's source history and config | GET /.git/config | browser claim | web | |
| techwriters.eu | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | GET /.env | browser claim | web | |
| techwriters.eu | tried to run code through an exposed PHPUnit test helper (CVE-2017-9841) | POST /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php | browser claim | web | |
| techauthors.eu | requested the .git directory itself, hoping it is exposed and browsable | /.git | none | web | |
| techauthors.eu | 3× probed a list of common site paths looking for an unprotected admin panel or staging copy (3 distinct paths) | GET /blog | browser claim | web | |
| techauthors.eu | probed for an exposed .git directory to download the site's source history and config | GET /.git/config | browser claim | web | |
| techauthors.eu | tried to run code through an exposed PHPUnit test helper (CVE-2017-9841) | POST /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php | browser claim | web | |
| techauthors.eu | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | GET /.env | browser claim | web | |
| foundyourjob.com | tried to run code through an exposed PHPUnit test helper (CVE-2017-9841) | POST /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php | browser claim | web | |
Network
- ASN
- AS14061 DigitalOcean, LLC
- Network type
- hosting
- Reverse DNS
- none
- Country
- Canada CA
- City
- Toronto (registry location of a hosting network)
- Flags
- none observed
- Abuse contact
- found in the registry
- Checked
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Delisting
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