146.70.40.68

In feed.txt Persistent Regular Campaign member

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
35/100each request counts half as much after 30 days
Worst level
Persistent
Attack-shaped requests
72all time
Active days
4UTC days
First seen
Last seen
Servers hit
2
Targets
4sites
Times blocked
1by the evidence rules

First seen on UTC, most recently active on UTC.

Recorded 72 attack-shaped requests across 4 separate days.

Its traffic requested a WordPress core file used to fingerprint the installed version and active plugins (68 requests); it also requested xmlrpc.php, which exposes a multicall method commonly abused to spray WordPress credentials and relay pingback floods (4).

Seen by our web sensor, against 4 of the sites we watch: aeroways.eu, dubstard.com, haived.com and stefanpetkov.day.

Scored into the "Persistent" level, its highest so far. Badges: Regular and Campaign member.

Its busiest hour on record began UTC, with 18 requests.

Routed via AS9009 (M247 Europe SRL), a hosting network.

Surfaces: web-app. Attack types: password spraying, scanning. Seen by: web.

Activity, last 90 days

Active on 4 of the last 90 UTC days. Current block: , with no end date.

Daily counts
Attack requests per UTC day, days with activity only
Day (UTC)Requests
18
18
18
18
  • At least 18 requests a minute at its peak ( UTC; identical requests in the same second are stored once).
  • Methods: GET 72.
  • The servers we watch answered: 404 72 (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.

Evidence, newest first, grouped by UTC day
TimeSiteWhat happenedRequestUser agentSeen by
haived.com16× requested a WordPress core file used to fingerprint the installed version and active plugins (16 distinct paths)GET //sito/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xmlbrowser claimweb
haived.comrequested xmlrpc.php, which exposes a multicall method commonly abused to spray WordPress credentials and relay pingback floodsGET //xmlrpc.php?browser claimweb
haived.comrequested a WordPress core file used to fingerprint the installed version and active pluginsGET //wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xmlbrowser claimweb
aeroways.eu16× requested a WordPress core file used to fingerprint the installed version and active plugins (16 distinct paths)GET //sito/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xmlbrowser claimweb
aeroways.eurequested xmlrpc.php, which exposes a multicall method commonly abused to spray WordPress credentials and relay pingback floodsGET //xmlrpc.php?browser claimweb
aeroways.eurequested a WordPress core file used to fingerprint the installed version and active pluginsGET //wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xmlbrowser claimweb
dubstard.com14× requested a WordPress core file used to fingerprint the installed version and active plugins (14 distinct paths)GET //sito/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xmlbrowser claimweb

Network

ASN
AS9009 M247 Europe SRL
Network type
hosting
Reverse DNS
none
Country
France FR
City
Paris (registry location of a hosting network)
Flags
none observed
Abuse contact
found in the registry
Checked

Elsewhere: GreyNoise, Shodan, AbuseIPDB.

Campaign

Sends the same user agent (family: browser claim) and asks for the same paths as 10 other addresses, seen together from to . Paths: //wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml //xmlrpc.php? //blog/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml //web/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml //wordpress/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml.

Delisting

This block has no end date. If the range now belongs to someone else, it can leave the list through the free delisting path; every decision is published on the delisting log.