34.138.171.76

blockedPersistentRegularToolkit

Case file

First seen on 2026-09-20T19:33:38Z, most recently active on 2026-09-29T14:50:20Z.

Recorded 381 attack-shaped requests across 6 separate days.

Its traffic requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials; it also matched a catalogue rule; it also requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text.

Seen from 2 of our sensors: edge, nl4-web.

Scored into the "Persistent" level, carrying the badges Regular, Toolkit.

Routed via AS396982 (Google LLC), an ASN we classify as cloud.

Blocked on every one of our hosts and at our edge since 2026-10-04T15:29:58Z, through 2027-01-02T15:29:58Z.

Enrichment

rDNS76.171.138.34.bc.googleusercontent.com
ASNAS396982 — Google LLC
ASN typecloud
CountryUnited States (US)
FlagsCloud range

External references: GreyNoise, Shodan, AbuseIPDB

Timeline

Evidence (newest first, up to 50)

Time (UTC)VantageSiteClassStatusEvidence
2026-09-29T14:50:05Znl4-webtechauthors.euused Vite dev server's @fs/ path to try to read arbitrary files outside the project root40434.138.171.76 - - [29/Sep/2026:17:50:05 +0300] "GET /@fs/proc/self/cmdline? HTTP/1.1" 404 236 "http://techauthors.eu:8080/@fs/proc/self/cmdline?" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bytespider; <email>) AppleWebKit/537.36"
2026-09-29T14:50:03Znl4-webtechauthors.eurequested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials40434.138.171.76 - - [29/Sep/2026:17:50:03 +0300] "GET /@fs/app/.env.production? HTTP/1.1" 404 236 "http://techauthors.eu:8080/@fs/app/.env.production?" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot"
2026-09-29T14:50:03Znl4-webtechauthors.eurequested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials40434.138.171.76 - - [29/Sep/2026:17:50:03 +0300] "GET /@fs/app/.env.local? HTTP/1.1" 404 236 "http://techauthors.eu:8080/@fs/app/.env.local?" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)"
2026-09-29T14:49:55Znl4-webtechauthors.euused Vite dev server's @fs/ path to try to read arbitrary files outside the project root40434.138.171.76 - - [29/Sep/2026:17:49:55 +0300] "GET /@fs/proc/self/cmdline? HTTP/1.1" 404 236 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +<email>)"
2026-09-29T14:49:53Znl4-webtechauthors.eurequested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials40434.138.171.76 - - [29/Sep/2026:17:49:53 +0300] "GET /@fs/app/.env.local? HTTP/1.1" 404 236 "-" "DuckAssistBot/1.1 (https://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot)"
2026-09-29T14:49:53Znl4-webtechauthors.eurequested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials40434.138.171.76 - - [29/Sep/2026:17:49:53 +0300] "GET /@fs/app/.env.production? HTTP/1.1" 404 236 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Hunyuan/1.0; +https://hunyuan.tencent.com/)"
2026-09-28T00:45:18Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:45:18Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/admin","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GrokBot/1.0; +https://x.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Google LLC","ray":"…
2026-09-28T00:45:18Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:45:18Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/api","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Meta-ExternalAgent/1.0; +https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id"…
2026-09-28T00:45:13Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:45:13Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.old","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1)","action":"block","sour…
2026-09-28T00:45:12Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:45:12Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.bak","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MoonshotBot/1.0; +https://kimi.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"G…
2026-09-28T00:45:09Zedgezmey.euwas blocked at the edge without matching any specific attack signature{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:45:09Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/login","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US",…
2026-09-28T00:45:08Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:45:08Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_i…
2026-09-28T00:43:30Zedgezmey.euwas blocked at the edge without matching any specific attack signature{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:43:30Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/login","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Hunyuan/1.0; +https://hunyuan.tencent.com/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Goog…
2026-09-28T00:43:30Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:43:30Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +<email>)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","…
2026-09-28T00:43:30Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:43:30Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/admin","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; cohere-ai; +https://cohere.com/crawler)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Google L…
2026-09-28T00:43:30Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:43:30Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/dashboard","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bravebot/1.0; +https://brave.com/search/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Go…
2026-09-28T00:43:30Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:43:30Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/api","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Claude-User/1.0; +<email>)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"…
2026-09-28T00:43:30Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:43:30Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/api/auth","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/gptbot","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<reda…
2026-09-26T00:58:29Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-26T00:58:29Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php~","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","c…
2026-09-26T00:58:28Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-26T00:58:28Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.old","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YouBot/1.0; +https://you.com/bot)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Goo…
2026-09-26T00:58:28Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-26T00:58:28Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.bak","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PanguBot/1.0; +https://www.huaweicloud.com/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","as…
2026-09-26T00:58:27Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-26T00:58:27Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/api/auth","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged"…
2026-09-26T00:58:26Zedgezmey.euwas blocked at the edge without matching any specific attack signature{"ts":"2026-09-26T00:58:26Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/login","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://mistral.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Google…
2026-09-26T00:58:26Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-26T00:58:26Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/dashboard","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"…
2026-09-26T00:58:26Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-26T00:58:26Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/se…
2026-09-22T21:57:16Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-22T21:57:16Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"www.zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.old","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>",…
2026-09-22T21:57:05Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-22T21:57:05Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"www.zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php~","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; xAI-Grok/1.0; +https://x.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Google…
2026-09-22T21:57:05Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-22T21:57:05Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"www.zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.swp","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Claude-SearchBot/1.0; +<email>)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<…
2026-09-22T21:57:04Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-22T21:57:04Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"www.zmey.eu","path":"/api","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"DuckAssistBot/1.1 (https://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Google LLC","r…
2026-09-22T06:36:42Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-22T06:36:42Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu:8443","path":"/api","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ChatGLM-Spider/1.0; +https://zhipuai.cn/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Goo…
2026-09-22T06:36:04Z – 2026-09-22T06:36:42Z ×2edgezmey.eu2 × matched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-22T06:36:42Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu:8443","path":"/","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bytespider; <email>) AppleWebKit/537.36","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Google L…
2026-09-22T06:36:04Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-22T06:36:04Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu:8080","path":"/api","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Meta-ExternalAgent/1.0; +https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rul…
2026-09-22T06:35:50Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-22T06:35:50Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.swp","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://mistral.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_o…
2026-09-22T06:35:48Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-22T06:35:48Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.old","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GrokBot/1.0; +https://x.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Google L…
2026-09-22T06:35:48Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-22T06:35:48Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.bak","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule…
2026-09-22T06:35:43Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-22T06:35:43Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/api","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","a…
2026-09-20T20:44:02Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-20T20:44:02Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/api","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","r…
2026-09-20T20:43:56Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-20T20:43:56Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php~","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)","action":"block","source":"firewallM…
2026-09-20T20:43:54Zedgezmey.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-20T20:43:54Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.bak","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kimi-SearchBot/1.0; +https://kimi.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org"…
2026-09-20T20:43:51Zedgezmey.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-20T20:43:51Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"zmey.eu","host":"zmey.eu","path":"/","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US",…
2026-09-28T00:00:51Zedgetechwriters.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:00:51Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"techwriters.eu","host":"techwriters.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.swp","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +<email>)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id"…
2026-09-28T00:00:51Zedgetechwriters.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:00:51Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"techwriters.eu","host":"techwriters.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.bak","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DeepSeekBot/1.0; +https://www.deepseek.com/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","cou…
2026-09-28T00:00:48Zedgetechwriters.euwas blocked at the edge without matching any specific attack signature{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:00:48Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"techwriters.eu","host":"techwriters.eu","path":"/login","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)","action":"block","source":"firew…
2026-09-28T00:00:48Zedgetechwriters.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:00:48Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"techwriters.eu","host":"techwriters.eu","path":"/","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","count…
2026-09-28T00:00:48Zedgetechwriters.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:00:48Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"techwriters.eu","host":"techwriters.eu","path":"/api/auth","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bravebot/1.0; +https://brave.com/search/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US",…
2026-09-28T00:00:48Zedgetechwriters.eumatched a catalogue rule{"ts":"2026-09-28T00:00:48Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"techwriters.eu","host":"techwriters.eu","path":"/dashboard","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; KimiBot/1.0; +https://kimi.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org"…
2026-09-26T00:02:10Zedgetechwriters.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-26T00:02:10Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"techwriters.eu","host":"techwriters.eu","path":"/wp-config.php~","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MoonshotBot/1.0; +https://kimi.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","…
2026-09-26T00:02:10Zedgetechwriters.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-26T00:02:10Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"techwriters.eu","host":"techwriters.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.swp","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bravebot/1.0; +https://brave.com/search/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","countr…
2026-09-26T00:02:09Zedgetechwriters.eurequested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text{"ts":"2026-09-26T00:02:09Z","ip":"34.138.171.76","zone":"techwriters.eu","host":"techwriters.eu","path":"/wp-config.php.bak","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MoonshotBot/1.0; +https://kimi.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US…

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