34.85.42.100

Blocked Brute Toolkit

Blocked since 13 Oct 2026 15:07 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: 265all time
Active days: 1UTC days
First seen: 13 Oct 2026
Last seen: 13 Oct 2026 15:01
Servers hit: 2
Targets: 1site
Times blocked: 0by the evidence rules

First seen on 13 Oct 2026 15:00 UTC, most recently active on 13 Oct 2026 15:01 UTC.

Recorded 265 attack-shaped requests across 1 separate day.

Its traffic requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials (141 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 techauthors.eu.

Scored into the "Brute" level now; the highest it has reached is "Persistent". Badge: Toolkit.

Its busiest hour on record began 13 Oct 2026 15:00 UTC, with 265 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: 13 Oct 2026, with no end date.

Daily counts

Attack requests per UTC day, days with activity only
Day (UTC)	Requests
13 Oct 2026	265

At least 257 requests a minute at its peak (13 Oct 2026 15:00 UTC; identical requests in the same second are stored once).
Methods: GET 252, POST 14.
The servers we watch answered: 404 247, 403 26 (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
Time	Site	What happened	Request	User agent	Seen by
13 Oct 2026
15:01	techauthors.eu	claimed to be Googlebot while POSTing, something the real crawler never does	`POST /form/`	declared bot	web
15:01	techauthors.eu	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
15:01	techauthors.eu	fuzzed a short, random filename looking for a forgotten script that responds	`POST /index.php?`	declared bot	web
15:01	techauthors.eu	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
15:01	techauthors.eu	tried to abuse a local or remote file inclusion parameter such as allow_url_include	`POST /php-cgi/php-cgi.exe?`	declared bot	web
15:01	techauthors.eu	fuzzed a short, random filename looking for a forgotten script that responds	`POST /index.php?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	claimed to be Googlebot while POSTing, something the real crawler never does	`POST /api/fs/exec`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	2× swept a generic login/signup/account/dashboard route this site does not expose, consistent with an automated app-framework scanner	`/api`	none	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials	`GET /.env.local?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	4× requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials	`/.env`	none	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	6× requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials (4 distinct paths)	`GET /.env.keys`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	3× requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials	`GET /.env?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	requested a Vite/React-Server-Components source map, likely while mapping the app's bundled source	`GET /__vite_rsc_findSourceMapURL?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	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 /.ssh/config`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	requested a Vite/React-Server-Components source map, likely while mapping the app's bundled source	`GET /__vite_rsc_findSourceMapURL?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	requested a private SSH key file by its conventional name	`GET /.ssh/id_ed25519`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	requested a Vite/React-Server-Components source map, likely while mapping the app's bundled source	`GET /__vite_rsc_findSourceMapURL?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	requested a private SSH key file by its conventional name	`GET /.ssh/id_rsa`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	used Vite dev server's @fs/ path to try to read arbitrary files outside the project root	`GET /@fs/proc/self/cmdline?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials	`GET /.env.preprod`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	requested a Vite/React-Server-Components source map, likely while mapping the app's bundled source	`GET /__vite_rsc_findSourceMapURL?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials	`GET /@fs/src/.env?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	used a directory-traversal segment (literal or percent-encoded ../) in the request path to try to escape the web root	`GET /userfiles?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	used a directory-traversal segment (literal or percent-encoded ../) in the request path to try to escape the web root	`GET /@fs/../.env?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	3× requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials (3 distinct paths)	`GET /.env.secret`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials	`/.env`	none	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	5× requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials (3 distinct paths)	`GET /@fs/.env?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	made a request that matched no known pattern	`GET /supabase/config.toml`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	used Vite dev server's @fs/ path to try to read arbitrary files outside the project root	`GET /@fs/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt?`	declared bot	web
15:00	techauthors.eu	2× requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials (2 distinct paths)	`GET /@fs/proc/self/cwd/.env?`	declared bot	web

Network

ASN: AS396982 Google LLC
Network type: cloud
Reverse DNS: 100.42.85.34.bc.googleusercontent.com
Country: Japan JP
Flags: cloud range (GCP)
Abuse contact: found in the registry
Checked: 13 Oct 2026

Elsewhere: GreyNoise, Shodan, AbuseIPDB.

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