35.229.94.156
blockedBruteRegularToolkit
Case file
First seen on 2026-09-23T21:26:08Z, most recently active on 2026-09-27T22:15:22Z.
Recorded 23 attack-shaped requests across 4 separate days.
Its traffic requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text; it also requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials; it also matched a catalogue rule.
Seen from 1 of our sensors: edge.
Scored into the "Brute" 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
| rDNS | 156.94.229.35.bc.googleusercontent.com |
|---|---|
| ASN | AS396982 — Google LLC |
| ASN type | cloud |
| Country | United States (US) |
| Flags | Cloud range |
Timeline
- 2026-09-236
- 2026-09-244
- 2026-09-254
- 2026-09-279
Evidence (newest first, up to 50)
| Time (UTC) | Vantage | Site | Class | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-27T22:15:22Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | {"ts":"2026-09-27T22:15:22Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/api/.env","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; cohere-ai; +https://cohere.com/crawler)","action":"block","source":"firewallCustom","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US… | |
| 2026-09-27T22:15:22Z | edge | victorantonov.com | matched a catalogue rule | {"ts":"2026-09-27T22:15:22Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/.gitlab-ci.yml","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"CCBot/2.0 (https://commoncrawl.org/faq/)","action":"block","source":"firewallCustom","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn_org":"Googl… | |
| 2026-09-27T22:15:20Z | edge | victorantonov.com | used a directory-traversal segment (literal or percent-encoded ../) in the request path to try to escape the web root | {"ts":"2026-09-27T22:15:20Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/css../.env","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)","action":"block","source":"firewallCustom","rule_id":"<red… | |
| 2026-09-27T22:15:20Z | edge | victorantonov.com | used a directory-traversal segment (literal or percent-encoded ../) in the request path to try to escape the web root | {"ts":"2026-09-27T22:15:20Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/js../.env","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PanguBot/1.0; +https://www.huaweicloud.com/)","action":"block","source":"firewallCustom","rule_id":"<redacted>","countr… | |
| 2026-09-27T22:15:20Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | {"ts":"2026-09-27T22:15:20Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"//.env","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Claude-SearchBot/1.0; +<email>)","action":"block","source":"firewallCustom","rule_id"… | |
| 2026-09-27T22:15:16Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | {"ts":"2026-09-27T22:15:16Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/.env.swp","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)","action":"block","source… | |
| 2026-09-27T22:15:15Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | {"ts":"2026-09-27T22:15:15Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/.env.production","method":"GET","query":"<truncated>","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; xAI-Grok/1.0; +https://x.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallCustom","rule_id":"<redacted>","coun… | |
| 2026-09-27T22:15:14Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | {"ts":"2026-09-27T22:15:14Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/@fs/proc/self/cwd/.env","method":"GET","query":"<truncated>","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GrokBot/1.0; +https://x.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallCustom","rule_id":"<redacted>"… | |
| 2026-09-27T22:15:14Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested a .env file, hoping to find API keys or database credentials | {"ts":"2026-09-27T22:15:14Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/@fs/.env","method":"GET","query":"<truncated>","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kimi-SearchBot/1.0; +https://kimi.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallCustom","rule_id":"<redacted>","co… | |
| 2026-09-25T23:28:57Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text | {"ts":"2026-09-25T23:28:57Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/wp-config.php.bak","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bytespider; <email>) AppleWebKit/537.36","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","co… | |
| 2026-09-25T23:28:57Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text | {"ts":"2026-09-25T23:28:57Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/wp-config.php~","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YouBot/1.0; +https://you.com/bot)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"U… | |
| 2026-09-25T23:28:57Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text | {"ts":"2026-09-25T23:28:57Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/wp-config.php.swp","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redact… | |
| 2026-09-25T23:28:57Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text | {"ts":"2026-09-25T23:28:57Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/wp-config.php.old","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)","action":"block… | |
| 2026-09-24T13:12:16Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text | {"ts":"2026-09-24T13:12:16Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"www.victorantonov.com","path":"/wp-config.php~","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PanguBot/1.0; +https://www.huaweicloud.com/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted… | |
| 2026-09-24T13:12:16Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text | {"ts":"2026-09-24T13:12:16Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"www.victorantonov.com","path":"/wp-config.php.swp","method":"GET","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; O… | |
| 2026-09-24T13:12:13Z | edge | victorantonov.com | claimed to be Googlebot while POSTing, something the real crawler never does | {"ts":"2026-09-24T13:12:13Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"www.victorantonov.com","path":"/","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","countr… | |
| 2026-09-24T13:12:13Z | edge | victorantonov.com | matched a catalogue rule | {"ts":"2026-09-24T13:12:13Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"www.victorantonov.com","path":"/api","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bravebot/1.0; +https://brave.com/search/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":… | |
| 2026-09-23T21:26:11Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text | {"ts":"2026-09-23T21:26:11Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","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>","… | |
| 2026-09-23T21:26:11Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text | {"ts":"2026-09-23T21:26:11Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/wp-config.php~","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)","action":"block","… | |
| 2026-09-23T21:26:10Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text | {"ts":"2026-09-23T21:26:10Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/wp-config.php.bak","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; KimiBot/1.0; +https://kimi.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"… | |
| 2026-09-23T21:26:10Z | edge | victorantonov.com | requested wp-config.php or a backup copy of it, hoping to read the database password in clear text | {"ts":"2026-09-23T21:26:10Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/wp-config.php.old","method":"GET","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YiBot/1.0; +https://01.ai/)","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US",… | |
| 2026-09-23T21:26:08Z | edge | victorantonov.com | matched a catalogue rule | {"ts":"2026-09-23T21:26:08Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","path":"/","method":"POST","query":"","ua":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bytespider; <email>) AppleWebKit/537.36","action":"block","source":"firewallManaged","rule_id":"<redacted>","country":"US","asn… | |
| 2026-09-23T21:26:08Z | edge | victorantonov.com | matched a catalogue rule | {"ts":"2026-09-23T21:26:08Z","ip":"35.229.94.156","zone":"victorantonov.com","host":"victorantonov.com","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":"firewa… |
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