8.138.42.181

Blocked Scanner

Blocked since 17 Oct 2026 16:56 UTC, no end date. Our servers refuse it, web requests included, and it is in feed.txt.

Record

Score: 29/100each request counts half as much after 30 days
Worst level: Scanner
Attack-shaped requests: 23all time
Active days: 1UTC days
First seen: 14 Oct 2026
Last seen: 14 Oct 2026 15:31
Servers hit: 1
Targets: 1site
Times blocked: 1by the evidence rules

First seen on 14 Oct 2026 15:30 UTC, most recently active on 14 Oct 2026 15:31 UTC.

Recorded 23 attack-shaped requests across 1 separate day.

Its traffic requested wp-login.php to check whether this site runs WordPress (22 requests); it also requested xmlrpc.php, which exposes a multicall method commonly abused to spray WordPress credentials and relay pingback floods (1).

Seen by our web sensor, against dubstard.com.

Scored into the "Scanner" level, its highest so far.

Its busiest hour on record began 14 Oct 2026 15:00 UTC, with 23 requests.

Routed via AS37963 (Hangzhou Alibaba Advertising Co.,Ltd.), a cloud network.

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

Activity, last 90 days

Active on 1 of the last 90 UTC days. Current block: 17 Oct 2026, with no end date.

Daily counts

Attack requests per UTC day, days with activity only
Day (UTC)	Requests
14 Oct 2026	23

At least 17 requests a minute at its peak (14 Oct 2026 15:31 UTC; identical requests in the same second are stored once).
Methods: GET 25, HEAD 2.
The servers we watch answered: 404 27 (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
14 Oct 2026
15:30-15:31	dubstard.com	21× requested wp-login.php to check whether this site runs WordPress (11 distinct paths)	`GET /portal/wp-login.php`	browser claim	web
15:30	dubstard.com	made a request that matched no known pattern	`GET /wp-content/plugins/`	browser claim	web
15:30	dubstard.com	requested wp-login.php to check whether this site runs WordPress	`GET /admin/wp-login.php`	browser claim	web
15:30	dubstard.com	made a request that matched no known pattern	`HEAD /cms/wp-login.php`	browser claim	web
15:30	dubstard.com	made a request that matched no known pattern	`GET /wp-json/wp/v2/`	browser claim	web
15:30	dubstard.com	requested xmlrpc.php, which exposes a multicall method commonly abused to spray WordPress credentials and relay pingback floods	`GET /xmlrpc.php`	browser claim	web
15:30	dubstard.com	made a request that matched no known pattern	`HEAD /login/wp-login.php`	browser claim	web

Network

ASN: AS37963 Hangzhou Alibaba Advertising Co.,Ltd.
Network type: cloud
Reverse DNS: none
Country: China CN
Flags: none observed
Abuse contact: found in the registry
Checked: 14 Oct 2026

Elsewhere: GreyNoise, Shodan, AbuseIPDB.

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