access.log analysis: hackers all around
I recently announced the movies worth seeing database; an imdb.com gateway website that I host on one of my home computers. Since I have full access to the access.log
of this website; it was interesting to see how the traffic developed
over the last couple of days since I announced its launch. First of
all, since I referenced this website only on my blog; there were a few
of my blog readers that visited this fresh new website; some of them
with pretty long visits. Then some indexing robots came around,
noticing this new website and issuing HEAD requests and then reading
robots.txt. This is regular web behaviour. However, a few hours later,
some strange requests made their way into the access.log. First, some
hack attempts from some Dallas, Texas internet provider desperatelly
requesting some awstats.pl hack (GET url split in 3 lines):
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