Weird apache logs

From: Travis Read (travisrat_private)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 17:57:20 PST

  • Next message: Carmen Tache: "RE: Weird apache logs"

    Over the last few days I've noticed a number of weird GET requests in my
    apache logs. Has anybody else seen this kind of traffic or have any idea
    what's causing it?
    
    66.31.196.92 - - [26/Feb/2003:05:51:24 +0800] "GET
    http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=155098&pro=1e14c3925f8337fcb0d9b447f816493d
    HTTP/1.1" 404 291 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"
    66.31.196.92 - - [26/Feb/2003:05:58:22 +0800] "GET
    http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=155098&pro=1e14c3925f8337fcb0d9b447f816493d
    HTTP/1.1" 404 291 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"
    66.31.196.92 - - [26/Feb/2003:06:03:23 +0800] "GET
    http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=155098&pro=1e14c3925f8337fcb0d9b447f816493d
    HTTP/1.1" 404 291 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"
    66.31.196.92 - - [26/Feb/2003:06:07:23 +0800] "GET
    http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=155098&pro=1e14c3925f8337fcb0d9b447f816493d
    HTTP/1.1" 404 291 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"
    66.31.196.92 - - [26/Feb/2003:06:29:06 +0800] "GET
    http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=155098&pro=1e14c3925f8337fcb0d9b447f816493d
    HTTP/1.1" 404 291 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"
    62.0.128.157 - - [26/Feb/2003:06:40:34 +0800] "GET
    http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=237155&pro=1e14c3925f8337fcb0d9b447f816493d
    HTTP/1.1" 404 291 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"
    172.171.210.56 - - [24/Feb/2003:11:55:02 +0800] "GET
    http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=137196&pro=1e14c3925f8337fcb0d9b447f8164
    93d  HTTP/1.1" 404 291 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"
    24.147.33.83 - - [24/Feb/2003:20:27:38 +0800] "GET
    http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=309737&pro=1e14c3925f8337fcb0d9b447f816493
    d HTTP/1.1" 404 291 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"
    
    65.165.26.221 - - [26/Feb/2003:03:54:14 +0800] "GET http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=131563 &pro=1e14c3925f8337fcb0d9b447f816493d HTTP/1.1" 400 376 "-" "-"
    
    In a 24 hours period:
    pluto:/var/log# cat /var/log/apache/access.log | grep www.outwar.com | wc -l
        189
    
    * The traffic is from all over the place (i.e. distributed)
    * every now and again the GET request contains a white space after
    x=number which generates a different 400 error instead of a 404.
    
    The traffic doesn't hurt my network at all, but it is starting to fill log
    files. Are they just doing a probe to see what version of apache I'm
    running?
    
    I also noticed this once:
    217.106.89.37 - - [25/Feb/2003:10:18:51 +0800] "\x05\x01" 200 889 "-" "-"
    
    The version of apache I'm running:
    pluto:/var/log# telnet 0 80
    Trying 0.0.0.0...
    Connected to 0.0.0.0.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    HEAD / HTTP/1.0
    
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 01:56:28 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a PHP/4.1.2
    mod_perl/1.26
    X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.2
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
    
    Connection closed by foreign host.
    
    
    Kind regards,
    
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