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Is someone trying to hack my site?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 11:51 pm
by crawford84
I was looking through my server logs today and noticed many attempts to connect to PHP pages with strings appended like this:

/RK=0/RS=S1EFScHuZogilFCMsrNbKJGrflQ-

So the full url is something like

http://www.mysite.com/index.php/RK=0/RS ... NbKJGrflQ-

There are a bunch of different similar looking strings. Is this some kind of hack? Or just some random bot or something?

Thanks for any help.

Re: Is someone trying to hack my site?

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 12:06 am
by requinix
When you were looking in the logs, did you happen to see the IP address? User agent string?

Re: Is someone trying to hack my site?

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 4:11 am
by crawford84
165.231.*
38.84.*
192.3.*
69.12.*
66.85.*
50.3.*
23.239.*

Mozilla/5.0 and Mozilla/4.0

Re: Is someone trying to hack my site?

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 4:32 am
by requinix
No offense but I edited the IP addresses in your post. Not much to gain by knowing the full addresses so I'm opting for the normal etiquette of keeping them private.

Yes, it does seem to be a botnet probing for vulnerabilities. Lots of people on the internet reporting the same issue.
Unless the accesses are causing you problems, I'd just ignore them - they'll go away on their own. But if you're worried you can set up some blocking for that RK/RS pattern.

Re: Is someone trying to hack my site?

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 6:07 pm
by crawford84
Thanks.