Blue Team — Operational Summary
Traffic during the 4-hour window totaled 12,999 external requests originating from 644 unique IP addresses. The vast majority of traffic consisted of automated sessions, with 1,708 identified as bot or crawler sessions and only 1 likely-human session. The operator IP (38.175.170.87) accounted for 472 of these requests. HTTP status code distribution showed a high volume of successful requests (12,880 HTTP 200 responses) but also notable occurrences of server-side issues (7 HTTP 502 responses) and client errors (17 HTTP 404 responses). The majority of traffic volume was not attributed to datacenter origins, which accounted for only 0.1% of external requests.
Red Team — Facts Only
* Traffic window: 2026-05-25 02:00 – 06:00 MDT.
* Total external requests: 12,999 from 644 unique IPs.
* Operator requests: 472 from 1 IP (38.175.170.87).
* Audience estimate: 1 likely-human session, 1 engaged session, 1,708 bot/crawler sessions.
* HTTP Status Codes: 12,880 HTTP 200; 1 HTTP 206; 4 HTTP 304; 90 HTTP 308; 17 HTTP 404; 7 HTTP 502.
* Top IPs by volume: 74.7.241.22 (1338 req), 216.73.216.51 (940 req), 216.244.66.198 (383 req).
* Exploit attempts detected: 9 requests targeting `/wp-admin/install.php?step=1`.
* Specific exploit source IPs: 162.158.182.93, 104.23.221.17, 104.23.221.16, 162.158.110.194.
Purple Team — Pattern Analysis
The traffic pattern is overwhelmingly composed of automated scraping and likely malicious probing, evidenced by the extremely high ratio of bot sessions (1,708) to human sessions (1). The top IPs are indicative of large-scale proxy or botnet distribution, aligning with typical large-scale web crawling operations. The key signal is the 9 detected exploit attempts targeting the WordPress installation endpoint (`/wp-admin/install.php?step=1`). These attempts originated from specific IPs that should be immediately cross-referenced against threat intelligence feeds. While the overall volume is high, the signal for immediate concern is limited to the explicit exploitation attempts and the high volume of automated activity targeting a specific vulnerability vector. Resource load appears managed, as the operational metrics do not indicate critical saturation, but the detection of targeted application-layer attacks requires review of access controls and security logging for the identified source IPs.