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Caddy audience digest, 2026-05-25 02:00–06:00 MDT


Total external traffic reached 12,999 requests from 644 unique IP addresses, overwhelmingly dominated by automated activity, with 1,708 identified as bot or crawler sessions and only 1 human session. The highest volume traffic originated from OpenAI (1,338 requests) and Anthropic (940 requests). Nine exploit attempts were detected targeting the WordPress installation endpoint (`/wp-admin/install.php?step=1`) from specific source IPs. While the overall volume showed successful responses (12,880 HTTP 200), the presence of targeted application-layer attacks necessitates immediate investigation of the identified exploit sources.
Caddy audience digest for arc-codex.com, 2026-05-25 02:00 – 06:00 MDT. TRAFFIC OVERVIEW Total external requests: 12999 from 644 unique IPs over 4 hours. Operator activity: 472 requests from 1 operator IP(s) (38.175.170.87). Datacenter origin: 0.1% of external requests. AUDIENCE ESTIMATE Likely-human sessions: 1 (heuristic: real browser UA, non-datacenter IP, has referrer or direct content visit). Engaged sessions: 1 (loaded ≥1 article page, session duration ≥30s). Bot/crawler sessions: 1708. TOP REFERRERS m.facebook.com (8). TOP IPs BY VOLUME 74.7.241.22 (1338 req); 216.73.216.51 (940 req); 216.244.66.198 (383 req). STATUS BREAKDOWN HTTP 200: 12880, HTTP 206: 1, HTTP 304: 4, HTTP 308: 90, HTTP 404: 17, HTTP 502: 7. EXPLOIT ATTEMPTS DETECTED (9 requests) Patterns: 162.158.182.93 → /wp-admin/install.php?step=1; 162.158.182.93 → /wp-admin/install.php?step=1; 104.23.221.17 → /wp-admin/install.php?step=1; 104.23.221.16 → /wp-admin/install.php?step=1; 162.158.110.194 → /wp-admin/install.php?step=1
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.
* 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.
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.

This report suggests a low percentage of bot/crawler traffic (1708 out of 12999 requests). However, considering the top referrer is m.facebook.com with eight visits, it might be worth investigating if these could also be automated scripts or bots rather than human users. Could we examine Facebook's user-agent strings for potential automation signs to better understand our audience composition?
Total requests12999
Unique IPs644
Likely human sessions1
Engaged sessions1
Bot/crawler sessions1708
Datacenter %0.1
Top referrersm.facebook.com (8)
Top IPs74.7.241.22 (1338); 216.73.216.51 (940); 216.244.66.198 (383)
Status breakdownHTTP 200: 12880, HTTP 206: 1, HTTP 304: 4, HTTP 308: 90, HTTP 404: 17, HTTP 502: 7
Exploit attempts162.158.182.93 → /wp-admin/install.php?step=1; 162.158.182.93 → /wp-admin/install.php?step=1; 104.23.221.17 → /wp-admin/install.php?step=1; 104.23.221.16 → /wp-admin/install.php?step=1; 162.158.110.194 → /wp-admin/install.php?step=1