Blue Team — Operational Summary
The traffic observed over the four-hour window involved 9,807 external requests originating from 996 unique IP addresses. The majority of traffic consisted of automated activity, with 2,468 identified as bot or crawler sessions. Only 4 likely-human sessions were estimated based on heuristic criteria. HTTP status codes were overwhelmingly successful, with 9,722 HTTP 200 responses, 77 HTTP 308 redirects, and 8 HTTP 404 errors. A small subset of requests (6 total) were identified as explicit exploit attempts targeting the WordPress installation endpoint. Three external IP addresses were specifically flagged for these attempts, involving parameters aimed at `/wp-admin/install.php?step=1`. The top referring domains were Facebook, accounting for five total visits.
Red Team — Facts Only
* Total external requests: 9,807 from 996 unique IPs over 4 hours.
* Operator activity: 836 requests from 1 IP (38.175.170.87).
* Bot/crawler sessions: 2,468.
* Likely-human sessions: 4.
* HTTP 200 responses: 9,722.
* HTTP 308 responses: 77.
* HTTP 404 responses: 8.
* Exploit attempts detected: 6 requests.
* Exploit source IPs: 162.158.182.93, 172.68.10.86, 172.68.10.87, 172.71.184.240.
* Exploit target path: /wp-admin/install.php?step=1.
* Top IPs by volume: 74.7.241.22 (901 req); 216.73.216.51 (869 req); 216.244.66.198 (325 req).
Purple Team — Pattern Analysis
The traffic volume is heavily dominated by automated traffic (2,468 bot sessions), which is typical for a content-heavy site, and the presence of multiple top IPs suggests general scraping or large-scale crawler activity rather than a targeted, sophisticated attack. The most salient signal is the identification of six specific exploit attempts targeting the WordPress installation file (`/wp-admin/install.php?step=1`). These attempts originated from a mix of external and internal-range IPs (specifically the 172.x.x.x addresses). The pattern involves specific, repeatable payload attempts, which indicates a low-level reconnaissance or vulnerability scanning attempt rather than high-level DDoS. While the observed exploit attempts are low volume (6 requests), the focus on the WordPress installation endpoint warrants immediate review of server logs and WAF rules related to these specific IP ranges, regardless of the overall high volume of benign traffic. The presence of both external exploit attempts and internal-range IPs requires correlating this activity with internal network flow data to determine if the attempts originated from within the network perimeter.