Blue Team — Operational Summary
The traffic period spanned 4 hours, totaling 13,219 external requests across 1,239 unique IP addresses targeting arc-codex.com. The vast majority of traffic consisted of automated bot/crawler sessions, accounting for 3,660 sessions. A small segment of the traffic was identified as likely human sessions (5) and engaged sessions (5). HTTP status codes indicate high success rates for successful requests (13,128 HTTP 200 responses). A specific subset of 8 requests were identified attempting access to `/wp-admin/install.php?step=1`, originating from multiple specific IP addresses. Operator activity accounted for 968 requests originating from a single IP.
Red Team — Facts Only
* Total external requests: 13,219 from 1,239 unique IPs over 4 hours.
* Operator activity: 968 requests from IP 38.175.170.87.
* Traffic breakdown: HTTP 200 (13,128), HTTP 206 (1), HTTP 308 (81), HTTP 404 (9).
* Audience estimate: 5 likely-human sessions; 5 engaged sessions; 3,660 bot/crawler sessions.
* Identified exploit attempts: 8 requests targeting `/wp-admin/install.php?step=1`.
* Exploit IPs: 162.158.182.93; 172.68.10.86; 172.68.10.87; 172.71.184.240.
* Top IPs by volume: 74.7.241.22 (1302 req); 216.73.216.51 (1214 req); 216.244.66.198 (433 req).
Purple Team — Pattern Analysis
The traffic profile is heavily skewed toward automated activity (3,660 bot sessions vs. 10 human sessions), which is typical for content sites with high indexing potential. The overall volume and composition do not present immediate anomalous behavior outside of the targeted exploit attempts. The eight detected exploit attempts, specifically targeting WordPress installation scripts, originate from a mix of external and private IP ranges (e.g., 162.158.182.93 and various 172.x.x.x addresses). While these attempts represent targeted scanning or vulnerability probing, the specific IPs involved require immediate investigation to determine if they are known threat actors or internal/misconfigured hosts. The observed IP volume and traffic distribution, particularly the top request sources, align with typical large-scale scraping or botnet distribution rather than a sustained attack campaign. The operational signal is the specific vulnerability probes, not the bulk traffic volume. The next required action is verifying the security posture associated with the source IPs that attempted the installation script access.