Blue Team — Operational Summary
Traffic over the four-hour window consisted of 3351 external requests originating from 579 unique IPs. The vast majority of traffic is attributed to bot or crawler sessions, totaling 708. Only one likely-human session was detected, and zero engaged sessions. The HTTP status code breakdown shows a high volume of successful requests (3307 HTTP 200 responses) compared to error codes (8 HTTP 502, 2 HTTP 404). Three specific exploit attempts were detected, targeting administrative interfaces on known patterns. The operator generated 71 requests from a single IP address.
Red Team — Facts Only
* Time window: 2026-05-25 06:00 – 06:56 MDT.
* Total external requests: 3351 from 579 unique IPs.
* Operator activity: 71 requests from IP 38.175.170.87.
* Datacenter origin: 0.1% of external requests.
* Session breakdown: 1 likely-human, 0 engaged, 708 bot/crawler.
* HTTP Status Codes: HTTP 200 (3307), HTTP 308 (34), HTTP 404 (2), HTTP 502 (8).
* Top IPs by volume: 74.7.241.22 (268 req), 216.73.216.51 (184 req), 216.244.66.198 (83 req).
* Exploit attempts detected: 3 requests.
* Exploit patterns: 35.239.90.70 directed to /xmlrpc.php?rsd.
* Exploit patterns: 104.23.221.162 directed to /wp-admin/install.php?step=1 (two instances).
Purple Team — Pattern Analysis
The majority of traffic is characterized by high-volume automated activity (708 bot sessions), which accounts for the overall traffic profile. The focus should shift to the three detected exploit attempts, which represent a targeted adversarial signal. Specifically, the attempts targeted common WordPress vulnerability vectors, using two different source IPs (104.23.221.162) for installation scripts and one IP (35.239.90.70) for remote method invocation endpoints. While the traffic volume and successful HTTP 200 responses are high, the pattern of these targeted requests against known sensitive paths indicates probing activity aimed at exploitation. The presence of high-volume anonymous requests, coupled with these specific exploit attempts, suggests the infrastructure is being actively scanned for vulnerabilities and targeted for compromise, rather than simply consuming bandwidth. The current lack of engaged sessions and human traffic is expected given the high bot volume, but the specific exploit attempts are the actionable signal requiring immediate correlation with WAF or intrusion detection logs.