Check the IP's on https://www.abuseipdb.com/ or similar, or do a hostname and whois lookup
The 3 IP's I checked all come from the same organisation/location (secureserver.net in the US) ... BillK On 4/2/21 3:07 pm, Adam Carter wrote: > On Thursday, February 4, 2021, <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I'm perplex with this entry in apache log. > I'm sure it was done by same person as the timing is very > sequential and same file-name request, but how they were able to > lunch an attack from a different IP's different geographical > locations. > Can they spoof an IP? > > > Probably just different instances of the same bot scanning for > vulnerabilities. I imagine you will keep seeing that log from many > different ips > > > > 173.201.196.206 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:17:47 -0700] "GET > /wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 195.70.43.234 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:18:24 -0700] "GET > /wordpress/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 198.38.92.110 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:21:18 -0700] "GET > /new/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 50.62.208.141 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:21:20 -0700] "GET > /en/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 64.62.206.242 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:21:34 -0700] "GET > /web/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 184.168.46.171 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:22:11 -0700] "GET > /home/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 50.63.196.23 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:23:41 -0700] "GET > /www/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 203.205.21.159 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:23:57 -0700] "GET > /staging/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 66.113.226.191 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:25:42 -0700] "GET > /news/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 148.72.232.107 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:26:06 -0700] "GET > /news/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 35.208.134.190 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:26:22 -0700] "GET > /shop/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 160.153.153.30 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:26:50 -0700] "GET > /main/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 192.241.230.24 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:27:50 -0700] "GET > /v2/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 403 199 > 66.113.221.43 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:28:37 -0700] "GET > /website/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 2.50.180.72 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:28:48 -0700] "GET > /portal/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 104.236.82.97 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:29:39 -0700] "GET > /2019/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 50.63.197.91 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:30:46 -0700] "GET > /1/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 103.27.61.222 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:30:57 -0700] "GET > /store/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 184.168.152.18 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:31:14 -0700] "GET > /wp2/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 > 184.168.193.129 - - [03/Feb/2021:19:31:24 -0700] "GET > /blogs/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 196 >
