sqlnoob Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Not sure where to put this, as I can't find the appropriate forum for this, but here goes...... I found this in a URL, like for example: http://www.somesite/somedirectory/'+p+' in my error log Apparently someone or something from Germany thinks that is a page. If I look it up in google in combination with several variances of the url or parts of the url, a lot of Russian and Iranian sites pop up with references towards joomla. By the way for clarity sake, I don't use Joomla nor any rss feed, or any other php based CMS. Does anyone happen to know what it means? Is someone trying to make a sad attempt to hack into a rss-feed that doesn't exist? Or trying to abuse a deprecated function in php? Or trying to abuse a leak of joomla? Or is it something else? I decided to block this IP with htaccess just in case. Any help or directions would be much appreciated. I'm really curious to know what this is. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249121-p/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 I see those 404s frequently on some sites I maintain, and I can guarantee you they are completely different from your site in every way possible. The conclusion I reached was that somebody wrote a buggy spider (heh) and just hasn't realized it's broken, but if somebody else knows more I'd like to hear too. A bug such as string p = "page"; //string url = "http://www.example.com/somedirectory/index.html"; string url = "http://www.example.com/somedirectory/'+p+'/index.html"; Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249121-p/#findComment-1279405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sqlnoob Posted October 15, 2011 Author Share Posted October 15, 2011 hmmm a buggy spider perhaps so... though it keeps coming back on occasion and it doesn't identify itself as a search spider, like for instance google, yahoo, yandex or baidu I really wish to know what this is. Google isn't much of a help I'm afraid. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249121-p/#findComment-1279600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 it doesn't identify itself as a search spider, like for instance google, yahoo, yandex or baidu Most don't identify themselves as crawlers. Besides the big name ones, most go for spoofing a browser's user agent instead of showing their own. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249121-p/#findComment-1279615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sqlnoob Posted October 25, 2011 Author Share Posted October 25, 2011 I see, well bad spider or no spider, its not of any use to me, so I'll keep it blocked for now. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249121-p/#findComment-1282099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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