The abuse email address for 191.96.249.52 is ab...@dmzhost.co (though most ISPs don't seem to care whether one of their systems has been hacked or not)
On 5/20/16 4:00 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote: > In the last 2 days we have received roughly 1milion of the following > requests. Just to confirm, is this a DOS attack? > > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:22 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:22 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:23 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:23 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:23 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:23 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:23 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:23 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:24 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:25 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:25 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:25 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:25 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:25 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:25 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:26 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:26 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:27 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:27 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:27 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:27 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:27 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:27 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:27 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:28 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:28 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:29 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:29 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:29 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:29 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:30 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:30 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:30 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:31 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > 191.96.249.52 - - [20/May/2016:18:19:31 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.0" 500 251 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" > > Also, what does this mean? > > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > ::1 - - [20/May/2016:18:26:09 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" > "Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/5.4.16 (internal dummy > connection)" > > Thanks in advance >