1,001 IPs, 64 countries, one operation: mapping a botnet by its back end
A recent analysis has mapped a significant botnet operation involving 1,001 IPs across 64 countries. This operation is linked by eight shared staging servers and unique TLS and HTTP fingerprints. The findings highlight the importance of the back end in identifying and correlating malicious activities on the internet.
- ▪The botnet consists of 1,001 source IPs connected to eight staging servers across 306 networks.
- ▪The shared back end and unique fingerprints help distinguish this operation from others.
- ▪The exploit used is an Apache path traversal vulnerability, which has been consistently active over the past hundred days.
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| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 08:33:02 +0000 |
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Blog · 2026-05-291,001 IPs, 64 countries, one operation: mapping a botnet by its back endA single attacking IP tells you little. The back end it pulls its payload from, and the client fingerprint it presents, are the parts operators reuse. Correlating both across the sensor network collapses internet noise into discrete operations: one cluster of 1,001 IPs across 306 networks and 64 countries, tied to eight shared staging servers and a single TLS and HTTP fingerprint that appears nowhere else, plus smaller botnets that fall into clean separate islands. With node graphs.A single attacking IP does not tell you much on its own. It is one compromised box out of a sea of them, and by the time it reaches your logs it has usually been cleaned, reassigned, or rotated out.
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