Case study – hack attempts

Consider a simple scenario where you are tasked with finding the origin of incoming attacks on a particular web application. The only thing you know about the network is that the application is internally hosted and is not connected to the outside world. There is a caching proxy running in the network as well. As the forensic investigator, the first thing you requested from the client is the logs of the application server, which you started to investigate in Apache Logs Viewer:

Apache log viewer

We quickly deduce that there are two IP addresses of supreme interest, 192.168.174.157 and 192.168.174.150, and since the ...

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