Both keywords-monitoring-your-success.com and free-video-tool.com are Semalt tools for content scraping. This botnet is pretty extensive and tiring to kill.
The raw access log entries look seemingly legit, but being referred from the two Semalt tools, they could not be legit users.
These host names and Ip address, masquerading as valid browsers, took up a lot of my bandwidth. This botnet used mainly companies from Brazil such as TELEFÔNICA BRASIL, Vivo, Global Village, Brasil Telecom, Yawl, portalmail but also used a bunch of Italian and US companies as well.
Virtua.com.br continues to content scrape for Semalt. I have a separate research report on them.
This one is difficult. They are elusive. They use partial IP ranges that start randomly, like a disk that needs defragmenting. This masks their use of larger IP ranges. The names James Prado and Private Layer are always involved. What they do is bury the hosted-ny.securefastserver into small IP segments, but the IP ranges before and after are also owned by the same company but are under the Private Layer or James Prado name. Tricky. Just ban the complete range, as it is the same company.
DNS Record:
Fast Serv Inc. d.b.a. QHoster.com
1 Mapp Str.
Belize City, Belize
Maps, I do like. Not only are they pretty, they are pretty useful, especially if you are unfamiliar with the area. Map and compass in hand, you can walk at your leisure and not get lost, or at least be able to get help from the locals when you do. But which maps are the best for China? I thought I’d do a map slugfest, comparing Google (line and satellite), 360, Sougou and Baidu. I chose 150 meters of Shandong, Changdao on Jiefang (Liberation) Road as an example.
This content scraper pinspb.ru is a regular on my site and I’d like to ban it. Very mysterious and hard to pin down. Not much on the DNS record. At least they have a web site. They look like an ISP. They have a lot of IP blocks.
My content scraper host name was 98-68.furanet.com. It looks like their pattern or strategy is a reverse order domain name with the first 2 octets missing. Looking at their IP range I would guess 93.93.64.0/21, which covers the 68 of 98-68.furanet.com. From my Google search I’ve added 91.192.108.0/22 which they also commonly use.
Ban these most commonly used IPs:
91.192.108.0/22
93.93.64.0/21
My site has been getting content and image scraped by bb-81-107.018.net.il and bb-153-46.018.net.il, but these two host names do not resolve. Furthermore there is very little on the internet on them. My next step is to ban their complete IP range.
Pattern:
If there are 4 octets in the host name, then reverse the octets. If there are only 2 octets then these are the last 2 of the IP. You will need to use the host command and try the first 2 octets of their common ranges.
Hit I was, by a terribly time wasteful spambot pushing weight loss ads. Yes, my Recaptcha did send them to my spam folder for analysis, but it was still a lot. I just wished they would simply stop. All the comment spammers were pushing weight loss. I’m sure they are telling me something about my slightly widening girth, but I am already making amends. There is no need for added pressure, nor waste of bandwidth and technology.
454a986e.cst.lightpath.net is a content scraper bot that has been visiting my site, so I would like to remove the welcome mat.
lightpath.net seems to change their front extent many times, as a search on Google did not yield an exact match, but many variants.
Pattern:
Take the numbers before “.cst.lightpath.net” and convert them from hex to decimal, giving you 4 octets.
lightpath.net resolves to 216.2.192.141, Optimum Online or Cablevision Systems, XO Communications (ISP), but they have no website. cablevisionlightpath.org also resolves to the same ip address.
454a986e.cst.lightpath.net Their hex converts to 69.74.152.110, Cablevision Systems.
Black and Decker Steam Advantage Iron, F1000 type 1, has a terrible reputation for usability and reliability. Diana’s iron does not work as the safety features prematurely turn the iron off.
She was miffed, friend Diana, in Toronto, Canada, that her newly purchased Black and Decker Steam Advantage Iron, F1000 type 1, was acting up. It was prematurely shutting down, a supposed safety feature that belied the task of actual ironing. This seems similar to PC anti-virus software that so overtaxes the PC such that it cripples even simple and small mouse movements. She asked me to look into it.
