Timeline for Why am I getting url requests for pages I never had on my site?
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| Oct 14, 2015 at 7:54 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/654203617071747072 | ||
| Oct 13, 2015 at 20:28 | vote | accept | Patrick W. McMahon | ||
| Oct 13, 2015 at 18:29 | answer | added | Octopus | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 17:45 | comment | added | Patrick W. McMahon | So this is harmless? They can't do anything with this request? | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 17:43 | comment | added | Ben Voigt |
My guess is that it's some sort of malicious SEO, maybe there's some search engine that gives them credit for linking to your site. Unless there's some form field payload or funny URL (like use of parent paths ..) it's probably not an attack against you.
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| Oct 13, 2015 at 17:43 | comment | added | Manu | is it a way to spam your logs, like the referer links we now get for "seo something or other", from Russia? | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 17:41 | comment | added | Patrick W. McMahon | Should I block them? What are they trying to do to my server? | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 17:39 | comment | added | Patrick W. McMahon | I updated my question with a print out of one of the requests | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 17:39 | history | edited | Patrick W. McMahon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2015 at 17:32 | comment | added | Ben Voigt |
Is a HTTP-Referer [sic] header being sent with these requests? Of course, it isn't reliable, but it might give some clue as to the source.
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| Oct 13, 2015 at 16:59 | history | asked | Patrick W. McMahon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |