Report for IP: 20.48.255.163

Threat LevelCRITICAL80/1003 rule types across 3 attack categories
78 incidents · 3 rule types · active attack detected · active over 6 days · 13 attacks/day · last seen 22d ago
PTR N/A
Org / ASN Microsoft Azure Cloud (canadacentral)
Country 🇨🇦 Canada
City Toronto, Ontario
Timezone America/Toronto

Attack Analysis

🇨🇦 Canada · Toronto · 8075 · Microsoft Corporation
Webshell Upload Scan
This IP rapidly probed multiple non-existent PHP paths in under 60 seconds — a hallmark of automated webshell scanning tools hunting for previously uploaded backdoors or vulnerable file-upload endpoints. If successful, a webshell grants the attacker full remote code execution on the server.
Bad Bot Flood
This IP generated over 20 HTTP 4xx errors in 60 seconds using a User-Agent identified as a bad bot (scraper, headless browser, or attack proxy). The high error rate indicates automated probing for vulnerabilities while trying to appear as generic traffic. Legitimate services respect robots.txt and do not flood servers with errors.
WordPress XML-RPC Abuse
This IP targeted xmlrpc.php, a legacy WordPress endpoint that has been abused for brute-force authentication attacks, credential stuffing, and DDoS amplification. Any direct access to xmlrpc.php is an attack or reconnaissance attempt; modern WordPress sites should disable it entirely.

Reports (78)

Date Severity Description
7 Jul 2026 - 23:11 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 23:04 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 23:03 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 22:54 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 22:53 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 22:21 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 22:19 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 22:04 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 21:54 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 20:30 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 20:28 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 19:25 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 18:42 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 14:50 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 14:31 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
7 Jul 2026 - 14:28 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
5 Jul 2026 - 00:44 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s
3 Jul 2026 - 11:40 high Web: Webshell scan — 3+ unknown PHP probes in 60s