Strange hacking attempt

Just found everything running slow. A quick check on my server to see where hits were coming from and I found this

PHP Code:

xc3/x83/xc2/x82/xc3/x82/xc2/xbc 


The hashes were the other way round though
The person was doing it about four times a second, so it looks like automated software they were using.

Has anyone else had anything like this?

Originally Posted by Lee G

Just found everything running slow. A quick check on my server to see where hits were coming from and I found this

PHP Code:

xc3/x83/xc2/x82/xc3/x82/xc2/xbc 


The hashes were the other way round though
The person was doing it about four times a second, so it looks like automated software they were using.

Has anyone else had anything like this?

I have seen this before, the closest thing I can guess is they are actually trying to find an exploit in apache system...

In fact thinking back it reminds me of an old Jpeg of Death Exploit where a virus could be included in a well constructed Jpeg file but it only effected windows servers but that was patched back in 2004 but maybe they have found another or are just trying, if they have though it will be OS or Apache based.

Those are actually kinda normal, usually the result of a bad request from a bot.

This was a private individual Brian. Checked the IP and it was a personal one. 80.26.114.34

When I looked at the hits, they were coming in at 6 hits a second
Cant of been the most intellectual of brain dead scum that inhabit the face of the earth. In todays case, Spain.
They were using the word "forum" at the end of each bit of code
It seemed to look like a natural progression. The code was increasing in length after each cycle
Nothing as been thrown up on any google searches either

Fire walled them for the fun of it

Thanks for the help guys