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Potential Hello-World Scraper Botnet Activity

Detects network traffic potentially associated with a scraper botnet variant that uses the "Hello-World/1.0" user-agent string.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform
PRE

The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.

Log source category
proxy

Known benign triggers

  • Internal development or testing scripts. Consider filtering by source IP if this is expected from certain systems.
  • Legitimate network monitoring or vulnerability scanning tools that may use this generic user agent.

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