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
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.
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
References
| Reference | Cited by |
|---|---|
| viz.greynoise.io/tags/hello-world-scraper-botnet?days=30 | Only this detection cites it |
| www.greynoise.io/blog/new-scraper-botnet-concentrated-in-taiwan | Only this detection cites it |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 1712bafe-be05-4a0e-89d4-17a3ed151bf5
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.reconnaissance
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Written by
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1