SERVICER · Observed attack

AS146996 TCP flood on 168.222.20.27 | 2026-10-16 16:00:53Z

· Event #73

WhatsApp

Country-level precision. botnet.cl stores the target country, never a city or coordinates, so the marker sits at the country's center.

What this method does

Opens TCP connections and repeatedly sends 1–5 printable random characters, reconnecting after failures. No HTTP request is generated; a socket-array allocation defect may prevent execution.

All TCP tiny random writes observations
Observed
2026-10-16T16:00:53.546Z
Recorded

Recorded 302ms after observation

Affected network
168.222.20.27/32
Network operator
DEXSERVERAS146996
Method
TCP tiny random writesVector 9
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
40120
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
45.131.64.158

All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite · 2026-09

Snapshot taken at ingestion; it is never re-resolved later.

Other attacks on this network

Within 24 hours of this observation

Other attacks in this country

Within 24 hours of this observation

No other observations within 24 hours.

botnet.cl reports infrastructure it observed. An address appearing here identifies a target or a relay, not a person responsible for the attack.