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Check out this blank UA visitor.

         

born2run

2:20 pm on Mar 8, 2018 (gmt 0)

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So I'm seeing a lot of visits from this IP all with blank UAs and from the access-log here is a sample data:

139.162.x.x - - [02/Mar/2018:10:02:39 +0000] "GET /xyzdirectory/ HTTP/1.1" 200 36489 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36"

It's a linode.com host and keyplyr already wrote up the following on this site:
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"Data-mining software allowing end user to post content to social media. Not clear if this includes a link to source. Also, data for marketers (Adsense, Bing Ads, etc)"
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What should I do with this? Thanks!

robzilla

3:31 pm on Mar 8, 2018 (gmt 0)

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That looks like a blank referer, not a blank User Agent :-)

born2run

4:33 pm on Mar 8, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Oops right

TorontoBoy

4:42 pm on Mar 8, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Is not the referrer "-"? This is pretty a common referrer.

You should provide the third octet of the IP, as 139.162.x.x does not give me enough meat to comment.

keyplyr

7:06 pm on Mar 8, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Blank referrers are common, especially nowadays with incognito browsing, company firewalls, SEs removing them and secure server configs.

Nothing blatantly suspicious with a blank referrer IMO.

wilderness

8:06 pm on Mar 8, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Major Search Engines have been basically using blank refers (although technically not) for more than decade, and since they converted to encrypted refers.

born2run

3:08 am on Mar 9, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Yes I've not blocked blank referrers thanks for pointing this out..