About one year ago I coded a simple HTTP proxy server with the objective to propagate my own proxy server among the anonymizing proxy server providers to analyze the traffic coming from their network. I hoped collecting account information that way. They didn’t disappoint me.
Yesterday I’ve stumbled uppon this small PERL script again and decided to give it another try. I’ve integrated a blacklist feature to block traffic to specific sites and started it. In the morning after eight hours I checked the logfile and analyzed the content.
About 90% is forum/blog spam, the rest of the traffic contains proxy server checks, bruteforce login attempts, search engine requests and also regular user traffic.
An other side effect was a short spam flood that kept akismet busy a little.
I will tinker with the proxy script a little and release the code somewhen this week.
