The following statistics was extracted from my web server log files. It's for the year 2023.
Of course, it's very biased, because most webcrawlers are located in USA. Also, some countries have different policies on IPv4 allocation and more IP addresses may be allocated to users. Maybe this is the case of Singapore (relatively small country with ~6 million population), but I'm not sure.
Also, for some unknown reason, RE4B is popular in Poland. I'm not sure why. Maybe they teach cybersec more seriously in universities.
How extracted:
$ cat beginners.re/access*2023* | grep pdf | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort | uniq | xargs -L 1 geoiplookup | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n | grep -v "can't resolve hostname" > re4b_pdf.txt $ cat beginners.re/access*2023* | grep favicon | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort | uniq | xargs -L 1 geoiplookup | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n | grep -v "can't resolve hostname" > re4b_favicon.txt $ cat challenges.re/access*2023* | grep favicon | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort | uniq | xargs -L 1 geoiplookup | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n | grep -v "can't resolve hostname" > chal_favicon.txt
PDF files on beginners.re:
11255 GeoIP Country Edition: US, United States
4381 GeoIP Country Edition: RU, Russian Federation
3179 GeoIP Country Edition: CN, China
1637 GeoIP Country Edition: DE, Germany
1630 GeoIP Country Edition: FR, France
1382 GeoIP Country Edition: GB, United Kingdom
1342 GeoIP Country Edition: IT, Italy
1211 GeoIP Country Edition: SG, Singapore
1140 GeoIP Country Edition: IN, India
1080 GeoIP Country Edition: PL, Poland
869 GeoIP Country Edition: NL, Netherlands
862 GeoIP Country Edition: JP, Japan
783 GeoIP Country Edition: CA, Canada
690 GeoIP Country Edition: TR, Turkey
677 GeoIP Country Edition: AU, Australia
630 GeoIP Country Edition: HK, Hong Kong
570 GeoIP Country Edition: KR, Korea, Republic of
560 GeoIP Country Edition: ES, Spain
545 GeoIP Country Edition: UA, Ukraine
499 GeoIP Country Edition: FI, Finland
459 GeoIP Country Edition: VN, Vietnam
449 GeoIP Country Edition: RO, Romania
433 GeoIP Country Edition: TW, Taiwan
357 GeoIP Country Edition: SE, Sweden
350 GeoIP Country Edition: BR, Brazil
345 GeoIP Country Edition: IL, Israel
334 GeoIP Country Edition: AT, Austria
307 GeoIP Country Edition: ID, Indonesia
287 GeoIP Country Edition: CZ, Czech Republic
268 GeoIP Country Edition: EG, Egypt
244 GeoIP Country Edition: MA, Morocco
236 GeoIP Country Edition: CH, Switzerland
233 GeoIP Country Edition: IR, Iran, Islamic Republic of
...
Full list: 183 countries/territories.
favicon file on beginners.re:
7636 GeoIP Country Edition: US, United States
4472 GeoIP Country Edition: RU, Russian Federation
1994 GeoIP Country Edition: CN, China
1681 GeoIP Country Edition: IN, India
1633 GeoIP Country Edition: DE, Germany
1523 GeoIP Country Edition: IT, Italy
1500 GeoIP Country Edition: FR, France
1452 GeoIP Country Edition: GB, United Kingdom
1291 GeoIP Country Edition: PL, Poland
966 GeoIP Country Edition: CA, Canada
910 GeoIP Country Edition: TR, Turkey
816 GeoIP Country Edition: JP, Japan
815 GeoIP Country Edition: UA, Ukraine
774 GeoIP Country Edition: KR, Korea, Republic of
761 GeoIP Country Edition: ES, Spain
705 GeoIP Country Edition: NL, Netherlands
677 GeoIP Country Edition: AU, Australia
600 GeoIP Country Edition: BR, Brazil
595 GeoIP Country Edition: VN, Vietnam
549 GeoIP Country Edition: SE, Sweden
538 GeoIP Country Edition: IL, Israel
535 GeoIP Country Edition: EG, Egypt
503 GeoIP Country Edition: SG, Singapore
439 GeoIP Country Edition: RO, Romania
425 GeoIP Country Edition: HK, Hong Kong
390 GeoIP Country Edition: TW, Taiwan
365 GeoIP Country Edition: ID, Indonesia
361 GeoIP Country Edition: IR, Iran, Islamic Republic of
...
Full list: 182 countries/territories.
favicon file on challenges.re:
3165 GeoIP Country Edition: US, United States
1046 GeoIP Country Edition: RU, Russian Federation
628 GeoIP Country Edition: IN, India
542 GeoIP Country Edition: FR, France
450 GeoIP Country Edition: GB, United Kingdom
395 GeoIP Country Edition: IT, Italy
381 GeoIP Country Edition: DE, Germany
374 GeoIP Country Edition: IL, Israel
366 GeoIP Country Edition: TR, Turkey
322 GeoIP Country Edition: PL, Poland
304 GeoIP Country Edition: CN, China
273 GeoIP Country Edition: VN, Vietnam
245 GeoIP Country Edition: NL, Netherlands
238 GeoIP Country Edition: CA, Canada
231 GeoIP Country Edition: AU, Australia
218 GeoIP Country Edition: ES, Spain
214 GeoIP Country Edition: KR, Korea, Republic of
210 GeoIP Country Edition: SE, Sweden
184 GeoIP Country Edition: UA, Ukraine
180 GeoIP Country Edition: EG, Egypt
180 GeoIP Country Edition: BR, Brazil
158 GeoIP Country Edition: SG, Singapore
158 GeoIP Country Edition: RO, Romania
152 GeoIP Country Edition: JP, Japan
131 GeoIP Country Edition: MA, Morocco
...
Full list: 153 countries/territories.
Also, several times a year, beginners.re website is visited from North Korea. The book was published in Korean language (twice), so they probably have it... Maybe in their hard-to-access libraries/vaults... (I'm old enough to remember about Spetskhran during USSR era...)
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