Prompt

Analyze this Squid proxy log to answer the following questions.

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This challenge involves analyzing a Squid proxy log. Basic scripting knowledge is necessary to complete the challenge in a reasonable amount of time.

Take any of the Epoch timestamps and convert them into a human-readable date. An online tool, such as Epoch Converter, can be used to do this.

cat squid_access.log | awk '{print $2}' | sort -n

Extract the second field (the response time) and then sort the results numerically

Same as the question above

cat squid_access.log | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq | wc -l

Extract the third field (the IP address of the proxy client), sort, get the unique values, and then get the line count

cat squid_access.log | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq –c

Extract the 6th field (the HTTP Request type), sort, and then get the unique values with a count of their occurrences

Same as the question above

The name of the company is found within the URLs of the requests made 192.168.0.224

cat squid_access.log | grep "192.168.0.224"

Search for any lines that contain the IP address from the question.

Use the command from the question above and then find the URL that includes “virus” and “definitions”