Slow the bot's by spoofing what they are looking for!
This is a honeypot project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)
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Are you sick of this in your log files?
Install Ubuntu and Apache, (Default log directory /var/www/html/)
It would be ideal to run as a docker container, Alas I have not yet.
You should see this....
Put on a cron job....
*/5 * * * * python3 /path/to/slow_the_bots.py >/dev/null 2>&1