A security analyst notices a series of requests on a company's web server logs. Each request tries to retrieve different paths that are not commonly accessed, and all the requests come from one external network address within a brief time window. Which of the following best describes the intent of these requests?
A misconfigured automatic task on the server
A user navigating the company's public website pages
Reconnaissance by an attacker attempting to discover unlinked content or vulnerabilities
Execution of client-side scripts from a user's web browser