Logwatch reports a possible successful probe on my server. Has my server been exploited?

Dave at Collaboration CafĂ© <dave-ZGY8ohtN/[email protected]> Sun, 15 Nov 2020 01:00:16 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.log.logwatch.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, I am running an Ubuntu 18.04 Nginx-powered server with multiple 
vhosts, with Logwatch giving me a report (highest level of detail) in my 
mailbox every morning.

In the httpd section of the report, I'm frequently getting the snippet 
below.

  A total of 1 possible successful probes were detected (the following 
URLs
  contain strings that match one or more of a listing of strings that
  indicate a possible exploit):

     null HTTP Response 200

Then in the requests listing of the httpd section, I'm seeing output 
such as below (this is just a small snippet of a day's report):

  Requests with error response codes
     400 Bad Request
        /: 14 Time(s)
        null: 8 Time(s)
        /0bef: 6 Time(s)

Question 1: has anyone seen this before, and do I have a serious 
problem? I'm not noticing anything amiss in my server's operation...

Question 2: I have been trying to locate the exact log lines in 
/var/log/nginx/access.log and /var/log/nginx/error.log by manually 
tailing my logs and by using grep to search. But so far I have failed. 
Can anyone advise me of a way to locate these lines effectively?

Any other useful advice would be much appreciated.

-- 
With all best wishes,
Dave

-- 
With all best wishes,
Dave