Identicon of IP address 102.253.85.14

102.253.85.14

IP Risk Score: 70 / 100

This IP is considered high risk and shows signs of malicious behavior. Strong indicators point to automated scanning or suspicious access attempts. This assessment is backed by strong and consistent detection signals. The combined indicators suggest a high overall security risk. Defensive measures such as rate limiting or blocking are recommended.

What is this IP address?
IP Address: 102.253.85.14
Country: South Africa flag South Africa (ZA)
Region Name: Gauteng (GP)
City: Pretoria
ISP: Telkom SA Ltd.
Organization: Telkom SA Limited
Threat level: 70 / 100
Conf. level: 100 / 100
Properties
ASN: AS37457
AS Name: Telkom SA Ltd.
Timezone: Africa/Johannesburg
Reverse DNS: 8ta-253-85-14.telkomadsl.co.za
Status: Critical
Mobile

Observed Client Profile
  • OS: Windows (100%)
  • Device Type: Desktop (100%)
  • Browser Family: Chrome (100%)
  • Rendering Engine: Gecko (100%)
Behavioral Indicators

The IP shows signs of potential automated behavior, including lack of JavaScript support and a user-agent that may be spoofed. The access pattern is limited, but the combination of these factors raises concerns about possible scraping or probing activity.

The supernet (102.253.0.0/16), which this IP belongs to, exhibits behavior indicative of low-interaction, automated browsing with multiple IPs showing repetitive access patterns to the same sites, suggesting potential scraping or bot activity. The use of similar user agents across different IPs, combined with DNS mismatches, raises concerns about coordinated stealth automation.

JavaScript Support
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User-Agent Samples
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

IP Location

Region: Gauteng, South Africa

City: Pretoria

Local time: 2026-06-22 16:18:19