138.199.42.181
IP Risk Score: 72 / 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?
United States (US)
Conf. level: 100 / 100
Properties
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 activity, including access to a known XML-RPC endpoint with a 404 response. The user-agent appears legitimate but lacks JavaScript support, which raises concerns. The IP is associated with a hosting provider and has no reverse DNS, indicating possible evasion tactics.
The supernet (138.199.0.0/16), which this IP belongs to, exhibits suspicious behavior characterized by repetitive, low-interaction visits across multiple IPs, with a high incidence of 403 and honeypot hits. The use of identical user agents and a lack of forward DNS matches suggest potential automated scraping or bot activity, raising concerns about coordinated stealth automation and analytics pollution.
JavaScript Support
⚠️ NoUser-Agent Samples
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36
IP Location
Region: Illinois, United States
City: Chicago
Local time: 2026-06-22 06:26:08