Identicon of IP address 157.173.123.38

157.173.123.38

IP Risk Score: 78 / 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: 157.173.123.38
Country: France flag France (FR)
Region Name: Grand Est (GES)
City: Lauterbourg
ISP: Contabo GmbH
Organization: Contabo GmbH
Threat level: 78 / 100
Conf. level: 100 / 100
Properties
ASN: AS51167
AS Name: Contabo GmbH
Timezone: Europe/Paris
Reverse DNS: vmi3130012.contaboserver.net
Status: Critical
Hosting

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

The IP address exhibits suspicious behavior, including a lack of JavaScript support and hosting infrastructure, indicating potential automated activity. The user-agent appears to be spoofed, as it mimics a standard browser but is associated with a cloud hosting provider, raising concerns about its legitimacy.

The supernet (157.173.0.0/16), which this IP belongs to, exhibits coordinated behavior with multiple IPs accessing the same site using identical user agents, suggesting potential automation or scraping activity. However, the presence of legitimate hosting infrastructure and matching forward DNS records indicates that some of this behavior may be benign, though the overall pattern raises concerns about analytics pollution and possible misuse.

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/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

IP Location

Region: Grand Est, France

City: Lauterbourg

Local time: 2026-06-24 04:01:54