161.8.188.231
IP Risk Score: 90 / 100
This IP is considered potentially malicious and poses a serious security threat. Activity from this IP is consistent with active and malicious behavior. This assessment is backed by strong and consistent detection signals. The IP represents a severe and confirmed security risk. Immediate blocking or mitigation is strongly recommended.
What is this IP address?
United States (US)
Conf. level: 100 / 100
Properties
Observed Client Profile
- OS: Android (100%)
- Device Type: Mobile (100%)
- Browser Family: Chrome (100%)
- Rendering Engine: Gecko (100%)
Behavioral Indicators
The IP shows signs of automated behavior with a malformed user-agent and no JavaScript support, indicating potential bot activity. The access pattern is suspicious, particularly given the botnet detection signal.
The supernet (161.8.0.0/16), which this IP belongs to, exhibits a high level of repetitive, low-interaction behavior across multiple IPs, primarily from mobile devices associated with Windstream Communications. The lack of RDNS and forward DNS matches, combined with the use of identical user agents, suggests potential automated scraping or bot activity, raising concerns about coordinated stealth automation.
JavaScript Support
⚠️ NoUser-Agent Samples
- Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0; SM-G900P Build/LRX21T) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.1766.1070 Mobile Safari/537.36
IP Location
Region: Virginia, United States
City: Ashburn
Local time: 2026-07-05 06:38:46