172.252.197.42
IP Risk Score: 83 / 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: macOS (100%)
- Device Type: Desktop (100%)
- Browser Family: Chrome (100%)
- Rendering Engine: Gecko (100%)
Behavioral Indicators
The IP exhibits signs of automated behavior, including missing JavaScript support and a suspicious user-agent that may be spoofed. It originates from a hosting provider, which raises concerns about potential scraping or probing activities.
The supernet (172.252.0.0/16), which this IP belongs to, exhibits coordinated behavior characterized by repetitive, low-interaction visits to a specific domain, using identical user agents across multiple IPs. The lack of RDNS resolution and forward DNS matches raises suspicion of potential automation or scraping activities, despite the apparent legitimacy of the hosting infrastructure.
JavaScript Support
⚠️ NoUser-Agent Samples
- Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
IP Location
Region: Virginia, United States
City: Richmond
Local time: 2026-06-23 23:42:08