Identicon of IP address 172.84.176.238

172.84.176.238

IP Risk Score: 79 / 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: 172.84.176.238
Country: India flag India (IN)
Region Name: Tamil Nadu (TN)
City: Chennai
ISP: Altus Communications Inc
Organization: Altus
Threat level: 79 / 100
Conf. level: 100 / 100
Properties
ASN: AS134450
AS Name: HostRoyale Technologies Pvt Ltd
Timezone: Asia/Kolkata
Status: Critical
Proxy

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

The IP shows signs of automated behavior with a single access event, no JavaScript support, and is associated with a proxy. The user-agent appears legitimate but is used in a context that raises concerns about potential scraping or probing activities.

The supernet (172.84.0.0/16), which this IP belongs to, exhibits coordinated behavior with multiple IPs using similar user agents and low-interaction, repetitive one-page visits, indicating potential automated scraping activity. The lack of matching forward DNS records and the use of proxies further suggest that this behavior is likely malicious or at least highly suspicious.

JavaScript Support
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User-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: Tamil Nadu, India

City: Chennai

Local time: 2026-06-25 00:01:51