IP Risk Score: 89 / 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.

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What is this IP address?

IP Address: 178.253.72.216

Country: Syria flag

Syria (SY)

Region Name: Damascus Governorate (DI)

City: Damascus

ISP: STE Public Data Network Backbone and LIR

Threat level: 89 / 100
Conf. level: 100 / 100

Properties

ASN: AS29256

AS Name: STE PDN Internal AS

Timezone: Asia/Damascus

Status: Critical

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 automated behavior with a malformed user-agent and no JavaScript support, indicating potential scraping activity. The lack of RDNS and the nature of the request suggest a probing attempt.

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Botnet Node

JavaScript Support

⚠️ No

User-Agent Samples

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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IP Location

Region: Damascus Governorate, Syria

City: Damascus

Local time: 2026-06-30 00:20:05

Subnet
178.253.72.0/24
Supernet
178.253.0.0/16