Identicon of IP address 179.50.178.5

179.50.178.5

IP Risk Score: 70 / 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: 179.50.178.5
Country: Costa Rica flag Costa Rica (CR)
Region Name: Provincia de San José (SJ)
City: San José
ISP: Cable Tica
Organization: Cable Tica
Threat level: 70 / 100
Conf. level: 100 / 100
Properties
ASN: AS52228
AS Name: Cable Tica
Timezone: America/Costa_Rica
Reverse DNS: ip5-178-50-179.ct.co.cr
Status: Critical

Observed Client Profile
  • OS: iOS (100%)
  • Device Type: Mobile (100%)
  • Browser Family: Safari (100%)
  • Rendering Engine: Gecko (100%)
Behavioral Indicators

The IP shows signs of potential automated behavior, including missing JavaScript support and a user-agent that may be spoofed. The access pattern is limited, but the lack of JavaScript suggests it could be a bot. Further monitoring is recommended.

The supernet (179.50.0.0/16), which this IP belongs to, exhibits behavior indicative of automated scraping activities, with multiple IPs using similar user agents and accessing the same sites with low interaction. While the forward DNS matches the RDNS, the presence of varied user agents and low-frequency access patterns raises concerns about potential misuse of legitimate infrastructure.

JavaScript Support
⚠️ No
User-Agent Samples
  • Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 MicroMessenger/8.0.41(0x18001B3F) NetType/WIFI Language/zh_CN

IP Location

Region: Provincia de San José, Costa Rica

City: San José

Local time: 2026-06-22 02:37:15