Identicon of IP address 218.188.252.157

218.188.252.157

IP Risk Score: 76 / 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: 218.188.252.157
Country: Hong Kong flag Hong Kong (HK)
Region Name: Sham Shui Po District (KSS)
City: Sham Shui Po
ISP: HGC Global Communications Limited
Organization: HGC Global Communications Limited
Threat level: 76 / 100
Conf. level: 100 / 100
Properties
ASN: AS9304
AS Name: HGC Global Communications Limited
Timezone: Asia/Hong_Kong
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 potential automated activity, including a malformed user-agent and lack of JavaScript support. The absence of RDNS and the nature of the access pattern raise concerns about possible scraping or probing behavior.

The supernet (218.188.0.0/16), which this IP belongs to, exhibits suspicious behavior characterized by repetitive, low-interaction visits to a specific domain across multiple IPs, with a lack of legitimate RDNS and forward DNS matches. This suggests potential coordinated automation or scraping activities, raising concerns about analytics pollution and misuse of infrastructure.

JavaScript Support
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User-Agent Samples
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.0) AppleWebKit/535.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.841.0 Safari/535.0

IP Location

Region: Sham Shui Po District, Hong Kong

City: Sham Shui Po

Local time: 2026-06-26 06:23:31