15.235.98.17

Neutral Activity There is no recent abuse activity, or the IP address is whitelisted. Whitelisted Subnet

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Abuse Confidence Score
0% Low Risk
63 reports
17 reporters · latest 2 days ago

15.235.98.17 is on our whitelist as Ahrefs Crawler via the subnet 15.235.98.0/24.

ISP
Dmytro, Ahrefs Pte Ltd
Usage Type
Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit
ASN
AS16276
Hostname(s)
proxy-ca019-cip18.ahrefs.net
Domain Name
ahrefs.net
Country
🇨🇦 Canada
City
Beauharnois, Quebec
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Abuse Reports

Total reports
63 from 17 distinct reporters
First reported
Most recent report
Last 60 days
Top reporter locations 🇩🇪 Germany 11 🇦🇷 Argentina 2 🇪🇸 Spain 1
Most common categories Bad Web Bot 11 Web App Attack 3 Brute-Force 3 SSH 1
Recent reports We have received reports of abusive activity from this IP address within the last week. This IP is on our whitelist as Ahrefs Crawler. Shared services like this are often reported for traffic that is not abuse, so review the reports before blocking.
Reporter IoA Timestamp (UTC) Comment Categories
🇩🇪 palzer.IT
Report for plesk-apache-badbot: 15.235.98.17 - - [12/Oct/2026:02:48:10 +0200] GET /category-sitemap.xml [DOMAIN_REMOVED] 200 6145 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +[DOMAIN_REMOVED]
Bad Web Bot
Anonymous
apache vulnerability scan
Web App Attack
🇩🇪 palzer.IT
Report for plesk-apache-badbot: 15.235.98.17 - - [12/Oct/2026:02:48:10 +0200] GET /category-sitemap.xml [DOMAIN_REMOVED] 200 6145 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +[DOMAIN_REMOVED]
Bad Web Bot
Anonymous
apache vulnerability scan
Web App Attack
🇺🇸 johnkarlhill
WebKnight blocked malicious web request on johnkarlhill.com
Brute-Force SSH
🇩🇪 palzer.IT
Report for plesk-apache-badbot: 15.235.98.17 - - [12/Oct/2026:02:48:10 +0200] GET /category-sitemap.xml [DOMAIN_REMOVED] 200 6145 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +[DOMAIN_REMOVED]
Bad Web Bot
🇩🇪 palzer.IT
Fail2ban automatic report for plesk-apache-badbot: 15.235.98.17 - - [12/Oct/2026:02:48:10 +0200] GET /category-sitemap.xml [DOMAIN_REMOVED] 200 6145 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +[DOMAIN_REMOVED]
Bad Web Bot
🇩🇪 palzer.IT
Fail2ban automatic report for plesk-apache-badbot: 15.235.98.17 - - [12/Oct/2026:02:48:10 +0200] GET /category-sitemap.xml [DOMAIN_REMOVED] 200 6145 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +[DOMAIN_REMOVED]
Bad Web Bot
🇩🇪 rh24
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 15.235.98.17 (CA/Canada/proxy-ca019-cip18.ahrefs.net)
Bad Web Bot
🇩🇪 palzer.IT
Fail2ban automatic report for plesk-apache-badbot: 15.235.98.17 - - [19/Sep/2026:02:10:04 +0200] GET /sitemap_index.xml [DOMAIN_REMOVED] 200 5909 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +[DOMAIN_REMOVED]
Bad Web Bot
🇪🇸 librebit
Brute force
Brute-Force
🇩🇪 ghostwarriors
Webpage scraping
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack
🇩🇪 palzer.IT
Fail2ban automatic report for plesk-apache-badbot: 15.235.98.17 - - [19/Sep/2026:02:10:04 +0200] GET /sitemap_index.xml [DOMAIN_REMOVED] 200 5909 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +[DOMAIN_REMOVED]
Bad Web Bot
🇩🇪 palzer.IT
Fail2ban automatic report for plesk-apache-badbot: 15.235.98.17 - - [15/Sep/2026:00:08:14 +0200] GET /page-sitemap.xml [DOMAIN_REMOVED] 200 6123 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +[DOMAIN_REMOVED]
Bad Web Bot
🇩🇪 palzer.IT
Fail2ban automatic report for plesk-apache-badbot: 15.235.98.17 - - [15/Sep/2026:00:08:14 +0200] GET /page-sitemap.xml [DOMAIN_REMOVED] 200 6123 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +[DOMAIN_REMOVED]
Bad Web Bot

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