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AbuseIPDB » 172.238.18.254

172.238.18.254 was found in our database!

This IP was reported 22 times. Confidence of Abuse is 100%: ?

100%

ISP	Linode
Usage Type	Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit
ASN	AS63949
Hostname(s)	172-238-18-254.ip.linodeusercontent.com
Domain Name	linode.com
Country	🇯🇵 Japan
City	Tokyo, Tokyo

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IP Abuse Reports for 172.238.18.254:

This IP address has been reported a total of 22 times from 21 distinct sources. 172.238.18.254 was first reported on June 26th 2026, and the most recent report was 15 hours ago.

Recent Reports: We have received reports of abusive activity from this IP address within the last week. It is potentially still actively engaged in abusive activities.

Reporter	IoA Timestamp (UTC)	Comment	Categories
🇩🇪 phil2k	2026-06-28 11:39:04 (15 hours ago)	portscan on multiple TCP ports : Firewall: Within 2026-06-27 06:23:58 - 2026-06-27 06:23:58 CEST(+02 ... show more portscan on multiple TCP ports : Firewall: Within 2026-06-27 06:23:58 - 2026-06-27 06:23:58 CEST(+0200) identified: port scan from 172.238.18.254/32 on uncommon port/s: 5000(tcp:5000),8000(tcp:8000),8090(tcp:8090),8081(tproxy),8765(tcp:8765) (5 trials) Fail2ban: Within 2026-06-27 06:23:58 - 2026-06-27 06:23:59 CEST(+0200) banned: 7 times by fail2ban[firewall]; 7 times by fail2ban[recidive] show less	Port Scan
🇩🇪 EnthecSolutions	2026-06-28 06:00:50 (21 hours ago)	Detected by Enthec Solutions. \| Attempts: 56 in 24h \| Target port: 8000	Port Scan Hacking
🇫🇷 sthoyer.de	2026-06-28 04:57:33 (22 hours ago)	Jun 28 06:57:32 sthoyer kernel: [IPTables-Dropped-I] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:56:43:00:af:c0:69:11:cd: ... show more Jun 28 06:57:32 sthoyer kernel: [IPTables-Dropped-I] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:56:43:00:af:c0:69:11:cd:10:f7:08:00 SRC=172.238.18.254 DST=173.212.223.67 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=50 ID=57618 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=57420 DPT=9876 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Jun 28 06:57:32 sthoyer kernel: [IPTables-Dropped-I] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:56:43:00:af:c0:69:11:cd:10:f7:08:00 SRC=172.238.18.254 DST=173.212.223.67 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=50 ID=50519 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=42504 DPT=9090 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Jun 28 06:57:32 sthoyer kernel: [IPTables-Dropped-I] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:56:43:00:af:c0:69:11:cd:10:f7:08:00 SRC=172.238.18.254 DST=173.212.223.67 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=50 ID=17031 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=43810 DPT=5000 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Jun 28 06:57:32 sthoyer kernel: [IPTables-Dropped-I] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:56:43:00:af:c0:69:11:cd:10:f7:08:00 SRC=172.238.18.254 DST=173.212.223.67 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=50 ID=7268 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=48034 DPT=8090 WIN ... show less	Port Scan
🇫🇷 Little Iguana	2026-06-28 04:57:31 (22 hours ago)	trying to access non-authorized port	Port Scan
🇹🇷 Threat.live	2026-06-28 03:00:04 (1 day ago)	Threat.live: Web Scan	Web App Attack
🇺🇸 itsnixk	2026-06-27 20:32:55 (1 day ago)	(mod_security) mod_security (id:920350) triggered by 172.238.18.254 (JP/Japan/172-238-18-254.ip.lino ... show more (mod_security) mod_security (id:920350) triggered by 172.238.18.254 (JP/Japan/172-238-18-254.ip.linodeusercontent.com): 1 in the last 3600 secs; Ports: *; Direction: inout; Trigger: LF_TRIGGER; Logs: [Sat Jun 27 16:32:52.519993 2026] [security2:error] [pid 975748:tid 976371] [client 172.238.18.254:58128] ModSecurity: Access denied with code 406 (phase 1). Pattern match "(?:^([\\\\d.]+\|\\\\[[\\\\da-f:]+\\\\]\|[\\\\da-f:]+)(:[\\\\d]+)?$)" at REQUEST_HEADERS:Host. [file "/etc/modsecurity.d/REQUEST-920-PROTOCOL-ENFORCEMENT.conf"] [line "773"] [id "920350"] [msg "Host header is a numeric IP address"] [redacted] [severity "WARNING"] [ver "OWASP_CRS/4.26.0"] [tag "application-multi"] [tag "language-multi"] [tag "platform-multi"] [tag "attack-protocol"] [tag "paranoia-level/1"] [tag "OWASP_CRS"] [tag "OWASP_CRS/PROTOCOL-ENFORCEMENT"] [tag "capec/1000/210/272"] [redacted] [uri "/.credentials.json"] [unique_id "akAzdANmdKv5epj3E_wi3AAAAK4"] show less	Port Scan
🇬🇧 Apache	2026-06-27 19:55:14 (1 day ago)	(mod_security) mod_security (id:920350) triggered by 172.238.18.254 (JP/Japan/172-238-18-254.ip.lino ... show more (mod_security) mod_security (id:920350) triggered by 172.238.18.254 (JP/Japan/172-238-18-254.ip.linodeusercontent.com): 5 in the last 300 secs (CF_ENABLE) show less	Brute-Force Web App Attack
Anonymous	2026-06-27 18:02:31 (1 day ago)	[Sat Jun 27 21:02:27.580226 2026] [authz_core:error] [pid 13524] [client 172.238.18.254:40668] AH016 ... show more [Sat Jun 27 21:02:27.580226 2026] [authz_core:error] [pid 13524] [client 172.238.18.254:40668] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/.credentials.json [Sat Jun 27 21:02:28.634817 2026] [authz_core:error] [pid 13324] [client 172.238.18.254:40690] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/.claude [Sat Jun 27 21:02:29.666118 2026] [authz_core:error] [pid 22779] [client 172.238.18.254:40702] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/.config show less	Bad Web Bot
🇩🇪 Roper123	2026-06-27 15:36:34 (1 day ago)	Web exploits	Web App Attack
Anonymous	2026-06-27 15:32:33 (1 day ago)	172.238.18.254 - - [27/Jun/2026:15:32:32 +0000] "\x16\x03\x01\x05\xcc\x01" 400 432 "-" "-" ...	Bad Web Bot Web App Attack
🇩🇪 pigro	2026-06-27 15:14:30 (1 day ago)	172.238.18.254 - - [27/Jun/2026:17:14:29 +0200] "\x16\x03\x01\x05\xCC\x01\x00\x05\xC8\x03\x03P\x071\ ... show more 172.238.18.254 - - [27/Jun/2026:17:14:29 +0200] "\x16\x03\x01\x05\xCC\x01\x00\x05\xC8\x03\x03P\x071\x1F\xD2\xE7\xC0\xEC\x11<^cM\xD4;\xE2z\x1F\xDBEv\xD6J\x06\xAE\x10N\xCA\xE4\x9F>' \xF9\x93\x19\x8E\x17\xAE\xCE\x88\xC7\xDC\xC4\xF3s\xED \x82\xFBZ\x83j\x16\x08\xB9" 400 157 "-" "-" 172.238.18.254 - - [27/Jun/2026:17:14:29 +0200] "\x16\x03\x01\x05\xCC\x01\x00\x05\xC8\x03\x03\xCFM\xF8J8" 400 157 "-" "-" ... show less	Web App Attack
🇬🇧 thetomtaylor.co.uk	2026-06-27 06:08:01 (1 day ago)	Fail2Ban - [WEB]Custom exploit pattern detected on customexploits ... [ice02,wa01,wa02]	Hacking Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack
🇩🇪 phil2k	2026-06-27 04:24:03 (1 day ago)	fail2ban:firewall:2026-06-27T06:23:58.578590+02:00 <SRV> firewall: filter IN=<ANONYMIZED_INTERFACE> ... show more fail2ban:firewall:2026-06-27T06:23:58.578590+02:00 <SRV> firewall: filter IN=<ANONYMIZED_INTERFACE> OUT= MAC=<ANONYMIZED_MAC> SRC=172.238.18.254 DST=<PRIVATE_IPv4> LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=47 ID=43319 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=48904 DPT=5000 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 2026-06-27T06:23:58.584423+02:00 <SRV> firewall: filter IN=<ANONYMIZED_INTERFACE> OUT= MAC=<ANONYMIZED_MAC> SRC=172.238.18.254 DST=<PRIVATE_IPv4> LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=47 ID=54307 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=45962 DPT=8000 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 show less	DDoS Attack Port Scan
🇸🇬 drewf.ink	2026-06-27 02:00:33 (2 days ago)	[02:00] Port scanning. Port(s) scanned: TCP/8888, TCP/8081, TCP/9090	Port Scan
🇺🇸 jfz-abuse	2026-06-26 23:29:22 (2 days ago)	fail2ban: apache-proxy ...	Web App Attack

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