202.8.43.243
Neutral Activity
There is no recent abuse activity, or the IP address is whitelisted.
Whitelisted Subnet
Whitelisted netblocks are typically owned by trusted entities, such as Google or Microsoft who may use them for search engine spiders. However, these same entities sometimes also provide cloud servers and mail services which are easily abused. Pay special attention when trusting or distrusting these IPs.
202.8.43.243 is on our whitelist as Ahrefs Crawler via the subnet 202.8.40.0/22.
- ISP
- Ahrefs Crawler B
- Usage Type
- Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit
- ASN
- AS140577
- Hostname(s)
- proxy-us001-sa3.ahrefs.net
- Domain Name
- ahrefs.com
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- City
- Ashburn, Virginia
Abuse Reports
Total reports
17 from
11 distinct
reporters
First reported
Most recent report
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous |
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇺🇸 ipblock.com |
IPBlock protected site ID [4678-sl].
Bad agent, site scraper bot.
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇨🇳 Peter Yu |
|
Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇩🇪 klaus_ph |
202.8.43.243 - - [10/Nov/2026:13:05:27 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 6467 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)"
...
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| Anonymous |
apache vulnerability scan
|
Web App Attack | |
| 🇫🇷 GabrielJST |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.43.243 (US/United States/proxy-us001-sa3.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇺🇸 ipblock.com |
IPBlock protected site ID [4678-sl].
Bad agent, site scraper bot.
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇺🇸 johnkarlhill |
WebKnight blocked malicious web request on johnkarlhill.com
|
Brute-Force SSH | |
| 🇺🇸 ipblock.com |
IPBlock protected site ID [4678-sl].
Bad agent, site scraper bot.
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| Anonymous |
apache vulnerability scan
|
Web App Attack | |
| Anonymous |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.43.243 (US/United States/proxy-us001-sa3.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| Anonymous |
Honeypot: http-public exploit attempts delivering a download/call-back URL /archive/old/homes-donations.html
|
Web App Attack | |
| 🇺🇸 ipblock.com |
IPBlock protected site ID [4678-sl].
Bad agent, site scraper bot.
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇬🇷 setupgr |
|
Port Scan | |
| Anonymous |
apache vulnerability scan
|
Web App Attack |
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