5.231.242.227

Recent Activity This IP has received recent abuse reports, which causes the score to increase.
Abuse Confidence Score
26% Elevated
87 reports
7 reporters · latest 22 hours ago
ISP
GHOSTNET GmbH
Usage Type
Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit
ASN
AS49581
Domain Name
ghostnet.de
Country
🇩🇪 Germany
City
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Abuse Reports

Total reports
87 from 7 distinct reporters
First reported
Most recent report
Last 60 days
Top reporter locations 🇨🇳 China 10
Most common categories SSH 7 Brute-Force 7 Port Scan 3
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
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-14T16:17:53.548Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.227 port=45858 fd=4 n=6/8192
Brute-Force SSH
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-13T22:34:20.673Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.227 port=24202 fd=8 n=5/8192
Brute-Force SSH
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 63022) Source port: 43882 TTL: 242 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.227) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-12T16:23:41.181Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.227 port=34376 fd=11 n=8/8192
Brute-Force SSH
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-11T23:13:08.003Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.227 port=20444 fd=7 n=4/8192
Brute-Force SSH
🇨🇳 day
SSH brute-force banned by fail2ban on <hostname> (jail sshd, failures 5)
Brute-Force SSH
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-10T22:05:00.547Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.227 port=28750 fd=6 n=3/8192
Brute-Force SSH
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 22022) Source port: 56149 TTL: 240 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.227) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
🇨🇳 鹏鹏
monitor: on VM-0-7-ubuntu | port: 23622 | ttl: 251 script: github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-09T17:36:24.376Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.227 port=43706 fd=13 n=12/8192
Brute-Force SSH
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 28301) Source port: 58643 TTL: 240 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.227) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 9700) Source port: 48729 TTL: 240 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.227) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 5822) Source port: 58246 TTL: 239 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.227) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 52900) Source port: 44904 TTL: 242 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.227) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 30601) Source port: 57682 TTL: 240 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.227) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan

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