5.231.242.246

Recent Activity This IP has received recent abuse reports, which causes the score to increase.
Abuse Confidence Score
19% Caution
69 reports
6 reporters · latest 12 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
69 from 6 distinct reporters
First reported
Most recent report
Last 60 days
Top reporter locations 🇨🇳 China 12
Most common categories Brute-Force 7 SSH 7 Port Scan 5
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
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 26322) Source port: 57880 TTL: 242 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.246) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-14T17:38:15.479Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.246 port=45114 fd=104 n=105/8192
Brute-Force SSH
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-13T16:05:40.555Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.246 port=63990 fd=6 n=14/8192
Brute-Force SSH
🇨🇳 day
SSH brute-force banned by fail2ban on <hostname> (jail sshd, failures 5)
Brute-Force SSH
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 24600) Source port: 37464 TTL: 241 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.246) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-12T20:18:12.272Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.246 port=40040 fd=4 n=2/8192
Brute-Force SSH
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-11T22:13:23.287Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.246 port=49170 fd=4 n=1/8192
Brute-Force SSH
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 56901) Source port: 40823 TTL: 241 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.246) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-11T04:35:18.140Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.246 port=34532 fd=5 n=5/8192
Brute-Force SSH
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 40622) Source port: 51775 TTL: 240 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.246) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 10122) Source port: 54225 TTL: 240 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.246) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
🇨🇳 yiyan
Automated SSH brute-force attack trapped in endlessh tarpit. Sample log: 2026-11-09T18:36:55.943Z ACCEPT host=5.231.242.246 port=5200 fd=6 n=8/8192
Brute-Force SSH
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 47057) Source port: 44042 TTL: 240 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.246) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
🇨🇳 鹏鹏
monitor: on VM-0-7-ubuntu | port: 36091 | ttl: 251 script: github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan
Anonymous
Blocked by UFW (TCP on 38849) Source port: 43356 TTL: 240 Packet length: 40 TOS: 0x14 This report (for 5.231.242.246) was generated by: https://github.com/sefinek/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
Port Scan

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