197.248.187.251 Threat Intelligence and Host Information

Oct 11, 2025 ipinfopage

General

This page contains threat intelligence information for the IPv4 address 197.248.187.251 and was generated either as a result of observed malicious activity or as an information gathering exercise to assist with enrichment of security events and context. All information is gathered passively through aggregation of public sources, or observations through activity upon honeynets. The host score is calculated through a series of statistically weighted values and machine learning which takes into account metadata such as host information, frequency, volume and global distribution of malicious activity, association with other known malicious hosts or networks, proxying or anonymising behaviour such as with tor exit nodes, residential proxies or VPN services, and many other attributes. These values are historical and indicative only - and should not be taken to be an accurate representation of the users, businesses or networks in which they reside.

Likely Malicious Host 🟠 57/100

Host and Network Information

Mitre ATT&CK IDs: T1046 - Network Service Scanning, T1078 - Valid Accounts, T1083 - File and Directory Discovery, T1098.004 - SSH Authorized Keys, T1105 - Ingress Tool Transfer, T1110.004 - Credential Stuffing, T1110 - Brute Force, T1498 - Network Denial of Service
Tags: abuseipdb, attack, brute force, Bruteforce, Brute-Force, cowrie, cyber security, DDoS, ioc, login, malicious, Nextray, phishing, RTBH, scanner, scanners, ssh, SSH, Telnet, vultr
View other sources: Spamhaus VirusTotal
Contained within other IP sets: greensnow

Country: Kenya
Network:
Noticed: 50 times
Protocols Attacked: ssh
Countries Attacked: Australia, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America

Malware Detected on Host

Count: 2 3fc54d7636cdbe35e2274f03feb1e03b6208fea76d4c7350dd805786d367d60a 3eb5ded789f7ff8b4c9f5036ad3961fb5ed40507665e834f65e359c43fbcf379

Map

Whois Information

inetnum: 197.248.128.0 - 197.248.191.255
netname: Safaricom-Business
descr: For Safaricom KENYA Enterprise Business Unit
country: KE
admin-c: JM27-AFRINIC
admin-c: DA1485-AFRINIC
tech-c: DA1485-AFRINIC
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: MNT-SAF2004
parent: 197.248.0.0 - 197.248.255.255
person: Domain Admin
address: Safaricom Limited
address: Safaricom House
address: POBox 46350-00100 Nairobi
address: Kenya
address: Nairobi
address: Kenya
phone: tel:+254-020427
nic-hdl: DA1485-AFRINIC
mnt-by: MNT-SAF2004
person: John Muita
address: P.O Box 66827, 00800
address: Nairobi
address: Kenya
address: Nairobi
address: Kenya
phone: tel:+254-722-002829
fax-no: tel:+254-722-003272
nic-hdl: JM27-afrinic
mnt-by: GENERATED-UNS1E7EXFG6F7TJILQ9DMMHDN4Y0VRSV-MNT
route: 197.248.128.0/18
descr: Safaricom Limited
origin: AS33771
mnt-by: MNT-SAF2004

Links to attack logs

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