Fake Googlebot Impersonation (Mediapartners-Google UA) for 2026-07-05

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Hosts sending a Mediapartners-Google / Googlebot user-agent from IP ranges that do not belong to Google. Impersonating a search crawler is used to bypass bot filtering and rate limits while scraping or probing. Genuine Google crawler ranges (66.249.0.0/16) are excluded from this list.

MITRE ATT&CK

Tactic: Defense Evasion (TA0005)
Technique: T1036 — Masquerading

Observed URIs

Attackers by Country

Bangladesh: 4Vietnam: 1Brazil: 1Ecuador: 1Argentina: 1Paraguay: 1Chile: 1Venezuela: 1Pakistan: 1Algeria: 1Romania: 1Libya: 1
Bangladesh426.7%
Vietnam16.7%
Brazil16.7%
Ecuador16.7%
Argentina16.7%
Paraguay16.7%
Chile16.7%
Venezuela16.7%
Pakistan16.7%
Algeria16.7%
Romania16.7%
Libya16.7%

IP Address : ASN : City/Provider

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