Fake Googlebot Impersonation (Mediapartners-Google UA) for 2026-07-06

Last Updated: 00:00 UTC

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

Vietnam: 4Iraq: 3Venezuela: 2South Africa: 2Mauritius: 1Bangladesh: 1Pakistan: 1Kenya: 1Brazil: 1Chile: 1Argentina: 1Ecuador: 1United Arab Emirates: 1Latvia: 1
Vietnam419.0%
Iraq314.3%
Venezuela29.5%
South Africa29.5%
Mauritius14.8%
Bangladesh14.8%
Pakistan14.8%
Kenya14.8%
Brazil14.8%
Chile14.8%
Argentina14.8%
Ecuador14.8%
United Arab Emirates14.8%
Latvia14.8%

IP Address : ASN : City/Provider

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