Fake Googlebot Impersonation (Mediapartners-Google UA) for 2026-07-18

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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

Vietnam: 12Bangladesh: 7Brazil: 5Iraq: 4Pakistan: 4Mexico: 3Colombia: 3South Africa: 2Angola: 2Argentina: 2Venezuela: 2Bolivia: 2Jamaica: 2Congo Republic: 1Togo: 1Algeria: 1Egypt: 1Uruguay: 1Trinidad and Tobago: 1Paraguay: 1Syria: 1Chile: 1Kenya: 1Panama: 1Uzbekistan: 1Dominican Republic: 1Romania: 1Türkiye: 1Jordan: 1
Vietnam1218.2%
Bangladesh710.6%
Brazil57.6%
Iraq46.1%
Pakistan46.1%
Mexico34.5%
Colombia34.5%
South Africa23.0%
Angola23.0%
Argentina23.0%
Venezuela23.0%
Bolivia23.0%
Jamaica23.0%
Congo Republic11.5%
Togo11.5%
Algeria11.5%
Egypt11.5%
Uruguay11.5%
Trinidad and Tobago11.5%
Paraguay11.5%
Syria11.5%
Chile11.5%
Kenya11.5%
Panama11.5%
Uzbekistan11.5%
Dominican Republic11.5%
Romania11.5%
Türkiye11.5%
Jordan11.5%

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