Fake Googlebot Impersonation (Mediapartners-Google UA) for 2026-10-23

Oct 23, 2026 Exploitation

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

United States: 28Singapore: 3
United States2890.3%
Singapore39.7%

IP Address : ASN : City/Provider

  • 209.85.238.105 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.32 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.33 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.40 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.41 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.42 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.43 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.52 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.53 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.54 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.55 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.56 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 209.85.238.57 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 47.246.164.132 : AS45102 Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd. : Singapore

  • 47.246.164.136 : AS45102 Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd. : Singapore

  • 47.246.164.150 : AS45102 Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd. : Singapore

  • 74.125.150.37 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.151.116 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.216.160 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.216.161 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.216.169 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.216.178 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.216.185 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.216.187 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.216.20 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.216.24 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.216.28 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.218.198 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.218.199 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.218.200 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

  • 74.125.218.220 : AS15169 Google LLC : United States

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