Elevated Risk
IP address 167.94.146.53 is a high-risk address associated with 511 reported incidents, predominantly linked to hacking activity including intrusion attempts and exploitation attempts against exposed services, with a threat level of 8 out of 10 and an activity frequency rated 8 out of 10, indicating sustained and aggressive hostile operations originating from this IP over an approximately nine-month period between August 2025 and May 2026.
Analysis of the available intelligence data reveals that this IP, operating under ASN AS398705 and registered to CENSYS-ARIN-02 in the United States, has generated reports across 20 distinct automated honeypot sensors, yielding a confidence score of 88 percent for the attribution. The reported threat categories show a strong predominance of Hacking activity at 19 reports, compared to a single Email Spam report. The attack pattern indicators associated with this address include connection-based attacks and SMTP abuse characteristics. The volume of reports combined with the high activity frequency score suggests this IP has been systematically targeting multiple honeypot infrastructure points, likely as part of automated scanning or credential-based attack campaigns against exposed services on the global internet.
The dominant Hacking classification for this address indicates the operator behind 167.94.146.53 has been conducting unauthorized access attempts, vulnerability probing, or exploitation of susceptible services exposed to the internet. With 511 total reports and an activity frequency of 8 out of 10, this represents a persistent threat actor rather than opportunistic or transient malicious traffic. The connection-based attack patterns suggest automated tools are being used to brute-force authentication mechanisms or scan for exploitable services. When an IP with this level of confirmed hostile activity is observed making connections to a network asset, the risk of successful compromise increases significantly if defensive controls are not in place, particularly for services like SSH, RDP, or web interfaces with weak authentication configurations.
Network defenders encountering traffic from 167.94.146.53 should implement immediate blocking or rate-limiting measures at the network perimeter, as the threat intelligence strongly supports this IP engaging in systematic hostile reconnaissance. Strong authentication requirements including multi-factor authentication should be enforced on all internet-facing services to mitigate credential-based attack vectors. Deploying fail2ban or similar dynamic firewall tools can automatically ban IPs demonstrating brute-force behavior patterns. Organizations should also audit their email infrastructure for proper SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configuration to address the secondary SMTP abuse classification and ensure this address is not successfully relaying spam or phishing content through any compromised mail systems.
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