Maximum Danger
IP address 103.176.78.178 is a critical-risk address operating from Indonesian infrastructure (AS136052 / PT Cloud Hosting Indonesia) with a threat level of 10/10, presenting primarily as an SSH brute-force attack platform detected across 20 automated honeypot sensors generating 175 total abuse reports spanning September 2025 through March 2026.
The aggregate report data reveals 14 categorised SSH-related incidents and 12 general hacking activity reports alongside a single exploited-host classification, indicating this address has been observed repeatedly hammering exposed SSH services with credential-guessing attempts while also conducting broader intrusion-probing activity across networks monitored by the detection infrastructure. The confidence score of 66% reflects reasonable certainty that the observed behaviour is genuinely malicious rather than misclassification, though some reports may represent shared infrastructure patterns rather than exclusively this IP's sole activity. Despite the severe threat rating, the activity frequency of 0/10 suggests the offensive bursts are intermittent rather than continuous, potentially indicating opportunistic targeting rounds or rotating campaign schedules against newly exposed SSH endpoints.
The dominant threat category here is SSH brute-forcing, wherein an attacker systematically cycles through username and password combinations to compromise servers running the SSH daemon, and the presence of an exploited-host designation confirms this IP may itself be a compromised machine weaponised by threat actors without the owner's awareness — a common occurrence in cloud hosting environments where vulnerable or unpatched instances become transit points for further attacks. Real-world risk includes complete server takeover, data exfiltration, lateral movement into internal networks, and the compromised host being enrolled in botnets conducting distributed attacks against other targets worldwide.
Site operators exposing SSH to the internet should immediately block 103.176.78.178 at the firewall level and consider notifying the hosting provider (PT Cloud Hosting Indonesia) so they can investigate whether the source system has been compromised. Defensive hardening measures include enforcing key-based authentication exclusively, changing the default SSH port, disabling root login, and deploying tools such as fail2ban to automatically ban IPs after repeated failed authentication attempts. Implementing intrusion detection rules to flag brute-force patterns and reviewing authentication logs for activity from this address will further reduce exposure risk.
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