It indicates that the ASN belongs to hosting environments statistically associated with higher abuse rates, weak onboarding controls, or historically malicious operations. These networks frequently appear in phishing, malware hosting, and botnet infrastructure.
Three questions every analyst asks before acting on this signal.
It indicates that the ASN belongs to hosting environments statistically associated with higher abuse rates, weak onboarding controls, or historically malicious operations. These networks frequently appear in phishing, malware hosting, and botnet infrastructure.
They differentiate the severity of infrastructure abuse: low-control hosting environments often lack vetting and allow disposable malicious deployments; high-abuse entertainment networks show repeated historical misuse; bulletproof hosting providers intentionally ignore abuse reports and enable persistent malicious activity.
This label is a strong contextual risk amplifier. When a domain or IP resides on a risky ASN, analysts should prioritize investigation and correlate with additional indicators such as blacklist hits, DNS churn, hosting rotations, or newly activated infrastructure.
A realistic shape of the entry the engine appends to the risk_signals array when this signal fires. Evidence keys are subgroup-default; per-signal overrides documented in the API reference.
{
"slug": "asn_risky_network",
"name": "Low-Control General Hosting Network",
"group": "dns_history",
"subgroup": "asn_infrastructure_profile",
"direction": "malicious",
"evidence": {
"asn": "AS13335",
"asn_org": "Cloudflare, Inc.",
"asn_allocation_year": 2010,
"asn_geo_risk": "low",
"hosted_domain_count": 18420315
}
}13 other signals share the same subgroup. They detect related behaviors and often co-fire on the same IOC.
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