It indicates that the geolocation of the domain’s currently active IP addresses significantly differs from the geolocations observed in its historical IP usage, suggesting a notable shift in infrastructure location.
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It indicates that the geolocation of the domain’s currently active IP addresses significantly differs from the geolocations observed in its historical IP usage, suggesting a notable shift in infrastructure location.
Divergence is determined by comparing the geolocation set of current IPs with the historical geolocation set. If there is little or no overlap between these sets, the infrastructure is considered geographically divergent.
This is a contextual risk indicator. A strong divergence may reflect infrastructure migration, ownership change, or evasive behavior, and should be interpreted alongside other signals such as blacklist activity, ASN changes, or hosting patterns.
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": "ip_geo_historical_divergence",
"name": "Current and Historical Geolocation Divergence",
"group": "dns_history",
"subgroup": "ip_geolocation_profile",
"direction": "malicious",
"evidence": {
"current_countries": [
"US"
],
"historical_countries": [
"US",
"DE",
"TR"
],
"geo_consistency_score": 0.92,
"eu_false_flag_risk": false
}
}9 other signals share the same subgroup. They detect related behaviors and often co-fire on the same IOC.
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