It indicates that the IP address has historically appeared in many distinct geographic locations, often across multiple countries or regions, suggesting volatile or evasive infrastructure behaviors.
The questions every analyst asks before acting on this signal.
It indicates that the IP address has historically appeared in many distinct geographic locations, often across multiple countries or regions, suggesting volatile or evasive infrastructure behaviors.
It represents an IP whose historical geolocation footprint spans unrelated or distant regions without a consistent pattern, a behavior frequently associated with proxy chains, fast-flux systems, or anonymization infrastructure.
It describes an IP whose long-term geolocation history appears random or scattered, lacking any stable regional anchoring. This chaotic footprint is a strong signal of obfuscation or misuse of routing and hosting resources.
These patterns collectively serve as malicious-leaning indicators. While not definitive on their own, they provide strong context when paired with DNS churn, blacklist hits, ASN instability or suspicious hosting characteristics.
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_history_geo_risk_profile",
"name": "High Geo Diversity Count",
"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
}
}14 other signals share the same subgroup. They detect related behaviors and often co-fire on the same IOC.
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