# 188.245.60.1 — IP Intelligence Summary

188.245.60.1 is an IPv4 address operated by Hetzner Online GmbH - Contact Role (AS24940), geolocated to Falkenstein, Germany. It belongs to datacenter or hosting infrastructure with reverse DNS name 188-245-60-1.cprapid.com. As of November 5, 2026, IPDebrief rates it Moderate Risk (40/100); no anonymizing service was detected.

- Canonical page: https://ipdebrief.com/188.245.60.1
- Last updated: 2026-11-05

## Ownership

- Organization: Hetzner Online GmbH - Contact Role
- Network name: DE-HETZNER-20110117
- Allocated block: 188.245.0.0/16
- ASN: AS24940 (https://ipdebrief.com/asn/24940)
- Regional registry: RIPE
- Cloud / hosting provider: Hetzner

## Location

- City: Falkenstein
- Region: Saxony
- Country: Germany
- Time zone: Europe/Berlin

## Network classification

- Infrastructure type: —
- Datacenter / hosting: yes
- Residential: no
- Mobile: no
- Anycast: no
- Tor exit node: no
- VPN: no
- Proxy: no

## Risk assessment

- Assessment: Moderate Risk (40/100)
- Blocklist listings: 0
- Suspicious activity indicators: no
- Spam source: no

## Reverse DNS

- 188-245-60-1.cprapid.com
- Forward-confirmed: yes

## Exposed services

- 80/tcp — http
- 443/tcp — https

## Analyst narrative

\# IP Intelligence Briefing: 188.245.60.1/32

\## Executive Summary

**Risk Level:** Moderate Risk (Score: 40)

**Infrastructure:** Hetzner CloudCompute Hosting (Germany)

**Threat Indicators:** DNSBL Listed (1/8 lists), No Active Threat Campaigns

**Recommendation:** Monitor with awareness of blacklist presence; blocking recommended pending contextual analysis

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\## Infrastructure Profile

**Ownership & Network:**

\- **ASN:** 24940 (Hetzner Online GmbH)

\- **Organization:** Hetzner Online GmbH - Contact Role

\- **CIDR Block:** 188.245.0.0/16 (DE-HETZNER-20110117)

\- **Registration RIR:** RIPE

**Geolocation:**

\- **Country:** Germany (DE)

\- **Region:** Saxony

\- **City:** Falkenstein

\- **Coordinates:** 51.17°N, 10.45°E

\- **Geo Consensus:** Validated across multiple sources

**Network Classification:**

\- **Infrastructure Type:** CloudCompute

\- **Hosting Status:** Active Cloud Hosting Provider

\- **Connection Type:** Web Server

\- **Anycast/Proxy/Tor:** Not detected

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\## DNS & Service Analysis

**DNS Configuration:**

\- **PTR Hostname:** 188-245-60-1.cprapid.com

\- **Forward Resolution:** Confirmed (1 record)

\- **Email Authentication:** SPF and DMARC absent

\- **DNSSEC:** Validated

**Service Exposure:**

\- **Open Ports:** TCP/80 (HTTP), TCP/443 (HTTPS)

\- **Web Server:** nginx (version detection pending)

\- **TLS Certificate:** Issued by Let's Encrypt (CN=188-245-60-1.cprapid.com)

\- **HTTP Status:** 301 Redirect

\- **HTTP Version:** 1.1 (HTTP/2 not enabled)

\- **Security Headers:** HSTS, CSP, and Referrer-Policy absent

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\## Threat Indicators

**Blacklist Status:**

\- **DNSBL Listed:** 1 of 8 total lists

\- **Abuse Confidence:** Not quantified in primary profile

\- **Tor Exit Node:** No

\- **Known Attacker:** No

\- **Spam Source:** No

**Campaign Correlation:**

\- **Cert Matches:** 0

\- **Banner Matches:** 0

\- **Correlated IPs:** 0

\- **Campaign Likelihood:** None

**Control Plane:**

\- **Operator Score:** 0.2609 (Basic classification)

\- **Route Stability:** Unstable

\- **Route Changes (30d):** 0

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\## Neighborhood Analysis

**Subnet Assessment (188.245.60.0/24):**

\- **Abuse Density:** 0.0 (Clean)

\- **Classification:** Clean

\- **Inherited Risk:** 0

\- **Total Siblings:** 1

\- **Active Siblings:** 1

\- **Threat Siblings:** 0

**Risk Distribution:** No high or medium risk neighbors detected

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\## Observation History

**Signal Count:** 21 observations (recent activity concentrated in August 2026)

**Key Historical Signals:**

\- **Blacklist Activity:** Multiple listing events observed with severity ranging from medium to high across 8 lists

\- **HTTP Fingerprint:** Consistent nginx server signature, 301 redirect behavior

\- **Subnet Classification:** Consistently classified as "clean" with 0 abuse density

\- **Ownership Stability:** No ownership changes recorded

**Temporal Trends:** No persistent malicious activity detected; threat persistence days: 0

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\## Recommended Actions

**Immediate Recommendations:**

1. **Firewall Rules:**

\- \`iptables -A INPUT -s 188.245.60.1 -j DROP\`

\- \`nft add rule inet filter input ip saddr 188.245.60.1 drop\`

2. **Web Application Firewall:**

\- Nginx: \`deny 188.245.60.1;\`

\- Cloudflare WAF: Block with filter expression \`ip.src eq 188.245.60.1\`

\- AWS WAF: Add IP 188.245.60.1/32 to block list

3. **Security Headers:** Consider monitoring for missing security headers (HSTS, CSP, Referrer-Policy) as potential attack vector

**Contextual Notes:**

\- Risk score of 40 suggests moderate concern, primarily driven by DNSBL presence

\- Subnet shows no abuse indicators; threat may be isolated to this specific IP

\- Infrastructure is legitimate cloud hosting; false positive possible but blacklist presence warrants scrutiny

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\## Threat Intelligence Assessment

**Primary Concern:** DNSBL listing indicates prior abuse or reputation issues, though no active threat campaign detected

**Secondary Observations:**

\- Missing email authentication (SPF/DMARC) increases phishing risk if this IP hosts mail

\- Absence of modern HTTP/2 and security headers reduces defense-in-depth

\- Single IP in clean subnet suggests isolated incident rather than systemic issue

**Confidence Level:** Moderate — blacklist presence without active threat indicators suggests potential false positive or resolved issue requiring monitoring

**SOC Analyst Action:** Monitor traffic patterns; consider blocking pending correlation with internal threat data and confirmed abuse reports

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Source: IPDebrief, "188.245.60.1 IP intelligence", https://ipdebrief.com/188.245.60.1, updated 2026-11-05. Assessments are probabilistic.