Spoofing Bing and Google?

  • Resolved justwander

    (@justwander)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    My Live Traffic listing recently showed two odd entries.

    1)
ACTIVITY DETAIL
IP: 52.226.69.157 Hostname: 52.226.69.157
Browser: undefined
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +https://www.google.com/bot.html)

WHOIS
NetName: MSFT
NetHandle: NET-52-224-0-0-1
Parent: NET52 (NET-52-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Assignment
OriginAS:
Organization: Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)
RegDate: 2015-11-24
Updated: 2015-11-24
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/52.224.0.0

2)
ACTIVITY DETAIL
IP: 13.66.139.0 Hostname: 13.66.139.0
Browser: undefined
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +https://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)

WHOIS
NetName: MSFT
NetHandle: NET-13-64-0-0-1
Parent: NET13 (NET-13-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Assignment
OriginAS:
Organization: Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)
RegDate: 2015-03-26
Updated: 2015-03-26
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/13.64.0.0

    Is this really Microsoft up to who knows what, or is it someone with a Microsoft account up to no good.

    I am asking here because Micrsoft has a tendency not to answer questions about questionable activity.

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  • Hi @justwander,

    The IP address 52.226.69.157 belongs to Microsoft Azure, which is similar to Amazon AWS or Google App Engine.

    This means that while the IP does belong to Microsoft, they are not sending out these requests to your server. Anyone who rents out a server will be able to send out requests using these IPs at will.

    Dave

    Thread Starter justwander

    (@justwander)

    @wfdave,

    Thanks for the info.

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