IP Report
52.167.144.172
Microsoft Corporation · AS8075 · Boydton, United States
Score 5 of 100, in the minimal risk band. Bands run 0 to 19 minimal, 20 to 49 low, 50 to 79 medium, 80 to 100 high.
Its risk score of 5/100 is low — nothing in our data suggests this address needs special handling.
Detection signals
Not detected: Tor, VPN, Proxy
Summary
52.167.144.172 is crawler infrastructure — automated software that fetches pages, not a person on a browser.
The address is announced by Microsoft Corporation (AS8075) and geolocates to Boydton, Virginia, United States.
Why this address scores 5
It sits in datacenter address space, where automated traffic vastly outnumbers human visitors.
It is identified as crawler infrastructure, which explains automated request patterns without implying abuse.
None of that is evidence of wrongdoing on its own, which is why the score stays at 5/100 — these are descriptions of where the address lives, not accusations about what it has done.
Observation history
This address has been looked up through Predax 69 times between April 3, 2026 and August 31, 2026.
Repeated lookups usually mean the address keeps turning up in different sites’ logs — worth noting even when individual checks come back clean.
Network & location
- ASN
- AS8075
- Country
- United States (US)
- Provider
- Microsoft Corporation
- Region
- Virginia
- CIDR
- 52.146.0.0/10
- City
- Boydton
- Network type
- hosting
- PTR
- msnbot-52-167-144-172.search.msn.com
- First seen
- 4/3/2026, 10:19:58 PM
- Last seen
- 8/31/2026, 7:40:40 AM
- Times seen
- 69
Network context
We have observed 2,919 addresses on Microsoft Corporation (AS8075); 94% of them carried a threat flag or a notable risk score when last checked.
That is a high concentration — on this network, an unfamiliar address deserves more caution than its individual score alone would suggest.
What to do with this
If you run a site and this address showed up
This is declared crawler infrastructure, not a visitor. Whether it is welcome is your call: search crawlers usually earn their bandwidth, while others may not.
If it appears in your block log, check which crawler it is before unblocking — blocking a search engine hurts your own site, blocking a scraper does not.
If you want to decide which crawlers may access your site rather than blocking by user agent, the Predax Security plugin for WordPress enforces per-category crawler policy against published IP ranges like the one this address sits in.
If you found this address in your logs
Hits from this address in your logs are automated fetches. The user agent will usually name the bot; verify identity by IP range rather than trusting the header.
Systematic page-by-page access from it is a crawl, not a user session — exclude it from analytics about human behaviour.
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Detection sources
- DatacenterVerified · 95%
Listed in a published datacenter range feed. Hosted in a cloud / datacenter range. Typical of automation, scrapers, and bots — not consumer browsers.
- CrawlerHigh · 90%
Verified search-engine / crawler IP. Recognised crawler (Googlebot, Bingbot, etc). Usually welcome traffic — block only if you have a specific reason.