IPScout is a command-line tool for security analysts to enrich IP addresses with their origin and threat ratings. All of the host reputation providers require registration but each of them offers a free tier.
- Query multiple reputation and hosting providers concurrently
- Cache provider metadata and lookup results
- Manage cached data with
ipscout cache - Show or output configuration with
ipscout config - Rate hosts using
ipscout rate, optionally with AI assistance - Supports Zscaler IP range lookups
Results are displayed in a table by default but can also be outputted as JSON format using the --output flag.
Table styles include ascii (for basic terminals), cyan, red, yellow, green, blue, and can be specified in the config.yaml file or with the --style flag.
Examples:
IPScout supports multiple well known sources. You can also provide custom sources with the Annotated and IPURL providers.
Provider data and search results can be cached to reduce API calls and improve performance.
| Provider | Category | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AbuseIPDB | IP Reputation | Registration required |
| Annotated | User Provided | - |
| Apple iCloud Private Relay | Anonymiser | - |
| AWS | Hosting Provider | - |
| Azure | Hosting Provider | - |
| Azure WAF | WAF | Azure access required |
| Bingbot | Web crawler | - |
| CriminalIP | IP Reputation | Registration required |
| DigitalOcean | Hosting Provider | - |
| GCP | Hosting Provider | - |
| Hosting Provider | - | |
| Google Special-case crawlers | Web crawler | - |
| Googlebot | Web crawler | - |
| Hetzner | Hosting Provider | - |
| IPAPI | IP Geolocation | - |
| IPQualityScore | IP Reputation | Registration required |
| IPURL | User Provided | - |
| Linode | Hosting Provider | - |
| PTR | DNS | - |
| Shodan | IP Reputation | Registration required |
| VirusTotal | IP Reputation | Registration required |
| Zscaler | Security | - |
Binaries for macOS, Linux and Windows are available on the releases page.
$ brew tap jonhadfield/ipscout
$ brew install ipscout
Install latest release.
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jonhadfield/ipscout/add_install_script/install | shDownload the latest release from the releases page.
Go 1.24 or later is required to compile ipscout. Clone the repository and run:
go build ./...This will create an ipscout binary in the current directory.
$ ipscout <host><host> can be an IP address or a fully qualified domain name.
Additional commands are available:
$ ipscout cache # manage cached results
$ ipscout config # view or output configuration
$ ipscout rate # rate a host using provider dataA default configuration is created
on first run and located at: $HOME/.config/ipscout/config.yaml.
Some configuration can be overridden on the command line, see ipscout --help.
---
global:
indent_spaces: 2 # number of spaces to indent output
max_value_chars: 300 # limit the number of characters output in results
max_age: 90d # maximum age of reports to consider
max_reports: 5 # maximum number of reports to display
ports: ["443/tcp"] # filter results by port [tcp,udp,443/tcp,...]
output: table # output format: table or json
style: cyan # output style [ascii, cyan, green, yellow, red, blue]
providers:
# list of providers with their configurations below...Providers are configured in the config.yaml file.
A number of providers are enabled by default, but can be disabled by setting enabled: false.
This provider queries the AbuseIPDB API for information on an IP address, with a threat confidence score, and any reports filed for them. A free plan exists for individuals, with a limit of 1000 requests per day.
Environment variable ABUSEIPDB_API_KEY must be set with your API key.
providers:
abuseipdb:
enabled: falseThe Annotated provider parses one or more user provided files containing prefixes and accomanying annotations.
---
- prefixes: [ "20.20.20.0/24", "20.20.21.0/24" ]
annotations:
- date: 2024/04/19 18:58
author: john doe <john.doe@example.com>
notes:
- My First Annotation
- My Second Annotation
- prefixes: [ "9.9.9.9/32" ]
annotations:
- date: 2024/04/19 19:00
author: jane doe <jane.does@example.com>
notes:
- Another AnnotationA list of files can be specified in the provider's paths section:
providers:
annotated:
enabled: true
paths:
- /path/to/file.yamlIP anonymisation service from Apple.
iCloud Private Relay — part of an iCloud+ subscription — helps protect your privacy when you browse the web in Safari.
AWS is a Hosting Provider that publishes network prefixes used by their services.
Azure is a hosting provider that publishes network prefixes used by their services.
Azure WAF is a Web Application Firewall used to secure services hosted on Azure. This currently supports Azure Global WAF, used to secure Azure Front Door, and will show custom rules and prefixes matching the provided host. Authentication will be read from the environment.
Bingbot is the web crawler for the Bing search engine. Bing publishes network prefixes used by their crawlers.
Query the CriminalIP API for information on an IP address/endpoint, with risk ratings, and any abuse reports filed for them. A free plan exists with a small number of free credits.
Set environment variable CRIMINAL_IP_API_URL with your API key.
DigitalOcean is a hosting provider that publishes network prefixes used by their services.
GCP is a hosting provider that publishes network prefixes used by their services.
Google provides a list of IP addresses used by customers of their services and publishes them here.
Google provides a list of IP addresses used by their non-Googlebot crawlers here.
Googlebot is a web crawler and publishes network prefixes used by their bots.
Hetzner is a hosting provider. IP ranges are retrieved from the BGPView API and checked for matches against the target host.
iCloud Private Relay is an anonymising service provided by Apple. They publish their network prefixes here.
Query the ipapi API for geolocation data. The API is free for up 30,000 requests per day.
Query the IPQualityScore API for host reputation data. The API is free to registered users for 5,000 requests.
Set environment variable IPQS_API_KEY with your API key.
IPURL retrieves lists of IP prefixes from user provided URLs and checks the target IP address against them. Documents are expected to contain a list of prefixes in CIDR format, one per line.
Example configuration:
ipurl:
enabled: true
urls:
- "https://iplists.firehol.org/files/firehol_level1.netset"
- "https://iplists.firehol.org/files/firehol_level2.netset"
- "https://iplists.firehol.org/files/blocklist_de.ipset"A match for target IP 3.68.116.6 in two of the above may return:
Prefixes
3.68.116.0/28
|----- https://iplists.firehol.org/files/firehol_level2.netset
|----- https://iplists.firehol.org/files/blocklist_de.ipset
Linode is a hosting provider that publishes network prefixes used by their services.
The PTR provider does a reverse lookup for the target IP. See:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup
- https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/dns/dns-records/dns-ptr-record/
Custom nameservers can be specified in the config.yaml file with port defaulting to 53 if not specified.
ptr:
enabled: true
nameservers:
- 1.1.1.1:53
- 8.8.8.8
- 8.8.4.4:53Query the Shodan API for information on an IP address, with open ports, and services.
Set environment variable SHODAN_API_KEY with your API key.
Query the VirusTotal API for information from various providers on an IP address.
Set environment variable VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY with your API key.
Zscaler publishes a list of IP prefixes used by its services.
IPScout downloads this list and checks whether the target IP is within those ranges.
The default source URL is https://api.config.zscaler.com/zscaler.net/cenr/json and
can be overridden in the configuration file.
zscaler:
enabled: true
url: https://api.config.zscaler.com/zscaler.net/cenr/json
document_cache_ttl: 1440 # minutesSee CHANGELOG.md for release notes.
IPScout is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.