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Free IOC Reputation Checker

Paste any IP, domain, URL, or hash. SARA runs the same multi-source enrichment we use for tenant investigations and returns an analyst summary. No account, no sign-in.

8.8.8.8
CLEAN · 10/100
Detected type
ip
Confidence
90%
Analyst summary
Note — the analyst prose below was generated against the pre-floor signal mix. The structured verdict above is authoritative; references to "malicious activity" in the narrative below were down-weighted by the decoder.

KB Intel: 8.8.8.8

IP Addresses

8.8.8.8

Type: ip | Verdict: BENIGN (90% confidence, HIGH strength)

  • AbuseIPDB 163 reports in the last 14 days, including hacking attempts, port scans, and potential DDoS attacks
  • OmniSense_KB: Score of 90 with high confidence (0.9) indicating potential malicious activity
  • [doctrine #1180] doctrine_known_benign_override: public DNS resolver per enrichment_doctrine_v1.yaml § known_benign_overrides.ip.public_dns (8.8.8.8)

Consolidated Assessment

The IP address 8.8.8.8 has been reported multiple times to AbuseIPDB for suspicious activities, including hacking attempts (T1566.002), port scans (T1595.002), and potential DDoS attacks (T1498), with 8 reports in the last 14 days. The OmniSense_KB also flags this IP with a score of 90 and high confidence (0.9). While this IP is known to be a Google public DNS server, the frequency and variety of reports suggest it may be compromised or used for malicious scanning activities. The analyst should investigate further to determine if this IP is being used for malicious purposes and consider blocking it if necessary.

Correlations Detected

  • Temporal: Multiple reports from AbuseIPDB within a 14-day window, indicating recurring suspicious activity

ReferenceWhat is IOC reputation?

An Indicator of Compromise (IOC) — an IP, domain, URL, or file hash — is a forensic artifact suggesting an intrusion. "Reputation" is the consensus across threat-intel feeds: is this IOC associated with known malicious activity, and how confident is each source? A single source rarely tells the full story; SARA aggregates eight independent feeds and weights the verdict accordingly.

GuideHow to use this tool

  1. Paste any IOC into the search box — IPv4 / domain / URL / SHA-256 / SHA-1 / MD5. Defanged forms (hxxp://, [.]) are auto-refanged.
  2. SARA detects the IOC type and runs it through up to eight threat-intel sources in parallel.
  3. Read the verdict + the analyst summary. Pivot into SARA chat with the "Pivot in SARA" chip for a hunt plan.

When to useWhen is IOC reputation the right signal?

Triaging a SOC alert

A SIEM alert references an IP / domain / hash you've never seen. 30 seconds here tells you whether it's a known-bad worth escalating or a noisy false positive.

Phishing email hunt

Quickly check the sender IP + every URL extracted from a suspicious email. Cross-reference with the Phishing Analyzer for the full mail-flow story.

Threat-hunt pivoting

Take an IOC you've confirmed bad in one investigation and check whether it touches anything else in your environment.

Bulk enrichment via API

Pipe alert IOCs through the API on every detection. The free page is the same engine, exposed for ad-hoc checks.

API

Want this in your SOAR or SIEM?

SARA Open ships an OpenAI-compatible API. Call POST /api/v1/enrich — Multi-source enrichment for any IP / domain / URL / hash, with a verdict and analyst summary.

curl -X POST https://sara-open.sirp.io/api/v1/enrich \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SARA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"type": "ip", "value": "8.8.8.8"}'
Read the API reference →

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