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173.212.238.152 has a very high threat confidence level of 100%, originating from Lauterbourg, France, on the Contabo GmbH network (51167). It has been observed across 427 sessions targeting SSH, with detected attack patterns including ssh authorized keys persistence established, ssh automated post compromise recon and persistence chain, First observed on January 21, 2026, most recently active March 5, 2026.
Removal of filesystem attribute protections from the user’s .ssh directory followed by deletion and recreation of the directory and insertion of a new public key into authorized_keys. This pattern reflects deliberate modification of SSH trust configuration to establish persistent key-based access.
Identifies an SSH session performing comprehensive automated host reconnaissance (CPU, memory, disk, processes, users), followed by credential modification and SSH key manipulation consistent with scripted post-compromise takeover and persistence establishment.