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198.38.86.237 has a threat confidence score of 78%. This IP address from India (AS199404, WHG Hosting Services Ltd) has been observed in 24 honeypot sessions targeting POSTGRES protocols. First observed on March 9, 2026, most recently active March 14, 2026.
Identifies a PostgreSQL reconnaissance sequence where an actor first issues a comment-based parser probe, then interacts using a deterministic statement-cache prepared statement identifier, followed by enumeration of the current database encoding and locale settings via pg_catalog.pg_database. This pattern reflects automated client or adversarial tooling performing environment fingerprinting to assess query parsing behavior, driver compatibility, and database configuration prior to further interaction or exploitation attempts.