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Comment by jasinjames

6 months ago

Can someone explain the ip address in the hackerone profile[0]? I can't tell if 139.224.130.174 is a reference to something real or just hallucinated by the LLM to look "cool". Wikipedia says that this /8 is controlled by "MIX"[1] but my google-fu is failing me atm.

[0] https://hackerone.com/evilginx?type=user [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...

Per WHOIS, it's assigned to Alibaba Cloud (could be a VM there):

  inetnum:        139.224.0.0 - 139.224.255.255
  netname:        ALISOFT
  descr:          Aliyun Computing Co., LTD
  descr:          5F, Builing D, the West Lake International Plaza of S&T
  descr:          No.391 Wen'er Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 310099
  country:        CN
  admin-c:        ZM1015-AP
  tech-c:         ZM877-AP
  tech-c:         ZM876-AP
  tech-c:         ZM875-AP
  abuse-c:        AC1601-AP
  status:         ALLOCATED PORTABLE
  mnt-by:         MAINT-CNNIC-AP
  mnt-irt:        IRT-ALISOFT-CN
  last-modified:  2023-11-28T00:57:06Z
  source:         APNIC