Malware Activity in Hosting Networks (ASNs)
April 1,2023 - June 30,2023

To see where malware was being served up, or distributed among peer-to-peer hosts, we collected the IP addresses that malware domains and malware URLs were resolving to when malware activity was reported. We then identified the Autonomous System (ASN) where the IP prefix containing the IP address to identify the hosting network where malware were reported.

IPv4 addresses may be reported for hosting one or more malware; for example, two or several URLs may contain the same IPv4 address but the PATHS or QUERIES may identify different malware.

In the table below, we show the twenty hosting networks with the highest numbers of IPv4 addresses reported as serving up or distributing malware (“Unique Malware Addresses”). Complete lists of ASNs where malware was reported for the quarter can be downloaded in CSV format from the Records page.

Ranking of Hosting Networks (ASNs) by Number of Malware Records (April to June 2023)

Rank AS Name AS number # Routed
IPv4 Addresses		 Unique Malware Addresses Total Malware Records ▼
1 No.31,Jin-rong Street 4134 121,029,376 96,539 100,124
2 CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone 4837 58,774,016 65,416 94,597
3 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd 9829 11,322,624 60,069 63,941
4 DigitalOcean, LLC 14061 2,848,256 28,871 29,355
5 VNPT Corp 45899 16,249,088 21,716 21,727
6 QUANTIL NETWORKS INC 54994 171,008 7 20,142
7 TELEF�NICA BRASIL S.A 26599 25,655,040 15,451 15,457
8 Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. 3462 13,361,152 14,872 14,988
9 Amazon.com, Inc. 14618 16,504,832 14,682 14,847
10 Amazon.com, Inc. 16509 44,960,000 13,582 13,950
11 Google LLC 396982 23,200,000 12,631 13,385
12 TE-AS 8452 25,893,120 12,818 12,827
13 Linode, LLC 63949 797,184 11,333 11,644
14 PJSC Rostelecom 12389 19,412,480 11,560 11,632
15 Pakistan Telecommuication company limited 17557 16,282,880 10,851 11,115
16 Startup maintainer 58224 4,611,840 10,055 10,073
17 Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited 17813 1,929,984 9,973 10,004
18 Telecomunicaciones MOVILNET 27889 355,584 9,640 9,640
19 HATHWAY CABLE AND DATACOM LIMITED 17488 1,017,344 9,265 9,305
20 Telecom Argentina S.A. 7303 9,377,536 8,477 8,480

Ranking of Hosting Networks (ASNs) by Number of Unique Malware Address (April to June 2023)

Rank AS Name AS number # Routed
IPv4 Addresses		 Unique Malware Addresses ▼ Total Malware Records
1 No.31,Jin-rong Street 4134 121,029,376 96,539 100,124
2 CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone 4837 58,774,016 65,416 94,597
3 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd 9829 11,322,624 60,069 63,941
4 DigitalOcean, LLC 14061 2,848,256 28,871 29,355
5 VNPT Corp 45899 16,249,088 21,716 21,727
6 TELEF�NICA BRASIL S.A 26599 25,655,040 15,451 15,457
7 Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. 3462 13,361,152 14,872 14,988
8 Amazon.com, Inc. 14618 16,504,832 14,682 14,847
9 Amazon.com, Inc. 16509 44,960,000 13,582 13,950
10 TE-AS 8452 25,893,120 12,818 12,827
11 Google LLC 396982 23,200,000 12,631 13,385
12 PJSC Rostelecom 12389 19,412,480 11,560 11,632
13 Linode, LLC 63949 797,184 11,333 11,644
14 Pakistan Telecommuication company limited 17557 16,282,880 10,851 11,115
15 Startup maintainer 58224 4,611,840 10,055 10,073
16 Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited 17813 1,929,984 9,973 10,004
17 Telecomunicaciones MOVILNET 27889 355,584 9,640 9,640
18 HATHWAY CABLE AND DATACOM LIMITED 17488 1,017,344 9,265 9,305
19 Telecom Argentina S.A. 7303 9,377,536 8,477 8,480
20 Uninet S.A. de C.V. 8151 20,885,248 7,909 7,934

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