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The 192 Club: Meet the Internet's Biggest Asshole

  • Writer: Patrick Duggan
    Patrick Duggan
  • Dec 16, 2025
  • 4 min read

title: "The 192 Club: Meet the Internet's Biggest Asshole"

slug: 192-club-inaugural-member-intelligence-hosting

date: 2025-12-16

author: Patrick Duggan

tags: [hall-of-shame, threat-intelligence, bulletproof-hosting, mirai, botnet, pfcloud]

category: Hall of Shame

featured: true



# The 192 Club: Meet the Internet's Biggest Asshole


On December 16, 2025, at 2:33 PM Central, an IP address walked into our threat detection system and immediately set a record that may never be broken.


**Asshole Score: 192**


Our previous champion? 170. This wasn't a competition. This was a massacre.


Welcome to the 192 Club. Population: 1.




The Defendant



**IP Address:** 204.76.203.31


**Location:** Netherlands (allegedly)


**ISP:** Intelligence Hosting LLC


Yes, they called themselves "Intelligence Hosting." The irony writes itself.




The Receipts



| Metric | Value | Commentary |

|--------|-------|------------|

| **Asshole Score** | 192 | New world record |

| **Abuse Score** | 100% | Perfect score (in the bad way) |

| **Total Reports** | 1,715 | That's 1,715 sysadmins who had to explain this dickhead to their boss |

| **CVEs** | 102 | Not a typo. One hundred and two. |

| **Open Ports** | 80, 3389 | Web server + RDP wide open |

| **Malware Families** | Mirai | Botnet distribution since 2022 |




The Corporate Structure (A Shell Game)



Let's follow the money across three jurisdictions:


**ARIN Registration:**




**Contact Info:**




**IP Allocation:**




So we have:

- **Dutch address**

- **German phone number**

- **US IP allocation**

- **"UG (haftungsbeschränkt)"** - German limited liability requiring minimal capital


This isn't a hosting company. It's a jurisdiction-hopping exercise designed to make prosecution impossible.




The Server (A Museum of Vulnerabilities)



Shodan tells us what's running:





**102 CVEs.** Including greatest hits like:


- **CVE-2021-40438** - SSRF in mod_proxy (critical)

- **CVE-2021-44790** - Buffer overflow (critical)

- **CVE-2022-22720** - HTTP Request Smuggling

- **CVE-2023-25690** - HTTP Request Splitting

- **CVE-2024-38476** - Server-Side Request Forgery


This isn't negligence. You don't accidentally run 102 CVEs with RDP wide open. This is attack infrastructure. The vulnerabilities are features, not bugs - they provide plausible deniability when the server gets "compromised."




The Criminal History



OTX shows 4 Mirai botnet samples distributed from this IP:


| Date | Hash | Detection |

|------|------|-----------|

| 2024-02-16 | df1039b9... | Unix.Trojan.Mirai-7755770-0 |

| 2024-02-16 | 62d834e1... | Unix.Trojan.Mirai-7755770-0 |

| 2022-07-19 | 18cbbcc1... | Unix.Trojan.Mirai-7100807-0 |

| 2022-07-11 | db86014d... | Unix.Trojan.Mirai-7100807-0 |


**This IP has been distributing Mirai botnet malware for over two years.**


Mirai, for those keeping score at home, is the botnet that took down half the internet in 2016. DNS provider Dyn, Twitter, Netflix, Reddit - all knocked offline by compromised IoT devices running Mirai.


And this IP is still distributing it. In 2024. From "Intelligence Hosting."




The Reviews



From [Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/pfcloud.io):


> "Avoid this company PFCloud.io like the PLAGUE"


> "...after the raid is over and cleared up assuming the owner isn't in prison"


> "extremely cheap with very lenient policies"


The marketing copy claims "privacy-focused hosting" with "free speech" values.


Translation: We don't ask questions, we don't keep logs, and we don't respond to abuse complaints.




The Threat Intelligence Consensus



**50 OTX pulses** reference this IP. The security community knows.


- Multiple honeypot feeds (Louisiana, Australia, global)

- IBM X-Force has them flagged

- AbuseIPDB at 100% confidence

- Now in the DugganUSA STIX feed


When honeypots in Louisiana and Australia both catch you, you're not running a targeted operation. You're spraying the entire internet.




Why 192?



Our asshole scoring algorithm factors:


1. **Abuse confidence** (100% = max)

2. **Total reports** (1,715 = very high)

3. **ISP reputation** (bulletproof hosting = terrible)

4. **Infrastructure type** (datacenter = suspicious)

5. **Historical behavior** (Mirai distribution = yikes)

6. **CVE exposure** (102 = unprecedented)

7. **Open attack surfaces** (RDP + web = bad combo)


Most assholes cap around 100-130. The previous record holder hit 170.


204.76.203.31 broke every threshold we have. The algorithm had to reach into territory we didn't think was possible.


**192 isn't just an asshole score. It's a statement.**




The Verdict



**Who:** Unknown customer of pfcloud bulletproof hosting


**What:** Mirai botnet infrastructure masquerading as a hosting company


**Where:** Netherlands (address), Germany (phone), USA (IP allocation)


**When:** Active since at least 2021, distributing malware since 2022, blocked by us 2025-12-16


**Why:** Money. Bulletproof hosting is profitable when you don't care about ethics.


**Status:** Blocked. First inductee into the 192 Club.




The 192 Club



This IP earned something nobody else has: a dedicated club for extraordinary assholery.


**Membership Requirements:**

- Asshole Score: 190+

- Must be running infrastructure so malicious it breaks our scoring algorithm

- Bonus points for ironic company names


**Current Members:**

1. 204.76.203.31 - Intelligence Hosting LLC (Founding Member)


The bar has been set. We hope nobody clears it.




Block This Asshole



**For your firewall:**




**For your SIEM:**

This IP is in our [free STIX 2.1 feed](https://analytics.dugganusa.com/api/v1/stix-feed), complete with MITRE ATT&CK mapping.




The Bottom Line



"Intelligence Hosting LLC" scored 192 on our asshole scale by:


- Distributing Mirai botnet malware since 2022

- Running 102 CVEs as features

- Operating across three jurisdictions to avoid prosecution

- Accumulating 1,715 abuse reports

- Calling themselves "Intelligence" while doing all of the above


Congratulations. You're the biggest asshole on the internet.


We blocked you in under a minute.




*DugganUSA LLC. Minnesota. $75/month Azure bill. Finding assholes that billion-dollar vendors miss.*


*Asshole blocked December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM Central. Welcome to the 192 Club.*


 
 
 

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