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