Bulk-report abusive IPs to AbuseIPDB from server logs

I want an abuse reporting desk: an internal app where my security team turns raw server logs into properly filed AbuseIPDB reports, instead of the one-off script nobody maintains. It is built on AbuseIPDB, with Slack Bot for team notifications. This is a write-heavy batch filing surface, not a single-address investigation tool.

The app opens on an intake view where I can paste raw log lines straight from fail2ban, sshd, or a firewall log, or upload a log or CSV file. Parse every IPv4 and IPv6 address out of the text along with the timestamp on the same line, then group by address so repeated hits collapse into a single row carrying an occurrence count plus first-seen and last-seen timestamps. Show a parse summary before I continue: addresses found, lines skipped because no address or usable timestamp could be read, and any private or reserved ranges (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, 127.0.0.0/8, and the IPv6 equivalents), which should be flagged and excluded by default so nobody reports their own infrastructure.

As soon as parsing finishes, pre-check every unique address with AbuseIPDB Check IP Reputation and fill in the current abuse confidence score, total reports on file, number of distinct reporters, country, ISP, domain, and usage type. Run these with a progress indicator and a live count of how many requests the batch has consumed. Let me set a skip threshold, defaulting to addresses already at a maximum score with a large number of existing reports, and auto-deselect those rows since another report adds nothing.

The main surface is a review table, one row per address, with columns for the address, occurrence count, first and last seen, the pre-check score and existing report count, assigned categories, comment, submission status, and result. Rows are selectable, sortable by score or hit count, and filterable by status so I can work through the blocked and held rows separately from the ready ones.

I assign abuse categories per row from a picker, or select many rows and bulk-apply a set at once. Offer the categories we use most as presets: Brute-Force (18), SSH (22), Port Scan (14), DDoS Attack (4), and Email Spam (10), and submit them as the comma-separated integer category IDs the provider expects. Alongside that I write one shared comment template applied to every selected row, supporting placeholders such as the occurrence count, the log source, and the last-seen time, so each report says something specific rather than repeating identical text.

Put a persistent warning next to the comment editor: AbuseIPDB reports are public, so no customer names, email addresses, internal hostnames, or other private data belongs in a report comment. Scan comment text for anything that looks like an email address or personal detail and flag the row before it can be submitted.

Submitting routes automatically based on batch size. For a large selection, build the CSV and submit it with AbuseIPDB Bulk Report IPs, which takes a multipart upload with the file field named csv. For one row or a handful, use AbuseIPDB Report IP per row, which is form-encoded rather than JSON. Either way, write the outcome back into each row: accepted, rejected with the provider's reason, or skipped, and keep the returned confidence score where one comes back.

Bake the provider's rules into the UI so nothing fails silently, because these are exactly what naive scripts get wrong. A CSV batch must stay under 8 MB and no more than 10,000 lines including the heading row, so chunk anything larger into sequential submissions and show me how it was split. Timestamps must not be older than two months, so flag stale rows with their exact age and let me drop them in one click rather than letting them sink the whole batch. The same address can only be reported once every 15 minutes per account, so track what this app has already submitted and hold repeat rows with a countdown. Within a 24 hour window, a repeat report carrying the same comment silently creates no new report at all, so warn me when a comment matches one already sent for that address. Free accounts get 1,000 requests per day across checks and reports, so keep a visible allowance counter and warn before a batch would exceed what is left.

Add a button that posts a batch summary to our security channel using Slack Bot Send a Message: how many addresses were filed, the category breakdown, the highest-scoring offenders, anything rejected or held back, and who ran the batch. Let me choose the channel and edit the message before it goes out.

Give me a way to withdraw a mistake. From any submitted row, a withdraw action calls AbuseIPDB Clear Address Reports for that address, behind a confirmation that spells out that this only removes reports my own account filed and cannot touch anyone else's. Mark the row as withdrawn afterward and keep it in the record rather than deleting it.

Persist batches so this is a shared desk rather than a scratchpad. Save each batch with its rows, category assignments, comments, submission results, and who submitted it, and keep a history view listing past batches with their date, size, and outcome, so anyone on the team can open an old batch, see exactly what was filed, and withdraw from it later.