# IP reputation investigation console for security teams

> Paste any suspicious IP address and get a side by side verdict from AbuseIPDB and VirusTotal, plus a shared log of every past investigation.

- Workflow type: app
- Services: AbuseIPDB, VirusTotal
- Categories: Engineering, Operations
- Published: 2026-08-14

## What it does

- Paste one or several IP addresses and get a verdict card for each, showing the abuse confidence score, how many times it has been reported, when it was last reported, and who owns the network.
- Puts a second opinion from VirusTotal next to every verdict and flags it when the two sources disagree, so you know which addresses need a closer look.
- Opens the full report history for any address, including what other people reported it for and their comments, and lets you file your own report without leaving the page.
- Keeps a searchable record of every investigation your team has run, including who looked at it, what they decided, and why, so nobody re-checks the same address twice.

## What you'll need

- An AbuseIPDB account. The free tier covers a normal day of lookups.
- A VirusTotal account for the second opinion panel.
- A list of the addresses you want to check, or just paste them in as they come up.
- Nothing else to set up. The investigation log lives inside the app.

## Prompt

I want an IP investigation console my security team opens whenever a suspicious address shows up in a log, an alert, or a customer complaint. It is one screen: a search box at the top, verdict cards below it, and a shared investigation log the team can search by IP address.

The search box accepts a single IP address or several at once, pasted as a list separated by commas, spaces, or newlines. Each address renders its own verdict card. Build the card from AbuseIPDB Check IP Reputation and put the abuse confidence score front and center, alongside total reports, the number of distinct reporters, the last reported date shown as a relative time, the ISP, the usage type, the domain, the country, and whether the address is a known Tor exit node.

Next to that, show a second opinion panel built from VirusTotal Get an IP Address Report: how many engines flag the address as malicious or suspicious out of the total that scanned it, the community reputation score, the network owner and ASN, and the country. When the two sources disagree, for example AbuseIPDB scores above 75 while no VirusTotal engine flags the address, or the reverse, call it out explicitly on the card with a short line naming which source is the outlier. Disagreement is the single thing I most want to see, so do not bury it in the layout.

Expanding a card reveals the full report history from AbuseIPDB Get Abuse Reports. That operation paginates, so give the expanded view real pagination controls using page and perPage, defaulting to 25 per page and allowing up to 100, and rely on lastPage and nextPageUrl to know when to stop rather than guessing. Each row shows the report date, the reporter's country, the reporter comment, and the abuse categories translated from their numeric IDs into readable names, for example 18 Brute-Force, 22 SSH, 14 Port Scan, 4 DDoS, and 10 Email Spam.

From that same expanded card I want to file my own report using AbuseIPDB Report IP. Give me a category multi-select that displays the readable category names while submitting the numeric IDs, a comment box, and a confirmation step before it sends, since reports are public and hard to walk back. Remind me in that dialog to strip private data out of the comment. After a successful submission, refresh the card so my report shows up in the history and the totals update.

The app keeps its own investigation log so the team stops re-checking the same address. Every lookup records the IP, who ran it, and when. On each card let the person save a conclusion, one of clean, monitor, block, or reported, plus a free-text note explaining the reasoning. The log is its own section on the page, searchable by IP address. When someone searches an address that has been investigated before, surface the previous conclusion and note directly on the card, with who reached it and how long ago, before they redo work someone already did.

Color-code the abuse confidence score into four bands: 0 is clean, 1 to 25 is low, 26 to 75 is suspicious, and 76 to 100 is malicious. Apply the band color to the score itself and to the card so a wall of cards is scannable at a glance. When the usage type places an address in data center, web hosting, transit, or VPN space, or when it is a Tor exit node, show a warning on the card explaining that shared ranges score high because many unrelated users share them, and that a high score there is not evidence this specific traffic was malicious.

Both providers meter usage, so be careful with quota. Never fire a lookup on every keystroke: only search on submit, and when several addresses are pasted, look them up in a small batch with a little spacing between calls instead of firing them all at once. Surface the remaining daily quota from the AbuseIPDB rate limit response headers somewhere visible, and handle a quota exceeded response with a clear message rather than a silent failure. Both APIs wrap their payload in a top-level data object, and IPv6 addresses must be URL-encoded before going into a query string. If VirusTotal has no record of an address, render the AbuseIPDB verdict on its own with a note saying VirusTotal has no record, instead of failing the whole card.

## How to customize

- Move the score bands if your team draws the line between suspicious and malicious somewhere other than 26 and 76.
- Add your own conclusion labels beyond clean, monitor, block, and reported to match how your team tracks decisions.
- Change how many report entries load per page, or turn off the shared hosting and VPN warning if your environment never deals with those ranges.

## FAQ

### Do I need a paid AbuseIPDB plan?

No. The free tier covers a normal day of triage. The app shows how many checks you have left so a limit never catches you by surprise, and it looks addresses up only when you hit search rather than as you type.

### Why do AbuseIPDB and VirusTotal sometimes disagree about the same address?

They collect different evidence. AbuseIPDB is built from reports filed by people and systems that saw the traffic, while VirusTotal aggregates verdicts from security engines. An address can be heavily reported for brute force attempts and still look clean by engine consensus. The app highlights those splits rather than hiding them, because a disagreement is usually the most interesting thing on the card.

### Why does the app warn me about hosting and VPN addresses?

Shared ranges like data centers and public VPNs carry traffic from thousands of unrelated users, so they collect abuse reports no matter who is behind them today. A high score on a shared address tells you much less than the same score on a home or office connection, so the app labels it instead of letting you over-react.

### Can I report an address from inside the app?

Yes. Open any card, pick the abuse categories, add a comment, and confirm. Reports are public, so the app asks you to confirm before submitting and reminds you to keep private details out of the comment.

### Does it work with IPv6 addresses?

Yes. You can paste IPv4 and IPv6 addresses into the same search box, on their own or mixed together in a list.

Use this prompt in General Input: https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/ip-reputation-investigation-console-for-security-teams