sigil_verify_ip_type
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Classifies an IPv4 or IPv6 address by network type — the high-value ad-fraud
signal being datacenter traffic posing as residential or living-room
(CTV) devices. IP→ASN resolution uses Team Cymru's public service; the
ASN is then classified by its registered organization name.
It also cross-references the Scry attacker-observation corpus to detect
anonymizing EGRESS — the thing a rotating-residential proxy provider is
built to hide. A residential- or mobile-looking IP that Scry has observed
acting as a hostile actor is a residential-proxy exit node (home devices
don't scan honeypots); tor and vpn egress are named outright.
It also identifies the proxy COMPANY by network: if the IP's ASN belongs
to a known VPN/anonymizing-egress provider (X4BNet's curated list), the
verdict is vpn and scry_signals carries vpn_provider_asn — even
when Scry has never observed the IP acting. Datacenter and residential
proxy verdicts still require observed conduct.
PRIVACY: the IP is used for lookup only — never logged, never stored. The
Scry cross-reference is likewise a read-only corpus lookup.
Inputs:
ip(query, required): IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Returns:
ip_type: datacenter | residential | mobile | unknown.confidence: high | medium | low.asn,asn_name: the resolved autonomous system.proxy_suspected: boolean — the IP is an anonymizing egress.proxy_type: tor | vpn | residential_proxy | datacenter_proxy | null.scry_signals: evidence strings from the corpus (actor_class, threat
feeds, observation counts); empty when the IP is unknown to Scry.
Latency:
- Typical: 100-250ms (DNS + a parallel corpus lookup).
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ip | string | yes |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ip": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"ip"
]
}