IP reputation investigation console for security teams

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.