REQUEST DETAILS - COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS

REQUEST ID: 2697ed6d-861c-4bbd-92d0-9b86eb467357

2025-12-22T15:49:27.671Z 18.97.9.96 BOT

BOT DETECTION RESULT

STATUS: BOT
CONFIDENCE: 100%
OPERATOR: Perplexity AI
BOT NAME: PerplexityBot
TYPE: AI Search
WHY BOT:
  • AI search crawler for Perplexity's real-time information retrieval

REQUEST INFO

ID: 2697ed6d-861c-4bbd-92d0-9b86eb467357
TIME: 2025-12-22T15:49:27.671Z
METHOD: undefined
URL: undefined
PATH: undefined

HEADERS (11)

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cf-ipcountry: US
cf-ray: 9b20c4ef983fc985
cf-visitor: {"scheme":"https"}
connection: Keep-Alive
from: crawler-support@perplexity.ai
host: header-analyzer.franzai.com:2083
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NETWORK

IP: 18.97.9.96
TLS: unknown
PROTOCOL: unknown

LOCATION

COUNTRY: US
CITY: Ashburn
ASN: 14618

JAVASCRIPT DETECTION

Status: NO JS SUPPORTED
JavaScript was not executed for this request

DETECTIVE ANALYSIS

Referrer Analysis

Source: Direct Visit
Full Referrer: Direct

Bot Detection Summary

Bot Probability: 0%
Confidence: 100%
Identified as: Perplexity AI PerplexityBot

Suspicious Indicators

- AI search crawler for Perplexity's real-time information retrieval

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)

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