Some kind of virus with the servers?

Was progressing through the campaign in ACT 3 and doing the Vaul quest. In particular I was in the Jiquani’s Machinarium. Im pretty sure the area I was entering was a portal to the boss, but upon entering I got crashed with the message being "Unable to deserialize packet with pid 18516". I investigated and found something flagged in my malwarebytes, with the file path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2", being an outbound connection with the IP 170.106.141.183. I scanned this IP in virustotal and it came back with 12 positives.

Heres the link if it is needed
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/170.106.141.183

Im really enjoying the game so far but this is worrying. What is going on exactly?

The part of an answer to your question is in the link itself: AS 132203 ( Tencent Building, Kejizhongyi Avenue ) the IP is considered as "dangerous", because many people and companies are extremely distrustful towards Tencent.

Though I do wonder, what kind of information is being sent to them. Looking forward to someone from GGG to shine more light upon this.