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If you have DNS Malware Trap enabled, yes.
See this thread for more details: https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/IPS-Anti-Virus-Anti-Bot-Anti/DNS-Malware-trap-DNS-servers/m-p/53...

The IP address in question I believe is the default.
If you look at the whois record for that IP, you can see that it's assigned to Check Point.
It's a black hole (nothing answers there).
If a given host was trying to reach out to something potentially malicious, they will instead reach nothing.

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