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Stats › December 2015

The statistics on this page are for December 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015.

Total Submissions: 66,817

The total number of suspected phishes submitted by the PhishTank community.

Valid Phishes: 10,209

The total number of submissions verified as valid by the PhishTank community.

Invalid Phishes: 148

The total number of submissions verified as invalid by the PhishTank community.

Note: Many phishing emails were offline at the time of submission to PhishTank. Offline phishes cannot be voted on, and therefore cannot be verified.

Total Votes: 217,833

The total number of "is a phish," "is not a phish," and "I don't know" votes made by the PhishTank community.

Median Time To Verify: 69 hours, 57 minutes

The median time it took the PhishTank community to verify submissions as valid or invalid.



Most Active Users

Out of the more than 20,000 members of the PhishTank community, these members were the most active in December 2015.

Note: One member account (PhishReporter) represents an organization, not an individual.

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     cleanmx (49,675)
2     PhishReporter (3,783)
3     cyscon (1,986)
4     leofelix (1,101)
5     prebytes (982)
6     dms (912)
7     DefesaDigital (788)
8     knack (715)
9     ShinobiPhish (594)
10     paulch (501)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     knack (54,251)
2     paulch (42,470)
3     buaya (41,116)
4     SirSpamalot (20,926)
5     heymoe (17,826)
6     Pluto67 (13,734)
7     NotBuyingIt (4,226)
8     prebytes (3,955)
9     phishphucker (3,825)
10     leofelix (1,678)

Phishing URLs

In December, 207 phishes (2% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 10,002 (or 98%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     joyofgospel.org (91)
2     atwebpages.com (69)
3     5gbfree.com (64)
4     portal-mobvi.com (61)
5     ledigaseftersystemr.com (57)
6     atspace.cc (57)
7     3eeweb.com (54)
8     kvkkalikiri-angrau.org (53)
9     cutt.us (40)
10     atspace.co.uk (40)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     146.112.61.108 (402)
2     192.185.48.218 (91)
3     83.125.22.197 (84)
4     209.90.88.138 (64)
5     83.125.22.215 (62)
6     104.18.54.222 (61)
7     104.18.55.222 (61)
8     203.124.119.1 (57)
9     217.70.45.31 (57)
10     121.127.248.100 (51)

Networks That Host Phishes

The servers hosting verified phishes are under the responsibility of these networks. PhishTank knows this because it traces phishing Web sites to an IP address. These are the organizations responsible for those IP addresses.

Top 10 NetworksValid Phishes
1     CyrusOne LLC,US 2,091
2     GoDaddy.com, LLC,US 1,620
3     Unified Layer,US 404
4     NETREGISTRY-AS-AP NetRegistry Pty Ltd.,AU 256
5     HostDime.com, Inc.,US 243
6     CloudFlare, Inc.,US 212
7     HOSTINGER-AS Hostinger International Limited,LT 208
8     LAMBDANET-AS euNetworks Managed Services GmbH,DE 177
9     SingleHop, Inc.,US 171
10     OVH OVH SAS,FR 152

Popular Targets

These are the brands that were fraudulently represented in phishing emails. Targets are identified by the submitter at the time of submission, or determined by PhishTank's software to the best of its ability. The majority of phishes are not categorized with a target.

Top 10 Identified TargetsValid Phishes
1     PayPal 4,103
2     Facebook 940
3     Apple 603
4     eBay, Inc. 460
5     Internal Revenue Service 198
6     Google 185
7     AOL 182
8     Bradesco 147
9     Wells Fargo 137
10     JPMorgan Chase and Co. 111