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Stats › March 2017

The statistics on this page are for March 1, 2017 through March 31, 2017.

Total Submissions: 70,676

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

Valid Phishes: 12,469

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

Invalid Phishes: 746

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: 162,240

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: 86 hours, 49 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 March 2017.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     cleanmx (36,043)
2     PhishReporter (16,024)
3     irual (1,584)
4     blackphish (1,336)
5     restingrabbit (1,253)
6     leofelix (845)
7     DefesaDigital (808)
8     GaryDee (806)
9     billwake (801)
10     Vasily1 (697)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     buaya (41,774)
2     SirSpamalot (37,630)
3     paulch (34,323)
4     landser108 (16,472)
5     Pluto67 (8,081)
6     Vasily1 (4,157)
7     NinjaM1 (3,367)
8     shazza1 (2,085)
9     NotBuyingIt (1,739)
10     bloop (1,220)

Phishing URLs

In March, 198 phishes (2% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 12,271 (or 98%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     esy.es (327)
2     000webhostapp.com (132)
3     bit.ly (98)
4     hol.es (78)
5     kloshpro.com (73)
6     for-our.info (66)
7     webcindario.com (63)
8     manageaccount-disputepaymentebay-paymentresolve.com (60)
9     beget.tech (52)
10     96.lt (52)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     146.112.61.108 (1,074)
2     185.188.204.200 (121)
3     67.199.248.10 (98)
4     67.199.248.11 (94)
5     220.158.164.119 (73)
6     5.57.226.202 (62)
7     216.58.193.65 (61)
8     137.74.218.116 (60)
9     213.174.157.151 (53)
10     142.4.27.2 (52)

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 1,241
2     GoDaddy.com, LLC, US 1,076
3     HOSTINGER-AS, LT 793
4     Unified Layer, US 549
5     CloudFlare, Inc., US 392
6     OVH, FR 295
7     Colo4, LLC, US 288
8     Google Inc., US 261
9     AS12876, FR 249
10     CONTABO to AS1299 announce AS34933, DE 170

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 16,421
2     JPMorgan Chase and Co. 938
3     Facebook 724
4     Microsoft 348
5     AOL 298
6     Santander UK 288
7     Banco De Brasil 282
8     Apple 231
9     Google 216
10     Yahoo 199