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Stats › August 2011

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The statistics on this page are for August 1, 2011 through August 31, 2011.

Total Submissions: 21,782

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

Valid Phishes: 14,538

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

Invalid Phishes: 585

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: 82,908

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: 03 hours, 35 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 August 2011.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (6,066)
2     cleanmx (2,306)
3     DefesaDigital (833)
4     reachkid01 (803)
5     nbapphish (687)
6     knack (668)
7     propriome (640)
8     zender (539)
9     suraj123 (515)
10     buaya (446)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     cybercrime (14,583)
2     knack (12,003)
3     andrea78vr (11,421)
4     buaya (5,832)
5     jrgarcia (5,336)
6     marco2981 (4,016)
7     stuartgrant (3,510)
8     tetak (2,498)
9     TataTotenkopf (1,928)
10     marcoadfox (1,921)

Phishing URLs

In August, 767 phishes (5% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 13,777 (or 95%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     altervista.org (532)
2     t35.me (383)
3     t35.com (313)
4     hdfree.in (235)
5     hd1.in (142)
6     google.com (127)
7     hab.bo (106)
8     buzurl.com (102)
9     es.tl (93)
10     weebly.com (86)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     66.45.237.212 (660)
2     69.10.48.106 (656)
3     93.170.52.20 (451)
4     66.7.199.82 (377)
5     93.170.52.30 (331)
6     64.15.147.205 (312)
7     72.52.203.110 (177)
8     78.129.205.2 (115)
9     176.9.16.108 (113)
10     72.29.80.133 (111)

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     NEW JERSEY INTERNATIONAL INTERNET EXCHANGE LLC 783
2     HostDime.com, Inc. 754
3     iWeb Technologies Inc. 705
4     SingleHop 676
5     HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online AG RZ 635
6     DRAGONARA Dragonara Alliance Ltd 474
7     eNET Inc. 469
8     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 411
9     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 400
10     OVH OVH Systems 279

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 6,479
2     Sulake Corporation 1,603
3     Facebook 1,210
4     Orkut 987
5     Internal Revenue Service 270
6     Visa 209
7     Santander UK 191
8     Mastercard 182
9     World of Warcraft 167
10     HSBC Group 119