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Stats › October 2011

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

Total Submissions: 16,640

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

Valid Phishes: 10,737

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

Invalid Phishes: 481

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: 70,231

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, 20 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 October 2011.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (5,648)
2     nbapphish (1,217)
3     DefesaDigital (1,046)
4     Matty0364 (938)
5     cleanmx (619)
6     paulch (434)
7     knack (387)
8     buaya (292)
9     propriome (285)
10     vmcosta (251)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     cybercrime (13,014)
2     knack (11,089)
3     andrea78vr (10,861)
4     buaya (5,630)
5     heymoe (4,806)
6     stuartgrant (4,094)
7     tetak (3,352)
8     Andrei1 (1,858)
9     vmcosta (1,175)
10     wall (1,106)

Phishing URLs

In October, 619 phishes (6% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 10,157 (or 95%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     webcindario.com (183)
2     x10.mx (145)
3     altervista.org (144)
4     blogspot.com (143)
5     ripway.com (112)
6     weebly.com (112)
7     0fees.net (76)
8     my3gb.com (61)
9     5gbfree.com (59)
10     000a.biz (54)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     93.170.52.20 (265)
2     93.170.52.30 (265)
3     89.17.220.221 (183)
4     85.233.160.70 (148)
5     74.125.127.132 (141)
6     199.34.228.106 (112)
7     64.62.181.46 (112)
8     209.190.27.4 (89)
9     69.175.121.66 (83)
10     209.237.150.20 (79)

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     SingleHop 755
2     eNET Inc. 504
3     iWeb Technologies Inc. 405
4     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 346
5     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 314
6     DRAGONARA Dragonara Alliance Ltd 271
7     OVH OVH Systems 265
8     HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online AG RZ 252
9     HostDime.com, Inc. 229
10     ACENS_AS acens technologies 204

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 5,939
2     Facebook 561
3     Orkut 338
4     Wells Fargo 179
5     Mastercard 161
6     World of Warcraft 147
7     TAM Fidelidade 139
8     Sulake Corporation 133
9     Visa 125
10     eBay, Inc. 113