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Stats › September 2015

The statistics on this page are for September 1, 2015 through September 30, 2015.

Total Submissions: 71,402

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

Valid Phishes: 13,953

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

Invalid Phishes: 647

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: 213,005

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: 272 hours, 13 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 September 2015.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     cleanmx (49,693)
2     PhishReporter (6,010)
3     cyscon (3,070)
4     MailShark (927)
5     prebytes (915)
6     knack (832)
7     DefesaDigital (820)
8     billwake (790)
9     leofelix (744)
10     Cedders (579)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     knack (59,291)
2     paulch (52,659)
3     buaya (45,796)
4     Pluto67 (12,145)
5     vfabuse (7,915)
6     twodurango (4,272)
7     JayKayTea (3,301)
8     Dareks (2,629)
9     NotBuyingIt (2,545)
10     phishphucker (1,778)

Phishing URLs

In September, 176 phishes (1% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 13,777 (or 99%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     hostbuddy.com (127)
2     filleacgil.it (74)
3     sdteach.com (68)
4     logistic.tj (66)
5     cutt.us (53)
6     golden-corner.com (51)
7     mercado31.com (51)
8     eaststyle.com.au (44)
9     infoscert.net (43)
10     secureserver.net (40)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     192.254.148.46 (129)
2     103.21.59.80 (108)
3     146.112.61.108 (96)
4     184.171.252.26 (87)
5     77.43.21.58 (74)
6     199.83.131.224 (74)
7     119.18.54.23 (71)
8     23.229.195.227 (70)
9     107.180.26.72 (69)
10     210.56.61.78 (67)

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 2,466
2     GoDaddy.com, LLC,US 2,466
3     Unified Layer,US 886
4     HostDime.com, Inc.,US 431
5     Confluence Networks Inc,VG 421
6     OVH OVH SAS,FR 349
7     Web Werks,US 271
8     SoftLayer Technologies Inc.,US 204
9     Incapsula Inc,US 197
10     CloudFlare, Inc.,US 156

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 6,818
2     Apple 684
3     eBay, Inc. 680
4     AOL 563
5     Facebook 537
6     Google 291
7     Bradesco 164
8     Wells Fargo 164
9     JPMorgan Chase and Co. 154
10     NatWest Bank 127