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Stats › February 2016

The statistics on this page are for February 1, 2016 through February 28, 2016.

Total Submissions: 65,195

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

Valid Phishes: 12,928

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

Invalid Phishes: 817

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: 223,255

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: 212 hours, 26 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 February 2016.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     cleanmx (49,250)
2     PhishReporter (2,711)
3     dms (1,412)
4     DefesaDigital (1,066)
5     leofelix (688)
6     prebytes (618)
7     MailShark (572)
8     balomish (544)
9     ShinobiPhish (509)
10     paulch (484)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     knack (58,207)
2     Pluto67 (51,079)
3     paulch (42,377)
4     buaya (39,875)
5     NotBuyingIt (4,581)
6     shazza1 (2,905)
7     JayKayTea (2,753)
8     phishphucker (2,617)
9     phxcz (2,185)
10     leofelix (1,288)

Phishing URLs

In February, 175 phishes (1% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 12,753 (or 99%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     hol.es (64)
2     jhonathan.com.br (57)
3     kvkkalikiri-angrau.org (56)
4     alphaip.lg.ua (50)
5     bit.ly (46)
6     esy.es (43)
7     atspace.co.uk (43)
8     googledrive.com (38)
9     atwebpages.com (38)
10     dentistkart.com (36)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     146.112.61.108 (927)
2     98.139.135.129 (136)
3     66.84.0.142 (59)
4     198.49.68.226 (58)
5     203.124.119.1 (56)
6     209.99.40.223 (51)
7     212.87.168.158 (50)
8     216.58.192.1 (47)
9     69.58.188.40 (46)
10     216.58.192.33 (46)

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     GoDaddy.com, LLC, US 2,495
2     CyrusOne LLC, US 1,712
3     Unified Layer, US 551
4     HostDime.com, Inc., US 543
5     OVH , FR 244
6     HOSTINGER-AS , LT 233
7     CloudFlare, Inc., US 224
8     SoftLayer Technologies Inc., US 214
9     Confluence Networks Inc, VG 171
10     Yahoo!, US 137

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 3,586
2     Apple 625
3     United Services Automobile Association 594
4     Facebook 570
5     Internal Revenue Service 557
6     Bradesco 228
7     Citibank 224
8     Google 151
9     Cielo 103
10     eBay, Inc. 88