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Stats › September 2012

The statistics on this page are for September 1, 2012 through September 30, 2012.

Total Submissions: 30,080

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

Valid Phishes: 21,361

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

Invalid Phishes: 1,335

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: 125,392

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: 02 hours, 36 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 2012.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (11,560)
2     cleanmx (6,784)
3     knack (1,713)
4     billwake (808)
5     Micha (802)
6     paulch (703)
7     demartin (476)
8     DefesaDigital (441)
9     dms (424)
10     Xylitol (272)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     knack (19,328)
2     cybercrime (18,825)
3     andrea78vr (14,722)
4     buaya (12,985)
5     madsdam (10,580)
6     heymoe (8,720)
7     Dareks (6,858)
8     stuartgrant (3,947)
9     gerben (3,457)
10     phxcz (3,247)

Phishing URLs

In September, 921 phishes (4% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 20,440 (or 96%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     gls-uae.com (358)
2     aleberts.net (329)
3     paopaodiscotheque.cl (188)
4     villakidsbuffetinfantil.com (184)
5     altervista.org (183)
6     aleberts.com (174)
7     createsend1.com (169)
8     cmail4.com (160)
9     kingdream.kz (152)
10     maxkz.com (148)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     27.126.145.31 (656)
2     27.126.145.32 (651)
3     187.17.244.176 (550)
4     89.218.61.99 (414)
5     66.147.242.156 (358)
6     212.1.210.9 (329)
7     31.42.67.104 (310)
8     201.238.235.242 (224)
9     173.236.34.242 (220)
10     93.170.52.21 (204)

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 1,215
2     Bluehost Inc. 928
3     HOSTING-MEDIA Aurimas Rapalis trading as ""II Hosting Media"" 924
4     Peak 10 665
5     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 607
6     OVH OVH Systems 467
7     KAZTELECOM-AS JSC Kazakhtelecom 446
8     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 411
9     HostDime.com, Inc. 378
10     GoDaddy.com, LLC 374

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 14,716
2     AOL 831
3     Cielo 693
4     Nets 507
5     Visa 300
6     Itau 250
7     NatWest Bank 183
8     Halifax 160
9     Wells Fargo 149
10     Mastercard 149