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Stats › December 2013

The statistics on this page are for December 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013.

Total Submissions: 69,560

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

Valid Phishes: 37,874

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

Invalid Phishes: 1,181

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: 247,173

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: 15 hours, 03 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 December 2013.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     cleanmx (37,580)
2     PhishReporter (19,459)
3     knack (1,878)
4     cyscon (1,809)
5     alsf78 (907)
6     prebytes (739)
7     billwake (587)
8     leofelix (433)
9     johnklee (410)
10     ZRSABUSE (357)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     knack (64,163)
2     paulch (54,143)
3     buaya (40,465)
4     Andrei1 (31,838)
5     heymoe (19,057)
6     andrea78vr (7,662)
7     phishphucker (4,999)
8     Dareks (3,181)
9     NotBuyingIt (2,295)
10     hhhobbit (1,721)

Phishing URLs

In December, 2,116 phishes (6% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 35,958 (or 95%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     corpzim.com (2,112)
2     hyd.me (1,254)
3     kzstudent.com (1,139)
4     thornbridgebrewery.com (965)
5     unoagency.com (813)
6     robweb.com.br (789)
7     neonsix.com (748)
8     sentinelview.co.uk (736)
9     162.144.71.74 (722)
10     casadeshowogalpao.com.br (719)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     109.123.122.231 (4,073)
2     109.123.107.25 (2,112)
3     174.136.43.63 (1,455)
4     184.168.221.58 (1,138)
5     50.63.97.29 (1,073)
6     69.162.84.42 (967)
7     162.144.71.74 (757)
8     187.84.224.102 (721)
9     91.187.57.151 (691)
10     66.45.237.219 (549)

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     UK2NET-AS UK2 - Ltd 7,508
2     GoDaddy.com, LLC 2,476
3     OVH OVH Systems 2,403
4     Colo4, LLC 1,565
5     Unified Layer 1,511
6     Limestone Networks, Inc. 1,162
7     Hosting Services, Inc. 916
8     UOL DIVEO S.A. 728
9     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 714
10     PLUSLINE-AS NWT a.s 691

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 21,719
2     AOL 515
3     Apple 378
4     Itau 344
5     Cielo 249
6     Facebook 214
7     eBay, Inc. 151
8     Allegro 144
9     Bradesco 144
10     Visa 136