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Stats › May 2012

The statistics on this page are for May 1, 2012 through May 31, 2012.

Total Submissions: 27,394

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

Valid Phishes: 14,701

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

Invalid Phishes: 2,973

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: 105,857

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, 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 May 2012.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (13,315)
2     cleanmx (4,020)
3     DefesaDigital (776)
4     billwake (595)
5     knack (582)
6     paulch (521)
7     joewein (422)
8     buaya (374)
9     vmcosta (289)
10     dms (257)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     cybercrime (18,739)
2     madsdam (15,804)
3     knack (14,473)
4     buaya (13,373)
5     andrea78vr (11,077)
6     stuartgrant (8,510)
7     gerben (2,290)
8     tetak (2,083)
9     heymoe (1,983)
10     sir1963nz (1,284)

Phishing URLs

In May, 886 phishes (6% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 13,833 (or 94%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     altervista.org (155)
2     google.com (150)
3     wrapshak.com (138)
4     comcast.net (87)
5     uschof.org (80)
6     bit.ly (76)
7     onexqlxchange.net (70)
8     91.225.104.46 (67)
9     tinyurl.com (57)
10     blogspot.com (56)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     69.175.94.114 (149)
2     211.174.62.178 (138)
3     209.237.150.20 (110)
4     184.154.106.250 (91)
5     69.175.67.106 (84)
6     93.170.52.20 (83)
7     74.55.158.162 (83)
8     184.154.80.90 (82)
9     184.173.205.195 (80)
10     216.87.188.9 (80)

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 1,070
2     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 465
3     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 443
4     iWeb Technologies Inc. 392
5     HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online AG RZ 376
6     Landis Holdings Inc 376
7     OVH OVH Systems 273
8     GoDaddy.com, LLC 265
9     Bluehost Inc. 251
10     Itanet - Itamarati On-Line Ltda. 239

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 14,764
2     AOL 595
3     TAM Fidelidade 545
4     Cielo 341
5     Visa 281
6     Bradesco 252
7     Sulake Corporation 217
8     Vodafone 199
9     Santander UK 192
10     Capitec Bank 187