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Stats › December 2006

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Published: January 3, 2007

The statistics on this page are for December 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006.

Total Submissions: 20,352

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

Valid Phishes: 11,309

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

Invalid Phishes: 787

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: 94,526

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, 16 minutes

The median time it took the PhishTank community to verify submissions as valid or invalid.



Most Active Users

Out of the more than 7,984 members of the PhishTank community, these members are the most active.

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     funchords (10,210)
2     JustaPerson (2,358)
3     ruralnetcop (805)
4     cleanmx (770)
5     milky (720)
6     spamfighter (367)
7     Micha (316)
8     dbonengel (291)
9     tetak (290)
10     Sedna (189)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     bowlby4 (18,116)
2     buaya (12,097)
3     miowpurr (11,545)
4     JustaPerson (7,898)
5     Char (5,174)
6     ruralnetcop (3,690)
7     DougieLawson (3,331)
8     Pwnage (2,306)
9     thelionheart (1,764)
10     funchords (1,748)

Phishing URLs

In December, 2,886 phishes (26% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 8,424 (or 74%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     sa.com (102)
2     missch.biz (88)
3     mailaac.bz (85)
4     gakenati.biz (79)
5     ngenasufe.bz (77)
6     nsoasnthu.jp (75)
7     ickyofth.bz (72)
8     tadreares.jp (67)
9     glintvee.biz (67)
10     hiclbac.biz (64)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     203.123.210.27 (1159)
2     70.167.23.89 (744)
3     211.143.34.76 (681)
4     218.61.234.171 (544)
5     24.222.91.140 (461)
6     218.56.1.58 (461)
7     210.97.77.171 (447)
8     80.81.48.238 (435)
9     64.46.170.3 (407)
10     211.176.202.19 (381)

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     Korea Telecom 2,249
2     CNCGROUP China169 Backbone 1,228
3     Hanvit Saerom Broadcasting 1,159
4     Hanaro Telecom Inc. 846
5     Cox Communications Inc. 751
6     Guangdong Mobile Communication Co.Ltd. 683
7     Andara High Speed Internet c/o Halifax Cable Ltd. 469
8     Telecentrs Internet Service Autonomous System 435
9     Rogers Cable Inc. 419
10     LeaseNet, Inc. 407

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 2,223
2     Barclays Bank PLC 1,334
3     eBay, Inc. 1,020
4     Fifth Third Bank 834
5     Bank of America Corporation 780
6     Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken 311
7     Wells Fargo 299
8     JPMorgan Chase and Co. 153
9     HSBC Group 132
10     US Bank 61

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