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Stats › November 2009

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Published: December 1, 2009

The statistics on this page are for November 1, 2009 through November 30, 2009.

Total Submissions: 20,795

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

Valid Phishes: 5,253

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

Invalid Phishes: 1,200

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: 64,002

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: 10 hours, 57 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 November 2009.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (10,094)
2     cleanmx (3,366)
3     propriome (1,087)
4     PhishnChips (841)
5     balomish (779)
6     joewein (379)
7     zender (329)
8     mxlab (298)
9     njh (255)
10     buaya (229)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     stuartgrant (12,643)
2     buaya (10,406)
3     XPilot (8,954)
4     tetak (7,591)
5     NotBuyingIt (3,845)
6     prestonlewis (2,509)
7     mxlab (2,142)
8     PhishnChips (1,465)
9     Bartep (1,319)
10     Tromso (1,072)

Phishing URLs

In November, 278 phishes (5% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 4,980 (or 95%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     atspace.com (237)
2     submissionradio.com.au (67)
3     oksamyt-inter.com.ua (60)
4     85studio.pl (50)
5     sisek.net.ua (49)
6     virtualbattlespace2.com (44)
7     wilsden.com.au (40)
8     110mb.com (39)
9     aidastreasures.com (37)
10     dezigner.ru (34)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     208.53.138.44 (276)
2     82.197.131.109 (250)
3     194.67.36.117 (71)
4     216.180.227.51 (67)
5     80.91.176.156 (60)
6     94.229.66.202 (59)
7     193.104.27.253 (55)
8     62.146.68.105 (50)
9     80.91.189.41 (49)
10     216.227.218.15 (49)

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     FDCservers.net 300
2     LAMBDANET-AS European Backbone of LambdaNet 260
3     Global Net Access, LLC 137
4     DATAGROUP CJSC DATAGROUP 109
5     LGDACOM LG DACOM Corporation 108
6     KIXS-AS-KR Korea Telecom 103
7     SUNHK-DATA-AS-AP Sun Network (Hong Kong) Limited 86
8     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 84
9     MD-WEB-HOSTING-AU-AP MD Web Hosting 83
10     iWeb Technologies Inc. 75

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 10,361
2     Internal Revenue Service 870
3     Tibia 784
4     eBay, Inc. 458
5     Facebook 439
6     Bank of America Corporation 270
7     JPMorgan Chase and Co. 202
8     HSBC Group 201
9     Google 146
10     HSBC 121

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