Statistics

URLhaus produces detailed statistics on malicious URLs shared, including detections - find the available statistics below.

You can also access Spamhaus's Malware Digest report, based on URLhaus data:

Most Delivery Payload

Heodo

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Average Takedown Time

23 hours, 4 minutes

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Top Malware Hosting Network

AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE

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Number of submissions (past 30 days)


The chart below documents the number of submissions (unique malware URL) to URLhaus per day over a period of 30 days.


Top Reporters


It wouldn't be possible to operate URLhaus without the help of volunteers who report malware URLs to URLhaus. The table below shows the top reporters and their Twitter handle.

RankReporterSubmissions
1 lrz_urlhaus1'240'585
2 geenensp688'660
3 Cryptolaemus1259'629
4 NDA0E140'740
5 Gandylyan1137'383
6 zbetcheckin136'265
7 tammeto73'499
8 abuse_ch60'816
9 abus3reports50'945
10 p5yb34m48'052
11 tolisec40'821
12 spamhaus39'159
13 Petras_Simeon26'161
14 shotgunner10119'210
15 r3dbU7z19'057

Blocklist Comparison


URLhaus reports malware distribution sites to Spamhaus DBL, SURBL and Google Safe Browsing (GSB). In addition, several vendors of IT-security software are consuming URLhaus feeds to enrich their product(s). The statistics below measures the perfomance of several blocklists and DNS providers by counting the number of blacklisted domain names and compare them against each other.

Spamhaus DBL

SURBL

AdGuard DNS

Quad9 DNS

Cloudflare DNS

dns0.eu DNS

ProtonDNS

OpenBLD

Disclaimer: The blacklist comparison does only consider active malware distribution sites tracked by URLhaus.

Most Delivered Payload


Malware URLs deliver all kind of different payloads. This chart shows the number of payload per malware family (signature) identified / crawled by URLhaus.

Top Tags


Most seen tag associated with malware URLs tracked by URLhaus.

Top Malware Hosting Networks


The chart below shows the top malware hosting network by ASN. Please consider that some of them just offer CDN or proxy services and are hence not hosting the malicious content it self rather than facilitate delivering the malicious payload to the user.

Top malware hosting networks in total (counting online and offline malware distribution sites):

RankASNCountryAverage Reaction TimeMalware URLs
1AS4837 CHINA169-Backbone- CN2 days, 13 hours, 58 minutes864'282
2AS9829 BSNL-NIB- IN9 hours, 19 minutes384'921
3AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE- CN4 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes178'315
4AS17488 HATHWAY-NET-AP- IN5 hours, 59 minutes142'253
5AS8661 PTK- AL2 days, 1 hours, 28 minutes97'550
6AS207569 I-SERVERS-NORTH-EU- RU23 hours, 40 minutes91'309
7AS17816 CHINA169-GZ- CN1 day, 8 hours, 51 minutes83'192
8AS13335 CLOUDFLARENET- US3 days, 7 hours, 25 minutes82'986
9AS14061 DIGITALOCEAN-ASN- US4 days, 9 hours, 35 minutes57'341
10AS17622 CNCGROUP-GZ- CN22 hours, 38 minutes50'742
11AS46606 UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1- US14 days, 8 hours, 53 minutes46'972
12AS19871 NETWORK-SOLUTIONS-HOSTING- US13 days, 5 hours, 13 minutes37'128
13AS16276 OVH- FR10 days, 12 hours, 10 minutes32'252
14AS15169 GOOGLE- US11 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes30'894
15AS36352 AS-COLOCROSSING- US11 days, 5 hours, 9 minutes30'380

Top malware hosting networks, hosting active malware content (counting online malware distribution sites only):

RankASNCountryASN-DROP Average Reaction TimeMalware URLs
1AS4837 CHINA169-Backbone- CN 2 days, 13 hours, 58 minutes1'023
2AS51381 ELITETEAM-PEERING-AZ1- SCBlocked 2 months, 5 days, 0 hours, 41 minutes760
3AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE- CN 4 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes584
4AS54113 FASTLY- DE 23 days, 15 hours, 42 minutes280
5AS36459 GITHUB- US 25 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes264
6AS37963 ALIBABA-CN-NET- CN 1 month, 14 days, 5 hours, 34 minutes177
7AS215240 NETRESEARCH- GBBlocked 2 days, 17 hours, 10 minutes157
8AS47474 Virtual1- GB 21 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes123
9AS9829 BSNL-NIB- IN 9 hours, 19 minutes118
10AS34534 BULLIONET- FR 14 days, 0 hours, 48 minutes107
11AS200593 PROSPERO-AS- RUBlocked 20 days, 15 hours, 9 minutes102
12AS15169 GOOGLE- US 11 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes96
13AS7713 telkomnet-as-ap- ID 1 month, 7 days, 6 hours, 49 minutes92
14AS53667 PONYNET- CA 14 days, 21 hours, 26 minutes86
15AS38719 DREAMSCAPE-AS-AP- US 27 days, 8 hours, 51 minutes82

Takedown Statistics


URLhaus is sending out abuse reports to hosting providers, hosting malware distribution sites. The following chart shows the number of active malware distribution sites and the number of unique abuse reports sent per day.


The following table shows the top 15 hosting providers with the fastest abuse desks. To generated these statistics, URLhaus measures the time between when URLhaus sent the abuse complaint to the hosting provider and when the reported content goes offline. Please consider that the accuracy is +/- 1 hour.

RankASN GoodCountryOnlineOfflineAverage Reaction Time
1AS58772 ChinaNet-Fujian-Fuzhou-IDC- CN010 minute
2AS49600 NEARIP- ES015 minutes
3AS13022 STREAMS_GMBH- AT015 minutes
4AS133983 SBB-AS-IN- None035 minutes
5AS52564 Biazi_Telecom- BR016 minutes
6AS7020 QDATA-AS- NZ017 minutes
7AS263948 NEW_LIFE_TELECOM- BR017 minutes
8AS197684 ASHOSTUA- UA027 minutes
9AS134929 ORANGECITY-AS- None017 minutes
10AS55441 TTSLMEIS-AS-AP- IN017 minutes
11AS55486 NETWORX-AS-AP- None018 minutes
12AS209363 sco-webage-20190220- None019 minutes
13AS268490 A.I.P._INTERNET- BR019 minutes
14AS267060 Jspnet_servios_de_comunicaes_multimidia_eireli- None019 minutes
15AS268824 CONNECTMAX_TELECOM- BR0210 minutes

The following table shows the top 15 hosting providers with the slowest abuse desks. To generated these statistics, URLhaus measures the time between when URLhaus sent the abuse complaint to the hosting provider and when the reported content goes offline. Please consider that the accuracy is +/- 1 hour.

RankASN PoorCountryOnlineOfflineAverage Reaction Time
1AS23520 COLUMBUS-NETWORKS- US014 years, 6 months, 14 days, 16 hours, 19 minutes
2AS6 BULL-HN- US014 years, 2 months, 23 days, 19 hours, 10 minutes
3AS10099 UNICOM-Global- HK0113 years, 9 months, 6 days, 10 hours, 11 minutes
4AS197838 CHEELOO-AS- PL013 years, 8 months, 1 days, 17 hours, 58 minutes
5AS17845 GTP-AS-KR- KR513 years, 7 months, 1 days, 0 hours, 50 minutes
6AS199391 XGlobe-199391- IL033 years, 6 months, 25 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes
7AS57043 HOSTKEY-AS- RU013 years, 5 months, 20 days, 12 hours, 33 minutes
8AS263057 Connect_Network- BR013 years, 5 months, 14 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes
9AS24164 UBBNET-AS-TW- TW413 years, 1 months, 15 days, 18 hours, 40 minutes
10AS30782 TOYA-KRAKOW-AS- PL013 years, 1 months, 4 days, 20 hours, 34 minutes
11AS12556 internet-solutions-ke- ZA022 years, 10 months, 23 days, 13 hours, 36 minutes
12AS37024 Yoprov- ZW012 years, 9 months, 27 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes
13AS60822 WISP1- IT012 years, 9 months, 15 days, 2 hours, 6 minutes
14AS9811 DRCSCNET- CN222 years, 9 months, 5 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes
15AS43627 KLI-AS- LT012 years, 7 months, 26 days, 22 hours, 17 minutes

The full list of average reaction time over all hosting providers (ASNs) can be found here:

If you are a hosting provider, network owner or national CERT, you can subscribe to the URLhaus feed for your ASN or country here: