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, 40 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_urlhaus1'243'920
2 geenensp701'736
3 Cryptolaemus1259'671
4 NDA0E149'906
5 Gandylyan1138'398
6 zbetcheckin136'265
7 tammeto73'499
8 abuse_ch61'137
9 abus3reports53'258
10 p5yb34m48'052
11 tolisec41'057
12 spamhaus39'159
13 Petras_Simeon26'161
14 DaveLikesMalwre21'975
15 shotgunner10119'210

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 minutes879'979
2AS9829 BSNL-NIB- IN9 hours, 19 minutes393'641
3AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE- CN4 days, 2 hours, 6 minutes182'120
4AS17488 HATHWAY-NET-AP- IN5 hours, 59 minutes142'573
5AS8661 PTK- AL2 days, 1 hours, 28 minutes97'550
6AS207569 I-SERVERS-NORTH-EU- RU23 hours, 40 minutes91'316
7AS17816 CHINA169-GZ- CN1 day, 8 hours, 50 minutes84'423
8AS13335 CLOUDFLARENET- US3 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes84'029
9AS14061 DIGITALOCEAN-ASN- US4 days, 9 hours, 15 minutes57'566
10AS17622 CNCGROUP-GZ- CN22 hours, 40 minutes50'867
11AS46606 UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1- US13 days, 22 hours, 10 minutes47'100
12AS19871 NETWORK-SOLUTIONS-HOSTING- US13 days, 7 hours, 10 minutes37'398
13AS16276 OVH- FR10 days, 11 hours, 24 minutes32'708
14AS15169 GOOGLE- US11 days, 9 hours, 37 minutes30'677
15AS36352 AS-COLOCROSSING- US11 days, 6 hours, 19 minutes30'536

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

RankASNCountryASN-DROP Average Reaction TimeMalware URLs
1AS401115 EKABI- USBlocked 5 days, 4 hours, 31 minutes10'352
2AS4837 CHINA169-Backbone- CN 2 days, 13 hours, 58 minutes1'015
3AS51381 ELITETEAM-PEERING-AZ1- SCBlocked 2 months, 1 days, 9 hours, 48 minutes931
4AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE- CN 4 days, 2 hours, 6 minutes607
5AS36459 GITHUB- US 23 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes592
6AS54113 FASTLY- DE 23 days, 6 hours, 4 minutes479
7AS3269 ASN-IBSNAZ- IT 14 days, 9 hours, 20 minutes286
8AS37963 ALIBABA-CN-NET- CN 1 month, 13 days, 19 hours, 11 minutes230
9AS9829 BSNL-NIB- IN 9 hours, 19 minutes161
10AS45090 TENCENT-NET-AP- CN 25 days, 18 hours, 38 minutes130
11AS200593 PROSPERO-AS- RUBlocked 17 days, 18 hours, 46 minutes108
12AS7713 telkomnet-as-ap- ID 1 month, 5 days, 11 hours, 47 minutes106
13AS13335 CLOUDFLARENET- US 3 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes92
14AS53667 PONYNET- CA 14 days, 21 hours, 16 minutes87
15AS15169 GOOGLE- US 11 days, 9 hours, 37 minutes86

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
2AS140105 CMNET-SNIDC-CN-AP- CN012 minutes
3AS49600 NEARIP- ES015 minutes
4AS13022 STREAMS_GMBH- AT015 minutes
5AS133983 SBB-AS-IN- IN035 minutes
6AS197746 HYPERHOSTING- GR016 minutes
7AS52564 Biazi_Telecom- BR016 minutes
8AS7020 QDATA-AS- NZ017 minutes
9AS263948 NEW_LIFE_TELECOM- BR017 minutes
10AS197684 ASHOSTUA- UA027 minutes
11AS134929 ORANGECITY-AS- None017 minutes
12AS55441 TTSLMEIS-AS-AP- IN017 minutes
13AS55486 NETWORX-AS-AP- None018 minutes
14AS17716 NTU-TW- TW018 minutes
15AS209363 sco-webage-20190220- None019 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
1AS8014 BATELNET- BS014 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
5AS199391 XGlobe-199391- IL033 years, 6 months, 25 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes
6AS57043 HOSTKEY-AS- RU013 years, 5 months, 20 days, 12 hours, 33 minutes
7AS263057 Connect_Network- BR013 years, 5 months, 14 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes
8AS24164 UBBNET-AS-TW- TW213 years, 1 months, 15 days, 18 hours, 40 minutes
9AS30782 TOYA-KRAKOW-AS- PL013 years, 1 months, 4 days, 20 hours, 34 minutes
10AS37024 Yoprov- ZW012 years, 9 months, 27 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes
11AS60822 WISP1- IT012 years, 9 months, 15 days, 2 hours, 6 minutes
12AS9811 DRCSCNET- CN222 years, 9 months, 5 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes
13AS57803 TELESERVIS-AS- RU022 years, 8 months, 0 days, 15 hours, 0 minutes
14AS10292 CWJ-1- US012 years, 7 months, 25 days, 16 hours, 36 minutes
15AS39513 ONECOM-AS- UA012 years, 7 months, 2 days, 21 hours, 22 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: