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, 42 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_urlhaus1'242'518
2 geenensp696'087
3 Cryptolaemus1259'662
4 NDA0E145'432
5 Gandylyan1137'904
6 zbetcheckin136'265
7 tammeto73'499
8 abuse_ch60'970
9 abus3reports51'097
10 p5yb34m48'052
11 tolisec40'953
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, 57 minutes876'569
2AS9829 BSNL-NIB- IN9 hours, 19 minutes390'814
3AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE- CN4 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes181'601
4AS17488 HATHWAY-NET-AP- IN5 hours, 59 minutes142'565
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, 44 minutes84'384
8AS13335 CLOUDFLARENET- US3 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes83'413
9AS14061 DIGITALOCEAN-ASN- US4 days, 9 hours, 17 minutes57'518
10AS17622 CNCGROUP-GZ- CN22 hours, 37 minutes50'867
11AS46606 UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1- US13 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes47'107
12AS19871 NETWORK-SOLUTIONS-HOSTING- US13 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes37'375
13AS16276 OVH- FR10 days, 11 hours, 25 minutes32'682
14AS15169 GOOGLE- US11 days, 12 hours, 21 minutes30'821
15AS36352 AS-COLOCROSSING- US11 days, 6 hours, 35 minutes30'396

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, 57 minutes683
2AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE- CN 4 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes560
3AS51381 ELITETEAM-PEERING-AZ1- SCBlocked 2 months, 1 days, 7 hours, 26 minutes522
4AS36459 GITHUB- US 25 days, 4 hours, 33 minutes493
5AS54113 FASTLY- DE 23 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes301
6AS37963 ALIBABA-CN-NET- CN 1 month, 14 days, 2 hours, 15 minutes217
7AS51167 CONTABO- DE 9 days, 8 hours, 2 minutes144
8AS200593 PROSPERO-AS- RUBlocked 17 days, 21 hours, 18 minutes138
9AS3269 ASN-IBSNAZ- IT 14 days, 19 hours, 57 minutes130
10AS16509 AMAZON-02- US 3 days, 3 hours, 11 minutes123
11AS45090 TENCENT-NET-AP- CN 25 days, 17 hours, 27 minutes112
12AS401115 EKABI- USBlocked 5 days, 9 hours, 53 minutes104
13AS7713 telkomnet-as-ap- ID 1 month, 6 days, 7 hours, 35 minutes102
14AS47474 Virtual1- GB 1 month, 6 days, 16 hours, 58 minutes101
15AS15169 GOOGLE- US 11 days, 12 hours, 21 minutes93

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
5AS197746 HYPERHOSTING- GR016 minutes
6AS52564 Biazi_Telecom- BR016 minutes
7AS7020 QDATA-AS- NZ017 minutes
8AS263948 NEW_LIFE_TELECOM- BR017 minutes
9AS197684 ASHOSTUA- UA027 minutes
10AS134929 ORANGECITY-AS- None017 minutes
11AS55441 TTSLMEIS-AS-AP- IN017 minutes
12AS55486 NETWORX-AS-AP- None018 minutes
13AS209363 sco-webage-20190220- None019 minutes
14AS268490 A.I.P._INTERNET- BR019 minutes
15AS267060 Jspnet_servios_de_comunicaes_multimidia_eireli- 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
1AS8245 VIDEOBROADCAST-AS- AT015 years, 6 months, 15 days, 15 hours, 38 minutes
2AS23520 COLUMBUS-NETWORKS- US014 years, 6 months, 14 days, 16 hours, 19 minutes
3AS135523 MULTINET-IE-AS-AP- PK114 years, 6 months, 0 days, 9 hours, 17 minutes
4AS6 BULL-HN- US014 years, 2 months, 23 days, 19 hours, 10 minutes
5AS10099 UNICOM-Global- HK0113 years, 9 months, 6 days, 10 hours, 11 minutes
6AS197838 CHEELOO-AS- PL013 years, 8 months, 1 days, 17 hours, 58 minutes
7AS199391 XGlobe-199391- IL033 years, 6 months, 25 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes
8AS57043 HOSTKEY-AS- RU013 years, 5 months, 20 days, 12 hours, 33 minutes
9AS263057 Connect_Network- BR013 years, 5 months, 14 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes
10AS24164 UBBNET-AS-TW- TW113 years, 1 months, 15 days, 18 hours, 40 minutes
11AS30782 TOYA-KRAKOW-AS- PL013 years, 1 months, 4 days, 20 hours, 34 minutes
12AS12556 internet-solutions-ke- ZA022 years, 10 months, 26 days, 19 hours, 52 minutes
13AS37024 Yoprov- ZW012 years, 9 months, 27 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes
14AS60822 WISP1- IT012 years, 9 months, 15 days, 2 hours, 6 minutes
15AS9811 DRCSCNET- CN222 years, 9 months, 5 days, 8 hours, 32 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: