Overview
ActiveComply Bot is a security scanner from ActiveComply used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
Its primary user-agent pattern is ActiveComply; related patterns include ActiveComply crawler; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.6045.9 Safari/537.36 (compatible; ActiveComply/2.0; +https://app.activecomply.com/bot).
ActiveComply Bot is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
ActiveComply Bot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
ActiveComply Bot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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ActiveComply - Aliases
- ActiveComply crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.6045.9 Safari/537.36 (compatible; ActiveComply/2.0; +https://app.activecomply.com/bot) - Robots Token
- ActiveComply
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify ActiveComply Bot by matching `ActiveComply` to ActiveComply evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Security
- Kind
- Scanner
- Family
- ActiveComply
- Operator
- ActiveComply
- Company
- ActiveComply
- Purpose
- Security
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- ActiveComply Bot is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
- Detection Notes
- ActiveComply Bot traffic is primarily detected by the `ActiveComply` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `ActiveComply crawler`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.6045.9 Safari/537.36 (compatible; ActiveComply/2.0; +https://app.activecomply.com/bot)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with ActiveComply infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- ActiveComply Bot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Do not block
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.