Overview
Cloudflare Bushbaby is a security scanner from Cloudflare used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
Its primary user-agent pattern is bushbaby/; related patterns include Bushbaby; bushbaby crawler; Cloudflare certificate bot.
Cloudflare Bushbaby is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Cloudflare Bushbaby should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent
bushbaby/- Aliases
- Bushbaby; bushbaby crawler; Cloudflare certificate bot
- HTTP Agent Examples
bushbaby/- Robots.txt Token
bushbaby/- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `bushbaby/` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Security
- Kind
- Security
- Family
- Cloudflare
- Purpose
- certificate-management
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Cloudflare Bushbaby is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
- Detection Notes
- Cloudflare Bushbaby traffic is primarily detected by the `bushbaby/` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Bushbaby; bushbaby crawler; Cloudflare certificate bot`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Cloudflare infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Cloudflare Bushbaby has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.