Overview
Probely is a security scanner used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
Its primary user-agent pattern is ProbelySPDR; related patterns include ProbelySPDR/0.2.0; Probely security scanner; Probely DAST crawler.
Probely is not independently verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Documented, and the evidence basis is documented crawler-pattern evidence.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Probely 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
ProbelySPDR- Aliases
- ProbelySPDR/0.2.0; Probely security scanner; Probely DAST crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
ProbelySPDR- Robots.txt Token
ProbelySPDR- Identity Type
- Documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify Probely by matching `ProbelySPDR` to documented crawler-pattern evidence, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
Classification
- Type
- Security
- Kind
- Security
- Family
- Probely
- Purpose
- security-scanning
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Probely is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
- Detection Notes
- Probely traffic is primarily detected by the `ProbelySPDR` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `ProbelySPDR/0.2.0; Probely security scanner; Probely DAST crawler`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Probely 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.