Bot intelligence record
Project Honeypot
Usually allowProject Honeypot is a security scanner from Unspam Technologies, Inc used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review; it appears in server logs as `Verispider`.
User-Agent Pattern
Unspam Technologies, IncVerispider
User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.
Robots.txt Snippet
Click snippet to copyUser-agent: Verispider
Disallow: /
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Handling Guidance
NoThis bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.
Project Honeypot is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Inc.
- Family
- Inc.
- Type
- Security
- Purpose
- Security
- Identity type
- Verified Bot
- Confidence
- Medium
- Last verified
- 2026-06-23
- Last checked
- 2026-06-23
- Source type
- Documented
- Verification
- Verify Project Honeypot by matching `Verispider` to Unspam Technologies, Inc evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- Project Honeypot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
Notes
- Project Honeypot is a security scanner from Unspam Technologies, Inc used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
Verispider; a representative HTTP user-agent isPHPot Verispider v0.1 - http://www.projecthoneypot.org/. - Project Honeypot is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
- Project Honeypot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
- Project Honeypot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Evidence and Source
- Verify Project Honeypot by matching `Verispider` to Unspam Technologies, Inc evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Project Honeypot traffic is primarily detected by the `Verispider` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `PHPot Verispider v0.1 - http://www.projecthoneypot.org/`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Unspam Technologies, Inc infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Project Honeypot is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
- Project Honeypot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
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