About this bot
Sansec Security Monitor is Sansec’s crawler for ecommerce malware and web-skimmer monitoring.
It uses the documented `Sansec Security Monitor/1.0` browser-compatible identity and can be corroborated with Sansec network/DNS signals.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official-documented.
Sansec explicitly honors robots.txt and Crawl-delay.
Use DNS/IP corroboration when building a privileged allowlist.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Sansec Security MonitorMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Sansec Security Monitor/1.0; +https://sansec.io/monitor)
Details
- Kind
- Scanner
- Family
- Sansec Security Monitor
- Purpose
- Ecommerce malware and skimmer monitoring
- Common Use
- Security monitoring for ecommerce malware, web skimmers, compromise indicators, and site integrity.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the documented User-Agent and corroborate with Sansec-published IPs or forward-confirmed reverse DNS under `sansec.io`.
- Detection Notes
- Sansec explicitly honors robots.txt and Crawl-delay, with documented crawler identity and network verification signals.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Sansec Security Monitor Disallow: /- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Sansec\ Security\ Monitor" bot_match- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Sansec\ Security\ Monitor") { set $bot_match 1; }