About this bot
UT-Dorkbot is an automated identity associated with The University of Texas at Austin and used for managed web-application security scanning.
Primary versioned UA family: UT-Dorkbot/.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with Medium confidence. Identity type: documented-service.
robots.txt behavior is currently unconfirmed.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling: no.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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UT-Dorkbot/UT-Dorkbot/1.2; UT-Dorkbot/1.1; UT-Dorkbot/1.0
Details
- Kind
- Scanner
- Family
- UT-Dorkbot
- Purpose
- Managed web application security scanning
- Common Use
- Authorized discovery and testing for exposed web-application vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- documented-service
- Evidence Method
- Match the versioned `UT-Dorkbot/` scanner family and confirm that requests fit the University of Texas managed Dorkbot scanning service; the UA alone is not authenticated.
- Detection Notes
- UT-Dorkbot is a managed web-application security scanner. Public service documentation confirms the scanner role; versioned UA examples remain useful detection signals.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "UT-Dorkbot/" bot_match- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "UT-Dorkbot/") { set $bot_match 1; }