About this bot
VulscanBot is a scanner associated with Vulscan and used for passive-security-research.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is VulscanBot. Representative HTTP request identity: VulscanBot/1.0.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under VulscanBot. Site-specific access policy should still be evaluated before enforcement.
Risk classification: Neutral. Recommended handling is to evaluate the request context before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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VulscanBotVulscanBot/1.0
Details
- Kind
- Scanner
- Family
- Vulscan
- Purpose
- Passive security research
- Common Use
- passive external security checks and website security research
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `VulscanBot` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with independent network, DNS, cryptographic, or request-context signals when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `VulscanBot` User-Agent token. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: VulscanBot Disallow: /- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} VulscanBot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "VulscanBot") { return 403; }