Rapid7
Rapid7 vulnerability scanner and security testing platform
About this crawler
Rapid7 is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Rapid7 in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Rapid7 traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- Rapid7
- Pattern
Rapid7- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- https://www.rapid7.com/
- Added
- 2026/05/02
- rDNS suffixes
.rapid7.com- Instances
- 0 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Rapid7 with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.rapid7.com
Sample User-Agent strings
no public sample user-agents recorded.
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Rapid7:
User-agent: Rapid7
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Rapid7 [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Rapid7") {
return 403;
}
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