UT-Dorkbot
University of Texas security web crawler
About this crawler
UT-Dorkbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern UT-Dorkbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block UT-Dorkbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- UT-Dorkbot
- Pattern
UT-Dorkbot- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- https://security.utexas.edu/dorkbot
- Added
- 2020/03/02
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
UT-Dorkbot/1.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow UT-Dorkbot:
User-agent: UT-Dorkbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} UT-Dorkbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "UT-Dorkbot") {
return 403;
}
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