WanscannerBot
Network security scanning and vulnerability detection crawler bot
About this crawler
WanscannerBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern WanscannerBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block WanscannerBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- WanscannerBot
- Pattern
WanscannerBot- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- https://abuse.pend.re
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; WanscannerBot/1.2; +https://abuse.pend.re) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow WanscannerBot:
User-agent: WanscannerBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WanscannerBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WanscannerBot") {
return 403;
}
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