zgrab

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Zgrab web crawler for security scanning

About this crawler

zgrab is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern zgrab in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block zgrab traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.26%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: zgrab
2026-05-012026-06-040.43%

Technical details

Name
zgrab
Pattern
zgrab
Tags
scanner
Reference
https://github.com/zmap/zgrab2
Added
2018/08/30
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 zgrab/0.x

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow zgrab:

User-agent: zgrab Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} zgrab [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "zgrab") { return 403; }
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