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neilcarden
Brass Contributor
Sep 17, 2020

Phishing Simulator report showing bots - what are they?

Hi we recently ran a phishing simulation and two results came back as:

162.125.34.244DropboxPreviewBot/1.0
52.114.75.71Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) SkypeUriPreview Preview/0.5

Both of these are non UK (we are based in UK)

 

So it looks like they are bots/crawlers, but how are they associated with the email of two of our users, which say they clicked the link... I am no bot expert either but what is actually happening here?

 

Thanks

Neil

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    new_coolant
    Copper Contributor

    neilcarden 

     

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) SkypeUriPreview Preview/0.5

     

    Hi Neil,

     

    I also encountered this useragent today and after testing found out that these are not due to the user click however because of automatic preview of url by application like skype/teams.

     

    Its evident that dropbox one is also related to preview by said app.

     

    Thanks

    Nitin

     

     

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