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What is Sucuri?

Direct Answer: The Sucuri bot is a security bot operated by Sucuri, crawling websites to scan for malware, security risks, and blacklisting status.

Operator: Sucuri Type: Security Scanner Purpose: Website security scanning and malware detection

The Sucuri bot is part of the Sucuri website security platform. It crawls websites to scan for malware, security risks, and blacklisting status. This bot is designed to monitor website integrity and security.

User-Agent Identification

The following user-agent strings identify Sucuri in your live traffic data:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 MSIE 7.0; Sucuri Integrity Monitor/2.4

robots.txt Rules for Sucuri

Respects robots.txt: No

This bot does not commit to following robots.txt

Sucuri does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.

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Crawl Behavior

Frequency:Not Documented

Request Pattern:Not Documented

Official Documentation Quotes

"Sucuri Integrity Monitor/2.4"

Crawl Activity Index

Relative crawl activity for Sucuri over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.

View recent activity data (last 7 days)
Date Activity Index
Mar 28, 2026 51.3
Mar 29, 2026 51.3
Mar 30, 2026 54.5
Mar 31, 2026 60.2
Apr 1, 2026 59.8
Apr 2, 2026 58.1
Apr 3, 2026 60.4

Source: Cloudflare Radar

Why track Sucuri traffic?

Identify and classify unknown crawler activity. Sucuri may appear in your live traffic data with varying frequency. Tracking its behavior helps you decide whether to allow, throttle, or block it based on actual data.

Protect your crawl budget. Every bot request consumes server resources. Understanding what Sucuri crawls helps you prioritize the crawlers that matter.

Log Verification

To verify Sucuri traffic in your live traffic data:

  1. Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
  2. Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Sucuri)
  3. Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
  4. Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available

Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.

Undocumented Information

The following information is not officially documented for Sucuri:

  • crawl frequency
  • request pattern
  • JavaScript rendering details
  • IP verification URL

Official Documentation

View Official Sucuri Documentation →

Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.