The most wanted files
Bots' most wanted file: /.env
Asked for 8,471 times by 712 scanners across 3,038 sites. They looked for .env in 1,049 different places.
Edition of Friday, Oct 16, 2026 (UTC) · see the latest · updated every 24 hours
5,804
files hunted
▲ +30% vs the day before
1,049
.env spots
▲ +31% vs the day before
8,471
asks for #1
Every edition: files hunted
How we measure
Requests for paths that only scanners ask for, ranked by how many times they were asked for during the UTC day, across every site behind the NiceTryBot edge. Movement compares with the day before; NEW means the path wasn't in the previous day's top 50.
The top 20
Movement is against the day before.
| # | File | Requests | Scanners | Sites | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | /.env | 8,471 | 712 | 3,038 | – |
| 2 | /.env.local | 5,994 | 627 | 2,673 | – |
| 3 | /.env.production | 5,851 | 634 | 2,666 | ▲1 |
| 4 | /.git/config | 5,626 | 774 | 2,936 | ▲8 |
| 5 | /.env.backup | 5,524 | 619 | 2,654 | ▼2 |
| 6 | /api/.env | 5,523 | 595 | 2,646 | ▼1 |
| 7 | /backend/.env | 5,479 | 588 | 2,635 | ▼1 |
| 8 | /app/.env | 5,478 | 589 | 2,634 | ▼1 |
| 9 | /public/.env | 5,364 | 575 | 2,619 | ▼1 |
| 10 | /core/.env | 5,337 | 579 | 2,619 | – |
| 11 | /laravel/.env | 5,189 | 514 | 2,597 | ▼2 |
| 12 | /.env.development | 3,948 | 620 | 2,645 | ▲10 |
| 13 | /.env.bak | 3,855 | 600 | 2,652 | ▲6 |
| 14 | /config/.env | 3,791 | 592 | 2,655 | ▲9 |
| 15 | /.env.example | 3,783 | 595 | 2,653 | ▲3 |
| 16 | /.env.prod | 3,782 | 590 | 2,642 | ▲20 |
| 17 | /server/.env | 3,771 | 580 | 2,633 | ▲31 |
| 18 | /info.php | 3,762 | 557 | 2,672 | ▲2 |
| 19 | /phpinfo.php | 3,750 | 533 | 2,660 | ▲2 |
| 20 | /.env.old | 3,748 | 591 | 2,637 | ▲4 |
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