The most wanted files

Bots' most wanted file: /.env

Asked for 4,874 times by 697 scanners across 2,543 sites. They looked for .env in 1,772 different places.

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7,761

files hunted

▼ -22% vs the day before

1,772

.env spots

▼ -41% vs the day before

4,874

asks for #1

Most wanted requests

1 /.env 4,874 –

2 /.git/config 4,841 –

3 /download.php 2,809 ▲5

4 /.env.local 2,638 –

5 /.env.production 2,586 –

↳ Nothing there. They keep looking.

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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	4,874	697	2,543	–
2	/.git/config	4,841	1,173	2,533	–
3	/download.php	2,809	1,737	2	▲5
4	/.env.local	2,638	609	1,847	–
5	/.env.production	2,586	611	1,860	–
6	/_profiler/phpinfo	2,571	433	1,794	▲7
7	/.env.bak	2,442	540	1,887	–
8	/.env.backup	2,381	541	1,846	▼2
9	/.env.development	2,356	555	1,772	–
10	/.env.save	2,317	519	1,831	–
11	/.env.old	2,285	533	1,817	▲3
12	/.env.prod	2,271	506	1,792	▲4
13	/.env.test	2,269	511	1,821	▲8
14	/.env.example	2,201	473	1,769	▼2
15	/.env.staging	2,189	492	1,770	▲5
16	/.env.dev	2,176	490	1,770	▲6
17	/.env.dist	2,170	480	1,783	▲8
18	/.env.sample	2,150	481	1,774	▲15
19	/.env.live	2,138	487	1,730	▲7
20	/.env.swp	2,132	471	1,761	▲10

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