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urlscan Pro — Inline Matching, System-Labels, User-Tags

As we welcome the year 2024, we wanted to update you on what we have been working on in the second half of 2023 and announce the new features that are launching today. These changes will have a profound impact for our customer workflows and our own detection and classification abilities.

Saved Searches — A success story

When we launched Saved Searches in 2022 for our scans and hostnames feeds, we did not envision how popular this feature would turn out to be. Initially, Saved Searches were meant as a convenient way to bookmark a search term within the urlscan Pro platform. The Subscriptions feature allowed customers to receive notifications for any new items that matched their Saved Searches.

Over the past year, the value of Saved Searches to customers has become abundantly clear. Right now we manage more than 3000 Saved Searches and almost 1000 Subscriptions that have been created by our customers. Our subscription notification system sends out over 5000 emails a day.

Saved Searches and Subscriptions became even more important when we launched our Newly Observed Domains & Hostnames Feed in late 2022 and urlscan Observe earlier this year. Since then, many of our customers have set up Saved Searches to look for domains impersonating their brand or targeting their workforce. Our feed captures 2.5 million new domains and hostnames every day, so having an expressive search ability to find and alert on interesting hits is crucial.

Today we are launching major improvements for Saved Searches, Subscriptions and collaboration within the urlscan Pro platform.

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Announcing urlscan Observe

urlscan.io has always been a powerful tool for scanning and investigating suspicious websites. Our platform is used by hundreds of customers and tens of thousands of community users to scan suspicious URLs. Up until now, the majority of these scans were initiated by customers.

Today we are announcing the general availability of urlscan Observe, our new and integrated hands-off monitoring system on the urlscan Pro platform. urlscan Observe ties together our extensive data collection with our notification and scanning features to drive fast and automated monitoring of suspected malicious infrastructure.

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Internet-Wide IPv4 Scan Data

We are now offering raw download access to the following datasets to interested customers:

  • Weekly Internet-wide scans of the whole IPv4 space on ports tcp/80 and tcp/443.
  • JSON output containing TLS certificates and HTTP responses.
  • More than 200GB of compressed raw data available per week.
  • More than 40 million HTTP responses on tcp/80 and more than 35 million on tcp/443.

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Scan Visibility Best Practices

This post talks about the different scan visibilities available on urlscan.io, which visibility you should use for different purposes and how to review your submission results on urlscan.io to detect and prevent inadvertent information leaks.

tl;dr: Understand the different scan visibilities, review your own scans for non-public information, review your automated submission workflows, enforce a maximum scan visibility for your account and work with us to clean non-public data from urlscan.io!

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urlscan Pro - Product Updates for Q2 / 2022

Today marks the last day of major features releases we had planned for Q2. This post will cover the highlights of new functionality in our urlscan Pro platform.

Saved Searches & Subscriptions

You can now save a search in urlscan Pro to be able to run it again later. On top of that, you can also receive an email alert whenever there are new hits for your saved searches. This allows you to create a number of hunt queries which might only trigger occasionally and automatically receive notifications when there are new hits.

Search UI Improvements

The Search page in urlscan Pro was significantly improved:

  • Filters are a convenient way to add, remove and invert pre-defined common search filters. We have a list of pre-defined filters that you can work with.
  • In the Search view, the new Aggregations list shows you aggregate information from your search results and allows you to further filter your results by adding another facet to your filters.
  • The new quick filter dialog also contains completions for the Brand Names that we track in urlscan Pro.
  • Whenever you have created an interesting search, you can now save it as a Saved Search directly from the search UI.
  • You can also use the new CSV Export feature to retrieve the results as a CSV file.

File Downloads

In the process of scanning websites, urlscan.io will sometimes encounter file downloads triggered by the website. If we are able to successfully download the file, we will store it, hash it and make it available for downloading by our customers.

To highlight this stream of data, we have created a separate Downloads section which contains the most recent file downloads and highlights the information we store for each downloaded file. There is a dedicated Help Section on Downloads which talks about API use and known limitations of this feature.

Live Scanning

The following features were added to the the Live Scanning UI:

  • Additional devices available for device emulation (iPhone 12, 13, etc)
  • Scanners can be selected via a new Select All button
  • Scanner Details can be shown, such as the current exit IP, AS and VPN provider
  • Scan Results have been cleaned up to give a better overview
  • Outgoing Links can now be scanned with a dedicated button
  • Available Live Scan Quotas are shown within the scanning UI

urlscan Pro Trial

If you would like to take urlscan Pro for a spin just reach out to sales@urlscan.io. We offer 30-day free trials with no strings attached.


Visual Search and Live Scanning APIs GA

As of today, our Live Scanning and Visual Search features are no longer considered Beta. The APIs for these features are now stable and can be used in production use-cases. Customers on our Professional and Enterprise subscription tiers will find API documentation for these features in the urlscan Pro platform.

Visual Search allows users to find historical scans with visually similar screenshots to a scan of interest. This type of feature is also called Content-Based Image Retrieval. Check out the accompanying blog-post to learn more.

Live Scanning

Live Scanning allows you to scan websites quickly, from different locations, and with different browser options. Scan results are not automatically saved to urlscan.io, but you can use Store Scan if you want to archive a particular scan result.

Live Scanning is a very versatile capability that can be used for a number of common scenarios, including Reconnaisance, Change Monitoring and Remote File Retrieval.

urlscan Pro Trial

If you would like to take urlscan Pro for a spin just reach out to sales@urlscan.io. We offer 30-day free trials with no strings attached.


Visual Search

Today we are launching Visual Search which is a powerful new search feature available through our urlscan Pro - Threat Hunting platform.

urlscan Pro - Visual Search

Use-Cases

Visual Search allows users to find historical scans with visually similar screenshots to a scan of interest. This type of feature is also called Content-Based Image Retrieval. Instead of querying for historical scans using a structured textual query (such as search for a hostname or an IP address), Visual Search uses an existing screenshot image as the query. Visual Search works similar to popular Reverse Image-Search engines like Google’s Search by Image and the TinEye Reverse Image Search. Customers will be able to leverage Visual Search feature to discover previously undetected cases of brand impersonation or similar phishing pages based on the visual appearance of those sites.

Availability

Visual Search is available today through the urlscan Pro portal. The feature is currently in Beta until its API is finalized over the next few weeks. Further information about Visual Search is available to customers on the urlscan Pro platform.

urlscan Pro Trial

If you would like to take urlscan Pro for a spin just reach out to sales@urlscan.io. We offer 30-day free trials with no strings attached.


Search: New searchable attributes

Today we are launching a major overhaul to our search index powering our urlscan.io and urlscan Pro platforms. This release will offer new functionality to community and paid users. We have gathered customer feedback and internal use-cases and came up with a list of additional attributes that would be helpful to search on. This post outlines the highlights of new available search attributes. All of the new searchable fields have been integrated in a backward compatible fashion, which means that any search which previously worked on urlscan.io will continue to work.

The full list of searchable fields is available on the Search API Reference page.

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