RedactusWebClassifier is an AI agent in the security scanners category, operated by Redactus.
Web classifier: fetches a site’s homepage to assign a category and rechecks periodically.
Security scanners probe sites for vulnerabilities, certificates and exposed services. Some are research projects, some are vendors you hired. Allow your own scanners and block the rest at the WAF.
RedactusWebClassifier identifies itself with this user agent string:
RedactusWebClassifier/1.0Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
We have not confirmed whether RedactusWebClassifier follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: RedactusWebClassifier Disallow: /
User-agent: RedactusWebClassifier Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: RedactusWebClassifier Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: RedactusWebClassifier Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: RedactusWebClassifier group, RedactusWebClassifier ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.RedactusWebClassifier from RedactusWebClassifier's user agent; check Redactus's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Allow RedactusWebClassifier if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersRedactusWebClassifier is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow RedactusWebClassifier only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf RedactusWebClassifier is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows RedactusWebClassifier by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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RedactusWebClassifier is an AI agent in the security scanners category, operated by Redactus. Web classifier: fetches a site’s homepage to assign a category and rechecks periodically.
We have not confirmed whether RedactusWebClassifier follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: RedactusWebClassifier" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "RedactusWebClassifier" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so RedactusWebClassifier may not follow it, and anyone can send RedactusWebClassifier's user agent, so a fake RedactusWebClassifier ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Security scanners probe sites for vulnerabilities, certificates and exposed services. Some are research projects, some are vendors you hired. Allow your own scanners and block the rest at the WAF.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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