Headless browser fingerprinting

We fingerprint headless browsers for classification and attribution. Use our Instant Bot Test to see if we flag your bot, or get a more in-depth Bot Audit or our Industry Intelligence report on active threat intelligence bots.

Welcome to BotForensics

Our Services

  • Bot Audits: Detailed analysis of your bot or headless browser to identify specific weaknesses that allow websites to detect and block you. We provide actionable recommendations to improve your bot's stealth capabilities.
  • Industry Intelligence: Comparative analysis of threat intelligence bots across the industry. We rank bots on URL sources, connectivity, platform diversity, tooling detection, and interaction capabilities to help you understand how your bot compares to competitors, in many cases identifying the specific company behind each bot.

Use Cases

BotForensics serves a variety of use cases:

  • Threat Intelligence: Threat actors cloak their phishing sites from threat intelligence companies so they don't get taken down. They serve benign content to detected bots but deliver phishing pages or malware to real human users. To get accurate threat intelligence, your bot needs to be indistinguishable from a real browser.
  • Web Scraping: Many websites block automated access to protect their content. A bot audit helps you identify what makes your bot detectable so you can improve its stealth capabilities and avoid blocking.
  • Bot Detection: If you build bot detection technology you want to cover every signal you can find. We can make sure you're not missing anything.
  • AI Browser Detection: We can help detect and analyse AI-powered browsers like Comet, Atlas, and Dia that are increasingly used for automated browsing. Understanding how these tools are detected helps improve their capabilities or identify them when needed.

Currently the industry falls far short of the goal of making bots indistinguishable from real browsers. Every single vendor we have observed is easily blocked based on simple signals. BotForensics helps you identify and fix these weaknesses.