kaspersky.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, kaspersky.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

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top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.kaspersky.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 9efe9b0f74014e7b… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsnamed in its own group
OAI-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
ChatGPT-Userallowsnamed in its own group
ClaudeBotallowsnamed in its own group
Claude-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-Userallowsnamed in its own group
PerplexityBotallowsnamed in its own group
Perplexity-Userallowsnamed in its own group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsnamed in its own group
Applebot-Extendedallowsnamed in its own group
CCBotallowsnamed in its own group
Bytespiderallowsthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentallowsthrough the * group
Amazonbotallowsthrough the * group
Applebotallowsnamed in its own group
Claude-Weballowsnamed in its own group
DeepSeekBotallowsnamed in its own group
Diffbotallowsnamed in its own group
DuckAssistBotallowsnamed in its own group
MistralAI-Userallowsnamed in its own group
YouBotallowsnamed in its own group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtyes
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonnot observed
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)not observed
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header)no
Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Sends noai / noimageai directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

llms.txt: "Kaspersky | Global Cybersecurity & Digital Privacy Solutions", 44,633 bytes, 101 links.

robots.txt as recorded sha256 50f82072760ee767…

Sitemap: https://www.kaspersky.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /acq/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /rss-feeds
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /b2c-tools/
Disallow: /entp/
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /lp/
Disallow: /_svc/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /?slow=*
Disallow: /n/
Disallow: /wiki-section/feedback
Disallow: /templates/site-header_main-nav.html
Disallow: /templates/site-header_mega-menu__b2c.html
Disallow: /templates/site-header_mega-menu__res.html
Disallow: /resources/template/
Disallow: /renewal-center/
Disallow: /?serial=*
Disallow: *.json
Disallow: /Date

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /.well-known/amphtml/apikey.pub
Allow: /renewal-center/home
Allow: /renewal-center/business
Allow: /lp/mwc2025

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-28ok 2009efe9b0f7401

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
No changes since the first observation (2026-10-26).

Reconstructed history (Common Crawl)

From Common Crawl's robots.txt captures: what CCBot was served, one crawl per quarter. A separate series from the daily observations above; a 403 here means Common Crawl was refused, not this ledger.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04www.kaspersky.comabsentallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40www.kaspersky.comabsentallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36www.kaspersky.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of kaspersky.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/kaspersky.com