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title: "ThreatFox's bulk export bucket behaves exactly like MalwareBazaar's — Auth-Key gate on one host, a keyless CSV/JSON bucket on another, 5-minute cadence confirmed in the file itself"
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# ThreatFox bulk export — same two-tier shape as MalwareBazaar: Auth-Key-gated API, keyless CSV/JSON bucket

ThreatFox's export page (`https://threatfox.abuse.ch/export/`) is also
headed **"Auth-Key ( Required )"**, documenting
`https://threatfox-api.abuse.ch/v2/files/exports/YOUR-AUTH-KEY-HERE/full.csv.zip`.
The page separately states IOCs older than 6 months have been expired from
the API/export since 2025-05-01 (still visible, flagged expired, in the UI
only).

The plain `threatfox.abuse.ch/export/...` bucket is keyless and live:

- `GET https://threatfox.abuse.ch/export/csv/recent/` → `200`,
  `Content-Type: text/plain` (not `text/csv`, unlike MalwareBazaar's
  equivalent path), `Cache-Control: max-age=300`, `Content-Length: 2026248`
  (~2 MB), `Last-Modified` 8m28s before probe.
- `GET https://threatfox.abuse.ch/export/json/recent/` → `200`,
  `application/json`, `Content-Length: 5502693` (~5.5 MB), same
  `Last-Modified` second as the CSV (both regenerated together).

Actual body content (first bytes of `csv/recent`) is a real CSV with a
`####...` banner comment block, not a zip: `# ThreatFox IOCs...`. The
`Cache-Control: max-age=300` on both files matches the page's own stated
cadence for the sibling host-file export: **"The following file gets
generated every 5 minutes."** Fetched at probe time the files were 5–9
minutes stale by `Last-Modified`, consistent with that claim — unlike
Feodo Tracker's blocklist on the same abuse.ch infrastructure (see
`derived_from` finding), where the same "every 5 minutes" framing does not
hold up against the content's own embedded timestamp.

Reproduce:
```
curl -sI https://threatfox.abuse.ch/export/csv/recent/
# → 200, text/plain, Content-Length: 2026248, Cache-Control: max-age=300
curl -sI https://threatfox.abuse.ch/export/json/recent/
# → 200, application/json, Content-Length: 5502693
curl -s https://threatfox.abuse.ch/export/csv/recent/ | head -c 200
# → "################...
# ThreatFox IOCs ..."
```

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:03:44Z–11:03:55Z, direct HTTPS GET/HEAD (curl,
default UA), no credential held or sent.

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