irs-update.ga - urlscan.io

Summary

This website contacted 2 IPs in 2 countries across 2 domains to perform 4 HTTP transactions. The main IP is 185.61.153.81, located in United Kingdom and belongs to NAMECHEAP-NET - Namecheap, Inc., US. The main domain is irs-update.ga.

This is the only time irs-update.ga was scanned on urlscan.io!

urlscan.io Verdict: Potentially Malicious

Targeting these brands: IRS (Government)

Domain & IP information

	IP Address	AS Autonomous System
1	185.61.153.81 185.61.153.81	22612 (NAMECHEAP...) (NAMECHEAP-NET - Namecheap)
3	23.66.227.135 23.66.227.135	16625 (AKAMAI-AS) (AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies)
4	2

1 185.61.153.81 (United Kingdom)

ASN22612 (NAMECHEAP-NET - Namecheap, Inc., US)
PTR: host61.registrar-servers.com

irs-update.ga	Domain lookup VirusTotal SecurityTrails crt.sh Censys Domaintools

3 23.66.227.135 (Cambridge, United States)

ASN16625 (AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US)
PTR: a23-66-227-135.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com

la2.www4.irs.gov	Domain lookup VirusTotal SecurityTrails crt.sh Censys Domaintools

	Apex Domain Subdomains	Transfer
3	irs.gov la2.www4.irs.gov
1	irs-update.ga irs-update.ga
4	2

	Domain	Requested by
3	la2.www4.irs.gov	irs-update.ga
1	irs-update.ga
4	2

This site contains links to these domains. Also see Links.

Domain
la2.www4.irs.gov
www.irs.gov

Subject Issuer	Validity	Valid

This page contains 1 frames:

Primary Page: http://irs-update.ga/rss.htm
Frame ID: (53260AB18A184FEAD29E5F0CCE727426)
Requests: 4 HTTP requests in this frame

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Detected technologies

Apache (Web Servers) Expand

Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns

headers server /(?:Apache(?:$|\/([\d.]+)|[^\/-])|(?:^|)HTTPD)/i

Page Statistics

4
Requests

0 %
HTTPS

0 %
IPv6

2
Domains

2
Subdomains

2
IPs

2
Countries

0 kB
Transfer

69 kB
Size

0
Cookies

4 Outgoing links

These are links going to different origins than the main page.

URL: https://la2.www4.irs.gov/eauth/pub/registration/id_proofing.jsp#content
Title: Skip to main link

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URL: https://la2.www4.irs.gov/eauth/pub/registration/id_proofing.jsp
Title: Individual Tax ID Number (ITIN)

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URL: https://www.irs.gov/uac/Taxpayer-Identity-Verification-Information#formataddress
Title: Address Help

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: http://www.irs.gov/uac/IRS-Privacy-Policy
Title: IRS Privacy Policy

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Redirected requests

There were HTTP redirect chains for the following requests:

4 HTTP transactions
0 data transactions

Method
Protocol Status Resource
Path Size
x-fer Time
Latency Type
MIME-Type IP
Location

GET
H/1.1 200
OK Primary Request rss.htm Show response
irs-update.ga/ 60 KB
0 67ms
38ms Document
text/html 185.61.153.81
Namecheap

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Full URL: http://irs-update.ga/rss.htm
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Server: 185.61.153.81 , United Kingdom, ASN22612 (NAMECHEAP-NET - Namecheap, Inc., US),
Reverse DNS: host61.registrar-servers.com
Software: Apache /
Resource Hash: 60aa0bee39a221e0a2982a6471323b3cdaf53487f4e7058e67650d7edb6bb298

Request headers

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: irs-update.ga
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36

Response headers

Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:14:53 GMT
Content-Encoding: gzip
Last-Modified: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:29:54 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 10717

GET
H/1.1 200
OK logo.png
la2.www4.irs.gov/eauth/pub/common/images/ 3 KB
0 2672ms
104ms Image
image/png 23.66.227.135
Akamai Technologies

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Full URL

https://la2.www4.irs.gov/eauth/pub/common/images/logo.png

Requested by

Host: irs-update.ga
URL: http://irs-update.ga/rss.htm

Protocol

HTTP/1.1

Server

23.66.227.135 Cambridge, United States, ASN16625 (AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US),

Reverse DNS

a23-66-227-135.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com

Software

Apache /

Resource Hash

b831fccf6dfafa26d4eb3d51369ed026b733dbfd7850217b15511e1266d96115

Security Headers

Name	Value
Strict-Transport-Security	max-age=31536000
X-Frame-Options	SAMEORIGIN

Request headers

Referer: http://irs-update.ga/rss.htm
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36

Response headers

Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:14:55 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:39:16 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
ETag: "117f-a9c-4f29a48234900"
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
Content-Type: image/png
Cache-Control: max-age=21600
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2716
Expires: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:14:55 GMT

GET
H/1.1 200
OK button_cancel.jpg
la2.www4.irs.gov/eauth/pub/common/images/ 3 KB
0 2674ms
105ms Image
image/jpeg 23.66.227.135
Akamai Technologies

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Show headers Download Go to Show image

Full URL

https://la2.www4.irs.gov/eauth/pub/common/images/button_cancel.jpg

Requested by

Host: irs-update.ga
URL: http://irs-update.ga/rss.htm

Protocol

HTTP/1.1

Server

23.66.227.135 Cambridge, United States, ASN16625 (AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US),

Reverse DNS

a23-66-227-135.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com

Software

Apache /

Resource Hash

6f7e69c219478b0beeb4f21cab4877327b7b11d1a62edad40711a1dd7a79ad81

Security Headers

Name	Value
Strict-Transport-Security	max-age=31536000
X-Frame-Options	SAMEORIGIN

Request headers

Referer: http://irs-update.ga/rss.htm
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36

Response headers

Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:14:55 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 03 May 2016 18:02:36 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
ETag: "1123-b82-531f3e9fc6700"
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Cache-Control: max-age=21600
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2946
Expires: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:14:55 GMT

GET
H/1.1 200
OK button_continue.jpg
la2.www4.irs.gov/eauth/pub/common/images/ 4 KB
0 2704ms
136ms Image
image/jpeg 23.66.227.135
Akamai Technologies

General

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Show headers Download Go to Show image

Full URL

https://la2.www4.irs.gov/eauth/pub/common/images/button_continue.jpg

Requested by

Host: irs-update.ga
URL: http://irs-update.ga/rss.htm

Protocol

HTTP/1.1

Server

23.66.227.135 Cambridge, United States, ASN16625 (AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US),

Reverse DNS

a23-66-227-135.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com

Software

Apache /

Resource Hash

bdc4582b3b46dc5aae384af5959b1a7ba77e8deb7197ea0f3758c1be31eed4a1

Security Headers

Name	Value
Strict-Transport-Security	max-age=31536000
X-Frame-Options	SAMEORIGIN

Request headers

Referer: http://irs-update.ga/rss.htm
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36

Response headers

Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:14:55 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 03 May 2016 18:02:34 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
ETag: "112b-ebc-531f3e9dde280"
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Cache-Control: max-age=21600
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3772
Expires: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:14:55 GMT

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Potentially malicious activity detected
Disclaimer: These verdicts should be used to detect potentially malicious websites, not as a final verdict!

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Phishing against: IRS (Government)

2 JavaScript Global Variables

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object| onafterprint object| onbeforeprint

0 Cookies

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Indicators

This is a term in the security industry to describe indicators such as IPs, Domains, Hashes, etc. This does not imply that any of these indicate malicious activity.

irs-update.ga
la2.www4.irs.gov
185.61.153.81
23.66.227.135
60aa0bee39a221e0a2982a6471323b3cdaf53487f4e7058e67650d7edb6bb298
6f7e69c219478b0beeb4f21cab4877327b7b11d1a62edad40711a1dd7a79ad81
b831fccf6dfafa26d4eb3d51369ed026b733dbfd7850217b15511e1266d96115
bdc4582b3b46dc5aae384af5959b1a7ba77e8deb7197ea0f3758c1be31eed4a1

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Summary

urlscan.io Verdict: Potentially Malicious

Domain & IP information

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Detected technologies

Page Statistics

4 Requests

0 %HTTPS

0 %IPv6

2 Domains

2 Subdomains

2 IPs

2 Countries

0 kBTransfer

69 kBSize

0 Cookies

4 Outgoing links

Redirected requests

4 HTTP transactions Everything HTML Script AJAX CSS Image Expand all 0 data transactions

Request headers

Response headers

Request headers

Response headers

Request headers

Response headers

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Response headers

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2 JavaScript Global Variables

0 Cookies

Indicators

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4
Requests

0 %
HTTPS

0 %
IPv6

2
Domains

2
Subdomains

2
IPs

2
Countries

0 kB
Transfer

69 kB
Size

0
Cookies

4 HTTP transactions
0 data transactions

Potentially malicious activity detected
Disclaimer: These verdicts should be used to detect potentially malicious websites, not as a final verdict!