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URL: https://www.howtogeek.com/332838/what-is-the-wmi-provider-host-wmiprvse.exe-and-why-is-it-using-so-much-cpu/
Submission: On January 19 via manual from US
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Summary

This website contacted 15 IPs in 4 countries across 15 domains to perform 26 HTTP transactions. The main IP is 151.101.114.49, located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and belongs to FASTLY, US. The main domain is www.howtogeek.com.
TLS certificate: Issued by GlobalSign CloudSSL CA - SHA256 - G3 on July 11th 2019. Valid for: 6 months.
This is the only time www.howtogeek.com was scanned on urlscan.io!

urlscan.io Verdict: No classification

Domain & IP information

8    151.101.114.49 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN54113 (FASTLY, US)
www.howtogeek.com
1    2a00:1450:4001:80b::200a (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
fonts.googleapis.com
1    205.185.216.10 (Phoenix, United States)

ASN20446 (HIGHWINDS3, US)
PTR: map2.hwcdn.net
ads.servebom.com
2    2a03:2880:f02d:12:face:b00c:0:3 (Ireland)

ASN32934 (FACEBOOK, US)
connect.facebook.net
2    2a00:1450:4001:81c::2003 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
fonts.gstatic.com
2    2a00:1450:4001:800::2002 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
adservice.google.com
1    151.101.12.134 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN54113 (FASTLY, US)
howtogeek.disqus.com
2    2a00:1450:4001:81a::200e (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
www.google-analytics.com
1    91.228.74.203 (United Kingdom)

ASN27281 (QUANTCAST, US)
secure.quantserve.com
1    2a00:1450:4001:821::2002 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
adservice.google.de
2    2a03:2880:f12d:83:face:b00c:0:25de (Ireland)

ASN32934 (FACEBOOK, US)
www.facebook.com
1    2600:9000:21f3:b400:6:44e3:f8c0:93a1 (United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
rules.quantcount.com
1    2a00:1450:4001:808::2002 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
www.googletagservices.com
1    216.58.207.66 (Mountain View, United States)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
PTR: fra16s25-in-f2.1e100.net
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
Domain Requested by
8 www.howtogeek.com www.howtogeek.com
2 www.facebook.com www.howtogeek.com
connect.facebook.net
2 www.google-analytics.com www.howtogeek.com
2 fonts.gstatic.com www.howtogeek.com
2 connect.facebook.net www.howtogeek.com
connect.facebook.net
1 securepubads.g.doubleclick.net www.googletagservices.com
1 www.googletagservices.com ads.servebom.com
1 rules.quantcount.com secure.quantserve.com
1 adservice.google.com pagead2.googlesyndication.com
1 adservice.google.de pagead2.googlesyndication.com
1 secure.quantserve.com www.howtogeek.com
1 howtogeek.disqus.com www.howtogeek.com
1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com www.howtogeek.com
1 ads.servebom.com www.howtogeek.com
1 fonts.googleapis.com www.howtogeek.com
26 15
Subject Issuer Validity Valid
i2.shared.global.fastly.net
GlobalSign CloudSSL CA - SHA256 - G3		 2019-07-11 -
2020-01-22		 6 months crt.sh
*.storage.googleapis.com
GTS CA 1O1		 2019-12-20 -
2020-03-13		 3 months crt.sh
ads.servebom.com
DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA		 2018-10-02 -
2020-10-06		 2 years crt.sh
*.facebook.com
DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA		 2019-12-06 -
2020-03-05		 3 months crt.sh
*.google.com
GTS CA 1O1		 2019-12-20 -
2020-03-13		 3 months crt.sh
*.g.doubleclick.net
GTS CA 1O1		 2019-12-20 -
2020-03-13		 3 months crt.sh
*.disqus.com
DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA		 2018-03-28 -
2020-04-27		 2 years crt.sh
*.google-analytics.com
GTS CA 1O1		 2019-12-20 -
2020-03-13		 3 months crt.sh
*.quantserve.com
DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA		 2019-10-04 -
2020-10-07		 a year crt.sh

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Primary Page: https://www.howtogeek.com/332838/what-is-the-wmi-provider-host-wmiprvse.exe-and-why-is-it-using-so-much-cpu/
Frame ID: B8F0ACF55C3BDD20B947D662F21DF524
Requests: 31 HTTP requests in this frame

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Detected technologies

Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • headers link /rel="https:\/\/api\.w\.org\/"/i
Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • headers link /rel="https:\/\/api\.w\.org\/"/i
Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • headers link /rel="https:\/\/api\.w\.org\/"/i

Page Statistics

26
Requests

100 %
HTTPS

64 %
IPv6

15
Domains

15
Subdomains

15
IPs

4
Countries

575 kB
Transfer

1445 kB
Size

4
Cookies

Redirected requests

There were HTTP redirect chains for the following requests:

26 HTTP transactions

Resource
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x-fer		 Type
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https://www.howtogeek.com/332838/what-is-the-wmi-provider-host-wmiprvse.exe-and-why-is-it-using-so-much-cpu/
Protocol
H2
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URL: https://www.howtogeek.com/332838/what-is-the-wmi-provider-host-wmiprvse.exe-and-why-is-it-using-so-much-cpu/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
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Software
ESF /
Resource Hash
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Referer
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User-Agent
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server
ESF
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*
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timing-allow-origin
*
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x-xss-protection
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expires
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Host: www.howtogeek.com
URL: https://www.howtogeek.com/332838/what-is-the-wmi-provider-host-wmiprvse.exe-and-why-is-it-using-so-much-cpu/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
151.101.114.49 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN54113 (FASTLY, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
/
Resource Hash
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Security Headers
Name Value
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X-Content-Type-Options nosniff

Request headers

Referer
https://www.howtogeek.com/332838/what-is-the-wmi-provider-host-wmiprvse.exe-and-why-is-it-using-so-much-cpu/
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36

Response headers

strict-transport-security
max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains; preload
x-content-type-options
nosniff
last-modified
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etag
W/"0"
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ads.servebom.com/ 		106 KB
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https://ads.servebom.com/tmnhead.js
Requested by
Host: www.howtogeek.com
URL: https://www.howtogeek.com/332838/what-is-the-wmi-provider-host-wmiprvse.exe-and-why-is-it-using-so-much-cpu/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
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Software
/
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Request headers

Referer
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User-Agent
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https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
Requested by
Host: www.howtogeek.com
URL: https://www.howtogeek.com/332838/what-is-the-wmi-provider-host-wmiprvse.exe-and-why-is-it-using-so-much-cpu/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
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Request headers

Referer
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User-Agent
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Response headers

strict-transport-security
max-age=31536000; preload; includeSubDomains
content-encoding
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DATA
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Software
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Resource Hash
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User-Agent
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Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2a00:1450:4001:81c::2003 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),
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H2
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Referer
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Response headers

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Protocol
H2
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Response headers

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