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URL:
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
Submission: On October 17 via api (October 17th 2023, 1:56:57 pm UTC) from TR — Scanned from DE

Summary HTTP 13 Redirects Links 12 Behaviour Indicators

Summary

This website contacted 8 IPs in 2 countries across 4 domains to perform 13 HTTP transactions. The main IP is 44.229.159.16, located in Boardman, United States and belongs to AMAZON-02, US. The main domain is www.helpnetsecurity.com. The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is 446291.
TLS certificate: Issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01 on July 16th 2023. Valid for: a year.

This is the only time www.helpnetsecurity.com was scanned on urlscan.io!

urlscan.io Verdict: No classification

Domain & IP information

	IP Address	AS Autonomous System
4	44.229.159.16 44.229.159.16	16509 (AMAZON-02) (AMAZON-02)
1	2a00:1450:400... 2a00:1450:4001:806::200a	15169 (GOOGLE) (GOOGLE)
1	99.86.4.80 99.86.4.80	16509 (AMAZON-02) (AMAZON-02)
1	2600:9000:215... 2600:9000:2156:2a00:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1	16509 (AMAZON-02) (AMAZON-02)
3	2a00:1450:400... 2a00:1450:4001:831::2003	15169 (GOOGLE) (GOOGLE)
2	52.222.214.6 52.222.214.6	16509 (AMAZON-02) (AMAZON-02)
1	18.195.235.189 18.195.235.189	16509 (AMAZON-02) (AMAZON-02)
13	8

4 44.229.159.16 (Boardman, United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: ec2-44-229-159-16.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

www.helpnetsecurity.com	Domain lookup VirusTotal SecurityTrails crt.sh Censys Domaintools

1 2a00:1450:4001:806::200a (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)

fonts.googleapis.com	Domain lookup VirusTotal SecurityTrails crt.sh Censys Domaintools

1 99.86.4.80 (United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: server-99-86-4-80.fra6.r.cloudfront.net

img2.helpnetsecurity.com	Domain lookup VirusTotal SecurityTrails crt.sh Censys Domaintools

1 2600:9000:2156:2a00:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1 (United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)

cdn.matomo.cloud	Domain lookup VirusTotal SecurityTrails crt.sh Censys Domaintools

3 2a00:1450:4001:831::2003 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)

fonts.gstatic.com	Domain lookup VirusTotal SecurityTrails crt.sh Censys Domaintools

2 52.222.214.6 (United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: server-52-222-214-6.fra56.r.cloudfront.net

img.helpnetsecurity.com	Domain lookup VirusTotal SecurityTrails crt.sh Censys Domaintools

1 18.195.235.189 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: ec2-18-195-235-189.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com

helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud	Domain lookup VirusTotal SecurityTrails crt.sh Censys Domaintools

	Apex Domain Subdomains	Transfer
7	helpnetsecurity.com www.helpnetsecurity.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 446291 img2.helpnetsecurity.com img.helpnetsecurity.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 743788	492 KB
3	gstatic.com fonts.gstatic.com	47 KB
2	matomo.cloud cdn.matomo.cloud — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 18979 helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 988926	39 KB
1	googleapis.com fonts.googleapis.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 49	1 KB
13	4

	Domain	Requested by
4	www.helpnetsecurity.com	www.helpnetsecurity.com
3	fonts.gstatic.com	fonts.googleapis.com
2	img.helpnetsecurity.com	www.helpnetsecurity.com
1	helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud	cdn.matomo.cloud
1	cdn.matomo.cloud	www.helpnetsecurity.com
1	img2.helpnetsecurity.com	www.helpnetsecurity.com
1	fonts.googleapis.com	www.helpnetsecurity.com
13	7

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

Domain
twitter.com
www.linkedin.com
www.facebook.com
rmceoin.github.io
www.proofpoint.com
blog.sekoia.io
infosec.exchange
helpnet.link

Subject Issuer	Validity	Valid
*.helpnetsecurity.com Amazon RSA 2048 M01	`2023-07-16` - `2024-08-12`	a year	crt.sh
upload.video.google.com GTS CA 1C3	`2023-09-18` - `2023-12-11`	3 months	crt.sh
img2.helpnetsecurity.com Amazon RSA 2048 M01	`2023-07-14` - `2024-08-11`	a year	crt.sh
cdn.matomo.cloud Amazon RSA 2048 M01	`2023-02-24` - `2023-12-25`	10 months	crt.sh
*.gstatic.com GTS CA 1C3	`2023-09-18` - `2023-12-11`	3 months	crt.sh
img.helpnetsecurity.com Amazon RSA 2048 M01	`2023-07-14` - `2024-08-11`	a year	crt.sh
*.matomo.cloud Amazon RSA 2048 M02	`2023-06-21` - `2024-07-19`	a year	crt.sh

This page contains 1 frames:

Primary Page: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
Frame ID: B4C288606D4D76DB78EC8F02FF381117
Requests: 14 HTTP requests in this frame

Screenshot
Live screenshot

Full Image

Page Title

Researchers warn of increased malware delivery via fake browser updates - Help Net Security

Detected technologies

WordPress (CMS) Expand

Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns

<link rel=["']stylesheet["'] [^>]+/wp-(?:content|includes)/
/wp-(?:content|includes)/

Yoast SEO (SEO) Expand

Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns

<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast (?:WordPress )?SEO plugin v([\d.]+) -

Google Font API (Font Scripts) Expand

Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns

<link[^>]* href=[^>]+fonts\.(?:googleapis|google)\.com

Page Statistics

13
Requests

100 %
HTTPS

43 %
IPv6

4
Domains

7
Subdomains

8
IPs

2
Countries

580 kB
Transfer

861 kB
Size

1
Cookies

12 Outgoing links

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

URL: https://twitter.com/helpnetsecurity

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/helpnetsecurity

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://twitter.com/zeljkazorz

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/&title=Researchers%20warn%20of%20increased%20malware%20delivery%20via%20fake%20browser%20updates

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/&text=Researchers+warn+of+increased+malware+delivery+via+fake+browser+updates

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/&title=Researchers%20warn%20of%20increased%20malware%20delivery%20via%20fake%20browser%20updates&source=https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://rmceoin.github.io/malware-analysis/clearfake/
Title: explained

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://www.proofpoint.com/uk/blog/threat-insight/are-you-sure-your-browser-date-current-landscape-fake-browser-updates
Title: Proofpoint

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://blog.sekoia.io/clearfake-a-newcomer-to-the-fake-updates-threats-landscape/
Title: shared

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://infosec.exchange/@monitorsg
Title: @monitorsg

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://helpnet.link/x3m
Title: eBook: Cybersecurity career hacks for newcomers

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

URL: https://helpnet.link/h19

Search URL Search Domain Scan URL

Redirected requests

There were HTTP redirect chains for the following requests:

13 HTTP transactions
1 data transactions

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

GET
H2 200 Primary Request / Show response
www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/ 66 KB
17 KB 3413ms
3004ms Document
text/html 44.229.159.16
AMAZON-02

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Full URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
Protocol: H2
Security: TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server: 44.229.159.16 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS: ec2-44-229-159-16.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software: Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) / PHP/8.0.27
Resource Hash: 4db0a64a2957e9830047062dd588feb61efee64f2319406504461df66bc3c9bb

Request headers

Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36
accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9

Response headers

content-encoding: gzip
content-length: 16831
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:56:49 GMT
link: <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/" <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/279595>; rel="alternate"; type="application/json" <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/?p=279595>; rel=shortlink
server: Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-powered-by: PHP/8.0.27
x-ua-compatible: IE=edge

GET
H2 200 css
fonts.googleapis.com/ 18 KB
1 KB 39ms
17ms Stylesheet
text/css 2a00:1450:4001:806::200a
GOOGLE

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Full URL

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A300%2C300i%2C400%2C400i%2C500%2C500i%2C700%2C700i&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&display=swap

Requested by

Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/

Protocol

Security

TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM

Server

2a00:1450:4001:806::200a Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),

Reverse DNS

Software

ESF /

Resource Hash

dde53fc96d217470fc220747f3deb58f7078ca339b91f2bdcfd6dc244db34b5a

Security Headers

Name	Value
Strict-Transport-Security	max-age=31536000
X-Content-Type-Options	nosniff
X-Frame-Options	SAMEORIGIN
X-Xss-Protection	0

Request headers

accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000
date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:56:52 GMT
content-encoding: gzip
x-content-type-options: nosniff
cross-origin-resource-policy: cross-origin
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
x-xss-protection: 0
last-modified: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:56:52 GMT
server: ESF
cross-origin-opener-policy: same-origin-allow-popups
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
content-type: text/css; charset=utf-8
access-control-allow-origin: *
cache-control: private, max-age=86400, stale-while-revalidate=604800
timing-allow-origin: *
link: <https://fonts.gstatic.com>; rel=preconnect; crossorigin
expires: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:56:52 GMT

GET
H2 200 style.1697548178.css
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns25/ 143 KB
17 KB 190ms
189ms Stylesheet
text/css 44.229.159.16
AMAZON-02

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Full URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns25/style.1697548178.css?ver=6.3.2
Requested by: Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
Protocol: H2
Security: TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server: 44.229.159.16 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS: ec2-44-229-159-16.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software: Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash: 1835fb0484e18733a713ff241c8a4ac11c3bba3feac1988b192087ba8578e88d

Request headers

accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:56:52 GMT
content-encoding: gzip
last-modified: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:09:38 GMT
server: Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary: Accept-Encoding
content-type: text/css; charset=utf-8
accept-ranges: bytes
content-length: 17242

GET
H2 200 clearfake-download.jpg
img2.helpnetsecurity.com/posts2023/ 60 KB
61 KB 53ms
11ms Image
image/jpeg 99.86.4.80
AMAZON-02

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Full URL: https://img2.helpnetsecurity.com/posts2023/clearfake-download.jpg
Requested by: Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
Protocol: H2
Security: TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server: 99.86.4.80 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS: server-99-86-4-80.fra6.r.cloudfront.net
Software: AmazonS3 /
Resource Hash: 54a6ae8e3988328c42726c6b428b853ff819065a6f0b2d2de8526e873ca355ea

Request headers

accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:09:55 GMT
x-amz-version-id: m3NYLiL7A1HakCGts8OLk23oLeEC6Kkj
via: 1.1 08bbe291f260c2b80a00874a80ade07c.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
last-modified: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:25:12 GMT
server: AmazonS3
x-amz-cf-pop: FRA6-C1
age: 13618
etag: "4a5c76c2d8d03548a719b6a5852f80a5"
x-amz-server-side-encryption: AES256
x-cache: Hit from cloudfront
content-type: image/jpeg
accept-ranges: bytes
content-length: 61752
x-amz-cf-id: dj_a8ercLOk7Y3cnQhg-Bp6C56dR5NRa0MJpBLsqshzHDIgtEjSGNw==

GET
H2 200 ads.dist.js Show response
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns25/assets/js/ 236 B
387 B 187ms
186ms Script
application/javascript 44.229.159.16
AMAZON-02

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Full URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns25/assets/js/ads.dist.js?ver=6.3.2
Requested by: Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
Protocol: H2
Security: TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server: 44.229.159.16 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS: ec2-44-229-159-16.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software: Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash: 166432cf26cb865bf0f1fbf25501d16871d19686bc018d426e59c23ffd8087b6

Request headers

accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:56:52 GMT
content-encoding: gzip
last-modified: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:09:37 GMT
server: Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary: Accept-Encoding
content-type: application/javascript; charset=utf-8
accept-ranges: bytes
content-length: 192

GET
H2 200 matomo.js Show response
cdn.matomo.cloud/helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/ 132 KB
39 KB 48ms
10ms Script
application/javascript 2600:9000:2156:2a00:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1
AMAZON-02

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Full URL: https://cdn.matomo.cloud/helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/matomo.js
Requested by: Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
Protocol: H2
Security: TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server: 2600:9000:2156:2a00:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
Software: AmazonS3 /
Resource Hash: 77bfadab52b22b3e95be56a1a4c1c9cba0f921c393ebe790bc5f6ba126b78b14

Request headers

accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:01:48 GMT
x-amz-version-id: gZEDSMbc08YoOfP4n8iLTJ3Ou3tTCWzf
content-encoding: gzip
via: 1.1 e6d97713eb9b65f883e0f86b833878dc.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop: FRA50-C1
age: 6905
x-amz-server-side-encryption: AES256
x-cache: Hit from cloudfront
x-amz-replication-status: COMPLETED
last-modified: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:28:01 GMT
server: AmazonS3
etag: W/"00865cc0afbc5cff0aad9569c165b479"
vary: Accept-Encoding
content-type: application/javascript; charset=utf-8
cache-control: max-age=691200
x-amz-cf-id: 1NjYeD8uT8gR0Hx21M_wj45zgQuvdhJ9nO3abkB0Zuph1xvckZpfMg==

GET
DATA 200
OK truncated
/ 448 B
0 Image
image/svg+xml

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Full URL: data:truncated
Protocol: DATA
Server: -, , ASN (),
Reverse DNS
Software: /
Resource Hash: 9c34cb6a9452fb85aae9261facc001e5ddabbc244205164b7cb2d02a41ce7e57

Request headers

accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

Content-Type: image/svg+xml

GET
H2 200 KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxK.woff2
fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/ 15 KB
16 KB 29ms
6ms Font
font/woff2 2a00:1450:4001:831::2003
GOOGLE

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Full URL

https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxK.woff2

Requested by

Host: fonts.googleapis.com
URL: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A300%2C300i%2C400%2C400i%2C500%2C500i%2C700%2C700i&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&display=swap

Protocol

Security

TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM

Server

2a00:1450:4001:831::2003 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),

Reverse DNS

Software

sffe /

Resource Hash

f6734f8177112c0839b961f96d813fcb189d81b60e96c33278c1983b6f419615

Security Headers

Name	Value
X-Content-Type-Options	nosniff
X-Xss-Protection	0

Request headers

Referer: https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Origin: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:12:51 GMT
x-content-type-options: nosniff
age: 423841
content-security-policy-report-only: require-trusted-types-for 'script'; report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/apps-themes
cross-origin-resource-policy: cross-origin
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
content-length: 15744
x-xss-protection: 0
last-modified: Wed, 11 May 2022 19:24:48 GMT
server: sffe
cross-origin-opener-policy: same-origin; report-to="apps-themes"
report-to: {"group":"apps-themes","max_age":2592000,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/report-to/apps-themes"}]}
content-type: font/woff2
access-control-allow-origin: *
cache-control: public, max-age=31536000
accept-ranges: bytes
timing-allow-origin: *
expires: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:12:51 GMT

GET
H2 200 KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc4.woff2
fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/ 15 KB
16 KB 31ms
8ms Font
font/woff2 2a00:1450:4001:831::2003
GOOGLE

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Full URL

https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc4.woff2

Requested by

Host: fonts.googleapis.com
URL: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A300%2C300i%2C400%2C400i%2C500%2C500i%2C700%2C700i&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&display=swap

Protocol

Security

TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM

Server

2a00:1450:4001:831::2003 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),

Reverse DNS

Software

sffe /

Resource Hash

f5aebdfea35d1e7656ef4acc5db1f243209755ae3300943ef8fc6280f363c860

Security Headers

Name	Value
X-Content-Type-Options	nosniff
X-Xss-Protection	0

Request headers

Referer: https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Origin: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:37:30 GMT
x-content-type-options: nosniff
age: 469162
content-security-policy-report-only: require-trusted-types-for 'script'; report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/apps-themes
cross-origin-resource-policy: cross-origin
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
content-length: 15860
x-xss-protection: 0
last-modified: Wed, 11 May 2022 19:24:42 GMT
server: sffe
cross-origin-opener-policy: same-origin; report-to="apps-themes"
report-to: {"group":"apps-themes","max_age":2592000,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/report-to/apps-themes"}]}
content-type: font/woff2
access-control-allow-origin: *
cache-control: public, max-age=31536000
accept-ranges: bytes
timing-allow-origin: *
expires: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:37:30 GMT

GET
H2 200 KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc4.woff2
fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/ 15 KB
15 KB 36ms
13ms Font
font/woff2 2a00:1450:4001:831::2003
GOOGLE

General

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Full URL

https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc4.woff2

Requested by

Host: fonts.googleapis.com
URL: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A300%2C300i%2C400%2C400i%2C500%2C500i%2C700%2C700i&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&display=swap

Protocol

Security

TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM

Server

2a00:1450:4001:831::2003 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),

Reverse DNS

Software

sffe /

Resource Hash

f75911313e1c7802c23345ab57e754d87801581706780c993fb23ff4e0fe62ef

Security Headers

Name	Value
X-Content-Type-Options	nosniff
X-Xss-Protection	0

Request headers

Referer: https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Origin: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 14:58:03 GMT
x-content-type-options: nosniff
age: 255529
content-security-policy-report-only: require-trusted-types-for 'script'; report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/apps-themes
cross-origin-resource-policy: cross-origin
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
content-length: 15740
x-xss-protection: 0
last-modified: Wed, 11 May 2022 19:24:56 GMT
server: sffe
cross-origin-opener-policy: same-origin; report-to="apps-themes"
report-to: {"group":"apps-themes","max_age":2592000,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/report-to/apps-themes"}]}
content-type: font/woff2
access-control-allow-origin: *
cache-control: public, max-age=31536000
accept-ranges: bytes
timing-allow-origin: *
expires: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:58:03 GMT

GET
H2 200 zeljka-200-100x100.jpg
img.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/06112548/ 3 KB
3 KB 48ms
8ms Image
image/jpeg 52.222.214.6
AMAZON-02

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Full URL: https://img.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/06112548/zeljka-200-100x100.jpg
Requested by: Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
Protocol: H2
Security: TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server: 52.222.214.6 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS: server-52-222-214-6.fra56.r.cloudfront.net
Software: AmazonS3 /
Resource Hash: f699f824214b10be5d5ae0db7d8e05b0f4ccbc0998c0bd04777afff7a8e3354d

Request headers

accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:01:49 GMT
x-amz-version-id: RR2ohXYS1QJXWyGP.VwfqEh8qw5za06X
via: 1.1 69cc5dd318e02cb1a7e8cb9951f553d8.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
last-modified: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 09:25:49 GMT
server: AmazonS3
x-amz-cf-pop: FRA56-P3
age: 1054504
etag: "2ded8817ae047a72de02708b19b208d9"
x-amz-server-side-encryption: AES256
x-cache: Hit from cloudfront
content-type: image/jpeg
cache-control: max-age=31536000
accept-ranges: bytes
content-length: 3094
x-amz-cf-id: hc6ESKBWAt1oCF_ecC2q7d9VFRSXjrdEA46sr9bYB9A-I-BAhtsVHw==

POST
H2 200 admin-ajax.php Show response
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-admin/ 1 KB
1 KB 255ms
252ms Fetch
text/html 44.229.159.16
AMAZON-02

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Full URL

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Requested by

Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/

Protocol

Security

TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM

Server

44.229.159.16 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),

Reverse DNS

ec2-44-229-159-16.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

Software

Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) / PHP/8.0.27

Resource Hash

8febea8eb847aeab7e5e972c5e54062d24b29a24de8bfe1dfd017653442cfc53

Security Headers

Name	Value
X-Content-Type-Options	nosniff
X-Frame-Options	SAMEORIGIN

Request headers

Referer: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/17/clearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates/
accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryKDB20Idv2gZeLJoK

Response headers

cf-edge-cache: no-cache
date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:56:52 GMT
content-encoding: gzip
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-powered-by: PHP/8.0.27
content-length: 641
x-ua-compatible: IE=edge
referrer-policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
server: Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
vary: Accept-Encoding
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
access-control-allow-origin: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
access-control-allow-credentials: true
x-robots-tag: noindex
expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT

POST
H2 204 matomo.php
helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/ 0
175 B 198ms
44ms Ping
text/plain 18.195.235.189
AMAZON-02

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Full URL: https://helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?action_name=Researchers%20warn%20of%20increased%20malware%20delivery%20via%20fake%20browser%20updates%20-%20Help%20Net%20Security&idsite=1&rec=1&r=171031&h=15&m=56&s=52&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.helpnetsecurity.com%2F2023%2F10%2F17%2Fclearfake-malware-fake-browser-updates%2F&_id=&_idn=1&send_image=0&_refts=0&pdf=1&qt=0&realp=0&wma=0&fla=0&java=0&ag=0&cookie=1&res=1600x1200&pv_id=SUjH5w&pf_net=409&pf_srv=3004&pf_tfr=2&pf_dm1=231&uadata=%7B%22fullVersionList%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22mobile%22%3Afalse%2C%22model%22%3A%22%22%2C%22platform%22%3A%22%22%2C%22platformVersion%22%3A%22%22%7D
Requested by: Host: cdn.matomo.cloud
URL: https://cdn.matomo.cloud/helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/matomo.js
Protocol: H2
Security: TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server: 18.195.235.189 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS: ec2-18-195-235-189.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com
Software: Apache /
Resource Hash: e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855

Request headers

Referer: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/
accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8

Response headers

access-control-allow-origin: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:56:52 GMT
access-control-allow-credentials: true
server: Apache
vary: X-Forwarded-Port-Override,X-Forwarded-Proto-Override,User-Agent

GET
H2 200 r1-cis8-hi.png
img.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/04093850/ 392 KB
393 KB 9ms
9ms Image
image/png 52.222.214.6
AMAZON-02

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Full URL: https://img.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/04093850/r1-cis8-hi.png
Protocol: H2
Security: TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server: 52.222.214.6 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS: server-52-222-214-6.fra56.r.cloudfront.net
Software: AmazonS3 /
Resource Hash: 64e07681d2d18b75d4f967582338d9c9adf4052c0250e32d716eda028a18ecb9

Request headers

accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 06:53:46 GMT
x-amz-version-id: b9j57kt1Oa5jK2hiZnko4crpUtZb9Y1a
via: 1.1 69cc5dd318e02cb1a7e8cb9951f553d8.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
last-modified: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:38:51 GMT
server: AmazonS3
x-amz-cf-pop: FRA56-P3
age: 111787
etag: "1429486bb5fb93a51ad6a1cb49e8c3d7"
x-amz-server-side-encryption: AES256
x-cache: Hit from cloudfront
content-type: image/png
cache-control: max-age=31536000
accept-ranges: bytes
content-length: 401318
x-amz-cf-id: AAwYVi5e_WinAK64jbGPhd0poFnp3lLaOuapE_rCR9PoPTZIaMfIVA==

Verdicts & Comments Add Verdict or Comment

7 JavaScript Global Variables

These are the non-standard "global" variables defined on the window object. These can be helpful in identifying possible client-side frameworks and code.

1 Cookies

Cookies are little pieces of information stored in the browser of a user. Whenever a user visits the site again, he will also send his cookie values, thus allowing the website to re-identify him even if he changed locations. This is how permanent logins work.

			Domain/Path	Expires	Name / Value
			.helpnetsecurity.com/	1969-12-31 23:59:59	Name: SSESS4decf0f010bae5a263354c26060a9ea3 Value: q54cgbap6mkpcguvjgakmiica8

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.

cdn.matomo.cloud
fonts.googleapis.com
fonts.gstatic.com
helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud
img.helpnetsecurity.com
img2.helpnetsecurity.com
www.helpnetsecurity.com
18.195.235.189
2600:9000:2156:2a00:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1
2a00:1450:4001:806::200a
2a00:1450:4001:831::2003
44.229.159.16
52.222.214.6
99.86.4.80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www.helpnetsecurity.com Open in urlscan Pro 44.229.159.16 Public Scan

Summary

urlscan.io Verdict: No classification

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Page Statistics

13 Requests

100 %HTTPS

43 %IPv6

4 Domains

7 Subdomains

8 IPs

2 Countries

580 kBTransfer

861 kBSize

1 Cookies

12 Outgoing links

Redirected requests

13 HTTP transactions Everything HTML Script AJAX CSS Image Expand all 1 data transactions

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7 JavaScript Global Variables

1 Cookies

Indicators

www.helpnetsecurity.com Open in urlscan Pro
44.229.159.16 Public Scan

Screenshot
Live screenshot

Full Image

13
Requests

100 %
HTTPS

43 %
IPv6

4
Domains

7
Subdomains

8
IPs

2
Countries

580 kB
Transfer

861 kB
Size

1
Cookies

13 HTTP transactions
1 data transactions