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URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Submission: On December 05 via api from TR — Scanned from NZ
 Behaviour Indicators
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Verdicts

Summary

This website contacted 8 IPs in 3 countries across 4 domains to perform 21 HTTP transactions. The main IP is 52.38.211.32, 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 472635.
TLS certificate: Issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M02 on June 14th 2024. 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
10 52.38.211.32 16509 (AMAZON-02)
1 2404:6800:400... 15169 (GOOGLE)
2 18.67.93.99 16509 (AMAZON-02)
1 2600:9000:221... 16509 (AMAZON-02)
3 142.251.221.67 15169 (GOOGLE)
3 108.158.32.29 16509 (AMAZON-02)
1 3.126.133.169 16509 (AMAZON-02)
21 8
10    52.38.211.32 (Boardman, United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: ec2-52-38-211-32.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
www.helpnetsecurity.com
1    2404:6800:4006:811::200a (Sydney, Australia)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
fonts.googleapis.com
2    18.67.93.99 (United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: server-18-67-93-99.syd62.r.cloudfront.net
img2.helpnetsecurity.com
1    2600:9000:2212:bc00:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1 (United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
cdn.matomo.cloud
3    142.251.221.67 (Farmingdale, United States)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
PTR: syd09s31-in-f3.1e100.net
fonts.gstatic.com
3    108.158.32.29 (United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: server-108-158-32-29.syd3.r.cloudfront.net
img.helpnetsecurity.com
1    3.126.133.169 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: ec2-3-126-133-169.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com
helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud
Apex Domain
Subdomains		 Transfer
15 helpnetsecurity.com
www.helpnetsecurity.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 472635
img2.helpnetsecurity.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 934887
img.helpnetsecurity.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 810152
188 KB
3 gstatic.com
fonts.gstatic.com
54 KB
2 matomo.cloud
cdn.matomo.cloud — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 17022
helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud
40 KB
1 googleapis.com
fonts.googleapis.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 29
1 KB
21 4
Domain Requested by
10 www.helpnetsecurity.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
3 img.helpnetsecurity.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
3 fonts.gstatic.com fonts.googleapis.com
2 img2.helpnetsecurity.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
1 helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud cdn.matomo.cloud
1 cdn.matomo.cloud www.helpnetsecurity.com
1 fonts.googleapis.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
21 7
Subject Issuer Validity Valid
*.helpnetsecurity.com
Amazon RSA 2048 M02		 2024-06-14 -
2025-07-12		 a year crt.sh
upload.video.google.com
WR2		 2024-10-21 -
2025-01-13		 3 months crt.sh
img2.helpnetsecurity.com
Amazon RSA 2048 M03		 2024-06-13 -
2025-07-12		 a year crt.sh
cdn.matomo.cloud
Amazon RSA 2048 M02		 2024-09-25 -
2025-10-23		 a year crt.sh
*.gstatic.com
WR2		 2024-10-21 -
2025-01-13		 3 months crt.sh
img.helpnetsecurity.com
Amazon RSA 2048 M02		 2024-06-13 -
2025-07-12		 a year crt.sh
*.matomo.cloud
Amazon RSA 2048 M02		 2024-05-21 -
2025-06-19		 a year crt.sh

This page contains 1 frames:

Primary Page: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Frame ID: A0316CF8F5A27AF54CD12E94A1BEB381
Requests: 23 HTTP requests in this frame

Screenshot
Live screenshot
Full Image

Page Title

How widespread is mercenary spyware? More than you think - Help Net Security

Detected technologies

Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • <link rel=["']stylesheet["'] [^>]+/wp-(?:content|includes)/
  • /wp-(?:content|includes)/
Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • <!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast (?:WordPress )?SEO plugin v([\d.]+) -
Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • <link[^>]* href=[^>]+fonts\.(?:googleapis|google)\.com

Page Statistics

21
Requests

100 %
HTTPS

29 %
IPv6

4
Domains

7
Subdomains

8
IPs

3
Countries

284 kB
Transfer

593 kB
Size

1
Cookies

Redirected requests

There were HTTP redirect chains for the following requests:

21 HTTP transactions

Resource
Path		 Size
x-fer		 Type
MIME-Type
Primary Request /
www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/ 		74 KB
19 KB 		Document
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.38.211.32 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-38-211-32.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) / PHP/8.0.27
Resource Hash
eb72abf6a362a55064165a9ac31036ce2040fd8606d5bd940d19917a331fff8f

Request headers

Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
1
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
content-length
19190
content-type
text/html; charset=UTF-8
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:50 GMT
link
<https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/" <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/318612>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json" <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/?p=318612>; rel=shortlink
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
x-powered-by
PHP/8.0.27
x-ua-compatible
IE=edge
form-themes.css
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/assets/css/ 		7 KB
1 KB 		Stylesheet
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/assets/css/form-themes.css?ver=4.9.19
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.38.211.32 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-38-211-32.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
bcd3e29ac3fd83b7c69ff7b7476b67aa0c2d07b4bf5089e1f767823856c78c19

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
1250
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:50 GMT
content-type
text/css; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:03:30 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
css
fonts.googleapis.com/ 		19 KB
1 KB 		Stylesheet
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
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/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2404:6800:4006:811::200a Sydney, Australia, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
ESF /
Resource Hash
ed69c4ed0fdacaea8bef1568a5fbd7126e45d6d6dc9529896e07b588202ba59d
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

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
x-content-type-options
nosniff
expires
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:50 GMT
alt-svc
h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:50 GMT
content-type
text/css; charset=utf-8
vary
Sec-Fetch-Dest, Sec-Fetch-Mode, Sec-Fetch-Site
last-modified
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:50 GMT
x-frame-options
SAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-security
max-age=31536000
link
<https://fonts.gstatic.com>; rel=preconnect; crossorigin
cache-control
private, max-age=86400, stale-while-revalidate=604800
timing-allow-origin
*
cross-origin-opener-policy
same-origin-allow-popups
cross-origin-resource-policy
cross-origin
access-control-allow-origin
*
x-xss-protection
0
server
ESF
style.1732889010.css
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns24/ 		145 KB
17 KB 		Stylesheet
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns24/style.1732889010.css?ver=6.6.2
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.38.211.32 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-38-211-32.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
bd6199333391e5f5fb8626954b05c022471fef96112719e70106b66fc309cc26

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
17681
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:50 GMT
content-type
text/css; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:03:30 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
devider.webp
img2.helpnetsecurity.com/posts2024/ 		456 B
854 B 		Image
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to Show image
Full URL
https://img2.helpnetsecurity.com/posts2024/devider.webp
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
18.67.93.99 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
server-18-67-93-99.syd62.r.cloudfront.net
Software
AmazonS3 /
Resource Hash
b2e0adc4bd916a5430a7ec0e7266bfca39add41603200ad1c550e5ac217f6b32

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/

Response headers

x-amz-version-id
hmBAxhHfQIRAoril4A7lCkLTnyAbJGuO
etag
"c567eafd95ea7b1cd96648c53c6598c7"
age
57952
via
1.1 2e05fb1b0c75f8ef4c701fadb0b27fd8.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
accept-ranges
bytes
x-cache
Hit from cloudfront
content-length
456
x-amz-cf-id
BBqP5SRc-crIBBId3GWlQDnWkGUxIfp9gAzp75kZltlh-rZBDbbt5w==
date
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:05:59 GMT
content-type
image/webp
last-modified
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:44:43 GMT
server
AmazonS3
x-amz-cf-pop
SYD62-P1
x-amz-server-side-encryption
AES256
newsletter_ad-550x98px_5.webp
img2.helpnetsecurity.com/posts2024/ 		15 KB
15 KB 		Image
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to Show image
Full URL
https://img2.helpnetsecurity.com/posts2024/newsletter_ad-550x98px_5.webp
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
18.67.93.99 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
server-18-67-93-99.syd62.r.cloudfront.net
Software
AmazonS3 /
Resource Hash
14fb0d8b66a19ca6a5d0fc13e839dc3715449cf267e21a8d68bc0dde474d4760

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/

Response headers

vary
accept-encoding
x-amz-version-id
xIcjVGsr2e0IuYo_9ZLGaaTnp5SZzCmE
etag
"6ca863b215959bcc5ccb0b9e84aab2a7"
age
7393
via
1.1 2e05fb1b0c75f8ef4c701fadb0b27fd8.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
accept-ranges
bytes
x-cache
Hit from cloudfront
content-length
15032
x-amz-cf-id
2TJ3UU0TFmBkzJ8FPomXLAfgUHcM4NKB6m4iqnCUrBFzvr6ziBh1BA==
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:10:10 GMT
content-type
image/webp
last-modified
Tue, 07 May 2024 11:15:37 GMT
server
AmazonS3
x-amz-cf-pop
SYD62-P1
x-amz-server-side-encryption
AES256
1589d4187c.js
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/ 		4 KB
2 KB 		Script
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/1589d4187c.js?ver=14.11.3
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.38.211.32 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-38-211-32.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
836f5db97d300542c3428495150bf312a4ee5de1d99715f360cb6d42f96989e3

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
1347
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:50 GMT
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:03:28 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
ads.dist.js
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns24/assets/js/ 		236 B
387 B 		Script
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns24/assets/js/ads.dist.js?ver=6.6.2
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.38.211.32 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-38-211-32.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
166432cf26cb865bf0f1fbf25501d16871d19686bc018d426e59c23ffd8087b6

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
192
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:50 GMT
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:03:40 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
forms.js
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/assets/js/ 		6 KB
3 KB 		Script
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/assets/js/forms.js?ver=4.9.19
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.38.211.32 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-38-211-32.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
739d93ee10d220cd2d44f5bcb6956c99b3f9ba70647176e5f6bb0186ed0233c2

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
2605
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:51 GMT
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:03:30 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
ajax-forms.js
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mc4wp-premium/ajax-forms/assets/js/ 		3 KB
2 KB 		Script
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mc4wp-premium/ajax-forms/assets/js/ajax-forms.js?ver=4.10.5
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.38.211.32 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-38-211-32.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
77e309bea37f3a1b822f94c9b20d5ae0533a24c3446da5686396e4f5518fd700

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
1531
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:51 GMT
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:03:40 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
matomo.js
cdn.matomo.cloud/helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/ 		135 KB
40 KB 		Script
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://cdn.matomo.cloud/helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/matomo.js
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2600:9000:2212:bc00:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
CloudFront /
Resource Hash
371e99b1570fa00de0657d00a91fb4978de157493521be01c1ee094756e3ad54
Security Headers
Name Value
Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
x-amz-version-id
lcznXZYAHwNAVClmTnwbOJ0YLbMOx9bp
etag
W/"1e7a8d39740aec03690028dc19709450"
age
7870
alt-svc
h3=":443"; ma=86400
x-cache
Hit from cloudfront
x-amz-cf-id
75hEGMyxwOAU6CRJo8soJVe_yqI9Y9GEXxi7z2_jldY5wuUtuPooQw==
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:42 GMT
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:41:05 GMT
vary
accept-encoding
strict-transport-security
max-age=31536000
cache-control
max-age=691200
via
1.1 2232887ba0422bbe2b2a9f1ebf020f00.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop
SYD62-P1
server
CloudFront
truncated
/ 		448 B
0 		Image
General
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data:truncated
Protocol
DATA
Server
-, , ASN (),
Reverse DNS
Software
/
Resource Hash
9c34cb6a9452fb85aae9261facc001e5ddabbc244205164b7cb2d02a41ce7e57

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer

Response headers

Content-Type
image/svg+xml
truncated
/ 		1 KB
0 		Image
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data:truncated
Protocol
DATA
Server
-, , ASN (),
Reverse DNS
Software
/
Resource Hash
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User-Agent
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Origin
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
Referer
https://fonts.googleapis.com/

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age
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x-content-type-options
nosniff
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User-Agent
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Origin
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
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https://fonts.googleapis.com/

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age
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User-Agent
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Origin
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
Referer
https://fonts.googleapis.com/

Response headers

age
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x-content-type-options
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server
sffe
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Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
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Protocol
H2
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TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
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SYD3-P2
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AES256
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H2
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TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
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User-Agent
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Content-Type
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noindex
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nosniff
referrer-policy
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content-type
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server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
x-frame-options
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Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
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Security Headers
Name Value
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Request headers

User-Agent
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x-robots-tag
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no-cache
content-encoding
gzip
x-content-type-options
nosniff
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Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
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URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
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User-Agent
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Referer
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cache-control
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AmazonS3
x-amz-cf-pop
SYD3-P2
x-amz-server-side-encryption
AES256
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URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/04/detect-mercenary-spyware/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
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User-Agent
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cache-control
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x-amz-cf-pop
SYD3-P2
x-amz-server-side-encryption
AES256
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Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
3.126.133.169 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
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Software
Apache /
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Security Headers
Name Value
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Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Content-Type
application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/

Response headers

strict-transport-security
max-age=31536000
access-control-allow-origin
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:52 GMT
vary
X-Forwarded-Proto,User-Agent
server
Apache
access-control-allow-credentials
true
icon.svg
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Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.38.211.32 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
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Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
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Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
844
date
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:11:51 GMT
content-type
image/svg+xml
last-modified
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:03:30 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
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11 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.

object| _paq object| mc4wp object| WP_Statistics_Tracker_Object object| hns23Ajax object| hns23Params object| mc4wp_ajax_vars object| Piwik object| Matomo object| matomoAbTestingCampaignUrlParamList object| AnalyticsTracker function| piwik_log

1 Cookies

Domain/Path Name / Value
.helpnetsecurity.com/ Name: SSESS4decf0f010bae5a263354c26060a9ea3
Value: h48oithm8mdv5l67ak6umrn8jj

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
108.158.32.29
142.251.221.67
18.67.93.99
2404:6800:4006:811::200a
2600:9000:2212:bc00:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1
3.126.133.169
52.38.211.32
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