[SOLVED] Virustotal scan said url was clean. But when I clicked on the url, I was redirected. A subsequent Virustotal scan showed potential trouble.
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Virustotal scan said url was clean. But when I clicked on the url, I was redirected. A subsequent Virustotal scan showed potential trouble.
A "friend" in Facebook sent me this link. h ttps://tiktok.fb3lite.com/rQaDYRw
(I put a space between the "h"and "ttps" so no one would click on it accidentally. LQ kept illuminating it as a link)
I'm not very knowledgeable but I didn't like the looks of "base64-embedded" and "multiple-redirects." And when you click on "Details" it looks even scarier.
Obviously there are ways to hack your accounts, but this link is safe. You better be careful anyway.
FFS! No, the link is NOT safe. It has not yet been detected to be malicious, but not only has the domain clearly been setup to deceive, but the URL came from a compromised account.
It may be that whoever setup the redirect made a mistake and whatever malicious action should have occurred is not occurring.
It may be that they are simply testing the waters - seeing how many people follow such a link - or even attempting to determine real people from security scanners, so they can serve different content to each. (Or maybe they've already succeeded in that, and the security scans are false negatives.)
It may be that the malicious payload has a specific set of targets, and only fires for a particular range of IPs or user agents which have a known vulnerability, whilst simply performing a single redirect for everyone else.
Whatever the case, asserting that such a link is safe is irresponsible.
FFS! No, the link is NOT safe. It has not yet been detected to be malicious, but not only has the domain clearly been setup to deceive, but the URL came from a compromised account.
It may be that whoever setup the redirect made a mistake and whatever malicious action should have occurred is not occurring.
It may be that they are simply testing the waters - seeing how many people follow such a link - or even attempting to determine real people from security scanners, so they can serve different content to each. (Or maybe they've already succeeded in that, and the security scans are false negatives.)
It may be that the malicious payload has a specific set of targets, and only fires for a particular range of IPs or user agents which have a known vulnerability, whilst simply performing a single redirect for everyone else.
Whatever the case, asserting that such a link is safe is irresponsible.
that assumption makes the whole internet twisty. But probably you are right.
Thanks guys. Considering that my friend's account was hacked I could not consider having clicked on the link safe. I clean installed a new version of Xubuntu.
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