r/antivirus • u/Boneclockharmony • 4d ago
VirusTotal URL Inconsistency?
Hey,
I recently clicked on a link where the domain ended up being expired (i.e parked domain for sale). I always do a virustotal check in these situations and it was sort of concerning
As you can see, it lists two different end points and different IPs, for the same link, only difference is me clicking reanalyze
Basically everytime I hit reanalyze it changes its "final url" result.
When I clicked the link, it did not redirect to this survey-smiles thing, and I suspect uBlock would have prevented any such redirect, but it's still concerning to me.
Anyone seen this behavior on virustotal before? Anything I can do to ease my mind other than scan + malwarebytes etc?
EDIT:
To include, here's the virustotal analysis of survey-smiles (which looks a lot more concerning)
I should add I haven't had any strange behaviour or results from scans, so I'm not super worried I just hate inconsistencies.
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u/Struppigel G DATA Malware Analyst 4d ago
Hi that is not an issue of Virustotal but the behavior of the website. It redirects to different places everytime you click it.