hddguru.com - URL scan, 20 Aug 2026
MalwareAnalyzer by Cyble scanned hddguru.com and returned a unknown verdict (score -12). The page resolved to 104.26.12.230 on Cloudflare, Inc. in US. The domain was registered 7636 days ago through Cloudflare, Inc.. 3 domains and 1 IP were contacted, over 2 HTTP requests. 1 malware sample communicates with this URL (Parite). The request followed 1 redirect before landing. This is a point-in-time observation from 20 Aug 2026; the page may have changed since.
Scan result
- Verdict: unknown (score -12) · Confidence 15%
- Scanned URL:
http://hddguru.com/ - Domain: hddguru.com · IP: 104.26.12.230 · AS13335 · US
- Server: cloudflare
- Page title: HDDGURU: Laptop and Desktop Hard Disk Drives, Tests, Software, Firmware, Tools, Data Recovery, HDD Repair
- HTTP status: 200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8
- Registrar: Cloudflare, Inc. · domain age 7636 days · created 2005-09-23
- TLS issuer: C=US, O=Google Trust Services, CN=WE1 · valid to Oct 10 07: · subject CN=hddguru.com
- HTTP requests captured: 2
- Scan tier: fast · observed 2026-08-20 18:42:24 UTC
Redirect chain
http://hddguru.com/https://hddguru.com/
Malware communicating with this URL (1)
These samples were observed contacting or being served from hddguru.com. Each links to its full analysis.
- Parite - referenced ·
139a90eca26fbc5c4cbb21d29bd6fc58· first seen 2026-08-20
Antivirus & YARA (0 of 47 engines)
No engine flagged this page's content.
Why this verdict
- Valid TLS, no impersonation or off-origin credential post
Detected technologies
- Cloudflare
- PHP
- Google Analytics
Contacted infrastructure
- 104.26.12.230 - AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. (United States)
Observed indicators
- hddguru.com
- www.google.com
- forum.hddguru.com
- 104.26.12.230
- https://hddguru.com/
- https://hddguru.com/main.css
- https://hddguru.com/favicon.ico
- https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- https://hddguru.com/images/logo-site.gif
- http://forum.hddguru.com/
- https://hddguru.com/articles/
- https://hddguru.com/documentation/
- https://hddguru.com/software/
- https://hddguru.com/files/
- https://hddguru.com/publish/
- https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
- https://hddguru.com/images/arrow.png
- https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/
- https://hddguru.com/software/MultiDrive/
- https://hddguru.com/software/Wipe-My-Disks/
Other scans of hddguru.com (2)
This host has been scanned before. Each scan is a separate observation, so a verdict here does not carry over to the others.
- 20 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/ - 20 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://forum.hddguru.com/
Questions about hddguru.com
- Is hddguru.com safe?
- The scan of hddguru.com on 20 Aug 2026 reached no verdict either way (score -12). Too little was captured to judge it, which is an unknown rather than a pass.
- What malware is associated with hddguru.com?
- 1 analysed samples communicate with this URL, including Parite.
- How was hddguru.com checked?
- A static pass resolved DNS, captured TLS and headers and followed the redirect chain, and where the fast tier allows, a headless browser rendered the page and recorded every request. Egress is SSRF-locked. Signatures that matched only page text are weighted far below one that matched a served file, because a page documenting malware matches the same rules.
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