www.goodreads.com - malicious URL scan, 23 Aug 2026
MalwareAnalyzer by Cyble scanned www.goodreads.com and returned a malicious verdict (score 55). The page resolved to 18.67.110.50 on Amazon.com, Inc. in AU. 4 domains and 1 IP were contacted, over 6 HTTP requests. 2 malware samples communicate with this URL. The request followed 1 redirect before landing. This is a point-in-time observation from 23 Aug 2026; the page may have changed since.
Scan result
- Verdict: malicious (score 55) · Confidence 58%
- Scanned URL:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/780078819?utm_medium=api& - Domain: www.goodreads.com · IP: 18.67.110.50 · AS16509 · AU
- Server: Server
- Page title: Sign in
- HTTP status: 200 · text/html; charset=utf-8
- HTTP requests captured: 6
- Scan tier: fast · observed 2026-08-23 03:03:20 UTC
Redirect chain
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/780078819?utm_medium=api&https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_in?returnurl=%2Freview%2Fshow%2F780078819%3Futm_medium%3Dapi%26amp
Malware communicating with this URL (2)
These samples were observed contacting or being served from www.goodreads.com. Each links to its full analysis.
- f6af62a824df8438e7120c70b5f85c7974c702d7e76d855d95bfa8d12b63868b - referenced ·
f6af62a824df8438e7120c70b5f85c79· first seen 2026-08-23 - 8859e50a799112354610f43695eacc8c77a0cf6c28b3f249f62a0304d04241ca - referenced ·
8859e50a799112354610f43695eacc8c· first seen 2026-08-19
Antivirus & YARA (2 of 48 engines)
- YARA: delivr.to detections [yara]: DLV_HTML_Smuggling (page content)
- YARA: Stratosphere IPS [yara]: STRATO_Tor_Onion_C2 (page content)
Why this verdict
- 2 antivirus/YARA engines flagged the page content: DLV_HTML_Smuggling, STRATO_Tor_Onion_C2
Detected technologies
- Amazon CloudFront
Contacted infrastructure
- 18.67.110.50 - AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc. (Australia)
Observed indicators
- www.goodreads.com
- m.media-amazon.com
- s.gr-assets.com
- help.goodreads.com
- 18.67.110.50
- https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_in?returnurl=%2Freview%2Fshow%2F780078819%3Futm_medium%3Dapi%26amp
- https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_in
- https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41mrkPcyPwL.js
- https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/webfontloader-c578336baa6da50a1f0d46c5164fc699.js
- https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/goodreads-a1440dce425016f93758e4f10a0e93d4.css
- https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/common_images-dcd3965f0535a83a75a402676f031c66.css
- https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/desktop/libraries-c07ee2e4be9ade4a64546b3ec60b523b.js
- https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/application-4c83f04f97af870ab7d547e3954de913.js
- https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/react_client_side/external_dependencies-ebf499aa1f.js
- https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/react_client_side/site_header-046228aba7.js
- https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/react_client_side/custom_react_ujs-b1220d5e0a4820e90b905c302fc5cb52.js
- https://www.goodreads.com/opensearch.xml
- https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/button-2306059c873fcf8f7b1d499e043bf098.css
- https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/distractionless-3b059c3a130c1f734806aee121bfd953.css
- https://www.goodreads.com/
Other scans of www.goodreads.com (8)
This host has been scanned before. Each scan is a separate observation, so a verdict here does not carry over to the others.
- 23 Aug 2026 - benign ·
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Michael-DeAngelo/author/B005534PS0?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramI - 23 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_in?returnurl=%2Freview%2Fshow%2F780076271%3Futm_medium%3Dapi%26a - 23 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_in?returnurl=%2Freview%2Fshow%2F780075596%3Futm_medium%3Dapi%26a - 23 Aug 2026 - suspicious ·
https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_in?returnurl=%2Freview%2Flist%2F692581-joshua%3Fshelf%3Dcurrentl - 22 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://c.cc/ - 19 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_in?returnurl=%2Freview%2Fshow%2F780076271%3Futm_medium%3Dapi%26a - 19 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_in?returnurl=%2Freview%2Fshow%2F780075596%3Futm_medium%3Dapi%26a - 19 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://www.goodreads.com/user/sign_in?returnurl=%2Freview%2Fshow%2F211619819%3Futm_medium%3Dapi%26a
Questions about www.goodreads.com
- Is www.goodreads.com safe?
- No. MalwareAnalyzer scanned www.goodreads.com on 23 Aug 2026 and returned a malicious verdict with a score of 55 out of 100. Treat it as hostile until it is re-checked.
- What malware is associated with www.goodreads.com?
- 2 analysed samples communicate with this URL.
- How was www.goodreads.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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