www.instagram.com - URL scan, 13 Aug 2026

MalwareAnalyzer by Cyble scanned www.instagram.com and returned a unknown verdict (score 8), categorised as credential-harvest. The page resolved to 157.240.8.174 on Facebook, Inc. in AU. The domain was registered 8105 days ago through RegistrarSafe, LLC. 9 domains and 1 IP were contacted, over 12 HTTP requests. 10 malware samples communicate with this URL (Ursu). This is a point-in-time observation from 13 Aug 2026; the page may have changed since.

Scan result

Malware communicating with this URL (10)

These samples were observed contacting or being served from www.instagram.com. Each links to its full analysis.

Antivirus & YARA (1 of 44 engines)

These signatures matched text in the page. Pages that quote or document malware can match them, so on their own they do not make a page malicious.

Categories

Why this verdict

Contacted infrastructure

Observed indicators

Other scans of www.instagram.com (10)

This host has been scanned before. Each scan is a separate observation, so a verdict here does not carry over to the others.

Questions about www.instagram.com

Is www.instagram.com safe?
The scan of www.instagram.com on 13 Aug 2026 reached no verdict either way (score 8). Too little was captured to judge it, which is an unknown rather than a pass.
What malware is associated with www.instagram.com?
10 analysed samples communicate with this URL, including Ursu.
How was www.instagram.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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