about.instagram.com - URL scan, 21 Aug 2026
MalwareAnalyzer by Cyble scanned about.instagram.com and returned a benign verdict (score 0). The page resolved to 157.240.8.18 on Facebook, Inc. in AU. The domain was registered 8113 days ago through RegistrarSafe, LLC. 14 domains and 3 IPs were contacted, over 83 HTTP requests. This is a point-in-time observation from 21 Aug 2026; the page may have changed since.
Scan result
- Verdict: benign (score 0) · Confidence 16%
- Scanned URL:
https://about.instagram.com/blog/ - Domain: about.instagram.com · IP: 157.240.8.18 · AS32934 · AU
- Page title: Instagram Blog: News, Updates, Tips & Tricks | About Instagram
- HTTP status: 200 · text/html; charset="utf-8"
- Registrar: RegistrarSafe, LLC · domain age 8113 days · created 2004-06-04
- TLS issuer: C=US, O=DigiCert Inc, CN=DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 · valid to Aug 28 23: · subject C=US, ST=California, L=Menlo Park, O=Meta Platforms, Inc., CN=*.instagram.com
- Evidenced operator: Meta Platforms, Inc.
- HTTP requests captured: 83 · cookies set: 3 · outgoing links: 28
- Scan tier: standard · observed 2026-08-21 18:56:22 UTC
Antivirus & YARA (1 of 47 engines)
- ClamAV feed: SaneSecurity foxhole_generic [av]: Porcupine.Malware.52833.UNOFFICIAL (page content)
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.
Why this verdict
- Valid TLS, no impersonation or off-origin credential post
- A signature matched text in the page (Porcupine.Malware.52833.UNOFFICIAL) — pages that discuss malware can match, so this alone is not a malicious verdict
Contacted infrastructure
- 157.240.8.18 - AS32934 Facebook, Inc. (Australia)
- 157.240.13.19 - AS32934 Facebook, Inc. (Singapore)
- 157.240.8.23 - AS32934 Facebook, Inc. (Australia)
Observed indicators
- about.instagram.com
- static.xx.fbcdn.net
- www.instagram.com
- www.meta.com
- www.facebook.com
- www.threads.net
- www.youtube.com
- twitter.com
- www.linkedin.com
- developers.facebook.com
- scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net
- lookaside.fbsbx.com
- creators.instagram.com
- scontent.xx.fbcdn.net
- 157.240.8.18
- 157.240.13.19
- 157.240.8.23
- https://about.instagram.com/blog/
- https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/y_/r/x53xeSDtIeM.webp
- https://about.instagram.com/blog
Other scans of about.instagram.com (9)
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 - unknown ·
https://www.instagram.com/ - 22 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://www.instagram.com/ - 22 Aug 2026 - malicious ·
https://www.instagram.com/ - 21 Aug 2026 - benign ·
https://about.instagram.com/?locale=ja_JP - 21 Aug 2026 - benign ·
https://www.metacareers.com/ - 21 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://www.instagram.com/ - 21 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fzacadacircus%2F&is_ - 20 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fnuta_hair&is_from_r - 13 Aug 2026 - unknown ·
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Questions about about.instagram.com
- Is about.instagram.com safe?
- The scan of about.instagram.com on 21 Aug 2026 found no evidence of harm. That is the absence of a finding at one point in time, not a guarantee: a page can change, and a scan only sees what it was served.
- How was about.instagram.com checked?
- A static pass resolved DNS, captured TLS and headers and followed the redirect chain, and where the standard 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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