www.videolan.org - URL scan, 20 Aug 2026
MalwareAnalyzer by Cyble scanned www.videolan.org and returned a unknown verdict (score 6). The page resolved to 213.36.253.2 on Free Foundation (free.org) in FR. The domain was registered 9695 days ago through Gandi SAS. 25 domains and 1 IP were contacted, over 7 HTTP requests. 2 malware samples communicate with this URL (HUILoader, Maldoc). This is a point-in-time observation from 20 Aug 2026; the page may have changed since.
Scan result
- Verdict: unknown (score 6) · Confidence 9%
- Scanned URL:
http://www.videolan.org/ - Domain: www.videolan.org · IP: 213.36.253.2 · AS12322 · FR
- Server: nginx/1.31.3
- Page title: VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN
- HTTP status: 200 · text/html
- Registrar: Gandi SAS · domain age 9695 days · created 2000-02-03
- HTTP requests captured: 7
- Scan tier: fast · observed 2026-08-20 06:47:19 UTC
Malware communicating with this URL (2)
These samples were observed contacting or being served from www.videolan.org. Each links to its full analysis.
- HUILoader - referenced ·
e69d86cd21bccc9d76d40a1270dae9eb· first seen 2026-08-20 - Maldoc - referenced ·
e9b98a52214e3040315d8957a86fffc7· first seen 2026-08-12
Antivirus & YARA (0 of 47 engines)
No engine flagged this page's content.
Why this verdict
- Served over plaintext HTTP
Detected technologies
- Nginx
- Google Analytics
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
Contacted infrastructure
- 213.36.253.2 - AS12322 Free Foundation (free.org) (France)
Observed indicators
- www.videolan.org
- images.videolan.org
- planet.videolan.org
- get.videolan.org
- oss.maxcdn.com
- www.googletagmanager.com
- www.kw.ac.kr
- videolabs.io
- youtube.com
- mux.com
- www.gemiso.com
- play.google.com
- code.videolan.org
- downloads.videolan.org
- jbkempf.com
- www.remlab.net
- www.twitter.com
- www.facebook.com
- floss.social
- addons.videolan.org
Other scans of www.videolan.org (2)
This host has been scanned before. Each scan is a separate observation, so a verdict here does not carry over to the others.
- 22 Aug 2026 - suspicious ·
https://www.mingw-w64.org/ - 12 Aug 2026 - unknown
Questions about www.videolan.org
- Is www.videolan.org safe?
- The scan of www.videolan.org on 20 Aug 2026 reached no verdict either way (score 6). Too little was captured to judge it, which is an unknown rather than a pass.
- What malware is associated with www.videolan.org?
- 2 analysed samples communicate with this URL, including HUILoader, Maldoc.
- How was www.videolan.org 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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