Iwebs.site

By GoldSparrow in Browser Hijackers

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 12,268
Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 1,506
First Seen: November 16, 2016
Last Seen: September 6, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Iwebs.site is presented to Web surfers as an intelligent and useful start page for Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Iwebs.site appears to be aimed at users who travel a lot and offers quick suggestions generated by Booking.com based on your current location and recently entered search terms on Iwebs.site. The Iwebs.site does not provide search functionality on its own and serves as a redirect-gateway to Google.com, as well as provide links to portals like Imdb.com, Hulu.com, Pandora.com, Nytimes.com, Twitch.tv and Espn.com. The .site domains are promoted by domain registrars like name.com, GoDaddy.com, and Safenames.net as general-purpose domains which customers can use without any restrictions to meaning and content. In this case, Iwebs.site is used to claim pay-per-visit revenue from advertisers that promote services and products at Iwebs.site.

What is strange is that Iwebs.site is not listed in the databases of reputable search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. You may wonder how the owners of Iwebs.site generate Web traffic to support their business. The Iwebs.site domain is associated with browser hijacking programs that may make unsolicited changes to the Internet client of users and redirect them to Iwebs.site. Additionally, Iwebs.site has clones that may redirect users to Yahoo and Bing when keywords are typed in the text box at Gotowebs.com, Boostweb.site and Easyopenweb.com. The 185.137.14.123 IP address revealed to researchers that users might be presented with corrupted links and phishing pages. Web filters like Websense ThreatSeeker, Sucuri, and Quttera have blacklisted resources hosted on the 185.137.14.123 IP address. Third parties may record your input on Iwebs.site and suggest you to install riskware such as BackUpDutyLite using promotional banners on Iwebs.site. Therefore, you might want to avoid portals like Iwebs.site, Gotowebs.com, Boostweb.site, and Easyopenweb.com, and use a credible anti-malware scanner to clean your PC and prevent unwanted redirects to untrusted sites.

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Iwebs.site may call the following URLs:

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