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Hey gang,

A client has a small Squarespace site - hxxps://smokestak[.]co.uk

Recently they’ve been getting some notifications from customers regarding Malware Warnings. The site has been inspected by Squarespace support, I have run my own scans, everything is being served over https and I have installed other malware / virus detection software (AVG and BitDefender) to check what they pickup - everything indicates that the site is clear.

Avast, however, is showing the following warning. I have seen previous posts where these types of warnings have been coming up incorrectly.

Can anyone shed any light on this / suggest a possible fix?

The first Avast warning - http instead of https - is just from where I tested the hxxp://smokestak[.]co.uk before

Thanks in advance.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Dc6UTVyHUFYgGAaGFv70PS6b5Vbh5hdE5p4_ZLsMFsec2TlhdFpJOVmN0SS5kyXMaO4uOj28c4GrBpc=w1100-h803-rw

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You can report a URL here: https://www.avast.com/report-a-url.php

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avast doesn’t say that a infection is detected.
avast says that domain and/or IP is blocked/blacklisted.

Blacklistings on that ASN/IP :
http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1496751620674

Name mismatch with certificate 2 :
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=smokestak.co.uk&s=198.185.159.144&latest

Vulnerable library found :
http://retire.insecurity.today/#!/scan/8d9b02f8862b6972cc25c522b11c12ddeb4e80178a14473dcad60890540d568b

Really bad IP history :
https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/198.185.159.144/information/

My advise :

  • Fix the vulnerable library problem
  • Fix the certificate mismatch
  • Get dedicated hosting
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https://smokestak.co.uk
http://smokestak.co.uk

Both are blocked by F-Secure. see attached screenshot

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I have removed smokestak[.]co.uk from our blacklist :wink:

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I hope only that site is allowed but not the entire IP.

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There are thousands of unique domains on those IPs, so it is likely we will not ever block those IPs, unless more than ~50% of the domains are malicious.

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Thanks for your help and advice guys.

Beers are on me - everything’s working as it needs to.