What Is HQPorner?

HQPorner (hqporner.com) is a porn tube site. As of December 2022, the site hqporner.com gets an estimated 94.8 million monthly views, according to SimilarWeb. The Wayback Machine estimates that hqporner.com was founded on July 6, 2013.

Links and Profiles

Website: hqporner.com

Is HQPorner Safe?

I analyzed hqporner.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:

I checked the site hqporner.com on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned as a medium security risk. You can see the same here: Sucuri scan for the site hqporner.com.

HQPorner Sucuri results

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Sucuri says the site hqporner.com is a medium security risk because it’s running an outdated PHP version (PHP under 7.4.6).

Some hardening improvements can be made:

  • Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Alternatively, you can use Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'none'.
  • Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing.
  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header. Affected pages:
    https://hqporner.com/404javascript.js
  • Missing Content-Security-Policy directive. We recommend to add the following CSP directives (you can use default-src if all values are the same): script-src, object-src, base-uri, frame-src
  • Default server banners displayed. Your site is displaying your web server default banners.
  • Leaked PHP version. Your site is displaying your PHP version in the HTTP headers. Please set expose_php = Off.

However, these hardening improvements don’t impact the Sucuri grade.

To check this further I ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on the site hqporner.com and it says the page is clean. You can see the same here: Unmask Parasites scan for the site hqporner.com.

I also checked the domain hqporner.com on VirusTotal and it is flagged as malicious by 1 security vendor (Quttera). You can see the same here: VirusTotal scan for the site hqporner.com.

HQPorner.com VirusTotal results

1 out of 88 security vendors has flagged the domain as malicious; however, that is likely a false positive given the low percentage of vendors that have flagged it.

In conclusion, Sucuri says the site hqporner.com is a medium security risk because it’s running outdated software (PHP under 7.4.6). Unmask Parasites says the site hqporner.com is clean of parasites. And VirusTotal and Sucuri say the domain hqporner.com is flagged as malicious by 1 security vendor (Quttera). Overall grade: Relatively Safe.

References

1. SimilarWeb – hqporner.com

2. Wayback Machine – hqporner.com