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First Encounters With A Web Comment Spammer

ID: 336e96a9-2e3f-51fb-8f3b-e49bb08df784

STIX ID: report--336e96a9-2e3f-51fb-8f3b-e49bb08df784

Feed Name: Zscaler Security Research Blog

Date Published: 2025-04-02

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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### Executive summary A website owner documents recurring, structured comment spam that appears to be probing web forms to identify ways to inject clickable links. The author inspects examples, hypothesizes the spammers' goals (link injection/SEO abuse or reconnaissance), and describes a planned honeypot response to bait the spammer and learn its behavior and capabilities.

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