hmmm malware?

[darkoshi]

This is the 2nd time in about as many days that when clicking a link, I've gotten a page like this, which is not the link I clicked:


[Firefox Logo - making it look like it's a Mozilla survey, but it isn't]
2019 Annual Visitor Survey undefined
Browser Opinion survey
April 21, 2019
Congratulations!

You’ve been personally selected to take part in our 2019 Annual Visitor Survey! Tell us what you think of Firefox and to say “Thank You” you’ll receive a chance to get an Apple iPhone Xs!
Question 1 of 4:
How often do you use Firefox ?

When I go back and click the link again, the expected page opens.

Today it happened upon clicking a link in the Google search results. Yesterday, I don't remember which page I had clicked the link from.

It seems to be malware:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=firefox+%222019+Annual+Visitor+Survey%22&ia=web

(But none of the links in those search results look particularly trustworthy to me.)

An MBAM scan didn't find anything.
Currently doing an scan with my antivirus software.
... it didn't detect anything either.

This has been happening in Waterfox. I wonder if one of my add-ons got hacked. Hopefully not Waterfox itself.

Or maybe the sites that the links I clicked go to were hacked, to occasionally redirect the visitor to this bogus survey site. Both times, the domain of the survey URLs were different:
http://prize8384.bestlifehere24.life/...
http://competition8713.bumblbee82.life/...

Comments

[marahmarie]

Huh. The survey's not loading for me on either site in either Firefox or Waterfox so I'm really torn if it's a) the websites in question got hacked (but it's kinda strange you'd run 2 for 2 on that) or 2) if it's say, possibly one of your add-ons. I don't know which add-ons you use so can't say off-hand nor search for any known problems in Google (I'm really curious now, though).