Malwarebytes Service connects to Verizon

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Hi, I'm using Malwarebytes Premium, version 3.6.1.2711 with the latests updates.

I had to format my computer 5 days ago because it was infected with a trojan horse. Since then I've been monitoring my network traffic to see if anything was going on.

I found many weird things. Like the SVCHOST connecting to various random unknown IP Adresses. Here are some examples :

Outbound to 72.21.91.29 (Verizon Business)

Outbound to 104.16.89.108 (Cloudflare)

Outbound to 151.101.22.133 (Fastly)

Note that I'm not and I've never been with Verizon nor Fastly. Am I infected? My Kaspersky and Malwarebytes don't detect anything. I also found IP for amakai. All these kind of connections are triggered after I boot my computer even without opening a web brower. In the following picture below, I had a web browser opened, but those were there even before I opened Chrome. They stay there for like 1 minute and then disappear,

Now what is very weird is that the malwarebytes services seems to also contact Verizon at the same IP address the SVCHost is connection. Am I infected? Why is mwb services connecting to Verizon? Verizon is NOT my ISP provider and I never had them as an ISP provider. Should I be worried?

 

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[exile360]

It's possible that Malwarebytes is just checking for updates etc. and that it connects to the Malwarebytes CDN (Content Delivery Network) through some Verizon server, though someone from the staff would need to confirm that.  I'm pretty sure that Cloudflare is one of their CDN providers for Malwarebytes so that's normal.

By the way, if the Trojan that was detected before you reformatted was the same one reported here then it was a false positive, not a real threat.  The detection for that item has since been corrected in the latest database updates for Malwarebytes.

[dcollins]

That IP address is used for certificate verification. This isn't so much a Malwarebytes thing, as your computer using those servers to verify certificates on the machine. This is fully expected

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2 hours ago, dcollins said:

That IP address is used for certificate verification. This isn't so much a Malwarebytes thing, as your computer using those servers to verify certificates on the machine. This is fully expected

Ok thanks,  is that one 151.101.22.133 for certificates as well?

How do we know which is and which isnt?

[dcollins]

You have to research the IP address to understand what it's being used for. I'm not certain about the 151.* address though, but my guess would be the same. You could use wireshark to capture all network traffic and try to see what domain that is resolving to