Meta-Refresh-Redirect
This signal marks a client-side redirect implemented with a meta-refresh tag, which sends the browser to another URL after a delay. ScanMalware records it from the page’s meta tags.
Meta-refresh redirects are a classic cloaking and traffic-laundering technique used by phishing and scam pages to hide a final destination. A scanned page that uses one warrants a close look at where it sends visitors.
Commonly deployed alongside Meta-Refresh-Redirect
Of the 6,580 public scans where Meta-Refresh-Redirect was detected, these are the technologies most often present on the same site. The share is the percentage of Meta-Refresh-Redirect sites that also ran each one.
| Technology | Category | Share of Meta-Refresh-Redirect sites |
|---|---|---|
| X-UA-Compatible | miscellaneous | 90.99% |
| Ghost | cms | 89.73% |
| PasswordField | miscellaneous | 89.4% |
| HSTS | wappalyzer | 57.6% |
| HTTP/3 | wappalyzer | 49.54% |
| Microsoft ASP.NET | wappalyzer | 34.09% |
| Microsoft SharePoint | wappalyzer | 32.01% |
| Cloudflare | wappalyzer | 4.3% |
| Cloudflare Bot Management | wappalyzer | 4.13% |
| Script | miscellaneous | 2.32% |
| jQuery | wappalyzer | 1.6% |
| Google Analytics | wappalyzer | 1.22% |
| Azure | wappalyzer | 1.2% |
| Amazon Web Services | wappalyzer | 1.17% |
How ScanMalware detects Meta-Refresh-Redirect
Meta-Refresh-Redirect is detected by analysing the response headers, HTML markup, JavaScript runtime and asset URLs captured when ScanMalware loads the site in a real headless browser.
From any scan you can pivot into related signals — JARM TLS fingerprints, ASN ownership and BGP routing, certificate history, JavaScript analysis and the overall security verdict — to understand not just that Meta-Refresh-Redirect is present, but how it is being used. Open the full search interface for Meta-Refresh-Redirect →
Recent public scans featuring Meta-Refresh-Redirect
A rolling sample of recent public scans where Meta-Refresh-Redirect was detected. Listing a site here is not a safety judgement — open a scan to see its full verdict.
| Site | Scanned |
|---|---|
| Sign in to your account https://uhnjorg.sharepoint.com | 2026-09-20 |
| Continue https://whiteboard.microsoft.com.mcas.ms | 2026-09-20 |
| Sign in to your account https://icisrvcs-my.sharepoint.com | 2026-09-20 |
| Sign in to your account https://pella.sharepoint.com | 2026-09-20 |
| Sign in to your account https://myomni.sharepoint.com | 2026-09-20 |
| Sign in to your account https://nycancer1-my.sharepoint.com | 2026-09-20 |
| DRMED.RU https://drmed.ru | 2026-09-19 |
| Sign in to Microsoft Azure https://enterpriseenrollment.hellofresh.ca.hellofresh.com | 2026-09-19 |
Frequently asked questions about Meta-Refresh-Redirect
- Does using Meta-Refresh-Redirect mean a website is unsafe?
- No. Meta-Refresh-Redirect is a stack component, not a verdict. ScanMalware scores the whole page — its scripts, redirects, certificates, threat-intelligence matches and behaviour — so a site using Meta-Refresh-Redirect can be perfectly safe or actively malicious.
- How many sites using Meta-Refresh-Redirect has ScanMalware scanned?
- Meta-Refresh-Redirect has been detected in 6,580 public scans on ScanMalware.com. Each scan is a real headless-browser visit, and the figure updates as new URLs are submitted.
- What technologies are commonly used with Meta-Refresh-Redirect?
- Across scanned sites, Meta-Refresh-Redirect is most often seen alongside X-UA-Compatible, Ghost and PasswordField. The full co-occurrence breakdown is listed on this page.
Browse all profiled technologies on the technology index, or scan a URL to see its full stack.