Trustwave Web Filtering Database Categories - March 19, 2020

REFERENCE Web Filtering Database Categories

About This Document

This document provides information about the categories in the Trustwave Web Filtering Database (WFDB).

WFDB is a URL classification database used by the WebMarshal and Secure Web Gateway products.

WFDB is updated daily by automatic processes and human expert reviewers.

Category Listing

The headings in this listing show the groupings used in the Secure Web Gateway.

Adult Content Business/Investments Entertainment • Explicit Art • Employment • Art • Obscene/Tasteless • Financial Institutions • Entertainment • Pornography/Adult Content • General Business • Gambling • R Rated • Online Trading/Brokerage • Kids • Real Estate • Movies & Television Bandwidth • Music Appreciation • Image Servers & Image Community/Organizations • Restaurant Search Engines • Community Organizations • Games • Peer-to-Peer/FileSharing • Local Community • Video Sharing Government/Law/Politics • VoIP Education • Government • Web Based Storage • Education • Legal • Streaming Media • Reference • Military Official • Political Opinion

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Health/Fitness Internet Productivity Shopping • Fitness • Banner/Web Ads • Online Auction • Health/Medical • Web Hosts • Shopping • Self Help Internet/Intranet Misc. Society/Lifestyles Illegal/Questionable • Domain Landing • Alcohol • Criminal Skills • Downloads • Animals/Pets • Dubious/Unsavory • Edge Content • Books & Literature • Hate & Discrimination Servers/Infrastructure • Dating/Personals • Illegal Drugs • Invalid Web Pages • Fashion • Terrorist/Militant/Extremist • Reviewed/Miscellaneous • Lifestyle & Culture • Violence • Recreation News/Reports • Tobacco Information Technology • News • Weapons • Dynamic DNS Servers • Sports • Information Technology Travel/Events Religion/Beliefs • Search Engines • Travel • Paranormal • Vehicles Internet Communication • Religion • Chat • Message Boards Security • Online Communities • Bad Reputation Domains • Translation Services • BotNet • Web Based Email • Hacking • Web Logs/Personal Pages • Malicious Code/Virus • Instant Messaging (IM) • Phishing • Spyware • Web-based Proxies

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Category Descriptions

Note: The list of categories in this document includes only the categories that are actively maintained. Some additional categories are retained in the database for compatibility with legacy applications.

Alcohol Sample sites: www.lacma.org, www.guggenheim.org, www.metmuseum.org Sites promoting the use of alcohol, including drink recipes, home brewing methodology, Bad Reputation Domains advertisements, etc. Sites that appear on one or more security • Sites promoting the use of alcohol for industry blacklists for repeated bad behavior, consumption purposes, including pubs, bars, including hosting malware and phishing sites, breweries, alcohol manufacturers generating spam, or hosting content linked to by spam email. • Sites which contain drink recipes, bartenders’ guides, or drinking games Banner/Web Ads • Sites which advertise or contain Banner ads served from third party servers and advertisements for alcohol URLs that track online analytics and/or website Informational sites such as essays on drunk traffic for marketing report purpose. driving or court transcripts are not found in this Sample sites: ad.linkexchange.com, category. adbureau.net Sample sites: www.budweiser.com, www.samueladams.com, www.jackdaniels.com Books & Literature Sites that discuss and promote books, literature, Animals/Pets and periodicals distributed with the intention of Sites that provide information or promote providing entertainment. animal/pet care, breed, veterinary care, • Authors’ sites, publishers’ promotional sites boarding, adoption, and care info. (not “How To Publish” or “Let Us Publish Sample sites: www.petsonsale.com, Your Book”) www.westminsterkennelclub.org, • Online books (i.e., Project Gutenberg, www.2buyhorses.com eBooks, etc.)

Art • Books on Tape

Non-commercial websites that promote, exhibit, • Literary Reviews and/or display works of art, artists, and provide instruction on the creation of art excluding the • Fan-Fiction or other short fiction works following: • Written screenplays/scripts (movies, tv, or • Explicit Art drama)

• Sites for artists, art galleries, or museums Sample sites: www.ebooks.com, www.danbrown.com • Sites containing art instruction, graphics tutorials, and art schools

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BotNet Personal ads, dating services, dating tips, “how- to find a mate” sites. Sites used by botnet herders for command and control of infected machines. Sites that known Sites which promote introductions for purposes malware and spyware connects to for command of finding friends or other relationships. and control by cyber criminals. These sites are Sites for escort services are categorized as differentiated from the Malcode category to enable reporting on potentially infected Porn. computers inside the network. Sample sites: www.friendfinder.com, www.grindr.com, www.match.com, Chat www.eharmony.com Sites offering chatrooms and chat services as well as Chat sites accessed via a web browser, Domain Landing excluding the following: Registered hosted pages with no significant appreciable content other than current owner • Instant Messaging info, solicitation for URL buyers, and or links to • Chat logs seller info.

• IRC client downloads Downloads • IRC channel listings or channel information Sites that host downloadable code, movie, video Sample sites: www.chatweb.net, www.chat- or sound clips. Also includes mobile ringtones, avenue.com, www.javachatrooms.net logos, backgrounds and screensavers. Sample sites: www.sourceforge.net Community Organizations Sites of non-profit, charity, and community Dubious/Unsavory involvement organizations. Sites of a questionable legal or ethical nature. I.e., YMCA, March of Dimes, Big Sites which promote or distribute products, Brothers/Sisters, Boy/Girl Scouts, etc. information, or devices whose use may be deemed unethical or, in some cases, illegal. Sample sites: www.habitat.org, www.pointsoflight.org, • Warez www.national.unitedway.org • Unlicensed mp3 downloads Criminal Skills • Radar detectors Sites that promote crime or illegal activity such • Street racing as credit card number generation, illegal surveillance and murder. Dynamic DNS Servers Sites which commercially sell surveillance Domains used by Dynamic DNS service equipment are not in this category. providers for IP aliasing. Domains in this category should almost always be wildcarded, Dating/Personals as they are typically assigned to end users with a customizable sub-domain. Contains those websites that are related to personal ads, dating sites, dating services, Sample sites: www.changeip.com relationships, introductions, etc.

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Edge Content Servers/Infrastructure Entertainment Sites that host images, media and static All general entertainment sites excluding the secondary content for web sites. Sites in this following (which are separately categorized): category represent Internet “infrastructure”; they • Books & Literature provide web companies with high-bandwidth delivery of arbitrary content. Typically, this • Movies & Television content is never directly accessed by the end user. The user’s web browser automatically • Music Appreciation accesses these sites based on links embedded • Restaurants/Clubs in the page of the original web site. Sample sites: disneyworld.disney.go.com, The provider’s sales or management sites are www.ringophone.com not included (note the difference in categorization between akamai.com and Explicit Art akamai.net). Art websites that display art works containing Sample sites: akamai.net, cloudfront.net graphic nudity, nude photography, sex acts and/or disturbing images. Education Websites of schools, learning centers, Fashion universities, and trade schools. Sites that Sites promoting, selling, or discussing style and promote and discuss materials and information fashion items and services. that aid in teaching. • Clothing stores • Teaching institutions/workshops/technical institutes • Cosmetology

• Teaching aids, such as lesson planning • Jewelry guides Sample sites: www.nordstrom.com, • Teacher supplies www.4theloveclothing.com, www.aaatattoodirectory.com • Career development education

• .edu and .ac sites Financial Institutions Sites related to the financial trade, such as stock Sample sites: www.harvard.edu, www.usc.edu, trading, financial news, online banking services, www.otago.ac.nz and trading exchanges. Employment Sites for economics theory or business classes are categorized as Education. Sites geared toward job seekers, such as online job bulletin boards, classified ad sites, resume- Sample sites: www.wellsfargo.com, listing services, head hunting firms, etc. www.fidelitymortgage.com, www.massmutual.com • Resume building sites

• Cover-letter writing sites Fitness Sample sites: www.monster.com, Sites promoting and discussing exercise, yoga, www.careerbuilder.com, www.dice.com health clubs, nutrition and weight loss.

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• Gyms Hacking • Fitness equipment Sites discussing and/or promoting unlawful or questionable tools or information revealing the • Nutrition supplements ability to gain access to software or • Diet information hardware/communications equipment and/or passwords. Sample sites: www.weightwatchers.com, • www.24hourfitness.com, www.yoga.com Password generation • Compiled binaries Gambling • Hacking tools Sites which encourage gambling such as betting sites, bookmaker odds, lottery, bingo, horse/dog • Software piracy (game cracking) track, online sport betting, online casinos, etc. Hate & Discrimination Sample sites: www.casino.com, www.bookmaker.com Sites that contain material related to the discrimination of any group of people based on Games race, religion, gender, nationality, etc. Sites related to computer or other games, such Sites which concentrate on violence or the as game download sites, online games, video, destruction of human life, including a single and electronic games. Sites that advertise and person or an entire race/religion/ gender/etc. host online games as well as sweepstakes and • Sites focused on the superiority of one giveaways. Sites that offer cheat codes. race/religion/gender/ etc., while degrading • Sites about board games will also be saved others with use of propaganda or violent in this category action.

Sample sites: www.playstation.com, • Sites which discriminate or promote www.warcraft.org, www.gamefaqs.com discrimination based on race/religion/gender/etc., or support and General Business promote partisan historical opinion. Websites for businesses and commercial Sample sites: www.kkk.com, organizations where business is defined as an www.stormfront.org organization that provides goods and/ or services for profit. Health/Medical Sample sites: www.pg.com, www.kraft.com, Sites of medical practices, hospitals, health www.tyco.com insurance providers, nursing homes, and care centers. Sites that promote and provide Government information on prescription medicines and over Sites of governmental agencies at a national, the counter treatments. Sites offering state, local or international level. information and references on health, medicine, preventative health care and other health-related Sample sites: www.ca.gov, topics. www.whitehouse.gov, www.europa.eu Sample sites: www.webmd.com, www.bluecross.com, www.stjude.org

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Illegal Drugs devices, and general technology. Sites which offer information, resources, hosting and guides Sites that promote the use or purchase of illegal for the creation of computer software and drugs. These may include offering marijuana, websites. growing methods, techniques and products for testing clean for drugs, information on acid and/ Sample sites: www.cnet.com, www.zdnet.com, or “mushrooms,” and all other forms of narcotics. www.slashdot.org • Promotes sale/use of illegal narcotics Instant Messaging (IM) • Instructs on making or growing illegal Sites that offer and enable the download of narcotics Instant Messaging. • Promotes sale/use of paraphernalia for • Client-based applications for IM express use with illegal narcotics • Central servers for IM applications • Promotes illegal sale/use of LEGAL narcotics Invalid Web Pages • Promotes techniques/products for testing Sites where a domain may be registered but no clean with drug tests content is served or the server is offline. • Glorifies the effect of illegal narcotics Kids • Promotes sale/use of questionably legal Child friendly sites. Sites designed specifically “supplements” with a narcotic effect for children (Does not include educational Sites which deal with information about illegal games). substances or their effects (i.e., police Sample sites: www.4kraftykidz.com department page informing parents what to look for) are not in this category. Legal Sample sites: www.hightimes.com, Sites pertaining to legal services, personal legal www.erowid.org reference and on-line legal aid. Image Servers & Image Search Engines • Law firms Web servers and search engines whose primary • Legal reference function is to deliver images, artwork, personal • photos, photo galleries, and free images/pictures Law libraries for commercial use (Does not include adult • Legal services (notaries, etc.) content categorized elsewhere). Sample sites: www.lawyers.com, Sample sites: images.google.com, www.lawreview.org www.flickr.com, www.istockphoto.com Lifestyle & Culture Information Technology Sites that contain material relative to an Sites containing reviews, discussions, individual’s personal, community or cultural distribution, and promotion of computer identity, or organizational/club affiliations. programs, software, systems and hardware. Sites that contain discussion, reviews, news, Sites on political or religious affiliation are not in and advocacy on computers, technological this category.

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Local Community Sample sites: www.elstreestudios.co.uk, www.duckrabbit.info Sites of community governmental agencies and sites that promote and announce community events and community involvement. Music Appreciation Sites that discuss and promote music, • City websites musicians, and the methods in which they are • County websites distributed. These sites include official websites of musicians as well as fan sites that promote • Chamber of Commerce musical subjects and artists.

Sample sites: alabamablueberryfestival.com, • Playlists

arrowtownautumnfestival.co.nz • Lyrics Malicious Code/Virus • Legal/Licensed mp3 distribution Sites that promote, demonstrate and/or carry Sample sites: launch.yahoo.com, malicious executable, virus or worm code that www.artistdirect.com intentionally causes harm by modifying or destroying computer systems often without the News user’s knowledge. Websites that distribute news, current events, and headlines. Message Boards Sample sites: www.cnn.com, www.nytimes.com, Websites that offer message boards, bulletin news.yahoo.com boards, and forums. Websites which offer visitors the ability to Obscene/Tasteless discuss topics with one another via Internet Sites that contain explicit graphical or text message board software. Websites that provide depictions of such things as mutilation, murder, downloads and customizations of web message bodily functions, horror, death, rude behavior, board software. executions, violence, and obscenities etc. Also includes guestbook sites. Sites which contain or deal with medical content Sample sites: www.messages.yahoo.com are not in this category.

Military Official Online Auction Official websites of government backed military Sites that offer access to online auctions where organizations. The entire .mil top-level domain. visitors can bid on various items. Since online auctions are rarely monitored, they may expose Sample sites: www.navy.mil, www.army.mil, users to materials that would otherwise www.usmc.mil be filtered under categories such as Adult Movies & Television Content, Illegal/ Questionable, etc. (Does not include classified advertisements, which is Sites that discuss and promote film and categorized under shopping or news) television. This includes official sites of movies and television programs as well as those of film Sample sites: www.trademe.co.nz, and television celebrities. Also included are www.ebay.com personal fan sites of the aforementioned.

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Online Communities Pornography/Adult Content Sites that promote online social networking. The • Sites that portray sexual acts and activity. content of such sites is mostly comprised of • personal pages linked together in a social Sites that portray sexual acts or simulated network that can be based on any criteria, such sexual acts. as schools, universities, business, or friendship. • Sites with explicit nudity (including see- Sample sites: www.facebook.com, through clothing) that reveals in whole or www.linkedin.com part, nipples, bare butts, or sexual organs • Frontal nudity Online Trading/Brokerage • Sex toys Sites that facilitate online active trading of securities. • Sites with links that lead to nude pictures

Sample sites: www.etrade.com • Sexual fluids • Paranormal Explicit sex stories/writings Sites dealing with subjects of the paranormal. • Lesbian acts This includes topics such as mysticism, UFOs, • Oral activity on sexual parts Astrology, Numerology, the Occult, and conspiracy theories. • Bestiality

Sample sites: www.prairieghosts.com, • Bathroom fetishes astrology.yahoo.com • Any bizarre sex acts of objects with sexual Phishing organs Deceptive information pharming sites that used • Porno videos for sale with explicit to acquire personal information for fraud or theft. descriptions of tape and/or pictures Typically found in hoax e-mail, these sites • Swinger sites containing sexual pictures or falsely represent themselves as legitimate Web descriptions sites to trick recipients into divulging user account information, credit card numbers, • Any adult verification system sites that usernames, passwords, social security numbers, doesn’t have sample pictures etc. Pharming, or crimeware misdirects users to • Descriptions of sex sites that require credit fraudulent sites or proxy servers, typically card or payment or membership ID through DNS hijacking or poisoning. • Fetishes Political Opinion Opinions dealing with political concerns such as R Rated party platforms, political reform, candidate Services pertaining to anything that involves 18 advocacy, PACs, lobbying organizations, etc. and over material such as lingerie and swimsuits, revealing pictures. Sites that are • Campaign sites adult in nature without being explicitly • Political parody or negative sites pornographic.

Sample sites: www.gop.com, Sample sites: www.lingerie.com, www.bikini.com www.democrats.org

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Real Estate • Sites promoting cult subject matter, use of mind control, paranoia, fear, and any other Sites pertaining to the buying, selling, renting, type of psychological control or and leasing of Commercial and Residential manipulation. properties. Sample sites: www.zencenter.org, Note: Sites offering home loans are categorized www.olacathedral.org, www.tbala.org, as “Financial Institutions”. www.catholic.org, www.jewfaq.org, Sample sites: www.realestate.yahoo.com, www.buddhanet.net, www.rael.org, www.move.com, www.realtor.com www.heavensgate.com

Recreation Restaurant Sites pertaining to outdoor activities and non- Sites that provide information, promote, list, competitive athletic activities, such as hunting, review, or advertise dining, catering services, fishing, camping, hiking, rock climbing. Sites that restaurants, cafes, eateries, take-outs and fast pertain to hobbies, collecting, clubs and social food. organizations. Sites pertaining to horticulture, Sample sites: www.mcdonalds.com, gardening and yard maintenance. Sites www.blackangus.com pertaining to decorating and crafting. Sample sites: crochet.about.com, Reviewed/Miscellaneous www.tramper.nz, www.treasureclub.net Content that has been manually reviewed and does not fall under current categories. Reference Reference collections including encyclopedias, Search Engines atlases, historical data, biographies, how-to, etc. Major portal sites that either search the Internet Sites which offer language tools and references or have a directory-based database of sites. such as dictionaries, thesaurus and translators. Includes all sub-URLs under the main site. Information resources on scientific subjects. Science subjects include: biology, physics, Sample sites: www.yahoo.com, mathematics, chemistry etc. www.google.com, www.bing.com Sample sites: dictionary.reference.com, Self Help www.britannica.com, www.wikipedia.com Sites that include information such as therapies, Religion counseling services, motivation, conferences, articles, self-awareness, spirituality etc. Sites that pertain to mainstream religious institutions such as churches, temples, • Rape crisis centers mosques, etc. • Sites that contain information on emotional • Church sites (service times, location, church and/or mental wellness. event calendars, etc.) • Counseling services, conferences • Sites with religious opinion or “witnessing” Sample sites: www.homecarechattanooga.com, • Sites that pertain to discussion and/or www.parenting.com advocacy of religious organizations, religious opinion and opinions formed from a religious viewpoint.

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Shopping Terrorist/Militant/Extremist Sites that contain consumer oriented online Sites that contain information regarding militias, shopping, online malls, classifieds, and online anti-government groups, terrorism, anarchy, etc. trading/auction services. • Anti-government/Anti-establishment Sample sites: www.amazon.com, • shopping.yahoo.com Bomb-making/usage Social Opinion Tobacco

Sites that contain opinion on a variety of social Sites that sell or promote the use of tobacco topics. related products.

Sample sites: www.prochoiceamerica.org, Sites that sell cigarettes, cigars, chewing www.peta.org, tobacco, etc. Sites that are specifically designed to glamorize Sports the use of tobacco related products Sites for professional, collegiate, and other competitive baseball, basketball, hockey, Translation Services football & soccer teams, sports magazines, Websites that provide free online text and web sporting events such as winter & summer page translation tools or web-based screen Olympics, etc. readers.

Also includes other competitive sports, such as Sample sites: www.babelfish.com, NASCAR racing translate.google.com Sample sites: espn.go.com, www.nba.com, sportsillustrated.cnn.com Travel Sites that offer travel tickets and reservations, Spyware travel clubs, travelogues, visitor information Sites that promote, offer or secretively install bureaus, travel promotions, etc. software to monitor user behavior, track Sites relating to traveling, such as travel personal information, record keystrokes, and/or agencies, cruise lines, airfare, etc. change user computer configuration without the user’s knowledge and consent malicious or This category does not include destination sites. advertising purposes. For example, the official Disneyland site is not in this category, but a page offering package tours Includes sites with software that can connect to to Disneyland would be in this category. “phone home” for transferring user information. Sample sites: www.expedia.com, Streaming Media www.travel.com, www.travelocity.com Sites that offer streaming video and other Vehicles streaming media excluding Peer-to-Peer/File Sharing Sites that discuss, promote, and offer information on cars, trucks, motorcycles, Sample sites: www.hulu.com watercraft, aircraft and other forms of transportation.

• Dealerships/carshows

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• Car parts and accessories Weapons • Street racing Sites that provide information and promote the collecting, maintenance, advocacy and sales of Sample sites: www.ford.com, www.harley- legal firearms, knives, swords and related items. davidson.com, www.cessna.com Sample sites: www.remington.com, Video Sharing www.buckknives.com, www.swords.com, www.nra.org Sites that allow users to post, share and view videos. These sites may also be categorized as Web Based Email Streaming Media, and possibly R-Rated. The Video Sharing category gives customers the Sites that offer online web-based e-mail ability to selectively block only viral video sites, services; this excludes ISPs, which provide which tend to affect productivity. The difference standard POP or IMAP e-mail accounts. between Video Sharing and Streaming Media is Sample sites: www.hotmail.com, that in video sharing the content is provided by a www.gmail.com, mail.yahoo.com user community rather than the site operator.

Sample sites: www.youtube.com, Web Based Storage www.vimeo.com, Sites that offer storage for personal files on remote servers for backup or exchange Violence purposes.

Sites that portray, describe or advocate physical Sample sites: www.filesanywhere.com, assault against humans, animals, or institutions. www.dropbox.com, drive.google.com

VoIP Web Hosts Sites that provide information and/or products to Sites that offer domain names and Web space facilitate telephone calls using the Internet. VoIP for hosting fee-based Web pages. (Voice over Internet Protocol) refers to a category of hardware and software that uses the Sample sites: www.godaddy.com Internet as a transmission medium for telephone calls by sending voice data in packets using IP Web Logs/Personal Pages rather than by traditional circuit transmissions of Web sites from personal or non-commercial the PSTN. sources which feature commentary and articles Sample sites: www.skype.com, www.lingo.com written in a log or journal format (Blogs). Sample sites: www.blogger.com, www.wordpress.com

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