Trustwave Web Filtering Database Categories - March 19, 2020
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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 Copyright © 2020 Trustwave Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 Trustwave Web Filtering Database Categories - March 19, 2020 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 Security • Message Boards • 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 Copyright © Trustwave Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is protected by copyright and any distribution, reproduction, copying, or decompilation is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of Trustwave. 2 Trustwave Web Filtering Database Categories - March 19, 2020 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 Copyright © Trustwave Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is protected by copyright and any distribution, reproduction, copying, or decompilation is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of Trustwave. 3 Trustwave Web Filtering Database Categories - March 19, 2020 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. Copyright © Trustwave Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is protected by copyright and any distribution, reproduction, copying, or decompilation is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of Trustwave. 4 Trustwave Web Filtering Database Categories - March 19, 2020 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,