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Xamaaa
New Member
May 10, 2026
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Website flagged as malicious by FortiGuard(fortinet)– how to identify root cause and fix before whitelisting?

  • May 10, 2026
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I am working as an intern at a startup and the website I am handling https://www.gazfull.com/ is being flagged as malicious by FortiGuard and getting blocked.

There is no intentional malicious content on the site. We want to fix the root cause instead of just requesting whitelisting.

What are the common reasons FortiGuard flags a website as malicious?

Are there specific security loopholes, misconfigurations, headers, SSL issues, third-party scripts, or deployment patterns that typically trigger this?

Also, after resolving potential issues, what is the correct process for requesting reclassification/whitelisting with FortiGuard?

Any guidance on debugging this systematically would be really helpful.

2 replies

AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 10, 2026

This may happen.

You just need to request for a reclassification here:

https://www.fortiguard.com/faq/wfratingsubmit

AEK
Toshi_Esumi
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 10, 2026

The classification of the site is “General Interest - Personal / Advertisement” at FTGD. Unless you specified to block this category it shouldn’t be blocked by the web filtering. You said “flagged as malicious”. What exactly did you see/get in the screen whey you tried to access with a browser? Do you have any other filtering used at the same outgoing policy, like IPS, AV, Application Control, etc?

Toshi