It indicates that the domain has backlink or referral relationships with malicious ecosystems, such as sharing backlink sources with phishing domains or receiving traffic from toxic or abuse-prone referral sources. This reflects indirect but meaningful exposure to malicious networks.
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It indicates that the domain has backlink or referral relationships with malicious ecosystems, such as sharing backlink sources with phishing domains or receiving traffic from toxic or abuse-prone referral sources. This reflects indirect but meaningful exposure to malicious networks.
It describes a domain that directly receives backlinks from, or is embedded within, a known malicious backlink cluster that has been previously associated with phishing campaigns, fraud operations, or large-scale abuse infrastructures.
This label represents a strong malicious-context signal. The confirmed cluster sublabel significantly increases confidence in coordinated or campaign-based abuse and should heavily influence risk scoring, especially when combined with other infrastructure or behavior-based malicious indicators.
A realistic shape of the entry the engine appends to the risk_signals array when this signal fires. Evidence keys are subgroup-default; per-signal overrides documented in the API reference.
{
"slug": "malicious_backlink_relationship",
"name": "Malicious Backlink Association",
"group": "relational_intelligence",
"subgroup": "web_relational_infra",
"direction": "malicious",
"evidence": {
"inlink_count": 312,
"malicious_outlink_count": 4,
"visited_by_malicious_count": 2,
"backlink_quality": "mixed"
}
}3 other signals share the same subgroup. They detect related behaviors and often co-fire on the same IOC.
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