Security Scan Report: news.mcmaster.ca

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Submitted: May 2, 2026, 5:51:22 PMCompleted: May 2, 2026, 5:53:01 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 10 IPs in 3 countries across 10 domains to perform 89 HTTP transactions. The main domain is news.mcmaster.ca and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://news.mcmaster.ca/campus-flags-lowered-for-national-day-of-mourning-2026/

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #201,447 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 94%

1
Risk Score

Site appears legitimate, providing news content for McMaster University.

Safety Factors
Official university subdomain
Old, well‑established domain
No forms or credential collection
Clean JavaScript and no malicious network alerts
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Campus flags lowered for the National Day of Mourning - McMaster News

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

government public service

(69%)

Domain Information

Domain 'news.mcmaster.ca' uses the Canadian country-code top-level domain (.ca) and includes subdomain 'news'. Its registrable label 'mcmaster' stretches across 8 characters containing two vowels alongside six consonants. Segmentation suggests 1 word: mcmaster. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://news.mcmaster.ca/campus-flags-lowered-for-national-day-of-mourning-2026/

Page Load Overview

9.69s
Total Load Time
104
HTTP Requests
14
Domains
6.1 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English
Code: en
Confidence:80%
Script:Latin
Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Language Code:en
Detection Confidence:80%
Script Type:Latin
HTML Lang Attribute:en-US
Text Length:4,996 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

government public service69% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

government public service
69%
education learning
62%
news/blog
50%
corporate
35%

Detected Features

Search
Articles
OG: article
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
14104.17.24.14United States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
10142.251.13.97United States
AS15169Google LLC
10130.113.213.214Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada
AS23237McMaster University
1018.66.102.11United States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
10142.251.155.119United States
AS15169Google LLC
10192.178.183.138United States
AS15169Google LLC
10142.251.110.94United States
AS15169Google LLC
10130.113.211.207Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada
AS23237McMaster University
1020.250.198.32Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
AS8075Microsoft Corporation
10192.178.183.95United States
AS15169Google LLC
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Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T13F730AB3D0E81467170392DDE074F35DE65AA027CB828ED1F9FD4198AB82FE1456362E

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

1536:akDmyp9aZq46W3Y83o6y2qveGtGwyh2mvG64zUMqNlU6A4Ud7xLQnpBs93fkBrRW:akDfraZq46WI8Y6y2q1yh2mvG62UMqfU

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:79154:K6gCrooAQCOWJC1BjCRx0QoECJlkikKWsbskQAYphmah6BggUEBIAkoSjJRHEgZBYNEJDJJAk1JQBFiF4cBUrEnbgjhAYCIF

These hashes enable detection of similar websites and malware variants by comparing content similarity even when exact matches aren't found.

Image Hashes

Perceptual Hashes

Average Hash:00ffdfffffc3c3c3
Perceptual Hash:ec93654f336c311c
Difference Hash:4d28b61e30869696
Wavelet Hash:00c6c3c7dfc3c3c3
Color Hash:#bf5140

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