Security Scan Report: buttondown.com

Site favicon
Submitted: Oct 31, 2025, 6:29:28 AMCompleted: Oct 31, 2025, 6:30:50 AMpubliccompleted
Loading additional data...

Summary

This website contacted 12 IPs in 2 countries across 5 domains to perform 27 HTTP transactions. The main domain is buttondown.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://buttondown.com/ainews

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

0
Risk Score

Legitimate newsletter page with no security concerns.

Safety Factors
Long‑standing domain with reputable registration date
Absence of credential or payment collection forms
Explicit instruction to use the new legitimate URL (news.smol.ai) rather than submitting data here
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

AI News (MOVED TO news.smol.ai!) • Buttondown

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

social media network

(52%)

Domain Information

The domain 'buttondown.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com). The core label 'buttondown' covers 10 characters split between three vowels and 7 consonants. Word splitting yields 2 words: button, down. Median word length comes out to 5 characters. 'button' is most common in Chinese (Pinyin) usage. You will also see it in English and Chinese (Zhuyin) contexts. Taken together, it feels Chinese (Pinyin).

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://buttondown.com/ainews

Page Load Overview

58.13s
Total Load Time
27
HTTP Requests
5
Domains
184 KB
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
Text Length:948 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

social media network52% confidence
Type: dynamic
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

social media network
52%
technology software
48%
cryptocurrency blockchain
38%
news media journalism
37%
corporate
35%

Detected Features

OG: website
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
515.197.149.68United States
AS16509AMAZON-02
218.64.16.66United States
23.33.241.96United States
AS16509AMAZON-02
276.223.57.73United States
AS16509AMAZON-02
213.248.213.92United States
AS16509AMAZON-02
234.120.195.249Kansas City, Missouri, United States
AS396982GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM
276.76.21.21Walnut, California, United States
AS16509AMAZON-02
2142.250.185.202United States
AS15169GOOGLE
218.64.16.212United StatesUnknown
22a00:1450:4001:829::200aFrankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS15169GOOGLE
2712--

Detected Technologies2

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T108B21BB7BE50881227136250F8E0AA5DF93BB5534984CC64F5EC85ACA7C9FB8D93F148

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

384:oK5/Y3JPhCIVbUMWuM34WL4pyzTrVJkWzilaEAuyN:9uZk4WwyzTrjbziMEAuO

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:23560:HYAABABQZaUBQBApB4ZgIpsyCoKYJkoYNRFcUiFjyg5wKU7RHcAqgEwaCSkKRE5ZwBMjB7QPgD6gKUwAoIpLA4gkUA6MQcAz

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:N/A
Perceptual Hash:N/A
Difference Hash:N/A
Wavelet Hash:N/A
Color Hash:N/A

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:N/A

Scan History

Scan history not available

Unable to load historical scan data