Security Scan Report: payscale.com

Redirected to:
https://www.payscale.com/
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Submitted: Oct 2, 2026, 8:51:32 PMCompleted: Oct 2, 2026, 8:52:41 PMpubliccompleted

This website contacted 78 IPs in 5 countries across 48 domains to perform 219 HTTP transactions. The main domain is payscale.com and was registered 22 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://payscale.com

Effective URL:

https://www.payscale.com/
Redirected

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #118,703 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

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Risk Score

payscale.com is the official Payscale corporate site on a 27-year-old domain. Self-branded, no credential or payment forms, no Indicators of Compromise, no malware. Legitimate.

Safety Factors (5)
27-year-old established domain with matching self-branding
No credential-harvesting or payment fields on the page
Ranked in Cisco Umbrella top 1M (#118,703) — consistent with a legitimate niche B2B SaaS vendor
Corporate/product content (compensation data software) corroborated by legitimate third-party analytics/CDN hosts (Google APIs, DoubleClick, Claym/Clarity, Marketo, Bing)
No threat-intelligence, YARA, or kit-roster hits
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Payscale: Compensation Intelligence & Salary Data Software

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Within the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), 'payscale.com' is registered with no subdomain. The core label 'payscale' covers 8 characters holding 3 vowels versus five consonants. Word splitting yields two words: pay, scale. Expect four characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://payscale.com

Page Load Overview

6.46s
Total Load Time
3.3 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

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

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:21,462 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

corporate70% confidence
Type: spa
Method: structural

All Detected Categories

corporate
70%

Detected Features

Search
OG: website
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
6513.32.99.79Cloudfront · CDNNew York, New York, United States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
2192.5.11.10United States
AS63029Payscale, Inc.
2104.18.160.117Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2142.251.20.95Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
2146.75.122.132Fastly · CDNFrankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS54113Fastly, Inc.
2104.18.86.42Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
218.64.211.96Cloudfront · CDNUnited States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
213.226.247.67Cloudfront · CDNUnited States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
2104.17.24.14Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2104.17.208.5Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
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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

T169C509A0A34816F8FA6F438F9DF53C9821F230BFBF98505CD15965C386AA5D1292C58F

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

3072:ovcwC7aM69s9YG/55kDEviZdNiDiO4DbsF6HRKSgFcc56HHNFP97kskq9hmHx8y6:tFT9p2rvEHx8yDN13y0d61yi5

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:2686397:CRBIYdUETKAhgViBaQyMEEmoDYMAE1IAFkzjeiVoIBAICeQBAF5YKKAKC4NLAcKJURQCJjDAuRIAoODqjRhAQAIRQuFYCAOW

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:01010000000083ff
Perceptual Hash:aa75885f827f8835
Difference Hash:2b97970d8dd10f89
Wavelet Hash:f9c3c3010100ffff
Color Hash:#7ad22d

Other Hashes

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