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Security Scan Report: www.bellingcat.com

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Submitted: May 14, 2026, 5:19:47 PMCompleted: May 14, 2026, 5:21:09 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 6 IPs in 2 countries across 6 domains to perform 34 HTTP transactions. The main domain is bellingcat.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://www.bellingcat.com/

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #657,953 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Low Risk

Confidence: 92%

2
Risk Score

The site appears legitimate with low risk; no phishing or malware indicators detected.

Risk Factors
Low Cisco Umbrella ranking (657,953) for a brand name
Critical JavaScript obfuscation score with eval() and Function() usage
Safety Factors
Long‑standing domain with no history of abuse
No credential or payment collection forms
No Indicators of Compromise or YARA malware matches
Cross‑origin email forms point to reputable newsletter service
Self‑brand matches domain, confirming legitimate ownership
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

bellingcat - the home of online investigations

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

news/blog

(40%)

Domain Information

The domain 'www.bellingcat.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) and includes subdomain 'www'. The core label 'bellingcat' covers 10 characters holding 3 vowels versus 7 consonants. Tokenizing the label suggests 2 words: belling, cat. Median word length comes out to five characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://www.bellingcat.com/

Page Load Overview

7.44s
Total Load Time
132
HTTP Requests
12
Domains
4.5 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-GB
Text Length:7,006 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

news/blog40% confidence
Type: webapp
Method: structural

All Detected Categories

news/blog
40%

Detected Features

Articles
OG: website
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
22185.199.111.153United States
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2252.222.136.33United States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
22104.20.30.192United States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
22185.111.111.157Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS212238Datacamp Limited
22172.217.208.95United States
AS15169Google LLC
22142.250.154.93United States
AS15169Google LLC
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Detected Technologies9

X-UA-Compatible
100%
Open-Graph-Protocolvwebsite
100%
JQueryv3.6.1
100%
WordPress
60%
Cloudflare Bot Management
55%
PHP
50%
MySQL
50%
Cloudflare
40%
YouTube
30%

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T1C3C3EA7281F02D232247D9D5E2B56BE9AF418207DA0779C4F3FCA65D6F8ADE2045329C

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

1536:5dnapalUmZ7yL2C5h4fh0kjWvz5bChJOJTx/F:5daclUmF0kMz5bChJyF

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:119089:ngIk0VKAYF05SIsAwEEiQEAEQSWhJOoAgxwQkIfIgoAAUAHSASgAoci5dt1I2EchhAY02kCaShwRaKSNQcU6oxAWAQBzRoBA

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

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