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Security Scan Report: theathletic.com

Redirected to:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/
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Submitted: Jun 13, 2026, 11:27:12 AMCompleted: Jun 13, 2026, 11:28:53 AMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 3 IPs in 2 countries across 6 domains to perform 9 HTTP transactions. The main domain is nytimes.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://theathletic.com/

Effective URL: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/Redirected

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #23,630 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

1
Risk Score

The site appears legitimate with no phishing or malware indicators.

Safety Factors
Established domain with long registration history
Brand name in meta tags matches the domain (no impersonation)
No malicious JavaScript or network activity observed
Redirect leads to a legitimate NYTimes page
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Bot Protection Detected

This website is protected by access_denied bot protection. Our scanner was challenged or blocked during access.

Page Title

The Athletic - Sports news, stories, scores, schedules, podcasts, and more

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

entertainment media

(32%)

Domain Information

You're looking at domain 'theathletic.com' on the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) with no subdomain. Count 11 characters in 'theathletic' split between four vowels and 7 consonants. Splitting it apart reveals two words: the, athletic. Median word length comes out to 5.5 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://theathletic.com/

Page Load Overview

19.28s
Total Load Time
177
HTTP Requests
25
Domains
2.9 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
Text Length:35,738 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

entertainment media32% confidence
Type: static
Method: ml+structural+ocr_tiebreaker

All Detected Categories

entertainment media
32%
technology software
27%
corporate
25%

Detected Features

OG: website

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
59104.26.1.90United States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
59104.19.248.29United States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
59146.75.121.164Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS54113Fastly, Inc.
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Detected Technologies3

HSTS
40%
Cloudflare Bot Management
40%
Cloudflare
40%

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T136B4A6B68694663AC71381C4F11027FFE082D05FCBA759D8F66CC3ABD7C2D9295261E8

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

1536:9xJVnbPlPVcrgStembFChLFIo4p0/UBcO17pmz/9niI4RTFNXeMp61CjX1nU+sP6:93Sx0yuVilYFkjsUBKs3mrGCdg

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:500099:CMil7GAQDCogkhhTWooQzxhdFCA0mkQBACB4BIsGCIRhkXHxBA0ArQKIKUQCAME6lBEsiACKhoCASZEZIFhEQgQxpjQUIZoh

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:00838383ffdffeff
Perceptual Hash:bc39474343472b57
Difference Hash:c53737372337b4c8
Wavelet Hash:008383839b83feff
Color Hash:#2d8686

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:c53737372337b4c8,29d4d4c4c9c9c9c9,3959493ab9bb5165,abd3e3c399292949

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