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Security Scan Report: mcdowellnews.com

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Submitted: Dec 3, 2025, 5:59:41 PMCompleted: Dec 3, 2025, 6:02:01 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 402 IPs in 12 countries across 170 domains to perform 595 HTTP transactions. The main domain is mcdowellnews.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://mcdowellnews.com/news/nation-world/business/article_8852f53c-3bae-5dac-91db-5fc68a4f0c20.html

AI Security Verdict

High Risk

Confidence: 78%

8
Risk Score

Site shows strong signs of compromise with credential‑harvesting forms; treat as high‑risk.

Risk Factors
Disguised password fields
Hidden password fields
Unicode evasion in form inputs
29 redirects indicating possible redirect abuse
Credential‑harvesting forms on a non‑financial site
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Bot Protection Detected

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

Page Title

Potential refunds for importers if tariffs thrown out

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

news media journalism

(61%)

Domain Information

Domain 'mcdowellnews.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com). The second-level label 'mcdowellnews' is 12 characters long with three vowels and nine consonants. Splitting it apart reveals 2 words: mcdowell, news. Median word length is six characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://mcdowellnews.com/news/nation-world/business/article_8852f53c-3bae-5dac-91db-5fc68a4f0c20.html

Page Load Overview

3.00s
Total Load Time
595
HTTP Requests
170
Domains
11.3 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:29,629 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

news media journalism61% confidence
Type: webapp
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

news media journalism
61%
government public service
41%
news/blog
35%
education learning
27%
e-commerce
25%

Detected Features

Login Form
Search
Payment
Articles
OG: article

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
96104.16.132.24United States
AS13335CLOUDFLARENET
33142.250.184.227United States
AS15169GOOGLE
2551.178.195.217France
AS16276OVH SAS
16103.231.98.109Japan
AS62713AS-PUBMATIC
13192.104.183.209United States
AS10668LEE-ASN
12142.250.185.226United States
AS15169GOOGLE
11142.250.185.132United States
AS15169GOOGLE
11216.58.206.66United States
AS15169GOOGLE
937.252.171.85Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS29990ASN-APPNEX
823.207.210.198Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS20940Akamai International B.V.
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Detected Technologies2

TownNews
40%
HSTS
40%

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T113D023B3D051490ED7355AE4CD43B9809A24715CD1229EB47684B1D8F448E63944355C

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

6:qzxV/5VHHoB96D3ne1k9YfVjcXxADT1yb8:kxV7HdBWfVjcmDTG8

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:1:0:2cde5ef31e4dd0993a936696f45fb5d0

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:1f1fffffffffffff
Perceptual Hash:8f0f0f0707c3f1f0
Difference Hash:6060000000000000
Wavelet Hash:1030f0f0f0f0f0f0
Color Hash:#40bf59

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:6060000000000000

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