Security Scan Report: sputniknews.ru

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Submitted: Sep 19, 2026, 2:11:49 PMCompleted: Sep 19, 2026, 2:13:43 PMpubliccompleted

This website contacted 29 IPs in 4 countries across 30 domains to perform 225 HTTP transactions. The main domain is sputniknews.ru and was registered 14 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://sputniknews.ru

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #234,176 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 88%

1
Risk Score

Official Sputnik news site on a 16-year-old domain, self-branded, no forms, no malware or phishing signals. The lone threat-intel hit is a generic reputation tag on a third-party Telegram IP; the page is legitimate.

Safety Factors (5)
Established news brand on its own long-registered domain (self-branding, no impersonation)
No credential, login or payment forms anywhere on the page
No YARA malware patterns, no known malicious kits, no native-YARA high-precision hits
No credential exfiltration and no cross-origin form submissions detected
Threat-intel match is a generic reputation tag on a third-party Telegram address, unrelated to this site's own IP
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Sputnik Ближнее зарубежье

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

The domain name 'sputniknews.ru' uses the Russian country-code top-level domain (.ru). Count 11 characters in 'sputniknews' split between 3 vowels and eight consonants. Tokenizing the label suggests 2 words: sputnik, news. Expect 5.5 characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://sputniknews.ru

Page Load Overview

75.19s
Total Load Time
3.7 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇷🇺Russian
Code: ru
Confidence:80%
Script:Cyrillic
Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:ru
Text Length:1,472 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

documentation technical35% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

documentation technical
35%
social media network
35%
technology software
32%
corporate
25%

Detected Features

OG: website

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
29194.190.139.38Russia
AS57352Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency
7142.250.154.95Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
737.9.64.225Yandex · CLOUDRussia
AS13238YANDEX LLC
7178.176.128.128Russia
AS31133PJSC MegaFon
7109.238.88.64Russia
AS201706Servicepipe LLC
7195.218.152.218Russia
AS3216PVimpelCom
7176.126.167.188Kyrgyzstan
AS59684Hoster kg, Ltd.
7142.251.156.4Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
777.88.44.55Yandex · CLOUDMoscow, Moscow, Russia
AS13238YANDEX LLC
783.222.5.43Russia
AS25532LLC masterhost
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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

T1433124737414D88E32209173E8557004CAE659BFFA252D40B0AC08BF1FF4BE8C4ABB16

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

48:6fqE+yTfpV1GGCdLBGt7GwCEC7lLvMIcZ:6d+81LCJ0FCEC7lLvMIcZ

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:1551:EAAYAJAAARAAAQAAAEAIACAAAAAAAQIBAAAhIICABBAAKAAAIAAAAAABAIAAAQAAAAAAAAAQACAAsAAgAwICAAIIAAgAAEDA

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

Image Hashes

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