Security Scan: https://usaatoday.com/

Summary

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This website contacted 15 IPs in 5 countries across 10 domains to perform 23 HTTP transactions. The main domain is usaatoday.com and was registered 23 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://usaatoday.com/

Effective URL:

http://ww1.usaatoday.com/

Redirected

AI Security Verdict

Moderate Risk

Confidence: 58%

Risk Score

Aged but unranked domain redirecting through a circular loop to a 'ww1.' subdomain and serving thin, low-quality headline/portal filler. No forms, malware, or Indicators of Compromise found, so it reads as SEO/doorway spam rather than phishing.

Risk Factors (3)

Circular redirect combined with a hostname swap to a 'ww1.' subdomain — a pattern commonly seen on repurposed/expired domains

Thin doorway-style content with search-suggestion and headline filler, plus an external 'searchresultsworld.com' resource (search-hijack-adjacent)

No domain reputation despite its age — domain appears unreconciled with any real brand or business identity

Safety Factors (5)

Well-established domain (8717 days / ~23 years old) with a minimal domain-age risk category

No forms of any kind: no credential, password, email or payment collection

No Indicators of Compromise, no YARA malware patterns, no network IDS alerts, no known malicious kit

No cross-origin credential exfiltration and no suspicious JavaScript behavioral signals

Third-party script hosts (2 of 2) are ranked in the top-1M popularity list

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

N/A

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: 1677593480

MD5: 88756c1b7363467941665eecdecd1788

Domain Name Analysis

The domain 'usaatoday.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) while skipping any subdomain. The core label 'usaatoday' covers 9 characters split between five vowels and 4 consonants. Breaking it apart gives 3 words: usa, a, today. Median word length is three characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

6.35s

Total Load Time

279 KB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:72%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Text Length:44 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

unknown0% confidence

Type: dynamic

Method: structural

All Detected Categories

No categories detected

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
9	208.91.196.145	British Virgin Islands	AS40034Confluence Networks Inc
1	199.193.114.100	Latham, New York, United States	AS40244Turnkey Internet Inc.
1	172.67.138.86Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1	85.9.203.211	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS202053UpCloud Ltd
1	212.102.56.178Datacamp · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS60068Datacamp Limited
1	188.114.97.9Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1	188.114.96.9Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1	85.9.206.5	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS202053UpCloud Ltd
1	37.19.194.80Datacamp · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS60068Datacamp Limited
1	212.147.230.17	Finland	AS202053UpCloud Ltd
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