Security Scan: Inside Salt Typhoon: How Chinese APTs breache

Summary

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This website contacted 6 IPs in 3 countries across 61 domains to perform 158 HTTP transactions. The main domain is hackthebox.com and was registered 16 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/salt-typhoon-apt-us-telecom-espionage-attack-analysis

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #187,278 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 96%

Risk Score

The site is a legitimate, well‑established blog with no phishing or malware indicators.

Safety Factors

Established domain with long registration history

Content is informational blog about cybersecurity

Cross‑origin form submits to HubSpot (legitimate marketing service)

No malicious JavaScript behavior detected

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Inside Salt Typhoon: How Chinese APTs breached US telecoms (and stayed hidden for years)

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: 1479457378

MD5: ed5c76c440d927c9efde5670c1f13cc1

Domain Name Analysis

Within the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), 'www.hackthebox.com' is registered, featuring subdomain 'www'. The registrable portion 'hackthebox' spans 10 characters with three vowels and 7 consonants. Breaking it apart gives three words: hack, the, box. Average segment length settles at three characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

6.25s

Total Load Time

3.1 MB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en-us

Text Length:16,661 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software56% confidence

Type: spa

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software

56%

education learning

56%

government public service

40%

corporate

35%

documentation technical

27%

Detected Features

OG: article

Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
28	104.16.80.73Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
26	109.176.239.69	United Kingdom	AS214618Hack The Box Single Member Private Company
26	184.24.77.152	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS20940Akamai International B.V.
26	172.64.146.132Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
26	104.17.23.24Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
26	172.64.154.50Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
158	6	-	-