Security Scan Report: news.softpedia.com

Bot Protection Detected

This website is protected by Cloudflare bot protection. The screenshot and page details below show the page as it was captured.

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Submitted: Completed: publiccompleted
This website contacted 11 IPs in 2 countries across 2 domains to perform 10 HTTP transactions. The main domain is softpedia.com and was registered 23 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://news.softpedia.com

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #345,933 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

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Risk Score

Legitimate established technology news site. No credential harvesting, impersonation, malware, or threat-intel hits. Search-only forms; bot challenge is ordinary protection.

Safety Factors (6)
Established domain (23 years old)
Physical address visible
Self-branding detected, no impersonation
No password, payment, or credential forms
No Indicators of Compromise, YARA, IDS, or Safe Browsing hits
Ranked inside Cisco Umbrella top 1M (popularity, not a risk factor)
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Latest News & Reviews by Softpediaother network

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Domain 'news.softpedia.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), featuring subdomain 'news'. The core label 'softpedia' covers 9 characters holding four vowels versus five consonants. Segmentation suggests 1 word: softpedia. Expect nine characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://news.softpedia.com

Page Load Overview

2.88s
Total Load Time
984 KB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English
Code: en
Confidence:80%
Script:Latin
Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:8,595 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software49% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural+ocr_tiebreaker

All Detected Categories

technology software
49%
corporate
35%

Detected Features

Search
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
10104.20.37.252Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
0142.251.20.97Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
0172.66.145.102Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
0142.250.154.155Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
0142.251.110.102Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
03.160.150.40Cloudfront · CDNUnited States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
0216.239.34.36Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
063.188.77.12Aws · CLOUDFrankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
063.188.254.19Aws · CLOUDFrankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
0104.18.95.41Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
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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

T15393A57261693A370A0B81DF6C65F30CB0D3B51EC58B8944F3BC96C91B99DD2C89195F

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

1536:C0PUEUMjqydpQv8pTNLZ7eAXUbkKhGYD3jqGxvzMdhkGx/S:CO/UMjqynQv8p55eQUbkKhGYD+GxvzMU

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:95354:nCqgRhBRgo4Byp0JCQpkOhgGpBjCSCIBDAFMArFgXRQCsweohhLr6gQYhE2AAOGgYiBRIqARBHlVQI0kohUIBxQLGkMFqHQ0

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:00003c3c3c3c0000
Perceptual Hash:8a53614c597ccf1b
Difference Hash:176969696961250b
Wavelet Hash:001d3d3d3d3d1d01
Color Hash:#6a2d86

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