Security Report: theargus.co.uk - Analysis

Summary

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This website contacted 38 IPs in 5 countries across 2 domains to perform 3 HTTP transactions. The main domain is theargus.co.uk and was registered 26 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://theargus.co.uk

Effective URL:

https://www.theargus.co.uk/

Redirected

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #342,774 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

Risk Score

Legitimate 26-year-old Brighton regional newspaper (The Argus). Real news content matching its own brand, no threat-intel hits, no credential or payment forms. The scanner block page is ordinary bot protection.

Safety Factors (5)

Established domain age of 9736 days

Self-branding: page title/meta match the site's own domain and brand

Physical address visible in publisher information

No credential or payment collection forms present

No Indicators of Compromise, YARA, IDS, or behavioral red flags

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Brighton and Sussex News, Sport, Events - Brighton Argus

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Domain 'theargus.co.uk' uses the United Kingdom country-code top-level domain (.co.uk) while skipping any subdomain. Its registrable label 'theargus' stretches across 8 characters containing three vowels alongside 5 consonants. Breaking it apart gives two words: the, argus. Expect four characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

0.29s

Total Load Time

1 KB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:67%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Text Length:182 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

documentation technical56% confidence

Type: static

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

documentation technical

56%

adult content

56%

technology software

52%

news media journalism

49%

phishing scam

47%

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
3	150.171.110.56Azure · CLOUD	United States	AS8075Microsoft Corporation
0	20.90.133.1Azure · CLOUD	London, England, United Kingdom	AS8075Microsoft Corporation
0	192.0.66.159	San Francisco, California, United States	AS2635Automattic, Inc
0	142.251.14.95Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
0	151.101.129.155Fastly · CDN	United States	AS54113Fastly, Inc.
0	23.52.181.12Akamai · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS16625Akamai Technologies, Inc.
0	13.33.187.16Cloudfront · CDN	New York, New York, United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
0	142.251.13.154Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
0	104.26.13.204Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
0	3.174.46.93Cloudfront · CDN	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
3	38	-	-

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T137C45C05B8E11933416322E6B6F926059F51F10BE54E8888F2EC47E87FD7EA57D2329C

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

6144:G/l5+K0jNxTetidGqPRWneubBDaQfEmG5SbCFxeer3JrXxIhLy8KaggW81Ry/Oyr:2eKcPemIeubhENlrC7aT

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:569869:FMEDgAAVQAAJBZHTCFCuO0Npog4i6BYUKHQUGEcISBQgopGoACOOIaSCBhhIcClAs2OkUQxICqiGDgCwKoAQAw4CpikkFHWW

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:cf99649a18e69b8c

Difference Hash:2370797971692e06

Wavelet Hash:00833f3ffcfcc000

Color Hash:#6fd22d

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:32b7e7bab8f0de96,2370797971692e06

Scan History

Scan history not available

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Security Scan Report: theargus.co.uk