Security Report: usatoday.es - Analysis

Summary

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This website contacted 18 IPs in 3 countries across 20 domains to perform 235 HTTP transactions. The main domain is usatoday.es.

Submitted URL: https://usatoday.es/

AI Security Verdict

Moderate Risk

Confidence: 62%

Risk Score

Spanish-language news aggregator on usatoday.es displaying the 'USA Today' brand on a non-official, unranked domain, with injected ad/spam text. No credential or payment harvesting and no malware, but the brand claim is unverified.

Risk Factors (4)

Major news brand ('USA Today') presented in title/OG tags on a domain that is not the brand's official domain

Scanned domain is unranked / absent from Cisco Umbrella top 1M despite the brand claim

Page mixes scraped news content with unrelated injected advertising text (German dating-site strings, 'USA TYODA')

Cross-origin ad-tracking scripts and repeated .cc TLD DNS queries flagged by network IDS

Safety Factors (5)

Domain is well established (registered 2023-11-17, ~1053 days old)

No threat-intelligence Indicators of Compromise matches against the page or its resources

No YARA malware or high-precision native-YARA hits

No credential exfiltration and no payment fields; the password field is the standard WordPress admin login

Established WordPress-style newsletter subscription to wordpress.com, not credential exfiltration

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Página Principal - USA Today

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: -1939666823

MD5: c5da163c7e712c74fb6dc4b0865dbab8

Domain Name Analysis

Domain 'usatoday.es' uses the Spanish country-code top-level domain (.es) while skipping any subdomain. The registrable portion 'usatoday' spans 8 characters containing four vowels alongside four consonants. Tokenizing the label suggests 2 words: usa, today. Expect 4 characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

0.45s

Total Load Time

3.5 MB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇪🇸Spanish

Code: es

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:es-ES

Text Length:9,841 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

education learning99% confidence

Type: spa

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

education learning

99%

real estate property

99%

government public service

76%

healthcare medical

70%

corporate

35%

Detected Features

OG: website

Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
14	92.113.23.50	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS47583Hostinger International Limited
13	192.178.183.95Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
13	142.251.14.94Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
13	92.113.16.44	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS47583Hostinger International Limited
13	192.178.183.97Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
13	142.251.20.154Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
13	142.251.20.156Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
13	192.0.77.2	San Francisco, California, United States	AS2635Automattic, Inc
13	142.251.127.84Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
13	142.251.20.157Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
235	18	-	-