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Security Scan Report: meridianstar.com

Submitted: Oct 2, 2026, 6:45:13 AMCompleted: Oct 2, 2026, 6:46:23 AMpubliccompleted

Summary

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This website contacted 155 IPs in 7 countries across 152 domains to perform 714 HTTP transactions. The main domain is meridianstar.com and was registered 19 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://meridianstar.com/2024/11/12/today-in-history-november-13-130-die-in-paris-terror-attacks/

AI Security Verdict

Low Risk

Confidence: 62%

3
Risk Score

Legitimate 27-year-old news site with self-branding and no credential/payment forms; however, two third-party ad/script hosts flagged as macOS malware by two feeds each warrant caution.

Risk Factors (2)
A third-party host contacted/loaded by the page (panyinadiingsin.com) is flagged as macOS malware by two independent threat feeds, which is consistent with a malicious ad creative or injected resource in the page's ad stack.
An outbound link to tick.fashvision.com, also flagged as macOS malware by two independent feeds, appears in the page's ad/link inventory.
Safety Factors (7)
Domain is 27 years old (well-established, minimal risk category) and belongs to a recognised local news publisher.
Site displays its OWN brand ('Meridian Star') which matches the domain — no brand impersonation.
No credential, login, or payment forms (0 password, 0 disguised-password, 0 payment fields).
No JavaScript malware patterns, no known phishing kit, no IDS alerts, no credential exfiltration.
Page is clearly marked as an article (og:type=article) reporting historical news content.
13 third-party script hosts, all ranked in the top-1M popularity list (standard ad-tech stack).
Verdict cited a credential/login form, but DOM analysis found no password field (real or disguised) or payment field, and no other hard signal — credential-phishing framing unsupported; risk adjusted from 5 to 3
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Today in History: November 13, 130 die in Paris terror attacks | Meridian Star

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Domain 'meridianstar.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) while skipping any subdomain. The second-level label 'meridianstar' is 12 characters long containing 5 vowels alongside seven consonants. Segmentation suggests 2 words: meridian, star. Expect six characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://meridianstar.com/2024/11/12/today-in-history-november-13-130-die-in-paris-terror-attacks/

Page Load Overview

2.13s
Total Load Time
11.9 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

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

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:10,469 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

news media journalism80% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

news media journalism
80%
news/blog
35%
corporate
35%
social media network
28%
forum
20%

Detected Features

Search
OG: article
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
98192.0.66.38San Francisco, California, United States
AS2635Automattic, Inc
4192.0.66.96San Francisco, California, United States
AS2635Automattic, Inc
418.245.31.78Cloudfront · CDNUnited States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
4104.18.43.90Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
4142.251.20.97Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
43.160.150.115Cloudfront · CDNUnited States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
465.9.130.86Cloudfront · CDNUnited States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
4104.17.251.66Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
4192.0.66.2San Francisco, California, United States
AS2635Automattic, Inc
4192.0.76.3San Francisco, California, United States
AS2635Automattic, 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

T195243B7164D0303B1923419EE7D5AB08B1BDDCE7A94D97D2F29C9A101BC6BEE292353C

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

3072:5/sMxIL7SHFNYQf/aK6RIZOmYyXVJEZ/Tcs1DTiTTAVH3AnGRA/Ji:87SHFNFYcOm3XVJEZ/Hof4

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:219161:ZRIagiEQPrFIyACAgsA3dRiF6AIiOAiFpAoUGgIknIaClE2oREiiyEERAFCBJDIKKojgOBIC2MqlDAJDIHFSsIABABWKzyI8

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:00ffffffff000000
Perceptual Hash:edf51212c70d45ad
Difference Hash:c61e12361691a313
Wavelet Hash:00ffffffff000000
Color Hash:#7997d2

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:c61e12361691a313,0221d6d6d6d62184,849ce30383330c03

Scan History

Scan history not available

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