Security Report: benefitnews.com - Analysis

Summary

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This website contacted 15 IPs in 3 countries across 59 domains to perform 175 HTTP transactions. The main domain is benefitnews.com and was registered 29 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://benefitnews.com

Effective URL:

https://www.benefitnews.com/

Redirected

AI Security Verdict

Moderate Risk

Confidence: 78%

Risk Score

Site appears legitimate but contains heavily obfuscated JavaScript that posts data to external endpoints, warranting caution.

Risk Factors (3)

Heavy JavaScript obfuscation with dynamic code execution

Cross‑origin POSTs to suspicious external endpoints

Unranked domain despite self‑branding

Safety Factors (5)

No credential or payment collection forms

Domain age > 10 years (low baseline risk)

Brand name matches domain (no impersonation)

No Indicators of Compromise matched

No JavaScript malware hunting-rule patterns detected

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Employee Benefit News | HR & Benefits News and Insights | Employee Benefit News

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

The domain 'benefitnews.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) while skipping any subdomain. Its registrable label 'benefitnews' stretches across 11 characters split between 4 vowels and seven consonants. It segments into 2 words: benefit, news. The median word length lands at 5.5 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

8.41s

Total Load Time

2.8 MB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en

Text Length:9,143 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

social media network63% confidence

Type: spa

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

social media network

63%

government public service

44%

healthcare medical

40%

news media journalism

39%

adult content

29%

Detected Features

OG: website

Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
21	15.197.254.45	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
11	104.18.160.126	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
11	104.17.25.14	France	AS29990Xandr Inc.
11	142.251.110.97	United States	AS15169Google LLC
11	23.67.139.70	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS16625Akamai Technologies, Inc.
11	172.67.155.215	Unknown	AS2635Automattic, Inc
11	142.251.20.95	United States	AS15169Google LLC
11	104.18.176.126	Unknown	AS16625Akamai Technologies, Inc.
11	18.245.86.97	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
11	65.8.131.8	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
175	15	-	-