Security Report: browser-update.pro - Analysis

Summary

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This website contacted 19 IPs in 5 countries across 5 domains to perform 16 HTTP transactions. The main domain is browser-update.pro and was registered 1 month ago.

Submitted URL: https://browser-update.pro/

AI Security Verdict

Confirmed Scam

Confidence: 95%

Risk Score

Fake CAPTCHA page impersonating Yahoo that instructs visitors to paste and run PowerShell commands to install malware; flagged by Safe Browsing for social engineering. Avoid entirely.

Risk Factors (5)

Verified Google Safe Browsing social-engineering threat

Impersonation of the Yahoo brand on a non-Yahoo domain

ClickFix-style instruction to paste commands into PowerShell (malware execution)

Suspicious clipboard activity detected (3 events)

Newly registered domain (34 days) with no reputation

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videosother network

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: 1114331409

MD5: 5a1205110f1b391d0fb1dea50a8aeb02

Domain Name Analysis

Domain 'browser-update.pro' uses the .pro top-level domain. The registrable portion 'browser-update' spans 14 characters split between 5 vowels and eight consonants, notching 1 hyphen. Splitting it apart reveals two words: browser, update. Median word length comes out to 6.5 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

0.87s

Total Load Time

168 KB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en

Text Length:500 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software70% confidence

Type: dynamic

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software

70%

documentation technical

46%

adult content

36%

phishing scam

27%

government public service

26%

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
16	188.114.96.3Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
0	87.248.119.252	United Kingdom	AS203220Yahoo-UK Limited
0	74.6.231.21	Omaha, Nebraska, United States	AS36646Yahoo Holdings Inc.
0	87.248.119.251	United Kingdom	AS203220Yahoo-UK Limited
0	3.161.82.31Cloudfront · CDN	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
0	142.251.20.155Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
0	146.75.121.44Fastly · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS54113Fastly, Inc.
0	54.246.15.254Aws · CLOUD	Dublin, Leinster, Ireland	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
0	87.248.114.16	London, England, United Kingdom	AS43428Yahoo-UK Limited
0	34.95.69.49Google · CDN	Kansas City, Missouri, United States	AS396982Google LLC
16	19	-	-