Security Report: business.usnews.com - Analysis

Summary

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This website contacted 54 IPs in 3 countries across 42 domains to perform 216 HTTP transactions. The main domain is usnews.com and was registered 31 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://business.usnews.com/payroll-software/what-is-payroll

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #33,174 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 93%

Risk Score

Legitimate U.S. News business article explaining payroll. No forms, no brand impersonation, no malware or threat-intel hits; only normal ad-tech redirects and an informational IDS note.

Safety Factors (4)

Self-branding matches domain: title/meta reference U.S. News business section on usnews.com itself

No credential, login, or payment forms present

No Indicators of Compromise, no hunting rule malware patterns, no Safe Browsing or phishing IDS alerts (the single Suricata alert is INFO-level hex-content heuristic with no corroboration)

Established ranked domain with substantial original editorial content

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

What is Payroll | U.S. News

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Within the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), 'business.usnews.com' is registered with subdomain 'business'. Count 6 characters in 'usnews' holding 2 vowels versus four consonants. Tokenizing the label suggests 2 words: us, news. Expect three characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

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Page Load Overview

4.00s

Total Load Time

4.3 MB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en

Text Length:15,251 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

corporate business36% confidence

Type: spa

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

corporate business

36%

news/blog

35%

corporate

35%

Detected Features

OG: article

Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
4	2.17.100.240Akamai · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS20940Akamai International B.V.
4	23.50.131.133Akamai · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS20940Akamai International B.V.
4	142.251.20.95Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
4	104.18.86.42Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
4	151.101.193.155Fastly · CDN	United States	AS54113Fastly, Inc.
4	143.204.181.99Cloudfront · CDN	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
4	142.251.14.94Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
4	104.18.32.137Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
4	142.251.127.84Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
4	104.17.158.113Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
216	54	-	-