Security Scan Report: www.welchwrite.com

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Submitted: Sep 16, 2026, 11:47:45 AMCompleted: Sep 16, 2026, 11:48:45 AMpubliccompleted

AI Security Verdict

High Risk

Confidence: 65%

7
Risk Score

Long-established personal blog (welchwrite.com, 29 yrs) with benign content and only a Mailchimp signup form, but its own primary domain carries a single-source unverified 'gootloader' malware tag, which forces a HIGH_RISK verdict despite no corroborating evidence.

Risk Factors
Single-source unverified 'gootloader' malware-family indicator on the primary domain (welchwrite.com)
Domain absent from Cisco Umbrella top 1M ranking
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Douglas E. Welch | PHOTOGRAPHY - CAREERS - GARDENING - NEW MEDIA - TECHNOLOGY

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

You're looking at domain 'www.welchwrite.com' on the commercial generic top-level domain (.com); it also runs on subdomain 'www'. Count 10 characters in 'welchwrite' split between 3 vowels and 7 consonants. Tokenizing the label suggests 2 words: welch, write. The median word length lands at 5 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://www.welchwrite.com

Page Load Overview

8.86s
Total Load Time
58.3 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English
Code: en
Confidence:49%
Script:Latin
Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Text Length:3,063 chars
Detector Agreement:80%

Website Classification

Primary Category

social media network28% confidence
Type: dynamic
Method: ml+structural+ocr_tiebreaker

All Detected Categories

social media network
28%

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

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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

T143C250A2C09620B70312C6C5E3B1F72CE1C344EDDE430917F3EA2696969DED6A117D9D

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

384:fhfL5q+T6qIb6RK7Nh6/lQFFoUOP+7NVPnBzTz14PPpH4:fhf1q+T6qM6dQUUOP+73PBzTz14PPpY

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:26299:UQQ8SJQhE4AFiERlKLggIIQYSUsYsmN0hBBi3CHCSUAeHRcoIBWITSHtPgBQA4EQjMAJiNsFAqsJEIQgS6cAShAJilIgqWAJ

These hashes enable detection of similar websites and malware variants by comparing content similarity even when exact matches aren't found.

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