Security Scan Report: www.bbcnews.uk

Redirected to:
https://webindex.org/en/access-bbc-global-news-and-digital-entertainme...
Submitted: Completed: publiccompleted
This website contacted 4 IPs in 2 countries across 3 domains to perform 6 HTTP transactions. The main domain is bbcnews.uk and was registered 7 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://www.bbcnews.uk/

Effective URL:
https://webindex.org/en/access-bbc-global-news-and-digital-entertainme...
Redirected

AI Security Verdict

Low Risk

Confidence: 78%

3
Risk Score

The site impersonates the BBC brand, redirects to an unrelated domain, and is unranked, indicating a high‑risk phishing attempt.

Risk Factors (3)
Brand impersonation of a major media outlet
Unranked domain in reputation databases
Redirect to an unrelated third‑party site (webindex.org)
Safety Factors (5)
Domain age > 27 years (well‑established)
No malicious JavaScript or malware signatures
No credential or payment collection forms
No network IDS alerts
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 8 to 3
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Access BBC Global News and Digital Entertainment - WEBINDEX

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

The domain name 'www.bbcnews.uk' uses the United Kingdom country-code top-level domain (.uk); it also runs on subdomain 'www'. The second-level label 'bbcnews' is 7 characters long split between one vowel and six consonants. Tokenizing the label suggests 2 words: bbc, news. Expect 3.5 characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://www.bbcnews.uk/

Page Load Overview

0.50s
Total Load Time
16 KB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English
Code: en
Confidence:56%
Script:Latin
Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Text Length:2,862 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

news media journalism83% confidence
Type: static
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

news media journalism
83%
entertainment media
65%

Detected Features

Search

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
35.9.139.146Falkenstein, Saxony, Germany
AS24940Hetzner Online GmbH
1116.202.172.30Falkenstein, Saxony, Germany
AS24940Hetzner Online GmbH
1142.251.150.119United States
AS15169Google LLC
1144.76.59.138Falkenstein, Saxony, Germany
AS24940Hetzner Online GmbH
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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

T1DCE1D777971C09691332414EF87772DDA82FD43267068CE3B8FB808D96E2E14837B9A5

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

192:RsS3s9LlOBQ72PdjRipYe1+n2ef7Fjbr6:EBOBQOtip91+Df7U

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:7057:wgADDCEh5glECKqyAdsIAMQBJyTbh4S5BAI3CIQAEIgSShKAGAQCVECaLGAEAnCRKEgQMFZBpgQhBBhCwM0CiB4AOQPmEQAA

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:ff18381818183818
Perceptual Hash:8ef1a0f1b1f1b198
Difference Hash:7161616171616161
Wavelet Hash:ff19391939193919
Color Hash:#93841f

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:7361716171616161

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