Security Scan: blogs.mercurynews.com

Summary

This website contacted 7 IPs in 1 country across 11 domains to perform 2 HTTP transactions. The main domain is blogs.mercurynews.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #110,802 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Low Risk

Confidence: 78%

Risk Score

Site appears legitimate but shows heavily obfuscated JavaScript; monitor for potential malicious activity.

Risk Factors

Heavy JavaScript obfuscation with eval() and Function() usage

Low domain ranking in Cisco Umbrella

Safety Factors

Well‑established domain (registered since 1996)

Self‑branding matches the domain (no brand impersonation)

No forms collecting credentials or payment data

No malicious IoC, YARA, or network IDS detections

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 4 to 3

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

blogs.mercurynews.com

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

8.12s

Total Load Time

HTTP Requests

Domains

N/A

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Language Code:en

Detection Confidence:80%

Script Type:Latin

HTML Lang Attribute:en

Text Length:759 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software78% confidence

Type: static

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software

78%

documentation technical

54%

news media journalism

44%

adult content

44%

blog personal website

29%

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
1	18.220.41.186Aws · CLOUD	Columbus, Ohio, United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
0	35.222.6.143Google · CDN	Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States	AS396982Google LLC
0	192.178.183.95Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
0	34.128.136.90Google · CDN	Kansas City, Missouri, United States	AS396982Google LLC
0	192.0.66.2	San Francisco, California, United States	AS2635Automattic, Inc
0	142.251.14.157Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
0	34.49.141.161Google · CDN	Kansas City, Missouri, United States	AS396982Google LLC
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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

T1D5048F77329A063986558498E05B830D9F21B143F506C8BC79BCBAD9BFDED06107BB78

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

3072:N/Qho9PKBb9Js3q9Jzbs6tlg1ySBKwdQ9gcoIsPS2bMy8Oldj:uhoC9JSqzzbs6okSjggcpsa2eAB

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:187948:MLYhFBDEwCCbh1BAAkoEBIEmMUhpCIUqDUoCmFkKIK1ADEQAG4igBChTEQABAmI5Re55IQwABGQMYixgiIGXFiuhCQCACAgK

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:ffc7c7c3d3ffffff

Perceptual Hash:b1339acccc93b364

Difference Hash:0018181616000000

Wavelet Hash:fcdcc4c4c0f8f0f0

Color Hash:#2d8486

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:0018181616000000

Scan History

Scan history not available

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Security Scan Report: blogs.mercurynews.com