Verdict
newsmarathi24.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Marathi-language regional news site publishing frequent local stories (politics, health, sports). Uses social sharing, cookie/consent management and ad vendors to monetize. No signs of credential harvesting or investment offers in the captured content. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | 5 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 8.9 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2017.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website is News Marathi 24, a Marathi-language regional news and media publisher presenting recurring coverage of Maharashtra politics, health, sports, tourism, and local affairs. Its apparent business model is ad-supported content publishing, supplemented by social-sharing features, consent management, analytics, and third-party advertising.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s captured content presents as a conventional local-news homepage, with no observed login form, credential-harvesting mechanism, investment offer, cryptocurrency feature, or other obvious abuse pattern. That benign presentation does not resolve the external security concern: five malicious detections were recorded, a tier-one security vendor identified a threat, and the domain is confirmed on external blacklist sources. This is a material contradiction between the visible publishing function and the site’s external security reputation, so sensitive interaction should be treated as unsafe despite the absence of observed phishing or brand-impersonation content.
- The homepage contains Marathi news coverage focused on local politics, health, sports, tourism, and Maharashtra-related affairs.
- External security assessment recorded 5 malicious detections and a tier-one vendor threat flag; the domain was also marked by external blacklist sources.
- The domain was registered on 2017-09-24 and is approximately 8.91 years old, indicating that the security concern is not explained solely by a newly registered domain.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available site content identifies the publication as News Marathi 24 and provides a “Contact us” route, but the supplied pages do not establish a clearly verified legal operator or licensing basis. For a news publisher, licensing may not be applicable in the same manner as for a financial service, but the absence of a clear corporate, editorial, or accountable-operator disclosure remains a transparency gap. The domain is registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC, which is an administrative infrastructure fact and does not independently validate the publisher’s identity. No matching third-party broker profile was identified.
- The homepage title identifies “News Marathi 24 - आरसा समाजाचा” and the navigation includes “Contact us.”
- The published business model is advertising-supported news and media; no license claim or license number is supplied in the analyzed content.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by WR1, valid until 2026-10-07.
- The site is hosted on AS47583, AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY; the resolved infrastructure is associated with UA.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an enterprise or user should confirm that the intended domain was obtained through an independent, trusted source rather than a message, advertisement, or redirected link. The publisher’s legal operator and editorial contact details should be corroborated through an independent offline or established public channel, and any external links or downloads should be inspected before use. If the site is being considered for organizational access, security controls should block or isolate the domain until the blacklist detections have been independently resolved.
- The homepage uses Facebook, WhatsApp, and AddToAny sharing integrations but does not provide a verified organizational profile in the supplied evidence.
- The analyzed page contains one search or consent-related form and no sensitive form destination.
- Behavioral testing recorded 2 successful runs, with 0 wallet-connection runs, 0 wallet-sensitive runs, and 0 hidden forms detected.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk. The site appears to function as a local news publisher, but the confirmed external security detections and blacklist status outweigh the otherwise ordinary page content and create an unacceptable basis for sensitive interaction.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is directly associated with AS47583 and Hostinger International Limited, with four likely origin IPs and no CDN edge IPs detected. No CDN or WAF was identified in the supplied infrastructure facts; the hosting arrangement therefore provides limited mitigation against the external reputation concern, although the infrastructure is technically resolved and attributable to a named hosting provider.
Closing Assessment
Access should be restricted to passive, read-only viewing in an appropriately controlled environment, with logins, credential submission, financial activity, downloads, and other sensitive actions withheld unless the security detections and operator identity have been independently cleared.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 37% |
- Trusted social count=1
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of newsmarathi24.com.
- The request stayed on newsmarathi24.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dns-parking.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-09-24. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-11-04. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 2a02:4780:42:99df:fce2:1ec3:946e:2177 |
| Name servers | NS1.DNS-PARKING.COM, NS2.DNS-PARKING.COM |
| SSL issuer | WR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-07 |
| Domain age | 8.91 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-09-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-11-04 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 5 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about newsmarathi24.com at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.