Verdict
yna.co.kr appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Korean-language news article/portal page from a major news agency covering politics, weather, and national/international headlines with multimedia and social links. |
|---|
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 | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 27 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20005000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Thawte TLS RSA CA G1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2000.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This Korean-language news portal presents political, economic, social, international, cultural, weather, sports, and multimedia reporting, with advertising, premium news, commercial content services, subscriptions, and content-licensing activity supporting an established news-publishing model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No blacklist, phishing, malicious-content, or brand-impersonation contradiction was observed. The homepage behaves as a conventional news portal: it exposes a search function rather than a credential or payment form, provides substantive editorial content across multiple topics, and links to established social-media destinations. The domain’s long registration continuity and extensive historical presence are consistent with an established publication rather than a newly created impersonation site. The available evidence therefore supports a low scam and impersonation risk, while the real-world operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified.
- The homepage contains a single search form and no sensitive login or payment form.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no blacklist or phishing hit.
- The registration record lists creation on 1999-07-15 and an age of 27.11 years; registrar: Gabia, Inc.; registrant field: Yonhapnews Agency.
- Web archives recorded 5,000 snapshots from 2000-05-25 through 2020-07-13, spanning 21 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent business is news and media publishing rather than a regulated financial service. Its pages present corporate and contact information and describe a commercial model based on advertising, premium news, subscriptions, content services, and licensing. No regulated license, registration number, or licensing authority was identified in the supplied page evidence; for this type of publisher, that is a disclosure and verification matter rather than evidence of a scam. The site’s apparent legitimacy is supported by its established content footprint, clean reputation, and conventional transport-security configuration, but the operator’s real-world identity should not be treated as independently proven.
- The homepage is identified as a Korean news and media page covering politics, economy, society, international affairs, culture, and weather.
- The site’s hosting is AS4766, Korea Telecom, KR.
- The transport certificate is DV, issued by Thawte TLS RSA CA G1, valid to 2026-10-31T23:59:59+00:00.
- The page-level business description identifies advertising, commercial content services, subscriptions or premium news, and content licensing as the principal revenue activities.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions connected with any premium or subscription service, independently confirm the publisher’s corporate identity, the applicable service terms, cancellation or refund arrangements, and available payment protections. Official contact channels should be corroborated through an independent route, and any future claim that a service is regulated should be checked against the relevant regulator’s public register.
- The homepage provides visible corporate and contact-information pathways.
- The homepage links to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter accounts that can be compared with independently located official profiles.
- The homepage’s only detected form is a search function, providing a low-friction route for initial content access without sensitive submission.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No contradictory signals were identified, although the connection between the website and a real-world operator remains likely rather than independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The supplied infrastructure record does not confirm a trusted CDN or WAF layer. This limits the extent to which protective edge infrastructure can be treated as a mitigating factor; it does not, by itself, undermine the site’s established-content and reputation evidence.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; before submitting credentials or making payments for paid services, standard independent checks of merchant identity, terms, cancellation or return arrangements, and payment protection should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- Trusted social count=4
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 yna.co.kr.
- The request stayed on yna.co.kr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Gabia, Inc.(http://www.gabia.co.kr). Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ne.kr, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-15. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2000-05-25. Clear
- It is hosted on KIXS-AS-KR-KR, from a server in KR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Gabia, Inc.(http://www.gabia.co.kr) |
|---|---|
| Hosting | KIXS-AS-KR-KR - Korea Telecom, KR |
| Country | KR |
| Server IP | 211.33.130.21 |
| Name servers | ns2.kornet.ne.kr, dns.yonhapnews.co.kr |
| SSL issuer | Thawte TLS RSA CA G1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-31 |
| Domain age | 27.11 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-15 |
| Archive first seen | 2000-05-25 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about yna.co.kr 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.