Website reputation report

abcnews4.com

Last checked 10 hours ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

abcnews4.com is currently classified in the News & Media category based on observed public pages. The sampled pages were marked as English-language. Recurring page-metadata topics include charleston, north charleston, carolina provides coverage.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

76/100Safety Score
75%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History95 Infrastructure92 Website Security95 Security Hygiene60 Transparency61 Reputation50 Operational Stability96
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Independent evidence brief

What we observed about abcnews4.com

Updated Oct 2, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on abcnews4.com. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its homepage, the site says: WCIV ABC News 4, Charleston, South Carolina provides coverage of local and national news, sports, weather and community events in the region, including North…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on May 31, 2002. Registrar: GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC.

Recorded expiry date: May 31, 2027. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Jan 22, 2027.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 76/100. Evidence Confidence: 75%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on abcnews4.com

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

Charleston News, Weather, Sports, Breaking NewsWCIV ABC News 4, Charleston, South Carolina provides coverage of local and national news, sports, weather and community events in the region, including North Charleston, Mt Pleasan Charleston Contact | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking NewsWCIV ABC News 4, Charleston, South Carolina provides coverage of local and national news, sports, weather and community events in the region, including North Charleston, Mt Pleasan 'At a standstill;' Harpootlian urges judge to help speed up Murdaugh retrial discoveryAlex Murdaugh's defense attorney Dick Harpootlian has written to presiding Judge Debra McCaslin to lament prosecutors' lack of response to his team's discovery Seen on 4WCIV ABC News 4, Charleston, South Carolina provides coverage of local and national news, sports, weather and community events in the region, including North Charleston, Mt Pleasan FeaturesWCIV ABC News 4, Charleston, South Carolina provides coverage of local and national news, sports, weather and community events in the region, including North Charleston, Mt Pleasan Coroner reveals cause of death, names of victims in Justien MayThe Charleston County Coroner's Office has revealed the cause of death for the two daughters of Justine May, the Ladson mother charged with homicide by child ab CCSO statement reveals extensive prior agency involvement before deaths of Ladson childrenThe Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has released its first detailed statement outlining months of law enforcement involvement prior to the arrest. Fueling the Hurricanes: Lowcountry native Elysa Wesolek home for Clemson-Miami ShowdownWhen Saturday night’s prime-time ACC showdown between Miami and Clemson kicks off at Death Valley, millions of eyes will be glued to the gridiron on ABC News 4. Charleston Water System $30M effort to replace lead service linesCharleston Water System crews began replacing lead service lines in North Charleston Thursday as part of a project aimed at removing thousands of older lines New Roper St. Francis mobile clinic brings care to rural Lowcountry areasRoper St. Francis Healthcare has launched a new mobile healthcare unit designed to bring medical, dental and supportive services.

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on abcnews4.com

12 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

charlestonTitle, H1, Meta description7 sampled pages
north charlestonMeta description5 sampled pages
carolina provides coverageMeta description4 sampled pages
charleston mt pleasanMeta description4 sampled pages
charleston south carolinaMeta description4 sampled pages
community events inMeta description4 sampled pages
coverage of localMeta description4 sampled pages
region including northMeta description4 sampled pages
sportsTitle, Meta description4 sampled pages
weatherTitle, Meta description4 sampled pages
sports weatherMeta description4 sampled pages
wciv abcMeta description4 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
95/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
92/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
60/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
61/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
96/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLLocal antivirus is not enabled
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameLocal feed snapshot unavailable

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource antivirus is not enabled

0 resources checked · 9 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts9
Inline scripts14
Embedded frames0
External script hosts3

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

Partial analysis. Only the first 512 KiB of the page were inspected.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domainabcnews4.com
RegistrarGoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
RegisteredMay 31, 2002
Domain age24 years
ExpiresMay 31, 2027
Registry statusesclient transfer prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address143.204.11.108
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNAmazon CloudFront
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://abcnews4.com/
Endpoint143.204.11.108
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFAmazon CloudFront · Not detected
DNS surface16 records · 4 nameservers · 1 mail exchangers
Protection signals3 security headers · 2 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size541,144 bytes
HTTP check duration0 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources9 · 3 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 0 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Amazon, commonName=Amazon RSA 2048 M04
Valid fromDec 24, 2025
Valid untilJan 22, 2027
Certificate namesabcnews4.com · m.abcnews4.com · www.abcnews4.com

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A143.204.11.108TTL —
A143.204.11.109TTL —
A143.204.11.114TTL —
A143.204.11.85TTL —
NSns-1342.awsdns-39.orgTTL —
NSns-175.awsdns-21.comTTL —
NSns-1795.awsdns-32.co.ukTTL —
NSns-831.awsdns-39.netTTL —
MX5 abcnews4-com.mail.protection.outlook.comTTL —
TXT\"v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all'TTL —
TXTfacebook-domain-verification=suzec6sxsbc04uysnnc7nxz9yt8jg7TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=Fm90os1brwugnwDVHJv2_znUOWtZlf8QmcAss2czTKUTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=O8AJwnhmlAWfFZNJDSeWc9Q1pd9yx1QkaR9-NR-qFwETTL —
TXTknowbe4-site-verification=324007f412e22c74815b531cc35bf5c8TTL —
TXTv=spf1 include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email ~allTTL —
TXTZOOM_verify_Sj8NGmaIDvvYrmosNdMnimTTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFPolicy record observed, not fully validated
DMARCPolicy record observed, not fully validated

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

3 observed
content-security-policypresent frame-ancestors https://sinclairstoryline.com https://qa-sinclairstoryline.com https://int-sinclairstoryline.com https://storyline-qa.com https://storyline-int.com https://preview.int-sinclairstoryline.com https://preview.storyline-int.com https://preview.storyline-qa.com https://preview.qa-sinclairstoryline.com https://preview.sinclairstoryline.com; upgrade-insecure-requests
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=15768000; includeSubDomains
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation

No Set-Cookie header was observed on the sampled homepage response. Other pages may set cookies separately.

Detected stack

Technologies

Google Tag Manager 96% Next.js 96%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

JavaScript advisory analysis could not be completed or no eligible script files were sampled. No clean result is implied.

Recommended maintenance checks

Next.jsKeep Next.js and its runtime dependencies current, especially when server-side rendering is enabled.

Publisher supplied

Public contact details

These details were observed on the website, not independently verified as an active support channel.

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleCharleston News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News
First headingUnavailable
DescriptionWCIV ABC News 4, Charleston, South Carolina provides coverage of local and national news, sports, weather and community events in the region, including North Charleston, Mt Pleasant, Summerville, Hanahan, Goose Creek, Rantowles, Cottageville, St George, Moncks Corner, Jacksonboro, Ravenel, Cottageville, Walterboro, Sullivans Island, Dewees Island and Folly Beach.
Canonical URLhttps://abcnews4.com
Final URLhttps://abcnews4.com/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · duration unavailable
Languageen
Structured typesNone observed
Page page detectedhttps://abcnews4.com/news/state/seen-on-4Contact page detectedhttps://abcnews4.com/station/contact#fcccontactSupport page detectedhttps://abcnews4.com/news/local/at-a-standstill-harpootlian-urges-judge-to-help-speed-up-murdaugh-retrial-discovery
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
missing100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp has default src100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
16100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp has object src100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp unsafe eval100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp unsafe inline100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp wildcard sources100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
15768000100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts preload100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

0 recorded hops

No redirect hop was recorded for the sampled homepage.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
azure-shield-path-933

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of abcnews4.com
Captured once in an isolated browser during this scan. Visual tint is an interface overlay. The original evidence is not duplicated.

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Questions about abcnews4.com

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Is abcnews4.com safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 76/100 with 75% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on abcnews4.com?

External threat-provider coverage was unavailable for this scan, so malware status is unverified.

When was abcnews4.com registered?

The public registry record shows May 31, 2002. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did abcnews4.com have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.3. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.