Website reputation report

papertrailmedia.de

Last checked 14 hours ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

papertrailmedia.de is currently classified in the News & Media category based on observed public pages. An About page was also found. Recurring page-metadata topics include investigative newsroom print, paper trail media, media investigative.

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

48/100Safety Score
65%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History0 Infrastructure89 Website Security0 Security Hygiene50 Transparency54 Reputation50 Operational Stability85
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 papertrailmedia.de

Updated Oct 1, 2026

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

Purpose and visible content

On its About page, the site says: The site's About page identifies its editorial team and news coverage.

Registrar and domain history

A reliable creation date was not returned by the registration lookup. The report leaves domain age unverified rather than guessing.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 1000 ms.

TLS validity was not confirmed by the available evidence.

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: 48/100. Evidence Confidence: 65%. These measure different things.

Latest recorded material change: Safety score updated from 50 to 48.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on papertrailmedia.de

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.

Hashtags found on the website: #PanamaPapers · #ParadisePapers · #SuisseSecrets · #XinjiangPoliceFiles · #VulkanFiles · #GazaProject · #CyprusConfidential · #WorldOfPain . These are site-supplied labels, not search rankings.

PAPER TRAIL MEDIA - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and videoPaper trail media is a Munich-based investigative newsroom founded by Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer. About - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and videohttps://www.papertrailmedia.de/about/ PAPER TRAIL MEDIA - contact - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and videoThe team behind the Panama Papers, Suisse Secrets and Xinjiang Police Files can be reached on numerous encrypted channels, among others via Signal, Threema, Protonmail and other PG Supporting independent investigative journalism - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and videohttps://www.papertrailmedia.de/support/ PAPER TRAIL MEDIA - investigations - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and videoThe paper trail media-journalists are known for investigations as the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, the China Cables, the Suisse Secrets, the Pegasus Project as well as the I PAPER TRAIL MEDIA - books - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and videoThe journalists of the investigative newsroom PAPER TRAIL MEDIA have published numerous bestsellers - among others about the Panama Papers-revelations. Podcasts - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and videohttps://www.papertrailmedia.de/podcasts/ Our Investigations on TV - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and videohttps://www.papertrailmedia.de/tv/ PAPER TRAIL MEDIA - team - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and videoPaper trail media brings together some of the best European investigative journalists. Sophia Baumann, Maria Christoph, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer and Hannes Munzinger d PAPER TRAIL MEDIA - impact - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and videoThe investigations of the paper trail media-journalists bring change and increase accountability. So far, more than $2 billion have been recouped due to investigations like the Pan

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on papertrailmedia.de

10 phrases

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

investigative newsroom printTitle10 sampled pages
paper trail mediaTitle, H1, Meta description10 sampled pages
media investigativeTitle10 sampled pages
podcastsTitle, H110 sampled pages
videoTitle, H110 sampled pages
investigationsTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
journalistsH1, Meta description5 sampled pages
panama papersMeta description3 sampled pages
teamTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
investigative journalistsH1, Meta description2 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

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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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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%
0/100

Evidence is unavailable.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
89/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
0/100

Evidence is unavailable.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
50/100

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%
54/100

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%
85/100

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 · 4 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 scripts4
Inline scripts46
Embedded frames0
External script hosts1

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

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 domainpapertrailmedia.de
RegistrarUnavailable
RegisteredUnavailable
Domain ageUnavailable
ExpiresUnavailable
Registry statusesUnavailable
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address217.70.184.55
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNCloudflare
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://www.papertrailmedia.de/
Endpoint217.70.184.55
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFCloudflare · Not detected
DNS surface11 records · 3 nameservers · 5 mail exchangers
Protection signals1 security headers · 1 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 size100,201 bytes
HTTP check duration1,000 ms
Cookies observed1
Script resources4 · 1 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 0 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Validity unavailable
StatusUnavailable
ProtocolUnknown
IssuerUnknown
Valid fromUnavailable
Valid untilUnavailable
Certificate namesUnavailable

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.

A217.70.184.55TTL —
NSns-13-c.gandi.netTTL —
NSns-160-b.gandi.netTTL —
NSns-7-a.gandi.netTTL —
MX1 aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx2.googlemail.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx3.googlemail.comTTL —
MX5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=8jGM0668s85J1D_R2Jwn9tugWAs0NgnnSpfLS4JMtKgTTL —
TXTv=spf1 include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:_mailcust.gandi.net ~allTTL —

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
DMARCMonitoring-only DMARC policy

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

1 observed
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=604800

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation
Cookies observed1
Missing Secure0
Missing HttpOnly0
Missing SameSite0

Only cookie attribute counts are retained. Cookie names and values are never stored. These observations are not proof of compromise and do not independently change the Safety Score.

Detected stack

Technologies

Cloudflare 98%

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.

About this website

What the site says about itself

The site's About page identifies its editorial team and news coverage.

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Publisher supplied

Public contact details

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

Phone+498937039367Source: https://www.papertrailmedia.de/contact/

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titlePAPER TRAIL MEDIA - paper trail media - investigative newsroom - print, online podcasts and video
First headingHello, WE are paper trail media, An Award-winning team of investigative journalists. We do Print, ONline, Podcast and Video.
DescriptionPaper trail media is a Munich-based investigative newsroom founded by Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer.
Canonical URLhttps://www.papertrailmedia.de/
Final URLhttps://www.papertrailmedia.de/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · 1000 ms
Languageen-US
Structured typesNone observed
Page page detectedhttps://www.papertrailmedia.de/investigations/About page detectedhttps://www.papertrailmedia.de/about/Contact page detectedhttps://www.papertrailmedia.de/contact/Support page detectedhttps://www.papertrailmedia.de/support/
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en-US100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
5100% evidence confidence
3100% evidence confidence
11100% evidence confidence
Local cookies.cookies missing httponly100% evidence confidence
Local cookies.cookies missing samesite100% evidence confidence
Local cookies.cookies missing secure100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts include subdomains100% evidence confidence
604800100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts preload100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.papertrailmedia.de/

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

Safety Score-2 points
HTTP status200 → 200
Final URL changedNo
Technologies addedNone observed
Technologies removedNone observed

This comparison uses persisted scan evidence only. A changed signal can reflect a real website change, a different response or newly available evidence.

Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
bright-beacon-field-001

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

Safety score updated from 50 to 48.

score changed

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Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of papertrailmedia.de
Earlier browser capture retained because this scan did not produce a usable replacement. It is not fresh scan evidence.

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Questions about papertrailmedia.de

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Is papertrailmedia.de safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 48/100 with 65% 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 papertrailmedia.de?

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

When was papertrailmedia.de registered?

The registry lookup did not provide a reliable creation date in this scan.

How does papertrailmedia.de describe itself?

The website's About page describes its purpose in the report above. This is publisher-supplied information and is separate from independent security findings.

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.