Website reputation report

smh.com.au

Last checked 5 days ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

smh.com.au is currently classified in the News & Media category based on observed public pages. An About page was also found. The sampled pages were marked as English-language. Recurring page-metadata topics include sydney morning, morning herald, herald logothe.

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

68/100Safety Score
70%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History0 Infrastructure92 Website Security84 Security Hygiene80 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 smh.com.au

Updated Sep 26, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on smh.com.au. 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 prime minister has several foreign trips in coming months. He will need to explain to voters why rubbing shoulders with foreign leaders matters.

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.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Apr 8, 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: 68/100. Evidence Confidence: 70%. These measure different things.

Latest recorded material change: The captured website appearance changed.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on smh.com.au

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.

Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.auLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. Features the latest business, sport, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and technology news. Albanese’s trip to the UN was more than selfies with leaders. Now he needs to convince votersThe Sydney Morning Herald logoThe Sydney Morning Herald logoThe SydThe prime minister has several foreign trips in coming months. He will need to explain to voters why rubbing shoulders with foreign leaders matters. David Ellison : Billionaire Larry Ellison’s son is about to run HollywoodThe Sydney Morning Herald logoThe Sydney Morning Herald logoThe Sydney Morning Herald lWhen David Ellison first arrived in the movie capital, insiders laughed behind his back. He was dumb money to be fleeced, another starstruck rich guy with a chequebook. Now he is i Secret to happy marriage: New HILDA study reveals why sharing housework and earnings is the key to relationship satisfactionThe Sydney Morning Herald logoThe SyIn a twist, women report greater relationship satisfaction when housework and childcare are shared equally, but not when their partner does most of the work. Thirteen things I loved about Terry Denton: Children’s author Andy Griffiths pays tribute to his Treehouse illustrator who has died aged 76.The Sydney Morning HMy fellow co-author, illustrator and friend, Terry was as entertaining, delightful and mischievous in real life as his namesake character in the Treehouse series. Property News | Latest Real Estate News and Property Market Analysis | The Sydney Morning HeraldThe latest Property news, market analysis and opinion from The Sydney Morning Herald Stay Up-to-Date with the Latest Travel News - Breaking Stories, Alerts and More | TravellerStay up to date on the latest travel news and trends with our comprehensive coverage. From destination openings to travel restrictions, we bring you the information you need to pla Sydney property market: Why more home owners are selling at a loss as unit prices dipThe Sydney Morning Herald logoThe Sydney Morning Herald logoThe Sydney MornUnit sellers are among those pushing up the average of homes being sold for less than they were bought. Sydney weekend auctions: How premium homes in Surry Hills, Balmain and Coogee performed under the hammerThe Sydney Morning Herald logoThe Sydney Morning HeraldFive bidders battled it out for the two-bedroom, two-storey home, which the agent described as “the top of the food chain for its category.” Sydney luxury property: House that Pandora jewellery built gets an $8 million discountThe Sydney Morning Herald logoThe Sydney Morning Herald logoThe Sydney MorBrook Adcock, the former Pandora Australia boss, is prepared to meet the market and sell his mansion with premium boating facilities.

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on smh.com.au

12 phrases

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

sydney morningTitle, H1, Meta description9 sampled pages
morning heraldTitle, H1, Meta description8 sampled pages
herald logotheTitle6 sampled pages
logothe sydneyTitle5 sampled pages
latestTitle, Meta description3 sampled pages
propertyTitle, Meta description3 sampled pages
marketTitle, Meta description3 sampled pages
now heTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
travelTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
breakingTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages
thanTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
homesTitle, Meta description2 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%
0/100

Evidence is unavailable.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
92/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
84/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
80/100

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

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v1

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.

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 domainsmh.com.au
RegistrarCorporation Service Company (Aust) Pty Ltd
RegisteredUnavailable
Domain ageUnavailable
ExpiresUnavailable
Registry statusesserver delete prohibited · server renew prohibited · server transfer prohibited · server update prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address151.101.130.133
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNNot detected
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.smh.com.au/
Endpoint151.101.130.133
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface25 records · 4 nameservers · 5 mail exchangers
Protection signals6 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 size1,290,532 bytes
HTTP check duration0 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resourcesUnavailable · Unavailable external hosts
Frames and sampled checksUnavailable frames · Unavailable resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.2
IssuercountryName=GB, organizationName=Sectigo Limited, commonName=Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36
Valid fromSep 22, 2026
Valid untilApr 8, 2027
Certificate names*.2ue.com.au · *.4bh.com.au · *.9pub.io · *.addelivery.com.au · *.adonline.com.au · *.advertisers.com.au · *.afr.com · *.brisbanetimes.com.au · *.cdn.ninetech.dev · *.comms-test.afr.com · *.comms-test.brisbanetimes.com.au · *.comms-test.goodfood.com.au · *.comms-test.smh.com.au · *.comms-test.theage.com.au · *.comms-test.watoday.com.au · *.comms.afr.com · *.comms.brisbanetimes.com.au · *.comms.goodfood.com.au · *.comms.smh.com.au · *.comms.theage.com.au · *.comms.watoday.com.au · *.dev.9pub.io · *.dev.nine.com.au · *.dev.platform.ink · *.f2.com.au · *.fairfax.com.au · *.fairfaxapi.com.au · *.fairfaxmedia.com.au · *.ffx.io · *.ffxblue.com.au · *.goodfood.com.au · *.goodfoodmonth.com · *.magic1278.com.au · *.myfairfax.com.au · *.nine.com.au · *.ninetech.dev · *.notifications.afr.com · *.platform.ink · *.smh.com.au · *.staging.9pub.io · *.staging.nine.com.au · *.staging.platform.ink · *.test.9pub.io · *.test.nine.com.au · *.test.platform.ink · *.theage.com.au · *.watoday.com.au · 2ue.com.au · 4bh.com.au · addelivery.com.au · adonline.com.au · afr.com · brisbanetimes.com.au · magic1278.com.au · nine.com.au · smh.com.au · theage.com.au · watoday.com.au

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.

A151.101.130.133TTL —
A151.101.194.133TTL —
A151.101.2.133TTL —
A151.101.66.133TTL —
NSns-1164.awsdns-17.orgTTL —
NSns-2042.awsdns-63.co.ukTTL —
NSns-322.awsdns-40.comTTL —
NSns-609.awsdns-12.netTTL —
MX1 aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
TXT_globalsign-domain-verification=7JmN6dazOT7LXjyHvi_YmaRlN4ZcwfGCyQ7CfEleluTTL —
TXTapple-domain-verification=3TaE5qM0WY8S6jLKTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=33cMHwJZBHNf460tqkdAlHCykad5J-4p4T5TTVc4Q-4TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=Ja8nMy3DNxiw2QVmthJHQJ7QS6nx3OGG1IgB9czo63ITTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=Kfc3crwk0zhgHwzXCH1rip8-_mBPQIpCs9X9F7wZ3L8TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=Vm97OWVGuKdmknOh4TFbFDmfv-JLFQljOHArf0X9_qQTTL —
TXTjypyx1tygs026p76fpblqbkdjtnjm2j2TTL —
TXTmiro-verification=e2736fab20b8db58132d7cb294330e593e27d1b7TTL —
TXTsmartsheet-site-validation=pfaBIpLJ6cFr7LbThH6gBnSI6FtCfmwFTTL —
TXTtollbit-domain-verification=0b0d77e5acbb89602bfc27b508a77f58a0d24329321dc9469cb3dcf5367143a7TTL —
TXTv=spf1 include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email ~allTTL —
TXTValidity-Domain-Verification=9d2h18sVUYaUN4ldkVFMw00gLtA=TTL —

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

6 observed
content-security-policypresent frame-ancestors 'self' *.ffxblue.com.au *.ffx.io *.smh.com.au *.theage.com.au *.brisbanetimes.com.au *.watoday.com.au *.cdn.ampproject.org *.platform.ink; upgrade-insecure-requests
permissions-policypresent camera=(), geolocation=(), microphone=()
referrer-policypresent no-referrer-when-downgrade
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=31536000
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff
x-frame-optionspresent sameorigin

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%

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 was not recorded for this scan.

About this website

What the site says about itself

The prime minister has several foreign trips in coming months. He will need to explain to voters why rubbing shoulders with foreign leaders matters.

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.

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleAustralian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.auLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad contentLoading 3rd party ad cont
First headingThe Sydney Morning Herald
DescriptionBreaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. Features the latest business, sport, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and technology news.
Canonical URLhttps://www.smh.com.au/
Final URLhttps://www.smh.com.au/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · duration unavailable
Languageen
Structured typesWebPage

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.smh.com.au/

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.

Premium monitoring

Catch downtime and security changes automatically

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

Safety ScoreNo comparable score
HTTP statusUnavailable → 200
Final URL changedYes
Technologies addedgoogle-tag-manager
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
azure-beacon-wave-161

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

The captured website appearance changed.

screenshot changed

Website icon for smh.com.au

Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of smh.com.au
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 smh.com.au

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Is smh.com.au safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 68/100 with 70% 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 smh.com.au?

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

When was smh.com.au registered?

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

Did smh.com.au have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.2. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

How does smh.com.au 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.