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How we checked

Coverage: partial · 2 of 4 applicable core capabilities

  • Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
  • Google Safe Browsing: completed
  • page reading · limited: did not fully complete
  • page capture · limited: did not fully complete
  • domain records: completed
  • web research: completed
Verdict

Established public media site with no detected threats

kera.org is the online presence of KERA, a North Texas PBS/NPR affiliate providing news, programming, and educational content. The domain has been registered since 1996 and passes standard security checks.

The site can be considered safe for normal browsing and donation activities typical of a public media organization.

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kera.org: Safe — MalwareTips website safety report

Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

Score explained

Why 85/100

Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 3 pushed it up.

What pulled the score down

No adverse finding was saved with this report.

What pushed the score up

  • SupportsDomain registered for over 30 years
  • SupportsNo threat warnings from the browser threat feed
  • SupportsValid TLS certificate detected

Community reviews never change the Safety Score.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

kera.org is the online presence of KERA, a North Texas PBS/NPR affiliate providing news, programming, and educational content. The domain has been registered since 1996 and passes standard security checks.

Technical checks show no active threats

The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.

The TLS certificate is valid and the connection is encrypted.

Long-established domain supports legitimacy

The registrable domain is 11197 days old, indicating continuous operation since 1996.

Why the score is 85

The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

0/ 93

No detections

Saved analysis from October 10, 2026 - stale

No detections across 60 engines that rated this URL

No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 33 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
0
Total
93
All 93 engine results
  • 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
  • Abusix - Clean
  • Acronis - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
  • AlienVault - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - Unrated
  • Antiy-AVL - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
  • AutoShun - Unrated
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
  • BitDefender - Clean
  • Bkav - Unrated
  • BlockList - Clean
  • Blueliv - Clean
  • Certego - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - Unrated
  • Chong Lua Dao - Clean
  • CINS Army - Clean
  • CRDF - Clean
  • Criminal IP - Unrated
  • CSIS Security Group - Unrated
  • CTX AI - Clean
  • Cyan - Unrated
  • Cyble - Clean
  • CyRadar - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - Clean
  • DNS8 - Unrated
  • Dr.Web - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - Clean
  • Emsisoft - Clean
  • Ermes - Unrated
  • ESET - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
  • Fortinet - Clean
  • Fortra - Unrated
  • G-Data - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
  • Google Safe Browsing - Clean
  • GreenSnow - Clean
  • GreyNoise - Unrated
  • Gridinsoft - Unrated
  • Guardpot - Unrated
  • Heimdal Security - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
  • IPsum - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - Unrated
  • Kaspersky - Clean
  • LevelBlue - Clean
  • Lionic - Clean
  • Lumu - Unrated
  • Malwared - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - Clean
  • MalwareURL - Unrated
  • Mimecast - Unrated
  • Netcraft - Unrated
  • OpenPhish - Clean
  • Orcapot - Unrated
  • PhishFort - Unrated
  • Phishing Database - Clean
  • Phishtank - Clean
  • PREBYTES - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - Unrated
  • Quick Heal - Clean
  • Quttera - Clean
  • Rising - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - Unrated
  • Sangfor - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - Unrated
  • Scantitan - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - Clean
  • Seclookup - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - Unrated
  • SOCRadar - Unrated
  • Sophos - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
  • Synthient - Unrated
  • ThreatHive - Clean
  • URLhaus - Clean
  • URLQuery - Unrated
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
  • VIPRE - Clean
  • ViriBack - Clean
  • VX Vault - Clean
  • Webroot - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - Clean
  • ZeroFox - Unrated

How security vendors categorise this site

  • alphaMountain.aiEntertainment, News
  • BitDefendernews
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeekerentertainment
  • Googlemedia_and_entertainment
  • Sophosentertainment

Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
kera.org
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

kera.org Performing security verification

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    kera.org Performing security verification

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Independent evidence classifies the site as content, but the page's own claim could not be captured.

  2. What we observed

    The page itself could not be fully inspected, so the report relies on the other saved checks.

  3. What independent research found

    The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.

  4. What remains unverified

    2 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Content

Unknown

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01Domain registered for over 30 years
  2. 02No threat warnings from the browser threat feed
  3. 03Valid TLS certificate detected

Web research findings

Independent findings for kera.org, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
Not checked
This report did not include a company-registry lookup, so no registration result is claimed.
Clone check
Not checked
No site-clone comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Typosquat check
Not checked
No look-alike domain comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for kera.org. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

  1. Domainkera.org
  2. Redirects tokera.org
  3. Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.

Domain Timeline

  1. Feb 16, 1996
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 30 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 14, 2026
    Saved security review — Rated Safe

    This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.

kera.org has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age30 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredFeb 16, 1996
ExpiresFeb 17, 2028
Last updatedAug 12, 2026
RegistrantNot published (privacy or GDPR redaction)
Owner privacyUnknown (owner not published)
Nameserverslisa.ns.cloudflare.comnile.ns.cloudflare.comDNS by Cloudflare

Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.

Verified ownerNo owner has verified this domain on MalwareTips
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
IssuedSep 26, 2026 (17 days before this scan)
ExpiresDec 25, 2026 (72d)
Self-signedNo
Trusted chainYes: our check verified the issuer chain
Matches hostnameYes

Certificate issued for kera.org.

Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server IP104.20.30.195 · shared Cloudflare edge

A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.

Server locationUnited States (US)
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops
0
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No

The site refused our redirect check, so this chain may be incomplete.

  • 1403http://kera.org/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruspartial
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentpartial
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencepartial
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

unknown

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result0 of 93 engines flagged
CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 10, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
Page content
ResultPage content was not available for semantic review
CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
Visual evidence
ResultThe site showed a challenge page instead of its content; 1 visible observation saved
CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
Independent research
ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  1. Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on kera.org and not a lookalike like k-era.org or an IDN homoglyph.

  2. Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  3. Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

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07 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is kera.org legit and safe?
Our automated security review found no threat indicators on kera.org, so it appears legitimate. All 60 antivirus engines that rated it reported it clean in the saved analysis from October 10, 2026, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, and the domain is 30 years old, registered on February 16, 1996 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
Is kera.org safe to use?
kera.org has a Safety Score of 85/100 (Safe). The saved checks and analysis found no material threat at scan time. Treat unexpected login or payment requests with normal caution.
Could a legitimate site like kera.org still be used in a scam?
Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from kera.org), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from kera.org is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
Has kera.org been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 60 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network that rated it reported kera.org as clean in the saved analysis from October 10, 2026. 33 other engines had no rating for it. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
Is kera.org on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — kera.org is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the kera.org domain?
kera.org is 30 years old, registered on February 16, 1996 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does kera.org have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — kera.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 72 days. But the address we scanned was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, so that connection was not encrypted: do not type passwords or payment details into it. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is kera.org hosted?
kera.org resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
Is kera.org a well-known website?
Yes — kera.org ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
How often is the kera.org report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 14, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about kera.org has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
85/100
Safe

Established public media site with no detected threats

Saved capturekera.orgCapture-safe
The site showed a challenge page instead of its content. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

kera.org is the online presence of KERA, a North Texas PBS/NPR affiliate providing news, programming, and educational content. The domain has been registered since 1996 and passes standard security checks.

Recommended actionThe site can be considered safe for normal browsing and donation activities typical of a public media organization.
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09 · Community

Community

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