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cars.com

Category: Vehicles

Scanned: Jul 5, 2026, 01:56 AM UTC · First seen: Jul 5, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
99 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
No Threats Found
0 - High Risk50 - Moderate100 - No Threats
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Screenshot of cars.com Captured Jul 5, 2026
https://cars.com
Screenshot of cars.com
28 years
Very Popular - #3,904 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
AWS EC2 (us-east-1)
Ashburn, United States
cloudflare
Unknown
3.93.126.98
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar Markmonitor Inc.
Registered February 12, 1998
Expires February 11, 2027
Name Servers ns-1005.awsdns-61.net
DNSSEC Unsigned
Hosting AWS EC2 (us-east-1)
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
5 files scanned
No threats
5
Low Risk
0
Medium Risk
0
High Risk
0
No threats Low Risk Medium Risk High Risk
www.cars.com.http-redirect 76 B No threats
www.cars.com/# 5.4 KB No threats
www.cars.com/cdn-cgi/styles/cf.errors.css 23.5 KB No threats
www.cars.com/cdn-cgi/styles/cf.errors.ie.css 3.3 KB No threats
www.cars.com/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js 19.8 KB No threats
External Links & Domains
4
External Links
All Clean
0
Iframes
Clean
2
Referenced Domains
All Clean
0
Flagged Resources
None Detected
http://cars.com/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.jsNot flagged
http://cars.com/cdn-cgi/styles/cf.errors.cssNot flagged
http://cars.com/cdn-cgi/styles/cf.errors.ie.cssNot flagged
https://www.cloudflare.com/5xx-error-landingNot flagged
cars.comNot flagged
www.cloudflare.comNot flagged
cars.com Overview

Description of cars.com

cars.com appears to be a long-established automotive marketplace and research platform focused on buying, selling, and researching vehicles. The homepage shown in the scan includes navigation for buying, selling, research, and finance, along with tools for searching new and used cars by make, model, distance, and ZIP code.

Based on the domain name, page content, and third-party categorization data, the site appears to serve consumers shopping for vehicles as well as people listing cars for sale. Multiple web-classification providers categorize it in the vehicles or automotive space, which is consistent with the visible content and the site's branding.

Safety Assessment for cars.com

The scan results are broadly reassuring at this point in time. No detections were reported by 0 out of 91 security engines, the malware scan did not flag any files, and the checked threat-database and blacklist sources did not report the domain as malicious or phishing-related at the time of this scan. The external links and referenced domains observed in the scan were also not flagged.

Additional context also supports a lower-risk assessment: the domain has been registered for many years, has a strong traffic presence, and the screenshot shows a polished automotive marketplace rather than a thin or deceptive-looking page. There were no visible signs of impersonation, fake giveaways, or other common scam patterns in the captured homepage.

Based on available data, no threats were detected at the time of this scan.

Technical Description

The domain uses a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by GlobalSign, with the certificate shown as valid until 2026-11-04. The site appears to be served through Cloudflare, with hosting infrastructure associated with AWS EC2 in the us-east-1 region and nameservers on Amazon's DNS platform. This combination is common for large, established web properties.

DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not unusual but means DNS responses do not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No immediate technical security concerns were indicated by the provided scan data.

HTTP Redirect Chain
301 https://cars.com/
403 https://www.cars.com/
Website Insights
#3,904
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: Vehicles
Rank History (30 days)
May 25 Jul 4
2 cookies detected
Essential2
Analytics0
Advertising0
Social0
2 1st party cookies
0 3rd party (trackers)
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