Security Scan Report: www.iq.harvard.edu

Submitted: Oct 8, 2026, 11:24:16 AMCompleted: Oct 8, 2026, 11:25:13 AMpubliccompleted

This website contacted 18 IPs in 2 countries across 11 domains to perform 79 HTTP transactions. The main domain is iq.harvard.edu and was registered 21 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://www.iq.harvard.edu/news/newspaper-endorsements-and-importance-candidate-quality-politics

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #23,419 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 96%

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Risk Score

Legitimate Harvard IQSS news article on an established 41-year-old .edu domain. No forms collecting credentials, no Indicators of Compromise, no malware or phishing signals.

Safety Factors (5)
Very old, well-established .edu domain (41 years) with strong reputation
Self-branding matches domain (Institute for Quantitative Social Science on iq.harvard.edu)
No credential or payment collection forms
Clean threat intelligence, JavaScript, and network analysis
Legitimate editorial/educational content with byline, date, and references
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Newspaper Endorsements and the Importance of Candidate Quality in Politics | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

The domain 'www.iq.harvard.edu' uses the sponsored educational top-level domain (.edu) with subdomain 'www.iq'. Count 7 characters in 'harvard' containing 2 vowels alongside 5 consonants. Tokenizing the label suggests one word: harvard. Expect 7 characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://www.iq.harvard.edu/news/newspaper-endorsements-and-importance-candidate-quality-politics

Page Load Overview

3.56s
Total Load Time
2.1 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English
Code: en
Confidence:80%
Script:Latin
Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:14,607 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

education45% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

education
45%
news media journalism
35%
government public service
33%
news/blog
20%
news
15%

Detected Features

Search
Articles
OG: News

Domain & IP Information

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423.52.180.163Akamai · CDNFrankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS16625Akamai Technologies, Inc.
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Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T1FFA3D75262E4213A8213B3E27735E769B712E50BE3490D81B1FC13958FD6D868EB32DD

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

3072:UkUOxUusr09C032mAco0Yb+4xebzzIDOrvv9W8wWwZTQVrt:VNsr09C03lAXQ7

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:105147:AEEDRggAxAprNiDwQb5wkkaYE8HAAGmEASmA8QLrC2IALDIoiKCoBBEwCAABwAwAyCBAZETlwQCCJiQAAIgT1mwBxIV84CiJ

These hashes enable detection of similar websites and malware variants by comparing content similarity even when exact matches aren't found.

Image Hashes

Perceptual Hashes

Average Hash:00ffcf83fff9f9df
Perceptual Hash:eb16764b16697154
Difference Hash:61400e27432b2b2c
Wavelet Hash:00bfcf00ff81b987
Color Hash:#e08b6c

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