Security Scan Report: design.northwestern.edu

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Submitted: Completed: publiccompleted
This website contacted 64 IPs in 3 countries across 40 domains to perform 188 HTTP transactions. The main domain is northwestern.edu and was registered 27 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://design.northwestern.edu

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #32,548 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

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Risk Score

Official Northwestern University Segal Design Institute site on a 27-year-old university domain. No phishing, malware, credential or payment forms — only on-site search. Fully legitimate.

Safety Factors (5)
Official Northwestern University subdomain with 27-year registration history
Self-branding consistent with domain (no impersonation of a different entity)
Zero credential/payment fields; only search forms present
No Indicators of Compromise, YARA, Safe Browsing or network IDS hits
Content matches academic institution profile (education category, programs, research, news)
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

DESIGN INNOVATION - Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Within the sponsored educational top-level domain (.edu), 'design.northwestern.edu' is registered with subdomain 'design'. The registrable portion 'northwestern' spans 12 characters containing 3 vowels alongside nine consonants. Word splitting yields 1 word: northwestern. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://design.northwestern.edu

Page Load Overview

8.84s
Total Load Time
14.2 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

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

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:24,950 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

education45% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

education
45%
technology software
28%
forum
20%

Detected Features

Search

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
62165.124.149.20Chicago, Illinois, United States
AS103Northwestern University
2129.105.136.48Chicago, Illinois, United States
AS103Northwestern University
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AS15169Google LLC
2192.178.183.97Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
2104.18.19.62Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2104.19.147.8Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2146.75.121.140Fastly · CDNFrankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS54113Fastly, Inc.
2157.240.0.6Facebook · CDNFrankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS32934Facebook, Inc.
223.194.190.166Akamai · CDNFrankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS20940Akamai International B.V.
267.225.220.126United States
AS32244Liquid Web, L.L.C
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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

T10CC39532B508303B032B59CD7871875F70A38759C6236518B2FCD669AFD6E929F1E287

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

1536:yckVyNPLC6hHcQsLICW/RiIm9bDHy2/d7zwxKR6TzLKNBXv:ygNPNhHcQcARiIwDHy2ZETzLKNBf

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:123661:BF4oCmRgCAYhh/IBRg0HAUgEQgVJdTAAAIcUoL4cwCIoqB4BqUuBIFGgGHmAYCEJHA4iRIAQCQi8QBTDwBCEYh71gIkODoAQ

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:003cffdb8181ffe7
Perceptual Hash:ab4c116e33cc79a5
Difference Hash:cdc861232b23dcdf
Wavelet Hash:0024ff998181ffe7
Color Hash:#652d86

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