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Security Scan Report: journals.plos.org

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Submitted: Jul 22, 2026, 7:26:58 AMCompleted: Jul 22, 2026, 7:27:59 AMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 6 IPs in 2 countries across 6 domains to perform 2 HTTP transactions. The main domain is journals.plos.org and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0349857

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #94,683 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 93%

0
Risk Score

The site is a legitimate scholarly article page with no malicious indicators.

Safety Factors
Established domain with long registration history
Page type identified as article (news/blog)
No malicious redirects beyond normal cross‑domain links
Positive legitimacy indicators (physical address, business entity)
Low Cisco Umbrella ranking but no threat intel hits
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Likweli: A remarkable new species of Colobus monkey from the Lomami National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo | PLOS One

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

news/blog

(70%)

Domain Information

The domain name 'journals.plos.org' uses the non-profit oriented generic top-level domain (.org); it also runs on subdomain 'journals'. The second-level label 'plos' is 4 characters long containing one vowel alongside 3 consonants. Word splitting yields 2 words: plo, s. Median word length comes out to 2 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0349857

Page Load Overview

9.09s
Total Load Time
199
HTTP Requests
36
Domains
3.6 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

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

Detection Details

Language Code:en
Detection Confidence:80%
Script Type:Latin
HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:125,665 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

news/blog70% confidence
Type: static
Method: structural

All Detected Categories

news/blog
70%

Detected Features

Search
Articles
OG: article

Domain & IP Information

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AS13335Cloudflare, 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

T11A84F9B2E7441777462301ED5CA32B4AA3BB98EFE7520908F88E49B44B55FE0F61B14D

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

3072:u416ZIS6nakCarWgwXVQ7IGPRMHtI+aqA78boxopClobZQIUfP:uoCaiHVQ7lPRMHt5aj7H6EQQIOP

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:391956:gA5CWwSkQHykARo0bBBAofPgIiYERCUWbEggAkSORhgQgQCo9AETCMQMAIEwKeRk06JhGJgCWAA+BLwoQQD9IGMVKpwAwAKn

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:00ffffffc3ffffff
Perceptual Hash:b14d4669691e4f71
Difference Hash:4333221e9e0e0c0c
Wavelet Hash:0000fbc3c3e7c7e7
Color Hash:#d279a0

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:4333221e9e0e0c0c,4141414141050b13,fe5a5aff7a7e7e7e

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