Security Scan Report: sanctuaries.noaa.gov

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Submitted: May 20, 2026, 12:43:48 PMCompleted: May 20, 2026, 12:45:57 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 8 IPs in 1 country across 8 domains to perform 45 HTTP transactions. The main domain is sanctuaries.noaa.gov and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/whales/videos.html

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #15,444 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Moderate Risk

Confidence: 78%

4
Risk Score

Site appears legitimate and government‑run, but the high number of redirects and IDS malware alerts warrant caution.

Risk Factors
Excessive redirects (28)
High severity IDS alerts for rapid redirects
Safety Factors
Well‑established NOAA government domain (rank 15,444, top 100K)
Domain age >10 years
No brand impersonation – meta tags match domain
No credential or payment collection forms
No JavaScript malware or credential exfiltration detected
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Whales Videos | Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

education learning

(53%)

Domain Information

Within the United States government-restricted top-level domain (.gov), 'sanctuaries.noaa.gov' is registered; it also runs on subdomain 'sanctuaries'. The second-level label 'noaa' is 4 characters long containing three vowels alongside 1 consonant. Tokenizing the label suggests 1 word: noaa. Expect four characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/whales/videos.html

Page Load Overview

36.72s
Total Load Time
72
HTTP Requests
11
Domains
6.2 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:8,415 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

education learning53% confidence
Type: dynamic
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

education learning
53%
government
48%

Detected Features

Search

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
9142.250.154.97United States
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940.38.89.36Boardman, Oregon, United States
AS8987Amazon Data Services Ireland Ltd
9188.114.96.3United States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
9142.251.20.95United States
AS15169Google LLC
999.84.152.87United States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
920.209.69.193Boydton, Virginia, United States
AS8075Microsoft Corporation
9142.251.110.94United States
AS15169Google LLC
920.161.36.92Boydton, Virginia, United States
AS8075Microsoft Corporation
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Detected Technologies7

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T1CD230986A28C143F0117125636187A5CA83F6DF396969EA7717F110C6BC3ED81A633BE

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

1536:t4M1MAMGMuMjMrMvQMIdSTEBCWi0xwLzs2:tz7CWi0xwLzs2

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:49419:mwQTKFAEBluUg0zQFsqQEUBScQ42BdhDhUAUCINIUADkkmEYiIRLEZBMQgPCB8/LsjAB8EgeCLYNJ1DAAAqULgWJIAUAISGA

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

Image Hashes

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