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Security Scan Report: arstechnica.com

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Submitted: Nov 27, 2025, 11:44:53 AMCompleted: Nov 27, 2025, 11:48:46 AMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 75 IPs in 2 countries across 22 domains to perform 113 HTTP transactions. The main domain is arstechnica.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://arstechnica.com/

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #10,448 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 96%

0
Risk Score

The site appears legitimate with no security concerns.

Safety Factors
Well‑established domain
High Cisco Umbrella ranking
No malicious Indicators of Compromise
No credential or payment collection forms
Content appears to be a legitimate news site
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

social media network

(42%)

Domain Information

Within the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), 'arstechnica.com' is registered without a subdomain. Count 11 characters in 'arstechnica' split between 4 vowels and seven consonants. Word splitting yields 3 words: ars, technic, a. Expect three characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://arstechnica.com/

Page Load Overview

1.73s
Total Load Time
113
HTTP Requests
22
Domains
2.9 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:42,409 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

social media network42% confidence
Type: webapp
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

social media network
42%
news/blog
20%

Detected Features

Articles
OG: website

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
62205.234.175.175United States
AS30081CACHENETWORKS
913.35.58.20United States
AS16509AMAZON-02
534.160.218.70Kansas City, Missouri, United States
AS396982GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM
4104.19.230.21United States
AS13335CLOUDFLARENET
434.8.113.107Kansas City, Missouri, United States
AS396982GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM
43.174.46.124United States
AS16509AMAZON-02
334.238.228.152Ashburn, Virginia, United States
AS14618AMAZON-AES
218.173.205.57United States
AS16509AMAZON-02
2142.250.186.136United States
AS15169GOOGLE
2108.138.4.226United States
AS16509AMAZON-02
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Detected Technologies3

Open-Graph-Protocolvwebsite
100%
JQueryv3.7.1
100%
WordPress
75%

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T15AF42AF2E1E41328167F42DCEE95B2817209E087C1877A48F6DC8354AFE6D94566A3FC

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

3072:nsizgL9ZR99gTVYvux0h16idgkMiyyt66Wat4WLZ3yl1HyAldpIH9Pyyt66/ij8E:sZgTaGxDHKqjHaCpp

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:725141:GAVkgYGAtQSIgUFfMmCQKDIZ/AAOIIKFEADgAgG1xQJZIMMFtYwBEJhAZJHLAhgAQCCoQTQAoFA4aGwBQWoIARCDG3DAJVAw

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:00fffffffffd0000
Perceptual Hash:cbbe01da3569ca25
Difference Hash:11a167763629d3d6
Wavelet Hash:0001fffffff80000
Color Hash:#e0966c

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:11a167763629d3d6,00102c71323a0c20,c8c8cccccccdd6d7,33333333b3931397,7979793939296969

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