Security Scan Report: pub.towardsai.net

Bot Protection Detected

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This website contacted 9 IPs in 1 country across 3 domains to perform 13 HTTP transactions. The main domain is towardsai.net and was registered 7 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://pub.towardsai.net

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #583,306 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 90%

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Risk Score

Established Medium publication for Towards AI with no forms, no impersonation, and no threat-intel or malware hits; bot-protection mismatch and redirect quirk are benign.

Safety Factors (5)
Well-established domain (7+ years) with legal pages (terms/privacy) present
No forms, no password or payment fields anywhere on the page
Only cross-origin traffic is Google Analytics (rank #3,828) and Medium/Cloudflare asset hosts — normal for a publishing platform
Circular redirect is consistent with a single-page-app/Medium routing artifact, not a phishing chain
IDS alert was INFO-level obfuscated-JS heuristic that fires on ordinary sites and is uncorroborated by any other signal
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Towards AIother network

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Domain 'pub.towardsai.net' uses the network infrastructure generic top-level domain (.net) and includes subdomain 'pub'. The registrable portion 'towardsai' spans 9 characters split between 4 vowels and five consonants. Splitting it apart reveals three words: towards, a, i. Average segment length settles at 1 character. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

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Page Load Overview

0.62s
Total Load Time
1002 KB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

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

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:1,556 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

corporate70% confidence
Type: dynamic
Method: structural

All Detected Categories

corporate
70%

Detected Features

OG: website
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
5162.159.153.4Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1162.159.152.4Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1142.251.155.119Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
1104.16.80.73Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1142.251.152.120Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
1142.251.20.97Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
1216.239.34.36Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
1104.18.94.41Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1104.18.95.41Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
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

T152D3D73AF800293F4347979F6847627FB34E502DC68F1EE170EC9E7C2B86A97521A645

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

1536:Ml9kH0jvskEM0QbgZBK6iL+/z0UkCIKcPVnjIx6bVDPKaBhdLKBlRA:Ikxk2QbgZBmC7iCI9xj1PKaBhxkI

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:139977:iCOEDRdxggp0gLENDEWDDy5AZKG8igBBSCJJUTyDAQoIRQDgAADCAIlwACAcKaUoAEsTBQkCahBnCAumohAUYAtjChgIBExM

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:e7ffd38181c3c381
Perceptual Hash:acc293d36c646373
Difference Hash:0d20332333332333
Wavelet Hash:e7ffc39181c38381
Color Hash:N/A

Scan History

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