Security Scan Report: www.scientificamerican.com

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Submitted: Feb 18, 2026, 8:09:33 PMCompleted: Feb 18, 2026, 8:10:45 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 1 IP in 1 country across 1 domain to perform 3 HTTP transactions. The main domain is scientificamerican.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rna-may-be-common-throughout-the-cosmos-new-study-suggests/

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #98,005 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 98%

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Risk Score

The site is a reputable Scientific American article with no security concerns.

Safety Factors
Established, long‑standing domain
Highly ranked in Cisco Umbrella
No credential or payment forms
No malicious Indicators of Compromise
Consistent branding in meta tags
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

www.scientificamerican.com

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

news/blog

(100%)

Domain Information

Domain 'www.scientificamerican.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com); it also runs on subdomain 'www'. The registrable portion 'scientificamerican' spans 18 characters split between 8 vowels and 10 consonants. Splitting it apart reveals 2 words: scientific, american. Median word length comes out to nine characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rna-may-be-common-throughout-the-cosmos-new-study-suggests/

Page Load Overview

40.61s
Total Load Time
81
HTTP Requests
6
Domains
944 KB
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:10,904 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

news/blog100% confidence
Type: spa
Method: structural

All Detected Categories

news/blog
100%
news
30%

Detected Features

Articles
OG: article
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
81146.75.122.49Sweden
811--

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T1D8048E77329A063986558498F05B43099F21B143F506C8BCB9BCBAD9BFDED06107BB78

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

3072:gfQho9PKBb9Js3q9Jzbs6tlg3SBKwdQWgceIszY2bMy8OldF:rhoC9JSqzzbs6o3Sj3gcrs02eA/

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:184722:EBzADUUJECwoRiSADAFADAa4ggByqwMQGQicAxQQBqSBPUu6TQipT7ALoIUAgTlPEYdCklAHAAEYkDcKGiBoFBhIABwSABgE

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:ffcfc3c7ffffffff
Perceptual Hash:b333cccccc233363
Difference Hash:00180c1c00000000
Wavelet Hash:ffdfc3c300000000
Color Hash:#4abf40

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:00180c1c00000000

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