Security Scan Report: observer.case.edu

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Submitted: Oct 8, 2026, 7:57:44 PMCompleted: Oct 8, 2026, 8:00:26 PMpubliccompleted

This website contacted 31 IPs in 3 countries across 16 domains to perform 92 HTTP transactions. The main domain is observer.case.edu and was registered 22 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://observer.case.edu/political-attack-targets-democratic-gubernatorial-nominee-amy-acton-at-ohio-fair/

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #122,491 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

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Risk Score

Legitimate student newspaper article (The Observer, Case Western Reserve University) on a 28-year-old domain. No credential or payment forms, no impersonation, no threat-intel, YARA, or IDS hits.

Safety Factors (6)
Established domain (28 years old, registration date 1998-06-25)
Consistent self-branding: site title/meta match observer.case.edu
News article format with author byline and date
All forms are same-origin site search and comment submission (wp-comments-post.php), no credential or payment collection
Third-party scripts are common analytics/CDN/map providers ranked in the top 1M
No Indicators of Compromise, YARA, Safe Browsing, or IDS findings
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Political attack targets democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton at Ohio fair – The Observer

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Within the sponsored educational top-level domain (.edu), 'observer.case.edu' is registered with subdomain 'observer'. The registrable portion 'case' spans 4 characters holding two vowels versus two consonants. Word splitting yields one word: case. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://observer.case.edu/political-attack-targets-democratic-gubernatorial-nominee-amy-acton-at-ohio-fair/

Page Load Overview

29.57s
Total Load Time
2.2 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

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

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en-US
Text Length:6,241 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

education90% confidence
Type: spa
Method: structural

All Detected Categories

education
90%
news/blog
40%

Detected Features

Comments
OG: article

Domain & IP Information

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3296.30.2.14United States
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AS15169Google LLC
2172.67.142.245Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2142.251.20.95Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
2157.240.0.6Facebook · CDNFrankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS32934Facebook, Inc.
2172.217.117.4Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
2172.66.164.110Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2172.67.74.84Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2216.239.32.36Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
23.160.150.76Cloudfront · CDNUnited States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
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Detected Technologies14

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T15C54F96BFD890069603361AAF873AED4771D9D37CA4606B5B5FCB1188BE2D910C31B1E

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

6144:b8WPhE6R9F4lctt1IPDPgC6ftsVUrdHsYzrqVfz0AgU6GrqNY:NE62lctt1IPDPgC6ft2CMYzrqVfz0Aga

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:280933:ABhGARChQ2GDUAfEgQJSPBBEfKoUHQaElTGfGIJIQgK9SABAF4oDBQgAgCsrGQCMSAKWlkEVwiggjAMAAgEDhKAMiQEBpGgk

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:0f0f0f000f0f0f0f
Perceptual Hash:b36a92b1656c9593
Difference Hash:59595982de5c5c5c
Wavelet Hash:0f0f0f630f0f0f0f
Color Hash:#2d3e86

Other Hashes

Scan History

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