Security Scan: Pentagon Taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey for Pr

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This website contacted 19 IPs in 1 country across 10 domains to perform 174 HTTP transactions. The main domain is tryplox.com and was registered 4 months ago.

Submitted URL: https://www.tryplox.com/news/pentagon-project-meridian-musk-luckey

AI Security Verdict

Low Risk

Confidence: 80%

Risk Score

News article about a Pentagon study on tryplox.com. No forms, no impersonation of another brand, no threat-intel or malware hits. Only weak priors (unranked, 108-day-old domain) — low risk.

Risk Factors (2)

Domain is unranked in the Cisco Umbrella top 1M and only 108 days old — a weak prior, not a malicious signal

Low business-legitimacy score (5/100) with only one social-media link found

Safety Factors (5)

Article/news page type with third-party attribution to TechCrunch and image credit to Getty Images

No credential, login or payment form present; no disguised password fields

Cross-origin requests limited to normal analytics/support tooling (Mixpanel, Chatwoot, Sentry) with no credential exfiltration detected

No Indicators of Compromise, no JavaScript malware patterns, no high-precision YARA hits

Site displays its own brand (Plox) on its own domain rather than another entity's brand

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Pentagon Taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey for Project Meridian Warfare Study

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: -753113024

MD5: 92edf583fbfc40b8b1fcff17a31c8dcf

Domain Name Analysis

Within the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), 'www.tryplox.com' is registered and includes subdomain 'www'. The core label 'tryplox' covers 7 characters containing one vowel alongside six consonants. Breaking it apart gives 3 words: try, plo, x. The median word length lands at 3 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

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Page Load Overview

2.17s

Total Load Time

3.4 MB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en

Text Length:5,477 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

documentation technical51% confidence

Type: spa

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

documentation technical

51%

technology software

38%

news/blog

35%

corporate

35%

news

15%

Detected Features

OG: article

Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
12	76.76.21.164Aws · CLOUD	Walnut, California, United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
9	142.251.152.119Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
9	104.18.16.5Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
9	104.18.34.146Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
9	142.251.127.99Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
9	34.160.81.0Google · CDN	Kansas City, Missouri, United States	AS396982Google LLC
9	184.194.154.80Aws · CLOUD	Ashburn, Virginia, United States	AS14618Amazon.com, Inc.
9	66.33.60.34Aws · CLOUD	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
9	142.251.150.119Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
9	104.18.17.5Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
174	19	-	-