Security Scan: USC Commencement

Summary

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This website contacted 8 IPs in 2 countries across 5 domains to perform 28 HTTP transactions. The main domain is commencement.usc.edu and was registered 41 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://commencement.usc.edu/

AI Security Verdict

Moderate Risk

Confidence: 78%

Risk Score

Site shows self‑branding and no forms, but links to a known malicious IP and has heavily obfuscated JavaScript, warranting a high‑risk rating.

Risk Factors (3)

Unranked domain claiming a major brand (USC)

Association with a malicious IP address

Highly obfuscated JavaScript with many eval() calls

Safety Factors (5)

Self‑branding matches domain (no brand impersonation)

No credential or payment collection forms

Domain age >40 years (well‑established)

No malicious YARA patterns detected

Established domain (14976 days old) with no strong malicious indicators — risk clamped from 7 to 5

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

USC Commencementsecondary capture

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Within the sponsored educational top-level domain (.edu), 'commencement.usc.edu' is registered; it also runs on subdomain 'commencement'. The core label 'usc' covers 3 characters holding one vowel versus 2 consonants. Segmentation suggests 1 word: usc. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

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Page Load Overview

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Total Load Time

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Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en-US

Text Length:4,290 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

education45% confidence

Type: spa

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

education

45%

education learning

33%

corporate

25%

news/blog

20%

Detected Features

Articles

OG: website

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
7	18.64.211.125Cloudfront · CDN	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
3	142.251.14.97Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
3	54.215.86.207Aws · CLOUD	San Jose, California, United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
3	142.251.14.94Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
3	142.251.13.95Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
3	185.111.111.155	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS212238Datacamp Limited
3	142.251.20.91Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
3	54.177.62.89Aws · CLOUD	San Jose, California, United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
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