Security Scan Report: www.bu.edu

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Submitted: Completed: publiccompleted
This website contacted 12 IPs in 1 country across 7 domains to perform 66 HTTP transactions. The main domain is bu.edu and was registered 40 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://www.bu.edu

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #84,163 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 98%

0
Risk Score

Official Boston University homepage on its 40-year-old bu.edu domain. No forms collecting credentials, no impersonation, and no threat-intelligence, hunting rule or IDS hits.

Safety Factors (5)
Well-established 40-year-old .edu domain
Title, OG site name and meta description all consistently match the domain's own brand
Search form posts to same-organization subdomain search.bu.edu
No IoC, hunting rule, IDS, or Safe Browsing hits
Content consistent with a real university homepage (admissions, academics, research, giving, non-discrimination notice)
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Homepage | Boston University

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Domain 'www.bu.edu' uses the sponsored educational top-level domain (.edu), featuring subdomain 'www'. Count 2 characters in 'bu' containing 1 vowel alongside 1 consonant. It segments into 1 word: bu. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://www.bu.edu

Page Load Overview

1.98s
Total Load Time
2.5 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

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

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:2,973 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

education45% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

education
45%
education learning
44%
news/blog
35%
government public service
25%

Detected Features

Search
Articles
OG: article
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

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5216.239.34.36Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
5142.251.110.121Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
5162.247.243.39Fastly · CDNUnited States
AS54113Fastly, Inc.
5162.247.243.29Fastly · CDNUnited States
AS54113Fastly, Inc.
552.222.214.67Cloudfront · CDNUnited States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
552.222.214.128Cloudfront · CDNUnited States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
552.222.214.59Cloudfront · CDNUnited States
AS16509Amazon.com, 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

T130E34CDE3696F83743D247D7E06B6200B2379435EA44C890F7FB89D569AADC45032B2E

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

3072:8bF//DxTUWP+Ky9jhQ9Py4mKdH5fWXWwTkCt:8bV/l5+KGjay

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:147168:mGjTeEIAgKIExES0BLhDQc7omCIwAiFFEahAVFGUDlWHBAMyaAKBAZhMGSCERkAkiJEhAT4WQgDQpnEECABNKY1IKAklH4GM

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:81818181a181b1ff
Perceptual Hash:ab3e996699423cc6
Difference Hash:5535314969454951
Wavelet Hash:818181e5a1a1fdff
Color Hash:#931f31

Scan History

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