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Security Scan Report: howtoforge.com

Redirected to:
https://www.howtoforge.com/
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Submitted: Jun 17, 2026, 3:02:12 AMCompleted: Jun 17, 2026, 3:02:46 AMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 6 IPs in 2 countries across 6 domains to perform 2 HTTP transactions. The main domain is howtoforge.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://howtoforge.com

Effective URL: https://www.howtoforge.com/Redirected

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #631,494 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Low Risk

Confidence: 95%

2
Risk Score

The site is a legitimate, long‑standing tech tutorial platform with low risk.

Safety Factors
Own brand matches domain
Long‑standing domain registration
No malicious signals detected in scans
Legitimate cross‑origin form to own subdomain
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Howtoforge Linux Tutorials.

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

technology software

(89%)

Domain Information

The domain 'howtoforge.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) while skipping any subdomain. The second-level label 'howtoforge' is 10 characters long split between 4 vowels and 6 consonants. Segmentation suggests three words: how, to, forge. Median word length comes out to 3 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://howtoforge.com

Page Load Overview

2.41s
Total Load Time
55
HTTP Requests
10
Domains
662 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-US
Text Length:5,067 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software89% confidence
Type: webapp
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software
89%
documentation technical
62%
government public service
42%
education learning
37%
news/blog
20%

Detected Features

Login Form
Search
OG: article

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
10104.21.63.106United States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
9104.26.2.165United States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
9172.67.68.93United States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
9104.21.42.32United States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
9172.67.199.186United States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
952.57.221.121Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
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

T13B03F722494DD93F123312A5B364BB0DE5AF8C5BE1025C6AB2FF5626DBC3FC11A17096

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

768:dIb85nhfDrEakx4DipE3ydyQI0rmIy/4QyqSyk/AhDlJs2tVgaYHfnXh6n:dIb8ZhfDrE1x4FC9GFca05S

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:40206:AASIYhNYIIgOgxBAQoUTAGH/iMOBLaCBgIOOCC4imASIAUGDNW6QmAigACWg04mITIgMAJYIVAAIBMIosEWEFQYogoFCJ4TA

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:81fffd979f9f9f9f
Perceptual Hash:bc63633c3c3cc31c
Difference Hash:273b23373b333333
Wavelet Hash:81c989819d9d8f9f
Color Hash:#6cc9e0

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:273b23373b333333,80422b2bc4324848,36583a7a29393a1a,c8999ada18b0933a

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