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Security Scan Report: waitbutwhy.com

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Submitted: Aug 20, 2026, 11:24:00 PMCompleted: Aug 20, 2026, 11:25:35 PMpubliccompleted

Summary

This website contacted 9 IPs in 2 countries across 20 domains to perform 2 HTTP transactions. The main domain is waitbutwhy.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://waitbutwhy.com

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #851,396 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

0
Risk Score

The site is a legitimate, long‑standing blog with no phishing, malware, or credential‑harvesting indicators.

Safety Factors
Established domain with long registration history
Self‑branding, not impersonating another brand
Absence of credential/payment collection
No malicious JavaScript YARA detections
No network IDS alerts of phishing or malware
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Wait But Why

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

corporate

(70%)

Domain Information

You're looking at domain 'waitbutwhy.com' on the commercial generic top-level domain (.com). The second-level label 'waitbutwhy' is 10 characters long holding 3 vowels versus seven consonants. Segmentation suggests 3 words: wait, but, why. The median word length lands at three characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of assets.gumroad.com

Page Load Overview

3.69s
Total Load Time
132
HTTP Requests
20
Domains
1.4 MB
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:4,504 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

corporate70% confidence
Type: spa
Method: structural

All Detected Categories

corporate
70%
forum
50%
news/blog
40%

Detected Features

Search
Articles
Comments
OG: website
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
20192.0.76.3San Francisco, California, United States
AS2635Automattic, Inc
14104.18.243.99Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
14188.114.97.3Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1423.200.93.132Munich, Bavaria, Germany
AS20940Akamai International B.V.
14104.18.66.57Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
14142.251.110.95Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
14142.251.20.97Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
14172.64.149.80Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
14192.0.77.32San Francisco, California, United States
AS2635Automattic, Inc
1329--

Page Statistics

132
Requests
20
Unique Domains
1.8 MB
Total Size

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T16F44B5F340AD56B757265381A4A8BB4CB41FD87ACA22CAC5F3FB18CCD3C5E526152329

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

6144:55YoVkrXopFjztl9IAoAMbf9xRvhlHitLeS9+G:DYLXmNujk

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:257399:oxAAQbAgEN6qAWJA5lCQFLxqo8jBAsMkgoJGigQRsEABCyATISEagGwQogQCRFTK7KyuKMALAUYQALJiCSDIdQMggMahYSDY

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:ffc7c7878787c3fb
Perceptual Hash:b8c3c932c934c7cd
Difference Hash:0a0f3f3f2f0f0f33
Wavelet Hash:efc38383838383f9
Color Hash:#1f9388

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:0a0f3f3f2f0f0f33,6d4d4d4c4c71254d,3dacea9aae9e2bab

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