Security Scan Report: medium.com

Bot Protection Detected

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Submitted: Completed: publiccompleted
This website contacted 7 IPs in 1 country across 2 domains to perform 11 HTTP transactions. The main domain is medium.com and was registered 28 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://medium.com

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #15,083 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 96%

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Risk Score

Medium.com is a 28-year-old, well-ranked publishing platform displaying its own brand with no forms, no threat-intel hits, and no malware. Scanner block page was ordinary bot protection.

Safety Factors (5)
Very old, well-established domain with top-100K global ranking
No credential or payment forms present (0 forms parsed from DOM)
Self-branding consistent with the domain, not impersonation
All third-party script hosts are top-1M ranked; only cross-origin call is Google Analytics
Cloudflare Turnstile bot protection explains the scanner-vs-client content mismatch (datacenter-IP challenge), which is normal on legitimate sites
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Medium: Read and write stories.other network

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

The domain name 'medium.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) and has no subdomain. The second-level label 'medium' is 6 characters long containing 3 vowels alongside 3 consonants. Segmentation suggests 1 word: medium. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Medium Ourstory Membership Write Signin Human - stories & ideas Aplace to read, write, and deepen your understanding Help Status About Careers Press Blog Store Privacy Rules Terms Text tospeech

Page Load Overview

0.49s
Total Load Time
1.0 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

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

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:344 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

corporate70% confidence
Type: dynamic
Method: structural

All Detected Categories

corporate
70%

Detected Features

OG: website
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
5162.159.153.4Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1142.251.151.119Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
1162.159.152.4Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1104.16.80.73Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1192.178.183.94Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
1104.18.95.41Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1104.18.94.41Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, 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

T162431B3FA800917B4F07469FB8D5EEACE7E2950AC5F0C4B4FD6A13AC5680EE38361855

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

768:uwE1l9x2Y7nSojKEbX0nk6XBtGLdby7ziHVcDU52yFmUjzxgJa7xrzTIR8EM1Mlw:Ml9yP1sfYaXTfv+KaBhdLLnc

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:55932:7P4kAAAgAMCiA5dEA8wARYLlU0UyDkGaICnDNwAAC4RKSJGZRQzgwAyI6qPEgcYUDscKGCSocMrdSQAAQhCBBQcuiUIYA6oE

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:f9fffc8c849cfeff
Perceptual Hash:daeaa155395a4ac3
Difference Hash:63cd353d1c242c8f
Wavelet Hash:90fdbc84849cfcc3
Color Hash:N/A

Other Hashes

Scan History

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