Security Report: vpn.gwu.edu - Analysis

Summary

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Scan result: counts, verdicts, details, IPs, technologies, hashes/api/v1/result/a4fbd979-549b-48a1-862c-f0baa754ef78 Domain and IP registration (RDAP)/api/v1/rdap/a4fbd979-549b-48a1-862c-f0baa754ef78 Certificate Transparency/api/v1/ct/it.gwu.edu How often this domain was scanned/api/v1/domain/stats/vpn.gwu.edu Scan history for this domain/api/v1/domain/history/vpn.gwu.edu?limit=15

This website contacted 15 IPs in 2 countries across 2 domains to perform 6 HTTP transactions. The main domain is it.gwu.edu and was registered 38 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://vpn.gwu.edu

Effective URL:

https://it.gwu.edu/virtual-private-network-vpn

Redirected

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #72,609 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 96%

Risk Score

Official George Washington University IT page (vpn.gwu.edu -> it.gwu.edu) explaining GlobalProtect VPN setup. 38-year-old domain, no credential or payment forms, no threat-intel hits. Legitimate.

Safety Factors (5)

Official university domain (gwu.edu, 38 years old) with matching IT branding and physical Washington DC campus address

Contact details (phone 202-994-4948, [email protected]) and policy links (privacy notice, nondiscrimination policy) present

Ranked in Cisco Umbrella top 100K (rank 72,609)

Scanner vs client mismatch explained by ordinary Cloudflare bot protection on a legitimate site

Content is informational/educational (VPN access instructions), not collecting any sensitive data

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

VPN - Global Protect | GW Information Technology | The George Washington Universitysecondary capture

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: 1791501857

MD5: 8406c939d18ad39ad119ecb8c46c647d

Domain Name Analysis

You're looking at domain 'vpn.gwu.edu' on the sponsored educational top-level domain (.edu), featuring subdomain 'vpn'. The registrable portion 'gwu' spans 3 characters split between one vowel and 2 consonants. Splitting it apart reveals 1 word: gwu. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

3.22s

Total Load Time

11 KB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en-US

Text Length:750 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

education45% confidence

Type: static

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

education

45%

technology software

28%

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
6	104.18.8.37Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
0	13.32.99.48Cloudfront · CDN	New York, New York, United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
0	172.64.147.188Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
0	184.24.77.143Akamai · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS20940Akamai International B.V.
0	184.24.77.169Akamai · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS20940Akamai International B.V.
0	104.21.27.152Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
0	172.66.171.172Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
0	188.114.96.9Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
0	142.251.13.97Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
0	3.66.204.243Aws · CLOUD	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
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