Security Scan: Perplexity Ads

Summary

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This website contacted 7 IPs in 1 country across 7 domains to perform 28 HTTP transactions. The main domain is perplexity-beta-ads.com and was registered 1 month ago.

Submitted URL: https://perplexity-beta-ads.com/

Effective URL:

https://www.perplexity-beta-ads.com/

Redirected

AI Security Verdict

Confirmed Scam

Confidence: 92%

Risk Score

Fake 'Google Ads x Perplexity' collaboration on a 57-day-old unranked domain; flagged for phishing by two threat feeds and by Google Safe Browsing for social engineering. Do not connect any account.

Risk Factors (5)

Impersonation of Perplexity (and 'Google Ads') branding on a domain that is not either company's official domain

Multi-source corroborated phishing threat-intelligence match on the primary domain

Google Safe Browsing Social Engineering detection

Young (57-day-old), unranked domain presenting itself as a major-brand collaboration

Account-connection prompt ('Connect') used as the lure to obtain privileged access

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Perplexity Adsother network

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: -1052158209

MD5: 557b186e611655c71d7f2af8713de649

Domain Name Analysis

You're looking at domain 'perplexity-beta-ads.com' on the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) without a subdomain. The registrable portion 'perplexity-beta-ads' spans 19 characters containing six vowels alongside 11 consonants; it also includes two hyphens. Splitting it apart reveals 3 words: perplexity, beta, ads. Average segment length settles at 4 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

5.41s

Total Load Time

453 KB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en

Text Length:892 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

unknown0% confidence

Type: dynamic

Method: structural

All Detected Categories

No categories detected

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
4	64.29.17.1Aws · CLOUD	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
4	216.198.79.1Aws · CLOUD	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
4	142.251.14.95Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
4	192.178.183.94Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
4	69.46.46.20	Mukilteo, Washington, United States	AS400940Railway
4	104.26.12.205Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
4	104.26.9.44Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
28	7	-	-