Security Scan: Sci-Hub

Summary

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This website contacted 1 IP in 1 country across 1 domain to perform 37 HTTP transactions. The main domain is sci-hub.ru and was registered 13 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://sci-hub.ru

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #253,417 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Low Risk

Confidence: 72%

Risk Score

Established self-branded Sci-Hub domain with no credential/payment forms, no malware, no impersonation. Only signal is an unverified single-source report on a linked third-party domain. Low risk, but service hosts pirated academic content.

Risk Factors (2)

Domain hosts a service widely described as distributing pirated academic literature (copyright/legal exposure, not a malware or phishing indicator)

One single-source unverified phishing report against an outbound-linked third-party domain (solscan.io); unverified community submission, no corroboration

Safety Factors (5)

13-year-old well-established domain with a Cisco Umbrella ranking (#253,417)

Presents its own brand (Sci-Hub) with no brand impersonation of a different entity

No credential, login, password or payment forms — the single form is a DOI/URL search box

No JavaScript behavioral signals, no YARA malware, no credential exfiltration

Network IDS alerts are informational DDoS-Guard hosting heuristics only

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Sci-Hub

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: -951424238

MD5: 38acd5a41285fa7bc0d8b0b9a9036a67

Domain Name Analysis

You're looking at domain 'sci-hub.ru' on the Russian country-code top-level domain (.ru) while skipping any subdomain. Its registrable label 'sci-hub' stretches across 7 characters containing 2 vowels alongside 4 consonants; it also includes 1 hyphen. It segments into 2 words: sci, hub. Average segment length settles at three characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

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Page Load Overview

1.32s

Total Load Time

569 KB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:72%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Text Length:76,529 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

documentation technical26% confidence

Type: dynamic

Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

documentation technical

26%

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
37	190.115.31.218	United Arab Emirates	AS59692IQWeb FZ-LLC
37	1	-	-

Detected Technologies1

DDoS-Guard

40%

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T13DE3E73263E1023201A341D06E96078BBBA5D547E217569076FC87ED1FCACA5EFB72C9

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

1536:Naut+rVTxMU0b/xF+r0emZwElnTLfRMfZNfbQ8XBJxz+klX3hrhzGjfnnTVCqvF:dU0bRZwWnTmfZd08rxzofnnTn

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:154735:AKnQAiBlKoVV4g6ggBAMQiADMYRkYgjgF2bFBkEABQEmQAA5oAQhoCIJUBZoXCIimgMVCDAtOCQwsSREQhRKA9QdSMEBGKQC

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:ff27241efffce5ff

Perceptual Hash:8707e9f8b81e50e5

Difference Hash:654f446c500d4d4d

Wavelet Hash:bd23221effeca0a0

Color Hash:#a0ac53

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:654f446c500d4d4d,2747252170654975,3c2de0a946206f3c

Scan History

Scan history not available

Unable to load historical scan data

Security Scan Report: sci-hub.ru