Security Scan Report: academy.hackthebox.com

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Submitted: Sep 20, 2026, 9:54:01 AMCompleted: Sep 20, 2026, 9:54:57 AMpubliccompleted

This website contacted 74 IPs in 6 countries across 60 domains to perform 201 HTTP transactions. The main domain is academy.hackthebox.com and was registered 15 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://academy.hackthebox.com

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #187,278 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 92%

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Risk Score

Legitimate Hack The Box Academy cybersecurity training site — 16-year-old domain, self-branded, no forms, no threat-intel, YARA or IDS hits. Redirect chain reflects normal SSO/marketing flow, not phishing.

Safety Factors
16-year-old well-established domain with Umbrella top-1M ranking
Self-branding consistent between title, meta tags and domain
Zero credential or payment forms on the page
No Indicators of Compromise, YARA, Safe Browsing or IDS hits
Content matches the official Hack The Box Academy product line
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Best Online Cybersecurity Courses & Certifications | HTB Academy

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

You're looking at domain 'academy.hackthebox.com' on the commercial generic top-level domain (.com); it also runs on subdomain 'academy'. Its registrable label 'hackthebox' stretches across 10 characters split between 3 vowels and seven consonants. Word splitting yields 3 words: hack, the, box. Expect 3 characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://academy.hackthebox.com

Page Load Overview

5.76s
Total Load Time
6.7 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

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

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:152,637 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software56% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software
56%
education learning
35%
corporate business
31%
corporate
25%
forum
20%

Detected Features

OG: website
Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
55109.176.239.69United Kingdom
AS214618Hack The Box Single Member Private Company
295.101.74.204Akamai · CDNSchiphol, North Holland, Netherlands
AS20940Akamai International B.V.
2172.64.147.188Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2104.16.79.73Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2109.176.239.70United Kingdom
AS214618Hack The Box Single Member Private Company
2104.18.40.68Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2104.16.80.73Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2184.24.77.169Akamai · CDNFrankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS20940Akamai International B.V.
2142.251.14.97Google · CDNUnited States
AS15169Google LLC
295.101.74.206Akamai · CDNSchiphol, North Holland, Netherlands
AS20940Akamai International B.V.
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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

T1E251333B419158172760A566A99A711CE4869A0FAB145C68F2FF02187FD0FB740F717D

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

48:XPSLSr00b5SLSd2tgutZbpg/NSg6Rg2Rg4gTg2Nd5P37ANwggq:jrB9dig0rg1SXg+g4gTg4LAKM

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:2548:AMAAAAQBAQABCCiAAAgAAAAACACABWAAAAEgAAggAAAAIAGAAEAAEAAOAACAAQQAABAEAQAUEwCgAQIoAoIAAAAABAMQABAA

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:ffc03c5810303c24
Perceptual Hash:caf8b7e6b0828f88
Difference Hash:0690f1a9b56969e9
Wavelet Hash:ffc03c5c50383c3d
Color Hash:#bf9540

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