Security Scan Report: physics.northwestern.edu

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Submitted: May 12, 2026, 6:19:44 AMCompleted: May 12, 2026, 6:22:29 AMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 7 IPs in 2 countries across 8 domains to perform 31 HTTP transactions. The main domain is physics.northwestern.edu and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://physics.northwestern.edu

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #32,548 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

High Risk

Confidence: 88%

9
Risk Score

The site appears compromised and is likely distributing malware despite being a legitimate university subdomain.

Risk Factors
Circular redirect / URL manipulation
Critical IDS alerts indicating malware exfiltration and C2 communication
High JS obfuscation and dynamic code execution (eval)
External analytics and social media domains loaded (potential data leakage)
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Department of Physics and Astronomy - Northwestern University

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

government public service

(72%)

Domain Information

You're looking at domain 'physics.northwestern.edu' on the sponsored educational top-level domain (.edu); it also runs on subdomain 'physics'. Count 12 characters in 'northwestern' containing three vowels alongside 9 consonants. Segmentation suggests one word: northwestern. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://physics.northwestern.edu

Page Load Overview

5.47s
Total Load Time
126
HTTP Requests
25
Domains
3.8 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

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

Detection Details

Language Code:en
Detection Confidence:80%
Script Type:Latin
HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:8,140 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

government public service72% confidence
Type: dynamic
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

government public service
72%
education
45%
adult content
42%
news media journalism
36%
documentation technical
30%

Detected Features

Search

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
18192.178.183.190United States
AS15169Google LLC
1857.144.244.192Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS32934Facebook, Inc.
18129.105.136.48Evanston, Illinois, United States
AS103Northwestern University
18142.250.154.95United States
AS15169Google LLC
18142.250.154.97United States
AS15169Google LLC
1857.144.244.128Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS32934Facebook, Inc.
1818.238.25.93United States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
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Detected Technologies5

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T1572330437AC4182B873B279C5D41332C3013C29ADB790D46726CAF59AEA2BA37E5C55F

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

384:bG8doxlc9OkX2gm7f4p8qNQozG8qYuxpkEwgouv4b7CgzzuR1Vt:bG8oxxJ+Ewgouvq7Cgzzq1Vt

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:46857:YBICRGKEDkkhgELIIEbCwoJTDDIQIQBCQyA1LBhsLATWkFAWRsvEhQoAUSxgBkIqCMgikCtxssEkBIhEKBWSQgGF8AGEgIW0

These hashes enable detection of similar websites and malware variants by comparing content similarity even when exact matches aren't found.

Image Hashes

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