Security Scan Report: digitalcommons.usu.edu

Bot Protection Detected

This website is protected by Cloudflare bot protection. The screenshot and page details below show the page as it was captured.

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Submitted: Completed: publiccompleted
This website contacted 4 IPs in 2 countries across 2 domains to perform 11 HTTP transactions. The main domain is usu.edu and was registered 38 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8961&context=etd

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #141,852 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Low Risk

Confidence: 55%

2
Risk Score

Cloudflare challenge blocked page capture; only domain-level evidence is available. The 38-year-old university repository domain and absence of any threat-intel hits indicate a benign academic document, not a scam.

Risk Factors (1)
Page content could not be evaluated because the capture is a bot-protection interstitial rather than the underlying document
Safety Factors (4)
Established academic domain (>38 years old, university-owned)
No Indicators of Compromise, YARA, IDS, or kit-roster hits
URL path matches a legitimate institutional repository document pattern
Only external domain observed is the Cloudflare challenge service itself
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Just a moment...from scan record

Scan Type

public

Domain Name Analysis

Domain 'digitalcommons.usu.edu' uses the sponsored educational top-level domain (.edu) with subdomain 'digitalcommons'. Count 3 characters in 'usu' holding two vowels versus 1 consonant. It segments into 1 word: usu. Average segment length settles at 3 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8961&context=etd

Page Load Overview

0.92s
Total Load Time
952 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:398 chars
Detector Agreement:67%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software74% confidence
Type: static
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software
74%
education
45%

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
5203.22.241.42Cloudflare · CDNUnited Kingdom
AS209242Cloudflare London, LLC
2203.22.241.43Cloudflare · CDNUnited Kingdom
AS209242Cloudflare London, LLC
2104.18.94.41Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2104.18.95.41Cloudflare · WAFUnited States
AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
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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

T17FC080498464501D74243681DDE53611C85EC2513575DEC6B4D619394B5C759484F119

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

3:PouVIZx4LyFzT6LTORuWyPDo0GD/1BwqEXDrroYdF0NAEtvpL//X0HKqz:hax4LKT6+8HGD/1BwqEX3kYdF0NAEdpA

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:1:0:e8845dd235ccba766afddb67a1c5641d

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

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