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Security Scan Report: www.welivesecurity.com

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Submitted: Nov 25, 2025, 3:00:12 AMCompleted: Nov 25, 2025, 3:03:02 AMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 44 IPs in 3 countries across 13 domains to perform 96 HTTP transactions. The main domain is welivesecurity.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/plushdaemon-compromises-network-devices-for-adversary-in-the-middle-attacks/

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #583,439 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

1
Risk Score

Legitimate security research article with minimal risk.

Safety Factors
Established domain age
Official ESET research sub‑domain
Absence of suspicious forms or malicious Indicators of Compromise
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

PlushDaemon compromises network devices for adversary-in-the-middle attacks

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

technology software

(61%)

Domain Information

Within the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), 'www.welivesecurity.com' is registered with subdomain 'www'. The registrable portion 'welivesecurity' spans 14 characters split between six vowels and eight consonants. Word splitting yields three words: we, live, security. Median word length comes out to 4 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/plushdaemon-compromises-network-devices-for-adversary-in-the-middle-attacks/

Page Load Overview

0.86s
Total Load Time
96
HTTP Requests
13
Domains
4.0 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:19,715 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software61% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software
61%
news/blog
20%

Detected Features

OG: article

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
2223.216.77.49Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS20940Akamai International B.V.
2013.107.213.44United States
AS8075MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
193.171.214.105United States
AS16509AMAZON-02
10216.58.206.34United States
AS15169GOOGLE
6172.217.23.99United States
AS15169GOOGLE
5146.75.120.134Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS54113FASTLY
5142.250.184.232United States
AS15169GOOGLE
4216.239.32.36United States
AS15169GOOGLE
4151.101.128.134San Francisco, California, United States
AS54113FASTLY
2142.250.185.99United States
AS15169GOOGLE
9644--

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T1AAB34B6392B8217E123281C9AD66775DA5E3920FF3424059F7BD8B39AFC2CF1E41219D

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

768:dSwDLeQGwim/5S5p+/5S5pCn6wkNTJtEQ9tild/YJwHRMfbrRVGjRVNfh0NS0X2L:drDq4dAJwaTSPjec/eF1sV

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:115245:yIGNtJEMEI1xpEFAC1IkK+4CgQCBSuCAiFmESIroGCRJhAQiAGB7KAKmHgUD0VwACETIAGQgGIADm2igESARYUlCwBakTsS0

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:ffffffffc7878787
Perceptual Hash:bec13632cd9836cc
Difference Hash:2c2b2b233f2d3d3d
Wavelet Hash:878b8bdb83838787
Color Hash:#726ce0

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:2c2b2b233f2d3d3d,7f666776746666f6

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