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harvard.edu

Category: Education

Scanned: May 8, 2026, 07:12 AM UTC · First seen: Apr 29, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 92 · Times Scanned: 7
93 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
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Screenshot of harvard.edu Captured May 8, 2026
https://harvard.edu
Screenshot of harvard.edu
40 years
Extremely Popular - #301 Tranco rank (>100M monthly visitors)
Not listed (92 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
Automattic, Inc
San Francisco, United States
nginx
WordPress
192.0.66.20
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar Unknown
Registered June 27, 1985
Expires July 31, 2026
Name Servers A16-64.AKAM.NET
DNSSEC Unknown
Hosting Automattic, Inc
Reputation & Threat Check 92 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
98 files scanned
No threats
94
Low Risk
0
Medium Risk
4
High Risk
0
No threats Low Risk Medium Risk High Risk
www.harvard.edu/a-to-z/# 169.4 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.harvard.edu/about/university-professorships/# 116.8 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.harvard.edu/in-focus/democracy-demands-effort/# 153.7 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.harvard.edu/president/history/# 171.1 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.harvard.edu.http-redirect 82 B No threats
www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-5SGSF6G 268 B No threats
www.harvard.edu/maps-directions 131.9 KB No threats
www.harvard.edu/contact-harvard 116.1 KB No threats
www.harvard.edu/media-relations 40.1 KB No threats
www.harvard.edu/# 168.3 KB No threats
www.harvard.edu/xmlrpc.php 150 B No threats
stats.wp.com/e-202619.js 3.7 KB No threats
www.harvard.edu/federal-lawsuits/# 49.4 KB No threats
www.harvard.edu/about/# 144.3 KB No threats
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External Links & Domains
1982
External Links
4 Flagged
1
Iframes
Clean
477
Referenced Domains
3 Flagged
7
Flagged Resources
Detected
higher-ed.orgFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
hir.harvard.eduFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
www.physics.harvard.eduFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://higher-ed.org/resources/charles_eliot/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://hir.harvard.edu/what-happened-revisionism-clan-politics-and-the-philippine-election/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://www.physics.harvard.eduFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/vafaFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://higher-ed.org/resources/charles_eliot/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://hir.harvard.edu/what-happened-revisionism-clan-politics-and-the-philippine-election/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://www.physics.harvard.eduFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/vafaFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/henry-louis-gates-jrNot flagged
http://americanstudies.fas.harvard.edu/Not flagged
http://ccva.fas.harvard.edu/Not flagged
http://chsi.harvard.edu/Not flagged
http://cities.harvard.edu/Not flagged
http://cmt.harvard.edu/faculty.htmlNot flagged
http://college.harvard.eduNot flagged
http://commencement.harvard.edu/Not flagged
http://gking.harvard.edu/Not flagged
http://gsas.harvard.eduNot flagged
http://harvard.edu/%23aNot flagged
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higher-ed.orgFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
hir.harvard.eduFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
www.physics.harvard.eduFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
aaas.fas.harvard.eduNot flagged
academy.wcfia.harvard.eduNot flagged
accessibility.harvard.eduNot flagged
accessibility.huit.harvard.eduNot flagged
advancedleadership.harvard.eduNot flagged
africa.harvard.eduNot flagged
afvs.fas.harvard.eduNot flagged
agakhan.fas.harvard.eduNot flagged
agi.harvard.eduNot flagged
aids.harvard.eduNot flagged
alari.fas.harvard.eduNot flagged
alumni.harvard.eduNot flagged
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<iframe src%3D"https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-5SGSF6G" height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden" aria-hidden%3D"true">Not flagged
harvard.edu Overview

Description of harvard.edu

harvard.edu appears to be the primary website for Harvard University, a longstanding higher-education institution based in the United States. The page title, metadata, domain name, and screenshot all indicate an official university web presence focused on teaching, research, campus information, leadership, and public-facing institutional content.

The site appears to serve prospective students, current students, faculty, researchers, alumni, and the general public by providing access to academic programs, university news, governance information, museums, maps, and specialized subdomains for departments and initiatives. Based on the domain age and the broad educational categorization assigned by multiple web-classification providers, this appears to be an established institutional website operated by Harvard University or its web administration teams.

Safety Assessment for harvard.edu

The available scan data is broadly reassuring at the time of this scan. The domain was flagged by 0 out of 92 security engines, and the checked blacklist and threat-database sources reported clean results. The domain is also very old, highly visible, and consistently categorized as an educational institution, which generally supports legitimacy in a point-in-time assessment.

One malware scan did label several internal pages and referenced domains as "suspicious" using a generic heuristic signature. However, these findings appear to be low-confidence pattern matches rather than corroborated malware detections, especially because there were no multi-engine detections and no blacklist listings. Some of the flagged references are Harvard-related subdomains or education-related links, which may indicate false positives rather than confirmed compromise.

Based on available data, no threats were detected at the time of this scan, aside from isolated generic heuristic alerts that do not appear to be supported by broader scan consensus.

Technical Description

The site is using a valid SSL/TLS certificate and serves content over HTTPS, which helps protect data in transit. The certificate was issued by Let's Encrypt and was valid at the time of this scan, with expiry in 2026-06-06. The site appears to be served by nginx, resolves to 192.0.66.20, and is hosted through infrastructure associated with Automattic in San Francisco, United States. The nameserver set uses Akamai-hosted DNS, suggesting enterprise-grade DNS distribution.

DNSSEC status was not confirmed in the provided data. No major infrastructure-level security issues were evident from the scan summary. The main technical caution is the presence of a few generic heuristic alerts on certain pages and linked domains, but these were not reinforced by blacklist hits or broader engine detections at the time of this scan.

HTTP Redirect Chain
301 https://harvard.edu
200 https://www.harvard.edu/
Website Insights
#301
Tranco Rank
Extremely Popular
Visitors >100M/mo
Category: Education
Rank History (30 days)
Mar 30 May 7
8 cookies detected
Essential3
Analytics4
Advertising1
Social0
8 1st party cookies
0 3rd party (trackers)
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