pubs.acs.org
Category: Computers & Software
Description of pubs.acs.org
pubs.acs.org appears to be the publications platform for ACS, a long-established scientific and educational organization associated with chemistry research and scholarly communication. Based on the domain structure and web-classification data, the site is used to host journals, articles, research papers, and related academic publishing resources for students, researchers, educators, and professionals.
The subdomain sits under acs.org, which is widely associated with the American Chemical Society's online presence. Available category signals classify it within educational and computing-related content, which is consistent with a digital library or academic publishing portal rather than a consumer-facing commercial site.
Safety Assessment for pubs.acs.org
At the time of this scan, no security engines detected malicious activity on this domain, with 0 out of 91 engines flagging it. Malware scanning also reported no flagged files, and the checked threat databases and blacklist sources did not indicate phishing, malware distribution, or other content-based abuse. The domain's long registration history of roughly 35 years is also a positive contextual signal, as long-established institutional domains are generally less likely to be associated with opportunistic abuse.
Additional scan context was similarly uneventful: no suspicious external links or iframes were identified in the sampled page data, and the domain's IP address was not listed on the checked mail-reputation blocklists. While no automated scan can guarantee future behavior, the available evidence does not suggest active threats on this site at the time of review. Based on available scan data, no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan.
Technical Description
The site presented a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, with expiry shown as 2026-10-12. It is served through Cloudflare infrastructure on IP address 104.18.13.179, which may provide CDN, caching, and protective edge services. The observed web server was identified as Cloudflare, and the nameserver configuration points to managed DNS infrastructure.
DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but means DNS responses do not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No immediate technical security issues were evident from the provided scan data beyond that observation, and the hosting and certificate setup appear consistent with a professionally managed web property.
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