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unc.edu

Category: Education

Scanned: Jun 8, 2026, 12:30 AM UTC · First seen: Jun 8, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
93 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
No Threats Found
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Screenshot of unc.edu Captured Jun 8, 2026
https://unc.edu
Screenshot of unc.edu
40 years
Very Popular - #2,361 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
Pantheon
San Francisco, United States
nginx
WordPress
23.185.0.4
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar Unknown
Registered June 17, 1986
Expires July 31, 2028
Name Servers NS2.UNC.EDU
DNSSEC Unknown
Hosting Pantheon
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
7 files scanned
No threats
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Low Risk
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Medium Risk
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High Risk
0
No threats Low Risk Medium Risk High Risk
www.unc.edu/?p=211 132.9 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.unc.edu.http-redirect 74 B No threats
www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id= 1.5 KB No threats
www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-TPZ8LKZW 391 B No threats
www.unc.edu/# 246.6 KB No threats
www.unc.edu/xmlrpc.php 146 B No threats
www.unc.edu/xmlrpc.php?rsd 146 B No threats
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External Links & Domains
498
External Links
1 Flagged
1
Iframes
Clean
304
Referenced Domains
1 Flagged
2
Flagged Resources
Detected
bme.unc.eduFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://bme.unc.edu/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://bme.unc.edu/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://aaad.unc.eduNot flagged
http://admissions.unc.edu/Not flagged
http://afrotc.unc.edu/Not flagged
http://alumni.unc.edu/Not flagged
http://americanindiancenter.unc.edu/Not flagged
http://americanstudies.unc.edu/Not flagged
http://americanstudies.unc.edu/areas-in-american-studies/folklore/Not flagged
http://anthropology.unc.edu/Not flagged
http://aps.unc.edu/Not flagged
http://archaeology.sites.unc.edu/home/ca/Not flagged
http://archaeology.sites.unc.edu/home/rla/Not flagged
http://areastudies.unc.edu/Not flagged
http://areastudies.unc.edu/lac/Not flagged
http://armyrotc.unc.edu/Not flagged
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bme.unc.eduFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
1789hub.comNot flagged
aaad.unc.eduNot flagged
aac.unc.eduNot flagged
ackland.orgNot flagged
admissions.unc.eduNot flagged
advising.unc.eduNot flagged
afrotc.unc.eduNot flagged
airoperations.unc.eduNot flagged
alertcarolina.unc.eduNot flagged
alumni.unc.eduNot flagged
americanindiancenter.unc.eduNot flagged
americanstudies.unc.eduNot flagged
anthropology.unc.eduNot flagged
aps.unc.eduNot flagged
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<iframe src%3D"https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-TPZ8LKZW" height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden">Not flagged
unc.edu Overview

Description of unc.edu

unc.edu appears to be the official website of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a long-established public research university in the United States. The homepage branding, page title, and metadata indicate that the site is used to present institutional information about academics, admissions, research, public service, and campus life.

Based on the domain name, content, and classification data, this website serves as an education-focused institutional portal rather than a commercial service. It appears to be operated by or on behalf of the university and links to numerous departmental and program-specific subdomains associated with the UNC ecosystem.

Safety Assessment for unc.edu

This domain shows strong legitimacy signals based on available data. It was not flagged by any of 91 security engines, and the checked blacklist and threat-database sources were clean at the time of this scan. The domain is also very old, widely referenced, and categorized by multiple web-classification providers as an educational institution, which generally aligns with the visible content and branding.

One malware scan produced a generic suspicious heuristic tied to a UNC-related subdomain and one referenced link, but this appears to be an isolated low-confidence signal rather than a broadly corroborated finding. There is no supporting evidence from multi-engine detections or blacklist listings, and the screenshot shows a normal university homepage rather than phishing, scam, or malware-delivery patterns.

Based on available scan data, no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan.

Technical Description

The site is served over HTTPS with a valid SSL/TLS certificate and appears to use an nginx web server hosted on Pantheon infrastructure, with the resolved server IP located in the United States. The certificate validity window and mainstream hosting setup are consistent with a professionally managed institutional website.

The domain is approximately 40 years old, which is a strong continuity signal. DNSSEC status was not available in the provided data, so that control could not be confirmed from this scan. Aside from one generic heuristic flag on a linked UNC subdomain, no major technical security concerns were evident in the supplied results.

HTTP Redirect Chain
301 https://unc.edu/
200 https://www.unc.edu/
Website Insights
#2,361
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: Education
Rank History (30 days)
Apr 27 Jun 7
10 cookies detected
Essential4
Analytics4
Advertising2
Social0
8 1st party cookies
2 3rd party (trackers)
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