urs-anonymous-detect.pbs.org
Category: News
Description of urs-anonymous-detect.pbs.org
This domain is a subdomain of pbs.org, which is widely associated with the Public Broadcasting Service and related media content in the United States. Based on the domain structure and third-party categorization, it appears to be connected to news, media, or entertainment infrastructure rather than a standalone consumer-facing website.
At the time of this scan, the specific URL returned a simple "404 Not Found" page, suggesting the address may be inactive, mistyped, retired, or reserved for internal or temporary use. The available evidence does not indicate a full public website at this subdomain, but it appears to sit within the broader PBS-owned domain space.
Safety Assessment for urs-anonymous-detect.pbs.org
The scan results were broadly clean at the time of analysis. No detections were reported by 0 out of 91 security engines, the malware scan did not identify any flagged files, and the checked blacklist and threat-database sources did not report malicious or phishing-related listings. The page content shown in the screenshot is a basic 404 error page, which does not by itself suggest harmful behavior.
Additional context also supports a lower-risk assessment: the parent domain has a long registration history of more than 31 years, and the subdomain is hosted on mainstream cloud infrastructure with a valid SSL certificate. While a 404 page means the URL is not currently serving useful content, that is generally an availability issue rather than a security indicator.
Based on available data, no threats were detected at the time of this scan.
Technical Description
The site presented a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued for Amazon-managed infrastructure, with certificate validity extending to late 2026. Hosting appears to be on AWS EC2 in Ashburn, Virginia, and the domain uses multiple AWS nameservers. The web server software and exact protocol details were not identified in the scan output.
DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but means DNS responses do not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No malware-related technical issues, suspicious external links, flagged files, or iframe-based concerns were identified at the time of this scan.
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