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vanderbilt.edu

Category: Education

Scanned: Jul 10, 2026, 04:22 AM UTC · First seen: Jul 10, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
93 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
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Screenshot of vanderbilt.edu Captured Jul 10, 2026
https://vanderbilt.edu
Screenshot of vanderbilt.edu
38 years
Very Popular - #4,209 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
AWS CloudFront (GLOBAL)
Paris, France
AmazonS3
WordPress
13.227.231.27
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar Unknown
Registered July 27, 1987
Expires July 31, 2027
Name Servers NS1.VANDERBILT.EDU
DNSSEC Unknown
Hosting AWS CloudFront (GLOBAL)
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
43 files scanned
No threats
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Low Risk
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Medium Risk
2
High Risk
0
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www.vanderbilt.edu/atoz/#centers 455.1 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.vanderbilt.edu/atoz/# 455.1 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.vanderbilt.edu.http-redirect 88 B No threats
www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id= 1.5 KB No threats
www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-MH87FL 266 B No threats
cdn.hu-manity.co/hu-banner.min.js 142.4 KB No threats
www.vanderbilt.edu/# 153.6 KB No threats
www.vanderbilt.edu/xmlrpc.php 105.9 KB No threats
www.vanderbilt.edu/nashville/# 126.0 KB No threats
www.vanderbilt.edu/about/# 114.0 KB No threats
www.vanderbilt.edu/student-life/# 111.1 KB No threats
www.vanderbilt.edu/experience-vanderbilt/# 21.8 KB No threats
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External Links & Domains
1741
External Links
2 Flagged
6
Iframes
Clean
207
Referenced Domains
2 Flagged
4
Flagged Resources
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optout.aboutads.infoFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
www.newseuminstitute.orgFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://www.newseuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://www.newseuminstitute.org/freedom-forum/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://www.newseuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://www.newseuminstitute.org/freedom-forum/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://admissions.vanderbilt.eduNot flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/college-student-culture-living.phpNot flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/financial-aid-facts.phpNot flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/insidedores/Not flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/insidedores/2014/05/the-hod-internship-experience/Not flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/learnmore/Not flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/prospective/precollege.phpNot flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/prospective/transfer.phpNot flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/tourNot flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/undergraduate-admissions-homeschool.phpNot flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/undergraduate-admissions-transfer-student.phpNot flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/Not flagged
http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/category/information-for-incoming-students/Not flagged
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Showing first 500 of 1741 entries.
optout.aboutads.infoFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
www.newseuminstitute.orgFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
026.03.26.05Not flagged
026.07.01.09Not flagged
026.07.07.09Not flagged
admissions.vanderbilt.eduNot flagged
adssettings.google.comNot flagged
alertvu.vanderbilt.eduNot flagged
anchorlink.vanderbilt.eduNot flagged
app.myintuitionapp.orgNot flagged
as.vanderbilt.eduNot flagged
blair.vanderbilt.eduNot flagged
blogs.owen.vanderbilt.eduNot flagged
braininstitute.vanderbilt.eduNot flagged
brightspace.vanderbilt.eduNot flagged
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<iframe src%3D"https://youtube.com/embed/Flg9H3ohseI" allowfullscreen allowtransparency allow%3D"autoplay" >Not flagged
<iframe id%3D"vandyframe" class%3D"embed-responsive-item" style%3D"border: 0%3B" src%3D" https://vanderbilt.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id%3Da84eaf36754045d4909c171cea11104f " data-gtm-yt-inspected-2132043_298%3D"true" width%3D"100%" height%3D"550">Not flagged
<iframe src%3D"https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-MH87FL" height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden">Not flagged
<iframe src%3D"https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list%3DPLB1EPeYUwa4kR8T8GEPHayPR7sDTo85X0&rel%3D0&controls%3D0&showinfo%3D0" width%3D"300" height%3D"150" frameborder%3D"0">Not flagged
<iframe src%3Dhttps://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-MH87FL height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden">Not flagged
<iframe tabindex%3D"0" src%3D"https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb%3D!1m14!1m12!1m3!1d12885.645255734817!2d-86.78923703312954!3d36.156544397694866!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1607629910594!5m2!1sen!2sus" width%3D"100%" frameborder%3D"0" allowfullscreen%3D"allowfullscreen" aria-hidden%3D"false">Not flagged
vanderbilt.edu Overview

Description of vanderbilt.edu

vanderbilt.edu appears to be the official website of Vanderbilt University, a long-established private research university in the United States. The page title, navigation, and screenshot indicate a primary institutional homepage covering admissions, academics, research, campus life, news, athletics, and giving. Multiple web-classification sources categorize the domain as education or educational institutions, which is consistent with the content shown.

Based on the domain, metadata, and visible homepage elements, the site appears to serve prospective students, current students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other university stakeholders. It includes links to admissions resources, academic departments, campus services, maps, and embedded media, suggesting it functions as a broad information portal for the university and its related programs.

Safety Assessment for vanderbilt.edu

The available scan data is broadly reassuring. At the time of this scan, 0 out of 91 security engines flagged the domain, and the checked threat-database and blacklist results were clean, including major phishing and malware-oriented sources. The domain is also very old, has an established traffic presence, and the screenshot matches what would be expected from a legitimate university homepage.

One malware scan did label the site as suspicious, but the findings appear limited to generic heuristic detections tied to two referenced external domains and two anchor-style page entries rather than a confirmed malware family or broad multi-engine consensus. In context, isolated generic heuristic results without corroboration from other security engines are lower-confidence signals and may reflect false positives or benign third-party references.

Based on available data, no threats were detected at the time of this scan, aside from a small number of low-confidence heuristic flags that do not appear to be supported by broader scan results.

Technical Description

The site is using a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued through Amazon infrastructure, with certificate validity extending to 2026-10-23. The observed hosting stack appears to involve AWS CloudFront with an AmazonS3-backed origin, and the resolved server IP geolocates to Paris, France, which may reflect CDN edge delivery rather than the organization's physical location. The domain uses its own Vanderbilt nameservers, which is typical for a large institution.

DNSSEC status was not available in the provided data, so that control could not be confirmed from this scan. No major technical security issues were evident from the supplied indicators, although the presence of a few flagged external references in a heuristic scan suggests routine third-party link hygiene may still be worth monitoring.

HTTP Redirect Chain
302 https://vanderbilt.edu/
200 https://www.vanderbilt.edu/
Website Insights
#4,209
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: Education
Rank History (30 days)
Jun 1 Jul 9
7 cookies detected
Essential3
Analytics2
Advertising2
Social0
7 1st party cookies
0 3rd party (trackers)
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