Security Review

Is aleksandarkaraev.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Dangerous· 1/100

Personal coaching site with legitimate-looking content but flagged by 11 antivirus engines for phishing/malware; domain age and clean hosting suggest possible false positives or compromised content.

aleksandarkaraev.comScanned 1h ago
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Trust score
DANGEROUS
Heuristics 0·MT 42
Category tags
personal-brandcoaching-training72% MT confidence

These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
12/92
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
1.9 years old
Registered Aug 6, 2024
MT Intelligence
Suspicious
Moderate likelihood · 72% confidence
DANGEROUS

Malware distribution risk

Flagged on major browser safety blocklists as unwanted software. The page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser. Don't download anything or run any installer prompted by this page.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Moderate scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust42/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
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Confidence
The site presents itself as a personal brand for a trainer and consultant offering leadership, project management, and soft-skills training. The body text, navigation structure, and testimonials section align with a genuine coaching business. However, 11 of our antivirus partners—including BitDefender, CyRadar, Fortinet, and CRDF—flag the domain as phishing or malware, which is a significant red flag. The domain is 678 days old (nearly 2 years), has valid SSL encryption, and the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports, suggesting either the site was compromised after legitimate setup or the detections are false positives triggered by specific page elements or redirects. The contact section uses a free-mail provider (mail.com) instead of a business domain, which is atypical for an established trainer but not uncommon for solo operators. The lack of postal address and business registration details adds uncertainty. Independent review aggregators rate it at 71/100 (moderate trust), which does not align with the antivirus consensus and suggests the site may have legitimate user engagement despite the security flags.
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Page Content

The site displays a personal brand for Aleksandar Karaev, a trainer and consultant. The homepage features motivational messaging ('Be smart, use your potential'), navigation to training services (Project Cycle Management, Leadership, Team Building), a blog, testimonials section, and social-media links (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn). The body text is coherent and professional, describing training philosophies and personal background. No obvious scam language, urgency tactics, or payment prompts appear on the visible page.

Infrastructure

The domain is hosted on IP 67.205.29.254 (GoDaddy-associated infrastructure). SSL is valid (Let's Encrypt R12, 58 days to expiry). The site loads external resources from Google Fonts, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and a translation service (gtranslate.net). No malware or suspicious scripts were detected in our sandbox analysis. The hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score.

Domain History

Registered 678 days ago via GoDaddy.com, LLC with privacy protection disabled. The domain has been active for nearly 2 years, which is consistent with an established personal brand or small business. No redirects or homoglyph tricks detected.

Web Reputation

Antivirus consensus is strongly negative: 11 of 92 engines flag the domain as malicious (ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, CyRadar, Fortinet) or phishing (BitDefender). Browser blocklists mark it as unwanted software. However, independent review aggregators assign a moderate-trust score of 71/100, and the hosting IP has no abuse history. This disconnect suggests either compromised content, false-positive detections, or a legitimate site that has been flagged due to specific page elements or third-party integrations.

Risk Factors
5
  • 11 antivirus engines flag the domain as malicious or phishing, including tier-1 detectors BitDefender and Fortinet.
  • Browser blocklists classify the site as unwanted software.
  • Contact email uses a free-mail provider (mail.com) instead of the site's own domain, unusual for an established business.
  • No postal address or business registration details visible; no verifiable business entity information.
  • Reputation score of 0 from our antivirus network despite domain age and clean hosting IP.
Positive Signals
5
  • Domain is 678 days old (nearly 2 years), suggesting established operation rather than a quick-launch scam.
  • Valid SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt with 58 days remaining.
  • Hosting IP (67.205.29.254) has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score.
  • Page content is coherent, professional, and consistent with a legitimate coaching/training business.
  • Independent review aggregators assign a moderate-trust score of 71/100.
AI Recommendation
Do not enter payment details or download files from this site until the antivirus flags are resolved or independently verified. If you are considering hiring Aleksandar Karaev as a trainer, verify his credentials and testimonials through direct contact with past clients or professional networks (LinkedIn, industry associations) rather than relying on the website alone.
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Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for aleksandarkaraev.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
1.9 yrs
Registered Aug 2024
Independent review aggregators
71/100 · mixed
Average across 1 independent review aggregator.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Web ratings
Scores pulled directly from third-party trust & review sites
ScamAdviser
71/100
Moderate trustopen
Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst

No scam reports or complaints detected in available sources.

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
12 engines flagged this URL

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. Each detection is listed below by engine name — even a single hit is a meaningful signal.

11Malicious1Suspicious50Harmless92Engines
0
of 92
ADMINUSLabs
Malicious· malicious
alphaMountain.ai
Malicious· malicious
BitDefender
Malicious· phishing
CRDF
Malicious· malicious
CyRadar
Malicious· malicious
Fortinet
Malicious· malware
G-Data
Malicious· phishing
Google Safebrowsing
Malicious· malicious
Lionic
Malicious· malicious
Sophos
Malicious· malware
VIPRE
Malicious· malware
Gridinsoft
Suspicious· suspicious

12 antivirus engines flagged this URL. Even a single detection is a meaningful signal — treat this site with extra caution and avoid entering credentials, payment info, or downloading any files.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
This URL appears on threat lists

Detected threat categories: UNWANTED_SOFTWARE.

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found
Has contact info, but not on the site's domain
Emails on site's domainNone
Free-mail addressesexample@mail.com
Phone numbers07.10.2024
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles3
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
  • Contact address uses a free-mail provider (mail.com) — unusual for a real business.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Phone number listed (07.10.2024).
  • Links to 6 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age1.9 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredAug 6, 2024
ExpiresAug 6, 2026
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R12
ExpiresAug 13, 2026 (58d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingDreamHost
Server locationUS
Web serverApache
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://aleksandarkaraev.com/
  • 2200https://aleksandarkaraev.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPDreamHost
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 scam-type patterns detected
Scam-Type Likelihood

1 of 13 categories showed signals

We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.

Top match: Malware
Malware
Moderate likelihood
55/100
  • Google Safe Browsing flagged this as malware / unwanted software.

Malware distribution detected

Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.

  • Do not interact with aleksandarkaraev.com

    Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.

  • If you downloaded or ran a file from here

    Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
ListedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review flags aleksandarkaraev.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
  • No — aleksandarkaraev.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
  • Yes. aleksandarkaraev.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 58 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • aleksandarkaraev.com is 1.9 years old, registered on 8/6/2024 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • 12 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged aleksandarkaraev.com as malicious or suspicious (11 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
  • Yes. The major browser blocklist feeds flagged aleksandarkaraev.com with the following threat categories: UNWANTED_SOFTWARE. This protects billions of browser users from visiting the site.
  • aleksandarkaraev.com resolves to an IP operated by DreamHost in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
  • Independent trust-rating sites currently show the following for aleksandarkaraev.com: ScamAdviser: 71/100. Those scores come from user reviews and their own heuristics, so they are worth comparing against our verdict.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·aleksandarkaraev.com
DANGEROUS

Aleksandar Karaev's personal coaching and training site shows mixed signals: 11 antivirus engines flag it as malicious or phishing, yet the domain is nearly 2 years old with valid SSL and no abuse reports on its hosting IP. The content appears legitimate (training services, testimonials), but the antivirus detections and lack of business registration warrant caution.

Do not enter payment details or download files from this site until the antivirus flags are resolved or independently verified. If you are considering hiring Aleksandar Karaev as a trainer, verify his credentials and testimonials through direct contact with past clients or professional networks (LinkedIn, industry associations) rather than relying on the website alone.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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