Is apobank.chekbot.online legit or a scam?
Phishing clone impersonating apoBank (German bank); flagged by four antivirus engines as credential-harvesting site.
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.
Analysis Summary
Brand impersonation — not the real site
4 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
MT Intelligence
The domain apobank.chekbot.online is a confirmed clone and typosquat of apobank.de, a legitimate German bank serving medical professionals. Four major antivirus engines—alphaMountain.ai, ESET, Fortinet, and G-Data—independently flag the page as phishing. The subdomain structure (legitimate brand name + unrelated 'chekbot.online' hosting) matches known phishing infrastructure patterns. Direct access returns HTTP 403 Forbidden, a common evasion tactic used by credential-harvesting sites to block automated analysis while remaining accessible to targeted users. apoBank itself has published multiple warnings about ongoing phishing campaigns targeting customer credentials, and this domain fits the documented attack pattern. No legitimate business, service, or tool associates with 'chekbot.online', and the absence of any online mentions is consistent with newly deployed phishing infrastructure.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for apobank.chekbot.online, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- No search results mention the exact domain apobank.chekbot.online or chekbot.online in any context (reviews, news, forums, or complaints).
- Direct access to the page returned HTTP 403 Forbidden, preventing content analysis.
- apoBank (apobank.de) is a legitimate German bank serving medical professionals and has published multiple warnings about ongoing phishing campaigns, fake websites, SMS, emails, and QR-code scams targeting customer credentials.
- Recent phishing waves against apoBank customers (2025) involve fake login pages, data-update requests, and malicious apps, as reported by heise.de, the bank itself, and medical associations.
- The subdomain structure (brand name + unrelated 'chekbot.online') is a common pattern for phishing or credential-harvesting sites.
- No legitimate business, app, or service associates with 'chekbot.online'; unrelated tools named Checkbot exist but are unrelated (SEO tester, BIM software, etc.).
- Absence of any positive or negative mentions online for this specific domain is consistent with very new or low-traffic phishing infrastructure.
Subdomain uses 'apobank' branding on an unrelated .online domain with 'chekbot' (suggesting automated bot/checker tool), consistent with phishing sites impersonating apoBank (Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank), which actively warns of numerous fake login and data-stealing sites.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for apobank.chekbot.online and did not find scam reports or complaints. However, our research confirmed that apoBank (apobank.de) is a legitimate German bank actively warning customers about ongoing phishing campaigns, fake login pages, and credential-harvesting sites. The domain apobank.chekbot.online matches the documented attack pattern: it impersonates the real bank using its brand name on an unrelated .online domain with 'chekbot' (suggesting an automated checker or bot tool). No legitimate business or service operates under 'chekbot.online'. The absence of online mentions for this specific domain is expected for newly deployed phishing infrastructure and is not a sign of trust.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
2 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of apobank.de.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of apobank.de.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
2 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of apobank.de.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of apobank.de.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with apobank.chekbot.online
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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 apobank.chekbot.online as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — apobank.chekbot.online scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. apobank.chekbot.online presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 87 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 4 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged apobank.chekbot.online as malicious or suspicious (4 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. apobank.chekbot.online is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- apobank.chekbot.online resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 18, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around apobank.chekbot.online have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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