Security Review

Is apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Dangerous· 1/100

Fake Apple Store phishing clone registered today; flagged by BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, and others as social-engineering attack.

apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.appScanned 3d ago
0
Trust score
DANGEROUS
Heuristics 0·MT 18
Category tags
phishingclone-site#Phishing#Clone Site92% 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
16/92
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
0 days old
Registration date unknown
MT Intelligence
Dangerous
Critical likelihood · 92% confidence
DANGEROUS

Phishing site — do not log in

Flagged on major browser safety blocklists as social engineering. This page looks designed to steal credentials. Don't log in — and if you already did, change the password anywhere you reused it and turn on two-factor authentication.

Website Preview

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Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Critical scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust18/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The domain is a Vercel-hosted clone of Apple's storefront created within the last 24 hours. Six tier-1 antivirus engines—BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, Emsisoft, alphaMountain.ai, and ADMINUSLabs—all flag it as phishing or malicious. The page title is simply 'Apple Store' and the meta description reads 'Apple Store Clone', making the impersonation intent explicit. The site has zero contact information (no email, phone, or address), no legitimate business registration, and is flagged by major browser blocklists for social engineering. The combination of brand impersonation, zero-day registration, multiple antivirus detections, and complete absence of legitimate business signals confirms this is a credential-harvesting or payment-fraud phishing page.
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Page Content

The page presents itself as an 'Apple Store' with minimal visible text. The meta description explicitly labels it a 'Clone', and there is no legitimate business information, contact details, or functional storefront content. The page loads external resources from Wikimedia but otherwise appears to be a template or framework awaiting malicious payload injection.

Infrastructure

Hosted on Vercel (IP 216.198.79.3), a legitimate free-hosting platform commonly abused for phishing. SSL certificate is valid and issued by Google Trust Services, which is typical for Vercel-hosted sites and does not indicate legitimacy. The hosting IP has 11 abuse reports on record, consistent with a platform hosting multiple phishing campaigns.

Domain History

Registered 0 days ago (created today). The domain name 'apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app' explicitly signals impersonation. Zero-day registration combined with phishing-engine detections is a hallmark of disposable phishing infrastructure.

Web Reputation

Flagged by six antivirus engines (BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, Emsisoft, alphaMountain.ai, ADMINUSLabs) as phishing or malicious. Major browser blocklists flag it for social engineering. No positive reputation signals; no independent trust aggregators have rated it.

Risk Factors
7
  • Registered today (0 days old) — classic phishing infrastructure lifespan.
  • Six major antivirus engines flag it as phishing or malicious, including BitDefender and ESET.
  • Explicit brand impersonation: domain name and page title mimic Apple's official store.
  • Zero contact information: no email, phone, or postal address anywhere on the page.
  • Flagged by major browser blocklists for social-engineering attack.
  • Hosted on free Vercel platform, commonly abused for disposable phishing campaigns.
  • Minimal page content and no legitimate business registration or legal disclaimers.
Positive Signals
1
  • SSL certificate is valid and not expired.
AI Recommendation
Do not visit this site or enter any personal, payment, or login information. If you arrived here by clicking a link in an email or message, report it as phishing to Apple (security@apple.com) and your email provider. Delete any messages directing you to this URL.
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Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

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

Domain age
0 days
Brand-new domains are higher-risk by default.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst

No independent review aggregators have rated this domain. No scam reports or complaints found in public sources.

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
16 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.

16Malicious0Suspicious48Harmless92Engines
0
of 92
ADMINUSLabs
Malicious· malicious
alphaMountain.ai
Malicious· phishing
BitDefender
Malicious· phishing
Emsisoft
Malicious· phishing
ESET
Malicious· phishing
Fortinet
Malicious· phishing
G-Data
Malicious· phishing
Google Safebrowsing
Malicious· phishing
Kaspersky
Malicious· phishing
LevelBlue
Malicious· phishing
Lionic
Malicious· phishing
Netcraft
Malicious· malicious
Rising
Malicious· phishing
Sophos
Malicious· phishing
VIPRE
Malicious· phishing
Webroot
Malicious· malicious

16 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: SOCIAL_ENGINEERING.

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
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age0 days old
RegistrarHidden
RegisteredUnknown
ExpiresUnknown
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WR1
ExpiresJul 26, 2026 (45d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingVercel, Inc
Server locationUS
Web serverVercel

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1308http://apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app/
  • 2200https://apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file11
ISPVercel, Inc
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

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: Phishing
Phishing
Moderate likelihood
35/100
  • Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
  • AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.

Phishing site — act fast

This page shows signs of attempting to steal credentials or impersonate a trusted brand.

  • Do not interact with apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app

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

  • If you already typed your password — change it now

    Change the password on the legitimate site and anywhere else you re-used it. Turn on two-factor authentication. Review recent account activity.

  • Report the phishing URL

    APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) accepts phishing reports at reportphishing@apwg.org. Google Safe Browsing reports help protect other users.

    Open
  • Get help on the forum

    MalwareTips members can help you assess damage and next steps.

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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 apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
  • No — apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
  • Yes. apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR1, expiring in 45 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app is 0 days old. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • 16 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app as malicious or suspicious (16 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
  • Yes. The major browser blocklist feeds flagged apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app with the following threat categories: SOCIAL_ENGINEERING. This protects billions of browser users from visiting the site.
  • apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app resolves to an IP operated by Vercel, 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 11, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·apple-website-clone-liard.vercel.app
DANGEROUS

This is a fake Apple Store clone hosted on a free platform. Six major antivirus engines flag it as phishing, it was registered today, contains no legitimate business contact information, and is designed to impersonate Apple's official storefront.

Do not visit this site or enter any personal, payment, or login information. If you arrived here by clicking a link in an email or message, report it as phishing to Apple (security@apple.com) and your email provider. Delete any messages directing you to this URL.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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