Is areal-ferragens.com safe?
http://areal-ferragens.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Online hardware store tied to a registered Portuguese company, with minor caution flags
Areal Ferragens presents itself as the web shop of Areal - Ferragens e Ferramentas Lda., a Portuguese hardware retailer. A public tax directory lists that company name with NIF 502471697 at an address in Santiago do Cacém. The site lists an email address on its own domain and a Portuguese phone number. Its shopping basket and add-to-cart buttons stay on the same site, and no outside order path was found. The score sits in Low Risk rather than Safe for three reasons. Two security engines once marked the URL as suspicious. The domain is only 229 days old. The site's own contact pages were not read in full.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 74/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate2 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe company name and NIF appear in a public Portuguese tax directory.
- SupportsThe site gives an email address on its own domain and a Portuguese phone number.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed gave no warning, and the encrypted connection is valid.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Areal Ferragens presents itself as the web shop of Areal - Ferragens e Ferramentas Lda., a Portuguese hardware retailer. A public tax directory lists that company name with NIF 502471697 at an address in Santiago do Cacém. The site lists an email address on its own domain and a Portuguese phone number. Its shopping basket and add-to-cart buttons stay on the same site, and no outside order path was found. The score sits in Low Risk rather than Safe for three reasons. Two security engines once marked the URL as suspicious. The domain is only 229 days old. The site's own contact pages were not read in full.
A real company appears to stand behind the shop
A public Portuguese taxpayer directory lists Areal - Ferragens e Ferramentas Lda. under NIF 502471697. The same directory gives its address as Zona de Actividades Mistas Lt 150, 7500-220 Santiago do Cacém.
The site shows the same company name and gives the email address info@areal-ferragens.com, which is on its own domain. It also lists the phone number +351 269 744 659. This is the kind of contact information a genuine local business usually publishes.
Technical checks are mostly clean, with older flags worth noting
The browser threat feed returned no warning for the site, and the connection is properly encrypted. Two security engines did mark the URL as suspicious in an earlier, saved result. That flag may be out of date, and it did not name a specific threat.
The domain was registered 229 days ago, which is recent for a company that is listed in the registry. The site's own contact and policy pages were not fully reviewed, so its delivery and returns terms are unconfirmed.
Shopping stays on the store's own site
Visitors add products with the "Adicionar" (Add) button and review them in the "Cesto" (Basket). Both steps stay on areal-ferragens.com, and no redirect to another site was found.
Why the score is 74
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
2/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
2 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
| URLQuerySuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- URLQuery - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Areal Ferragens e Ferramentas Lda.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Areal Ferragens e Ferramentas Lda.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Página inicial - Areal Ferragens
- Meta description
Areal Ferragens - Especialista em ferramentas, equipamentos profissionais e ferragens em Portugal. Qualidade, variedade e entrega rapida. Visite-nos!
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Página inicial - Areal Ferragens
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The company name and NIF appear in a public Portuguese tax directory.
- 02The site gives an email address on its own domain and a Portuguese phone number.
- 032 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Web research findings
Independent findings for areal-ferragens.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainareal-ferragens.com
- Redirects toareal-ferragens.com
- Hosted byGoogle LLC
- Referencesgmpg.org · ecommerce.nexi.it
Domain Timeline
- Mar 1, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 7 months old when this review was saved.
- Oct 17, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@areal-ferragens.com).
- Phone number listed (+351 269 744 659).
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for *.areal-ferragens.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://areal-ferragens.com/
- 2200https://areal-ferragens.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
2 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 2 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result2 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Online hardware store tied to a registered Portuguese company, with minor caution flags
Areal Ferragens presents itself as the web shop of Areal - Ferragens e Ferramentas Lda., a Portuguese hardware retailer. A public tax directory lists that company name with NIF 502471697 at an address in Santiago do Cacém. The site lists an email address on its own domain and a Portuguese phone number. Its shopping basket and add-to-cart buttons stay on the same site, and no outside order path was found. The score sits in Low Risk rather than Safe for three reasons. Two security engines once marked the URL as suspicious. The domain is only 229 days old. The site's own contact pages were not read in full.
09 · Community
Community
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