Is bralco.com safe?
http://bralco.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 4 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Bralco.com is the legitimate corporate site for Bralco Metals, a division of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.
The site provides information about metal products and services for an established industrial supplier. Long domain history, physical contact details, and no consumer-facing commercial traps support a high safety rating.
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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 92/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. 1 finding pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateSingle antivirus detection marked suspicious
What pushed the score up
- SupportsDomain registered for over 28 years
- SupportsPhone and postal address listed on page
- SupportsGoogle Safe Browsing returned no threat warning
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
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
The site provides information about metal products and services for an established industrial supplier. Long domain history, physical contact details, and no consumer-facing commercial traps support a high safety rating.
Long-established corporate presence
The registrable domain bralco.com is 10,491 days old, placing its registration in 1998.
Page content identifies the operator as Bralco Metals, a division of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.
Direct contact details and clean technical profile
A headquarters phone number ((714) 736-4800) and postal address appear on the captured page.
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and TLS encryption is valid.
One isolated antivirus flag (Gridinsoft) exists among 93 engines; no vendor consensus supports malicious classification.
Why the score is 92
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsFresh result
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- 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 - Clean
- 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
- Orcapot - Unrated
- 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
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBusiness/Economy
- BitDefenderonlineshop
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerbusiness and economy
- Googlemanufacturing
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
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
BRALCO METALS
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
BRALCO METALS
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
Home - Bralco
- Meta description
Bralco - A Division of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., North America’s Largest Metal Service Center Company
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/terms-of-use/Read
- Contact page/contact/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Home - Bralco
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Domain registered for over 28 years
- 02Phone and postal address listed on page
- 03Google Safe Browsing returned no threat warning
Web research findings
Independent findings for bralco.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.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for bralco.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
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.
- Domainbralco.com
- Redirects tobralco.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgmpg.org · fonts.googleapis.com
Domain Timeline
- Jan 22, 1998Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 28 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 13, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
bralco.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- Phone number listed ((714) 736-4800).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for bralco.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
- cdnjs
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://bralco.com/
- 2200https://bralco.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
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
Single antivirus detection marked suspicious
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 | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Oct 12, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 13, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 13, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 13, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 13, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 12, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 13, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 13, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 13, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 13, 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
Bralco.com is the legitimate corporate site for Bralco Metals, a division of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.
The site provides information about metal products and services for an established industrial supplier. Long domain history, physical contact details, and no consumer-facing commercial traps support a high safety rating.
09 · Community
Community
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