SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is bulawfirm.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 80/100

Established immigration law firm site with 14-year-old domain, active California Bar license, and clean reputation signals.

bulawfirm.comScanned 1h ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 71·MT 85
Screenshot of bulawfirm.comSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (5)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsDomain is 14 years oldEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
14 years old
Registered Mar 3, 2012
Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 90% confidence

Website Preview

Screenshot of bulawfirm.com
LIVE RENDER
bulawfirm.com

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

Visual 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.

15
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The website appears to be a legitimate law firm landing page with professional branding and standard functional elements, despite some minor text overlap in the header.

Visual risk15/100

What our vision model saw

4 signals

Overlapping text in the header logo area suggests minor layout issues

Professional imagery consistent with legal services

Standard navigation menu including 'Client Portal' and 'Book Consultation'

Presence of a 'Let's Chat!' widget in the bottom right corner

Brand Impersonation

medium confidence

The page mentions or styles itself as Google, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official Google property.

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust85/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The domain bulawfirm.com was registered in March 2012 and has remained active for over 14 years. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and browser blocklists show no flags. The evidence package confirms an active California Bar license for attorney Kelly Honglei Bu and lists a physical office address in Pleasanton. Two positive review snippets appear on Yelp and Birdeye with no scam or complaint mentions found anywhere. The page itself presents standard legal-service content with a client portal and consultation booking flow. Minor layout quirks in the header do not change the overall legitimacy picture.
Full dossier
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Page Content

The site presents itself as the Law Offices of Kelly H. Bu, offering family and employment immigration services with bilingual English/Chinese content. It includes a client portal link, consultation booking, and standard navigation. One email address uses a free provider (bulawfirm@gmail.com) rather than the domain itself, which is atypical for established firms but does not override the other legitimacy signals.

Infrastructure

The site loads from IP 185.230.63.171 with an abuse score of 18/100 and ten prior reports. SSL is valid from Let's Encrypt with 37 days remaining. External resources load from Wix-related CDNs (static.parastorage.com, static.wixstatic.com) and ailaw.ai. No login forms, countdown timers, or credential-harvesting elements are present.

Domain History

WHOIS records show the domain was registered on 2012-03-03 through Bluehost Inc. with privacy protection disabled. At 14.3 years old, the domain predates most modern scam campaigns and aligns with the firm's documented practice history since around 2008.

Web Reputation

Our research found zero scam reports or bar-discipline records. The attorney holds active California Bar license #256676 and is listed on Yelp, Birdeye, Justia, Avvo, and AILA directories. Two positive review excerpts appear on Yelp and Birdeye; no negative mentions surfaced in searches for fraud or complaints.

What this means for you

The combination of long domain age, verified bar license, physical address, and absence of complaints points to a legitimate law practice rather than a fraudulent operation.

Risk Factors
3
  • Contact email uses a free Gmail address instead of the firm's own domain.
  • No physical street address is displayed directly on the homepage.
  • Hosting IP carries a moderate abuse score of 18/100 with ten prior reports.
Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered in March 2012 and continuously active for 14.3 years.
  • Attorney Kelly Honglei Bu holds an active California Bar license (#256676).
  • Physical office address listed in Pleasanton, CA with matching business registration.
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklist status.
  • Positive review snippets on independent sites with no scam complaints found.
AI Recommendation
The site shows strong legitimacy signals. You can contact the firm using the listed phone numbers or verified bar-license details if you need immigration legal services.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

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

Business registration
Active · USA
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
2 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Domain bulawfirm.com registered March 2012 (14+ years old); active law firm site for Law Offices of Kelly H. Bu.
  • Attorney Kelly Honglei Bu (#256676) has active California Bar license; also listed with New York Bar; practice since ~2008 focused on immigration and corporate law.
  • Physical address: 5700 Stoneridge Mall Rd, Suite 325, Pleasanton, CA 94588; phone (925) 482-6008 / (925) 546-2050; email bulawfirm@gmail.com.
  • Listed on Yelp, Birdeye (80 reviews mentioned), Justia, Avvo, AILA lawyer directory; positive review snippets on Yelp.
  • No scam reports, fraud complaints, bar discipline records, or negative mentions found in searches for 'scam', 'complaint', 'fraud', or 'discipline'.
  • Site content focuses on US immigration services (family, EB visas, waivers, U/T/VAWA); bilingual (English/Chinese); no Google impersonation detected.
  • Similar domains like kellybulawfirm.com and cbulaw.com exist but appear unrelated or competitor sites.
Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Yelpopen

    "All of them especially David and Viviana have been very friendly and helpful throughout the whole process"

  • Birdeyeopen

    "Kelly H Bu - 80 Reviews - Immigration Law in Pleasanton, CA"

Business registration
Status: active · USA

Kelly Honglei Bu #256676, active license with California State Bar; Law Offices of Kelly H. Bu, PC at 5700 Stoneridge Mall Rd, Ste 325, Pleasanton, CA 94588. Registered domain since 2012.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research located no scam reports, fraud complaints, or bar-discipline records for bulawfirm.com or Kelly H. Bu. The attorney maintains an active California Bar license and a listed physical office in Pleasanton. Positive review excerpts appear on Yelp and Birdeye, and the firm is indexed on Justia, Avvo, and AILA directories.

Domain Timeline

  1. Mar 3, 2012
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 14 years old today.

  2. Jul 8, 2026
    Latest security review — Reviewed as safe

    This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.

bulawfirm.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.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious58Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Reputation Sources

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

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

Technical Details

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 addressesbulawfirm@gmail.com
Phone numbers925-482-6008
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
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 (gmail.com) — unusual for a real business.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
  • Phone number listed (925-482-6008).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age14 years old
RegistrarBluehost Inc.
RegisteredMar 3, 2012
ExpiresMar 3, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13
ExpiresAug 15, 2026 (37d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingWix.com Ltd.
Server locationUS
Web serverPepyaka
Platform / CMSWix

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://bulawfirm.com/
  • 2301https://bulawfirm.com/
  • 3200https://www.bulawfirm.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score18%
Reports on file10
ISPWix.com Ltd.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

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

What to do

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  • Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on bulawfirm.com and not a lookalike like b-ulawfirm.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

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Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·bulawfirm.com
SAFE

This is the website for Law Offices of Kelly H. Bu, a real immigration law firm in Pleasanton, California. The domain is 14 years old with an active California Bar license on record and positive reviews on independent sites. No scam reports or complaints turned up in our research.

The site shows strong legitimacy signals. You can contact the firm using the listed phone numbers or verified bar-license details if you need immigration legal services.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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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 found no threat indicators on bulawfirm.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • bulawfirm.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 80/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. bulawfirm.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 37 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • bulawfirm.com is 14.4 years old, registered on 3/3/2012 through Bluehost Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report bulawfirm.com as clean.
  • No. bulawfirm.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • bulawfirm.com resolves to an IP operated by Wix.com Ltd. 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 July 8, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around bulawfirm.com 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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