Is candysartshop.com safe?
http://candysartshop.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 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
Candy's Art Shop is a small, long-registered online store with clean current security checks but a stale suspicious-URL flag and thin contact transparency.
candysartshop.com presents itself as Candy's Art Shop LLC, a creative studio and online store selling apparel and accessories through a standard cart and checkout flow. The domain is roughly two and a half years old, the connection is encrypted, and current browser threat feed and hosting-IP checks show no active threat. However, two antivirus engines previously marked the URL as suspicious, and the captured page shows no direct contact email or visible postal address, which limits how easily a buyer could verify or reach the operator. No fraud, non-delivery or payment complaints were found, so this is a low-to-moderate risk storefront rather than a confirmed scam.
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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 72/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 3 findings pulled the score down; 4 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.
- MinorNo direct contact email was found on the captured page.
- MinorNo operator postal address was visible on the captured page.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 953 days old, indicating the storefront is not brand new.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning at scan time.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsA customer care phone number, +1 (412) 952-9269, is listed.
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
candysartshop.com presents itself as Candy's Art Shop LLC, a creative studio and online store selling apparel and accessories through a standard cart and checkout flow. The domain is roughly two and a half years old, the connection is encrypted, and current browser threat feed and hosting-IP checks show no active threat. However, two antivirus engines previously marked the URL as suspicious, and the captured page shows no direct contact email or visible postal address, which limits how easily a buyer could verify or reach the operator. No fraud, non-delivery or payment complaints were found, so this is a low-to-moderate risk storefront rather than a confirmed scam.
Technical checks are mostly clean, with one stale warning
The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning at the time of the scan. The hosting IP also has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports, meaning no current abuse activity is associated with the server.
Against that, two antivirus results previously marked the URL as suspicious. That observation is stale, so it should be treated as a real historical flag rather than proof of an active threat, but it is the main reason this store cannot be rated fully safe on technical grounds alone.
Operator transparency is thin on the captured page
The captured page lists a customer care phone number, +1 (412) 952-9269, which is a positive contact signal. However, no direct contact email was found on the captured page, and no operator postal address was visible there either. That makes it harder for a buyer to verify the business or resolve a problem before ordering.
The domain itself is about 953 days old, which is long enough to suggest it is not a brand-new throwaway storefront. That age is a supportive signal, but it does not by itself confirm that the shop is trustworthy or that orders are fulfilled as described.
The commercial flow is a standard same-site cart and checkout
The site shows ordinary e-commerce controls: an 'Add to cart' button and a cart indicator reading '0 items $ 0.00'. These are same-site commercial elements, not cross-domain redirects or affiliate funnels, so the purchase path stays on candysartshop.com.
Promotional text such as 'Shop the sale' and 'Shop' appears alongside the cart, which is consistent with a small retail storefront rather than a deceptive download or subscription trap. No cross-domain commercial CTA was observed in the evidence.
Why the score is 72
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 - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Googleshopping
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
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What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
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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
Candysartshop - CANDYSARTSHOP
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-us-3/Read
- Contact page/contact-us-4/Could not be read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Candysartshop - CANDYSARTSHOP
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
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 registrable domain is 953 days old, indicating the storefront is not brand new.
- 02The browser threat feed returned no threat warning at scan time.
- 03The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Web research findings
Independent findings for candysartshop.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 candysartshop.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.
- Domaincandysartshop.com
- Redirects tocandysartshop.com
- Hosted byTier.Net Technologies LLC
- Referencesgmpg.org · fonts.googleapis.com
Domain Timeline
- Mar 7, 2024Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 years 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.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Phone number listed (+1 (412) 952-9269).
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for candysartshop.com.
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://candysartshop.com/
- 2200https://candysartshop.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 direct contact email was found on the captured page. · No operator postal address was visible on the captured page.
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 | The search completed without a material external finding | 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
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- 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.
Is candysartshop.com a scam or is it safe?
Is candysartshop.com safe to use?
Has candysartshop.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is candysartshop.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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Does candysartshop.com have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Candy's Art Shop is a small, long-registered online store with clean current security checks but a stale suspicious-URL flag and thin contact transparency.
candysartshop.com presents itself as Candy's Art Shop LLC, a creative studio and online store selling apparel and accessories through a standard cart and checkout flow. The domain is roughly two and a half years old, the connection is encrypted, and current browser threat feed and hosting-IP checks show no active threat. However, two antivirus engines previously marked the URL as suspicious, and the captured page shows no direct contact email or visible postal address, which limits how easily a buyer could verify or reach the operator. No fraud, non-delivery or payment complaints were found, so this is a low-to-moderate risk storefront rather than a confirmed scam.
09 · Community
Community
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