Is cranks.fr safe?
http://cranks.fr/
Coveragecomplete4 of 4 applicable core capabilities
cranks.fr appears to be a genuine French metal band website with no risk signals
The site presents CRANKS, a heavy/progressive metal band formed by brothers Mathieu and Lucas Daugareil. It is a promotional page with social links and a Bandcamp link for music and merchandise. The domain is almost eight years old, uses a valid TLS certificate, and security checks found nothing. These facts support a high safety score. Independent research returned no claims either way, so the band's wider reputation is unverified.
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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.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site presents CRANKS, a heavy/progressive metal band formed by brothers Mathieu and Lucas Daugareil. It is a promotional page with social links and a Bandcamp link for music and merchandise. The domain is almost eight years old, uses a valid TLS certificate, and security checks found nothing. These facts support a high safety score. Independent research returned no claims either way, so the band's wider reputation is unverified.
Technical and operator risk
Security checks are clean: 0 malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines, no browser threat feed warning, and a valid encrypted connection. The domain is 2890 days old.
The site lists a contact email on its own domain and links to nine social profiles. It describes a band's story rather than a shop or service. No operator registration details are shown, which is normal for a small band site.
What visitors can do
The page links out to the band's Bandcamp page for music and a T-shirt, and to Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The links to those platforms are not flagged as commercial. Purchases happen on Bandcamp, not on cranks.fr itself.
Why the score is 93
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
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 56 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 37 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 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
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Unrated
- 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
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
CRANKS
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
CRANKS
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
CRANKS
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 56 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 is nearly eight years old.
- 02Content is a band biography with own-domain contact and social links.
- 03No detections from security engines or Safe Browsing, and TLS is valid.
Web research findings
Independent findings for cranks.fr, 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 cranks.fr. 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.
- Domaincranks.fr
- Redirects towww.cranks.fr
- Hosted byScaleway Dedibox IPFO
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Domain Timeline
- Nov 24, 2018Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 7 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 24, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
cranks.fr 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.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (contact@cranks.fr).
- Links to 9 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://cranks.fr/
- 2301https://cranks.fr/
- 3301http://www.cranks.fr/
- 4206https://www.cranks.fr/
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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
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 | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 24, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 24, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
cranks.fr appears to be a genuine French metal band website with no risk signals
The site presents CRANKS, a heavy/progressive metal band formed by brothers Mathieu and Lucas Daugareil. It is a promotional page with social links and a Bandcamp link for music and merchandise. The domain is almost eight years old, uses a valid TLS certificate, and security checks found nothing. These facts support a high safety score. Independent research returned no claims either way, so the band's wider reputation is unverified.
09 · Community
Community
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