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How we checked

Coverage: complete · 4 of 4 applicable core capabilities

  • Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered): completed
  • Google Safe Browsing: completed
  • page reading: completed
  • page capture: completed
  • domain records: completed
  • web research: completed
Verdict

Long-established financial-services website with no observed threat detections

The reviewed site presents Eclipse Financial as offering group benefits, insurance and financial planning. It uses a long-established domain and publishes a domain-based email address, telephone number and postal address. No malicious or suspicious detections were reported, supporting a Safe rating, although these technical checks do not independently validate every service offered.

The site appears safe for ordinary browsing and inquiries. When following the separate Eclipse Online link, verify the destination and use only credentials intended for that portal.

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ef.ca: Safe — MalwareTips website safety report

Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

Score explained

Why 94/100

Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 3 pushed it up.

What pulled the score down

No adverse finding was saved with this report.

What pushed the score up

  • SupportsThe registrable domain is more than 8,600 days old.
  • SupportsThe reviewed security checks found no warning or detection, and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
  • SupportsThe site provides a domain-based email address, telephone number and postal address.

Community reviews never change the Safety Score.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

The reviewed site presents Eclipse Financial as offering group benefits, insurance and financial planning. It uses a long-established domain and publishes a domain-based email address, telephone number and postal address. No malicious or suspicious detections were reported, supporting a Safe rating, although these technical checks do not independently validate every service offered.

Established presence and consistent contact details

The domain is more than 8,600 days old. The site lists an ef.ca email address, a telephone number and a street address at 876 Riverside Drive in Timmins, Ontario.

Its visible description identifies the business as Eclipse Financial and advertises group benefits, insurance and financial planning services.

Clean technical checks and a conventional inquiry path

The saved checks found a valid encrypted connection, no Safe Browsing warning, and zero malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines. These findings reduce technical threat concerns but do not alone guarantee the operator or its services are safe.

The observed inquiry form requests a name, email address, telephone number and message. The site also links to a separate Eclipse Online portal, so visitors should confirm that destination before entering account information.

Why the score is 94

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

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

0/ 93

No detections

Fresh result

No detections across 58 engines that rated this URL

No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 35 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 - 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
  • Gridinsoft - 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 - Unrated
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - Clean
  • ZeroFox - Unrated

How security vendors categorise this site

  • alphaMountain.aiFinance
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
  • Googlefinancial_services
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloudhealth & medicine

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

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
ef.ca
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Eclipse Financial - Group Benefits, Insurance and Financial Planning

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Eclipse Financial - Group Benefits, Insurance and Financial Planning

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
Eclipse Financial - Group Benefits, Insurance and Financial Planning
Meta description
Providing group benefits, pension & financial planning solutions. Eclipse Financial of Timmins, Ontario has you covered.

Pages we read

  • Main page/Read
  • Privacy policy/privacy-policy/Read
  • Contact page/contact-us/Read

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Eclipse Financial - Group Benefits, Insurance and Financial Planning

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.

  4. 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

Financial Service

Unknown

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01The registrable domain is more than 8,600 days old.
  2. 02The site provides a domain-based email address, telephone number and postal address.
  3. 03The reviewed security checks found no warning or detection, and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.

Web research findings

Independent findings for ef.ca, 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.

Business registration
Not checked
This report did not include a company-registry lookup, so no registration result is claimed.
Clone check
Not checked
No site-clone comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Typosquat check
Not checked
No look-alike domain comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for ef.ca. 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.

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

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

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.

  1. Domainef.ca
  2. Redirects toef.ca
  3. Hosted byHostPapa
  4. Referencesgmpg.org · googletagmanager.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Mar 18, 2003
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 23 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 14, 2026
    Saved security review — Rated Safe

    This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.

ef.ca 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.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domainmarketing@ef.ca, hello@ef.ca
Phone numbers+1.705.267.1234
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (marketing@ef.ca).
  • Phone number listed (+1.705.267.1234).
  • Postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age23 years old
RegistrarInternic.ca Inc.
RegisteredMar 18, 2003
ExpiresMar 11, 2031
Last updatedJan 10, 2022
RegistrantEclipse Financial Group Inc.
Owner privacyVisible
Nameserversns1-ws06.servername.onlinens2-ws06.servername.online
Verified ownerNo owner has verified this domain on MalwareTips
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YR1
IssuedSep 8, 2026 (35 days before this scan)
ExpiresDec 7, 2026 (54d)
Self-signedNo
Trusted chainYes: our check verified the issuer chain
Matches hostnameYes

Certificate issued for ef.ca.

Hosting & Technology
HostingHostPapa
Server IP216.222.193.139
Server locationUnited States (US)
Web serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
Platform / CMSSite Kit by Google 1.189.0
PopularityNot in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Technologies and payments

Analytics and ads

  • Google Tag Manager

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

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://ef.ca/
  • 2200https://ef.ca/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPHostPapa
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Referenced Domains

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

unknown

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, 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.

Antivirus
Result0 of 93 engines flagged
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 14, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
Independent research
ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

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.

  1. Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on ef.ca and not a lookalike like e-f.ca or an IDN homoglyph.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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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 ef.ca legit and safe?
Our automated security review found no threat indicators on ef.ca, so it appears legitimate. All 58 antivirus engines that rated it report it clean, and the domain is 23 years old, registered on March 18, 2003 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
Is ef.ca safe to use?
ef.ca has a Safety Score of 94/100 (Safe). The saved checks and analysis found no material threat at scan time. Treat unexpected login or payment requests with normal caution.
Could a legitimate site like ef.ca still be used in a scam?
Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from ef.ca), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from ef.ca is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
Has ef.ca been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 58 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network that rated it report ef.ca as clean. 35 other engines had no rating for it. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
Is ef.ca on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — ef.ca is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the ef.ca domain?
ef.ca is 23 years old, registered on March 18, 2003 through Internic.ca Inc. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does ef.ca have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — ef.ca presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, valid for another 54 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is ef.ca hosted?
ef.ca resolves to an IP operated by HostPapa in US (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
How often is the ef.ca report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 14, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about ef.ca has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
94/100
Safe

Long-established financial-services website with no observed threat detections

Saved captureef.caCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

The reviewed site presents Eclipse Financial as offering group benefits, insurance and financial planning. It uses a long-established domain and publishes a domain-based email address, telephone number and postal address. No malicious or suspicious detections were reported, supporting a Safe rating, although these technical checks do not independently validate every service offered.

Recommended actionThe site appears safe for ordinary browsing and inquiries. When following the separate Eclipse Online link, verify the destination and use only credentials intended for that portal.
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09 · Community

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