SAFE

No threats detected

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

Security Review

Is empreinte-visuelle.fr legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Long-established French communication agency with 21-year-old domain, active French business registration, and zero security flags.

Cross-checked against 9 independent sources — none raised a concern
empreinte-visuelle.frScanned 1h ago
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 87·MT 92
Screenshot of empreinte-visuelle.frSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (5)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsDomain is 22 years oldEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
22 years old
Registered Oct 29, 2004

Website Preview

Screenshot of empreinte-visuelle.fr
LIVE RENDER
empreinte-visuelle.fr

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.

5
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The website appears to be a legitimate professional agency landing page with high-quality design and standard business navigation.

Visual risk5/100

What our vision model saw

5 signals

Professional custom logo for 'empreinte visuelle' in the header

Clean, high-resolution hero image with consistent branding colors

Standard navigation menu with logical business sections like Portfolio and Testimonials

Coherent French language copy describing agency services

Absence of urgency tactics, fake trust badges, or intrusive pop-ups

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The domain empreinte-visuelle.fr was registered in October 2004 and has remained active for more than two decades. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The business is officially registered in France as N.C.L. Empreinte Visuelle with SIRET 53479331000010 and appears in local municipal listings. The page content matches a legitimate agency offering graphic design, web design, and communication services with no urgency tactics or data-harvesting forms. Our sandbox and browser blocklist feeds also returned clean results. The combination of long domain history, verified business registration, and complete absence of scam indicators points to a legitimate small business site.
Risk Factors
2
  • No email, phone, or postal address visible directly on the homepage.
  • SSL certificate expires in 16 days and will need renewal.
Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered in October 2004 and continuously active for 21.7 years.
  • French business registration confirmed with active SIRET 53479331000010.
  • Zero detections across our antivirus network and clean browser blocklist status.
  • Hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score.
  • Professional design with coherent French business content and no scam patterns.
The full analysis

Page Content

The site presents itself as Empreinte Visuelle, a small communication agency based in Épinay-sur-Orge, France. The French-language copy describes services including visual identity, web design, commercial and institutional communication, and strategy consulting. The page lists a portfolio section, client testimonials, and a contact form but contains no email addresses, phone numbers, or physical addresses on the visible page. No urgency language, fake trust badges, or login forms appear.

Infrastructure

The site loads from IP 35.172.94.1 with a clean abuse score of 0/100 and no prior abuse reports. SSL is valid and issued by Let's Encrypt R13 with 16 days remaining until expiry. Three external CDN domains (irp.cdn-website.com, lirp.cdn-website.com, static.cdn-website.com) serve assets. The page makes one internal redirect and shows no signs of malicious scripts or redirects to known bad domains.

Domain History

The domain was registered on 29 October 2004 through AMEN / Agence des Médias Numériques and is now 21.7 years old. WHOIS privacy protection is disabled, which is consistent with an older, established business. No recent ownership changes or suspicious registration patterns were observed.

Web Reputation

Our search found one positive listing on a French business directory confirming the agency's address and three reviews. The business registration record shows active status for N.C.L. Empreinte Visuelle. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions appeared in any searched sources. The domain is not indexed in global traffic rankings, consistent with a small local agency.

What this means for you

The site shows every indicator of a legitimate, long-running French small business. Visitors can reasonably treat the page as a genuine agency website, though the lack of visible contact details on the homepage means users should verify details through the contact form or official French business registries before engaging in paid work.

AI Recommendation
The site appears legitimate. Verify contact details through the contact form or French business registries before making payments or sharing sensitive information.
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 empreinte-visuelle.fr, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · France
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
1 positive
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • The domain has been registered since October 2004, indicating a long-standing online presence.
  • The website belongs to a legitimate French communication agency named 'N.C.L. Empreinte Visuelle' based in Epinay-sur-Orge.
  • The business is officially listed in the municipal guide of the city of Epinay-sur-Orge as a local service provider.
  • The site provides a valid SIRET number (534 793 310 00010) which corresponds to an active business registration in France.
  • No scam reports or negative security warnings were found associated with this domain.
Positive reviews (1)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • agence.contactopen

    "Empreinte Visuelle à Épinay-sur-Orge. 9 Rue des Heribettes. 91360 Épinay-sur-Orge. 3 Avis."

Business registration
Status: active · France

Registered as N.C.L. EMPREINTE VISUELLE (SIRET 53479331000010) in Epinay-sur-Orge.

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

Our research located one positive listing on a French business directory confirming the agency name, address in Épinay-sur-Orge, and three reviews. The business registration record shows N.C.L. Empreinte Visuelle with SIRET 53479331000010 as an active French company. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were found across searched sources.

Domain Timeline

  1. Oct 29, 2004
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 22 years old today.

  2. Jul 13, 2026
    Latest security review — Reviewed as safe

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

empreinte-visuelle.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.

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 queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
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

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.

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
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age22 years old
RegistrarAMEN / Agence des Médias Numériques
RegisteredOct 29, 2004
ExpiresFeb 6, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13
ExpiresJul 29, 2026 (16d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingAmazon Technologies Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servernginx

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://empreinte-visuelle.fr/
  • 2200https://empreinte-visuelle.fr/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPAmazon Technologies Inc.
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 empreinte-visuelle.fr and not a lookalike like e-mpreinte-visuelle.fr.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.

    Open

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·empreinte-visuelle.fr
SAFE

This is the website of a French communication agency operating since 2004. The domain is over 21 years old, the business is registered in France with an active SIRET number, and no scam reports or security flags exist.

The site appears legitimate. Verify contact details through the contact form or French business registries before making payments or sharing sensitive information.

AV engines
92
Domain age
22 yrs
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, 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 empreinte-visuelle.fr, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 21.7 years old, registered on October 29, 2004 — 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.
  • empreinte-visuelle.fr passed our automated checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from empreinte-visuelle.fr), 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 empreinte-visuelle.fr is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report empreinte-visuelle.fr as clean. 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.
  • No — empreinte-visuelle.fr 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.
  • empreinte-visuelle.fr is 21.7 years old, registered on October 29, 2004 through AMEN / Agence des Médias Numériques. 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.
  • Yes — empreinte-visuelle.fr presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, valid for another 16 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".
  • empreinte-visuelle.fr resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). 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.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 13, 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 empreinte-visuelle.fr has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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