Critical risk detected
2 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is emqx.api-score.com legit or a scam?
Subdomain tied to malware samples displays a clean 404 page yet carries malicious flags from Fortinet and ADMINUSLabs.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page itself is a standard browser 404 with no visible scam elements or urgency tactics. Antivirus detection from Fortinet and ADMINUSLabs marks the domain malicious while Hybrid Analysis and Joe Sandbox reports connect it to unknown TCP traffic and downloads. The 660-day-old domain age and clean IP reputation reduce immediate concern but do not erase the malware associations. No scam reports or consumer complaints appear in web sources. The combination of AV flags and sandbox references outweighs the current harmless 404 display.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot 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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a clean, standard browser-style 404 error page with no scam indicators, urgency tactics, or suspicious elements visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for emqx.api-score.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain emqx.api-score.com appears in Joe Sandbox malware analysis report with unknown TCP traffic and file downloads.
- Listed on AlienVault OTX with WHOIS data showing api-score.com expiration 2025-08-15 and Cloudflare nameservers.
- Referenced in Hybrid Analysis malware samples with threat score 50/100 and connections to emqx.api-score.com.
- Multiple urlquery.net reports link the domain to scanned URLs, some marked malicious or sinkholed.
- api-score.com parent domain has 68/100 trust score on Gridinsoft (mix of signals, not confirmed scam).
- No mentions, reviews, or complaints found on Reddit or major review/scam reporting sites.
- Associated with MQTT/WebSocket traffic in sandbox samples, often alongside other suspicious domains.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with emqx.api-score.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags emqx.api-score.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — emqx.api-score.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. emqx.api-score.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 78 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- emqx.api-score.com is 1.8 years old, registered on 8/15/2024 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged emqx.api-score.com as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. emqx.api-score.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- emqx.api-score.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. 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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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