No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is fst-ec.perimeterx.net legit or a scam?
Subdomain of established bot-detection firm PerimeterX/HUMAN Security with 12.5-year domain history and zero malicious detections.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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.
Visual similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage renders a large block of base64-style encoded text
Intelligence
The domain fst-ec.perimeterx.net belongs to PerimeterX, a real cybersecurity company founded in 2014 that provides bot and fraud protection services. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and browser blocklists show no flags. The parent domain is over twelve years old, registered through NameCheap with public registration details, and the company has documented business registration in the United States. Web research found one positive industry review on Gartner Peer Insights and zero scam reports or complaints. The page itself displays encoded text rather than any login, checkout, or data-collection form, consistent with a backend collector endpoint rather than a consumer-facing site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for fst-ec.perimeterx.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain fst-ec.perimeterx.net registered 2014-01-09 (12.5+ years old).
- PerimeterX (rebranded to HUMAN Security in 2024) is a legitimate cybersecurity company providing bot detection and fraud prevention services.
- Subdomain appears in malware analysis reports, blocklists (e.g., IPFire malware list), and adblock/privacy filter lists (EasyPrivacy) as part of the PerimeterX/HUMAN tracking/collector infrastructure.
- ScamAdviser reports average-to-good trust score and classifies the domain as legit/safe.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative customer reviews found for the domain or parent company in searches.
- Company has positive mentions in Gartner reviews and industry partnerships (e.g., Okta integration); merger with HUMAN Security announced 2022.
- Frequent mentions in web scraping communities regarding bypass attempts, confirming its use as anti-bot protection on major sites.
- Gartner Peer Insightsopen
"PerimeterX is a pretty good hands-off bot-defender. You don't have to do too much configuration outside of the initial setup and it adjusts over time to handle new threats."
PerimeterX founded 2014 in San Mateo, California; merged with HUMAN Security in 2022; HUMAN Security, Inc. operates with offices in New York, Santa Clara, etc.
Our research found no scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative customer reviews for fst-ec.perimeterx.net or its parent company. One positive review on Gartner Peer Insights describes PerimeterX as an effective bot defender. The company maintains active US business registration and has documented industry partnerships.
Domain Timeline
- Jan 9, 2014Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 12 years old today.
- Jul 9, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
fst-ec.perimeterx.net 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
Security Scans
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedDomain & Encryption
Server Reputation
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 fst-ec.perimeterx.net and not a lookalike like f-st-ec.perimeterx.net.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is a subdomain of PerimeterX, a legitimate cybersecurity company now part of HUMAN Security. The domain is 12.5 years old with clean scans and no scam reports.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, 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 fst-ec.perimeterx.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- fst-ec.perimeterx.net passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. fst-ec.perimeterx.net presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 80 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- fst-ec.perimeterx.net is 12.5 years old, registered on 1/9/2014 through NameCheap, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report fst-ec.perimeterx.net as clean.
- No. fst-ec.perimeterx.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- fst-ec.perimeterx.net resolves to an IP operated by Fastly, 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 9, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around fst-ec.perimeterx.net have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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