Is geniusfirms.com safe?
http://geniusfirms.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 91 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
GeniusFirms is a disclosed software-review directory with paid listings, not a detected scam
GeniusFirms presents itself as a directory of software and AI tools backed by user reviews, and it openly sells paid listing and priority-placement services to businesses. The operator is disclosed as Socialbent, a registered Indian firm in Gurugram, Haryana, with a GSTIN and a contact email on the site's own domain. Technical checks found no threat warnings and a valid encrypted connection, and independent research surfaced a positive an independent review platform's review from a customer who bought a Business plan. The score reflects a legitimate-looking commercial directory with disclosed ownership and clean technical signals, but it is not a neutral review site: paid placement is a core revenue model, and the affiliate-style outbound links to third-party software brands are not clearly labelled as monetized. Visitors should treat rankings and reviews as commercially influenced and verify any paid listing independently.
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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.
Why 78/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. No adverse finding was saved; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe site names Socialbent as its operator, provides a Gurgaon address and GSTIN, and uses a contact email on its own domain.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsAn independent review platform's review from a customer who bought a Business plan with priority placement reported a better-than-expected outcome.
- SupportsThe registrable domain is over three years old, consistent with an established operation.
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
GeniusFirms presents itself as a directory of software and AI tools backed by user reviews, and it openly sells paid listing and priority-placement services to businesses. The operator is disclosed as Socialbent, a registered Indian firm in Gurugram, Haryana, with a GSTIN and a contact email on the site's own domain. Technical checks found no threat warnings and a valid encrypted connection, and independent research surfaced a positive an independent review platform's review from a customer who bought a Business plan. The score reflects a legitimate-looking commercial directory with disclosed ownership and clean technical signals, but it is not a neutral review site: paid placement is a core revenue model, and the affiliate-style outbound links to third-party software brands are not clearly labelled as monetized. Visitors should treat rankings and reviews as commercially influenced and verify any paid listing independently.
Disclosed operator and paid-listing model
The site states that GeniusFirms is a sister company of Socialbent, a registered Indian firm based in Gurugram, Haryana, and that the same team is accountable for every listing, review and article published on the site. The Terms page names Socialbent as the operator and provides a Gurgaon address and a GSTIN, along with a contact email on the geniusfirms.com domain. This is a meaningful transparency signal: the operator is not hidden behind an anonymous WHOIS or a free webmail address.
The site also sells visibility. Its own copy invites businesses to get listed on GeniusFirms to increase visibility, build credibility and attract more customers, with a 'Get Listed Now' call to action. That is a paid-placement directory model, not an independent editorial review site. Our review notes the site claims paying does not influence ratings or rankings, but that claim is not independently verified by the evidence reviewed here, so visitors should weigh paid listings accordingly.
Clean technical checks and limited independent reputation
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the site, and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. The registrable domain is over three years old, which is consistent with an established operation rather than a throwaway scam domain. These are baseline hygiene signals, not proof of trustworthiness.
Independent research surfaced a positive an independent review platform's review from a customer who purchased a Business plan with priority placement and reported a better-than-expected outcome. That is a single supportive data point, not a broad reputation record, and it does not independently verify the site's claim that paid placement does not affect rankings. No adverse consumer reports, blocklist entries or threat-feed listings were found in the evidence reviewed.
Outbound links to third-party software brands
The homepage links out to third-party software brands including InVideo, Adobe Firefly, Figma and PowerDMARC. Our review notes these links carry UTM parameters consistent with affiliate or referral tracking, though the evidence reviewed here does not explicitly label them as monetized. Visitors should assume outbound links to commercial software may generate referral revenue for GeniusFirms, which is a common and generally disclosed practice but still relevant when judging the independence of a review directory.
Why the score is 78
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 91
No detectionsSaved analysis from September 10, 2026 - stale
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 91
All 91 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 - 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 - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- 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
- 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
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googletechnology
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
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
Best Software & AI Tools - Backed by Real User Reviews
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Best Software & AI Tools - Backed by Real User Reviews
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
Explore Top Companies & Software - GeniusFirms
- Meta description
Navigate through top-notch companies and software options designed to cater to your unique requirements.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-us/Read
- Terms/terms-and-conditions/Read
- Contact page/contact-us/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Explore Top Companies & Software - GeniusFirms
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
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
- 01The registrable domain is over three years old, consistent with an established operation.
- 02The site names Socialbent as its operator, provides a Gurgaon address and GSTIN, and uses a contact email on its own domain.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Web research findings
Independent findings for geniusfirms.com, 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.
- Trustpilotopen
"We had a positive experience using their services and found clear value for our business. We chose the Business plan along with priority placement, and the outcome was better than we anticipated."
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.
- Domaingeniusfirms.com
- Redirects towww.geniusfirms.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencescdnjs.cloudflare.com · analytics.ahrefs.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 10, 2023Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 23, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
geniusfirms.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long 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 (help@geniusfirms.com).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for geniusfirms.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- cdnjs
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
- 1301http://geniusfirms.com/
- 2301https://geniusfirms.com/
- 3200https://www.geniusfirms.com/
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
- Antiviruspartial
- 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 91 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Sep 10, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 91 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Sep 10, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
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 geniusfirms.com a scam or is it safe?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
GeniusFirms is a disclosed software-review directory with paid listings, not a detected scam
GeniusFirms presents itself as a directory of software and AI tools backed by user reviews, and it openly sells paid listing and priority-placement services to businesses. The operator is disclosed as Socialbent, a registered Indian firm in Gurugram, Haryana, with a GSTIN and a contact email on the site's own domain. Technical checks found no threat warnings and a valid encrypted connection, and independent research surfaced a positive an independent review platform's review from a customer who bought a Business plan. The score reflects a legitimate-looking commercial directory with disclosed ownership and clean technical signals, but it is not a neutral review site: paid placement is a core revenue model, and the affiliate-style outbound links to third-party software brands are not clearly labelled as monetized. Visitors should treat rankings and reviews as commercially influenced and verify any paid listing independently.
09 · Community
Community
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