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Is gsmartcontrol.com safe?

http://gsmartcontrol.com/

High RiskStatus

Coveragestrong3 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

gsmartcontrol.com impersonates the legitimate GSmartControl project and redirects download clicks to an unrelated external domain.

The site mimics the branding and name of the open-source GSmartControl project while displaying a disclaimer that it is not affiliated. A 'Download for Free' button triggers a redirect to werefilledwit.org, a destination unrelated to the project. The official project maintainer has publicly labeled the domain a phishing site, and one antivirus vendor flags it as suspicious.

Do not visit gsmartcontrol.com or click any download buttons. Use the official project site at gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev instead.
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Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLGridinsoft
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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.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

The site mimics the branding and name of the open-source GSmartControl project while displaying a disclaimer that it is not affiliated. A 'Download for Free' button triggers a redirect to werefilledwit.org, a destination unrelated to the project. The official project maintainer has publicly labeled the domain a phishing site, and one antivirus vendor flags it as suspicious.

Evidence of impersonation and deceptive download flow

The official GSmartControl maintainer posted on GitHub that gsmartcontrol.com is a phishing site and warned users not to download anything from it.

The captured page shows the heading 'Monitor SSD & HDD Health with GSmartControl' and a prominent 'Download for Free' button, yet also contains a disclaimer stating the site is 'Not affiliated with GSmartControl'.

Clicking the download button opens a popup that redirects the browser to werefilledwit.org, an external domain unrelated to the GSmartControl project.

Technical checks versus operator risk

One antivirus vendor marks the URL as suspicious, while the browser threat feed returns no warning and the TLS certificate is valid.

The combination of project-maintainer confirmation, deceptive branding, and an off-site redirect outweighs the clean Safe Browsing result and places the site in the High Risk band.

Why the score is 21

A primary play, convert, continue, or download control opened an unrelated external destination. 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

1/ 91

detections

Saved result - stale

1 engine flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
1
Total
91
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 91 engine results
  • Gridinsoft - suspicious - Suspicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - unrated - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - unrated - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • CTX AI - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - unrated - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - unrated - Clean
  • Fortinet - clean - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Guardpot - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - unrated - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • LevelBlue - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishing Database - clean - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - clean - Clean
  • Rising - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Seclookup - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - unrated - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - unrated - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - unrated - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean
  • ZeroFox - unrated - Clean

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
gsmartcontrol.com
What our review noticed on this page
1Monitor SSD & HDD Health with GSmartControl

Captured during this scan in a safe sandbox. Opening this report does not revisit the site. Marker positions are approximate. See full visual analysis →

Full screenDownload
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Monitor SSD & HDD Health with GSmartControl

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Monitor SSD & HDD Health with GSmartControl

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

    GSmartControl – Free HDD & SSD SMART Diagnostic Software

  2. What we observed

    Saved browser evidence recorded forced redirects.

  3. What independent research found

    2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. 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

Phishing & Impersonation

Also observed: Malware & Deceptive Downloads

Service and business model

Content

Unknown

Observed behavior

Forced Redirects

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01Untrusted impersonation of the project at gsmartcontrol.com GitHub https://github.com/ashaduri/gsmartcontrol/issues
  2. 02Official maintainer explicitly identified gsmartcontrol.com as a phishing site.
  3. 03A primary play, convert, continue, or download control opened an unrelated external destination.

Web research findings

Independent findings for gsmartcontrol.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.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
No clone detected
The completed research found no supported clone indicator.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The completed research found no supported look-alike match.
Web mentions
2 scam reports
Scam reports (2)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • GitHubopen

    "Untrusted impersonation of the project at gsmartcontrol.com"

  • GSmartControl Official Siteopen

    "SCAM ALERT: gsmartcontrol[.]com is a phishing site! Please don't download anything from there!"

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗
Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

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. Domaingsmartcontrol.com
  2. Redirects togsmartcontrol.com
  3. Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
  4. Referencesgmpg.org · cdnjs.cloudflare.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Aug 20, 2025
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.1 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 4, 2026
    Saved security review — Flagged as suspicious

    The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.

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
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles1
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No direct contact email found on the captured page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age1.1 years old
RegistrarSpaceship, Inc.
RegisteredAug 20, 2025
ExpiresAug 20, 2027
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresNov 14, 2026 (40d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

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

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

gmpg.orgcdnjs.cloudflare.comfonts.googleapis.comdpjf9a2rbjbvp.cloudfront.netgithub.comstatic.cloudflareinsights.com

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruspartial
  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

suspicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

Additional evidence review · Additional evidence review

Operator / customer risk

suspicious

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

Additional evidence review · Additional evidence review

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result1 of 91 engines flagged
CompletionLimited
FindingAdverse
Freshnessstale fallback · Oct 4, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Independent research
Result2 independent findings were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
FreshnessNot available

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Proceed with caution

Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.

  1. Analyst recommendation

    Do not visit gsmartcontrol.com or click any download buttons. Use the official project site at gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev instead.

  2. Treat gsmartcontrol.com as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  3. Verify the business through independent channels

    Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.

  4. Never use irreversible payment methods

    Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.

  5. Share your experience

    If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.

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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 gsmartcontrol.com a scam or a legit website?
gsmartcontrol.com shows strong warning signs of being a phishing & impersonation — do not enter your login or personal details. Our review tagged it for phishing. 1 of 91 security engines flag it. The domain is 1.1 years old through Spaceship, Inc.. It may not be an outright scam, but the risk is high enough that you should verify it independently before trusting it with money or data.
Is gsmartcontrol.com safe to use?
gsmartcontrol.com has a Safety Score of 21/100 (High Risk). Analysis coverage is strong at 83%. Avoid login, payment and downloads.
What should I do if I already gave my details to gsmartcontrol.com?
If you've already paid or handed over details on gsmartcontrol.com, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on gsmartcontrol.com and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
Can I get my money back from gsmartcontrol.com?
Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
Did gsmartcontrol.com steal my password or personal information?
If you entered anything on gsmartcontrol.com, assume it was captured. Phishing pages exist purely to harvest what you type — usernames, passwords, card numbers, or one-time codes. Change the password immediately on the real site and anywhere you reused it, enable two-factor authentication, and if you entered card or banking details, contact your bank about the risk of fraud. Also be alert for follow-up "security" calls or emails that try to exploit the same information.
How do I report gsmartcontrol.com?
You can report gsmartcontrol.com through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
Why does gsmartcontrol.com look legitimate if it's a scam?
Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
Has gsmartcontrol.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 1 of 91 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged gsmartcontrol.com as suspicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
Is gsmartcontrol.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — gsmartcontrol.com 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 gsmartcontrol.com domain?
gsmartcontrol.com is 1.1 years old, registered on August 20, 2025 through Spaceship, 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 gsmartcontrol.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — gsmartcontrol.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 40 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".
How often is the gsmartcontrol.com report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 4, 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 gsmartcontrol.com 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
21/100
High Risk

gsmartcontrol.com impersonates the legitimate GSmartControl project and redirects download clicks to an unrelated external domain.

Saved capturegsmartcontrol.comCapture-safe
Open saved capture
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

The site mimics the branding and name of the open-source GSmartControl project while displaying a disclaimer that it is not affiliated. A 'Download for Free' button triggers a redirect to werefilledwit.org, a destination unrelated to the project. The official project maintainer has publicly labeled the domain a phishing site, and one antivirus vendor flags it as suspicious.

Recommended actionDo not visit gsmartcontrol.com or click any download buttons. Use the official project site at gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev instead.
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