Is handknitly.com safe?
http://handknitly.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (56 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Hand Knitly appears to be a functioning online shop, but its business identity remains uncertain
The site offers products through a cart and payment flow and publishes a business address and an email on its own domain. However, the website gives a Tarboro, North Carolina address while an external directory places a business with the same name in Mabelvale, Arkansas. This unresolved discrepancy, combined with a domain that is only 280 days old, supports a Low Risk rating rather than a fully Safe verdict. No supplied evidence establishes a fake-shop operation or customer harm.
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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 72/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe site states a Tarboro, North Carolina business address, while an external directory places a same-named clothing store in Mabelvale, Arkansas.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe store provides a support email using its own domain.
- SupportsThe saved checks found valid TLS and no threat warning.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site offers products through a cart and payment flow and publishes a business address and an email on its own domain. However, the website gives a Tarboro, North Carolina address while an external directory places a business with the same name in Mabelvale, Arkansas. This unresolved discrepancy, combined with a domain that is only 280 days old, supports a Low Risk rating rather than a fully Safe verdict. No supplied evidence establishes a fake-shop operation or customer harm.
Storefront and identity evidence
Hand Knitly presents a transactional storefront with “Add to cart” and “More payment options” controls, and the footer identifies the storefront platform.
The site publishes 404 W Walnut St in Tarboro, North Carolina as its business address and uses support@handknitly.com. An external directory instead lists a Hand Knitly clothing store in Mabelvale, Arkansas, leaving the relationship between those records unresolved.
The domain is 280 days old, so it has a relatively short operating history. That fact warrants caution but does not, by itself, show deception.
Technical checks are reassuring but limited
The saved checks found a valid encrypted connection and no threat warning. These results reduce concern about an immediately detected malicious page, but they do not verify the merchant's identity, product quality, delivery, or customer service.
Why the score is 72
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/ 92
No detectionsSaved analysis from June 10, 2026 - stale
No detections across 56 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 36 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 92
All 92 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 - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- 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 - Unrated
- LevelBlue - Clean
- 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
- Googleshopping
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
Business Address: 404 W Walnut St, Tarboro, NC 27886-2952, USA.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Business Address: 404 W Walnut St, Tarboro, NC 27886-2952, USA.
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
Hand Knitly
- Meta description
Hand Knitly shop specializes in handmade knitted products such as handbags, woolen hats, woolen flowers, and scarves.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/returns-refunds-policyRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Hand Knitly
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 56 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
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The domain is 280 days old.
- 02The store provides a support email using its own domain.
- 03The saved checks found valid TLS and no threat warning.
Web research findings
Independent findings for handknitly.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.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for handknitly.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
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.
- Domainhandknitly.com
- Redirects tohandknitly.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.shopifycdn.com · shop.app
Domain Timeline
- Jan 8, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 9 months old when this review was saved.
- Oct 15, 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.
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 (support@handknitly.com).
- Phone number listed (27886-2952).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for handknitly.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
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
The site refused our redirect check, so the chain below is the one our page reader followed.
- 1301http://handknitly.com/
- 2200https://handknitly.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
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The site states a Tarboro, North Carolina business address, while an external directory places a same-named clothing store in Mabelvale, Arkansas.
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 92 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Jun 10, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Jun 10, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 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 handknitly.com a scam or is it safe?
Is handknitly.com safe to use?
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Is handknitly.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Hand Knitly appears to be a functioning online shop, but its business identity remains uncertain
The site offers products through a cart and payment flow and publishes a business address and an email on its own domain. However, the website gives a Tarboro, North Carolina address while an external directory places a business with the same name in Mabelvale, Arkansas. This unresolved discrepancy, combined with a domain that is only 280 days old, supports a Low Risk rating rather than a fully Safe verdict. No supplied evidence establishes a fake-shop operation or customer harm.
09 · Community
Community
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