Is hbain.com safe?
http://hbain.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 66 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
HBAIN is a low-transparency online store with a repurposed domain and a return policy that steers customers away from the registered business address
HBAIN presents itself as an online shop with standard e-commerce features such as login, account creation and order tracking, and it names USEEMALL LTD in Manchester, England as its operating company. However, the domain has a history that does not match the current storefront: registration records date it to 2014, and separate records associate the domain with a Chinese vocational school, suggesting the domain was repurposed for this shop. The site's own return terms state that the company registration address is not a return address and that customers must contact the company for instructions, a pattern that makes returns harder to complete. No phone number is listed, and the only contact route is an email on the site's own domain. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is mixed, placing the site in the Moderate Risk band.
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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 58/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 3 findings pulled the score down; 5 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe store's own terms state the company registration address is not a return address and direct customers to contact the company for return instructions, a pattern associated with higher-risk e-commerce.
- MinorRegistration records date the domain to 2014, while separate records associate it with a Chinese vocational school, indicating the domain was repurposed for this shop.
- MinorNo phone number is listed on the captured page, leaving email as the only direct contact route.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe site names USEEMALL LTD as its operating company and publishes a business address in Manchester, England.
- SupportsA contact email on the site's own domain is provided.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsPostal address visible on the page.
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 4357 days old
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
HBAIN presents itself as an online shop with standard e-commerce features such as login, account creation and order tracking, and it names USEEMALL LTD in Manchester, England as its operating company. However, the domain has a history that does not match the current storefront: registration records date it to 2014, and separate records associate the domain with a Chinese vocational school, suggesting the domain was repurposed for this shop. The site's own return terms state that the company registration address is not a return address and that customers must contact the company for instructions, a pattern that makes returns harder to complete. No phone number is listed, and the only contact route is an email on the site's own domain. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is mixed, placing the site in the Moderate Risk band.
Operator identity and domain history
The site names USEEMALL LTD as its operating company and gives a business address on Conyngham Road in Manchester, England. It also provides a contact email on its own domain and a postal address on the page, which are the kind of details a real store would publish.
The domain itself has a longer history than the current shop. Registration records show a creation date in 2014, and separate records associate the domain with a Chinese vocational school, which indicates the domain was previously used for a different purpose before this storefront appeared. That history does not by itself prove wrongdoing, but it means the domain's age should not be read as evidence that this particular shop has been operating for years.
No phone number is listed on the captured page, so customers have no voice contact route and must rely on email or the site's own forms.
Return policy and what it means for buyers
The store's return terms state that the company registration address is not a return address and that the address is provided for business information only. Customers are told to contact the company for return instructions instead of sending items to the registered address.
This wording matches a pattern seen in higher-risk e-commerce operations, where the published business address cannot be used for returns and the actual return destination is only disclosed after contact. It does not prove that a specific customer was refused a refund, but it does mean a buyer cannot verify where a return would go before purchasing.
Technical checks versus operator risk
Technical checks are clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. Those results mean no active malware or phishing was detected at scan time; they do not vouch for the operator's business practices.
The operator-side concerns are the restrictive return language, the absence of a phone number, and the domain's unrelated prior use. Together these lower confidence in the store's transparency, even though no confirmed fraud mechanism was observed.
Why the score is 58
The store's own terms state the company registration address is not a return address and direct customers to contact the company for return instructions, a pattern associated with higher-risk e-commerce. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 66
No detectionsSaved analysis from March 8, 2019 - stale
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 9 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 66
All 66 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Avira - Clean
- Baidu-International - Clean
- BitDefender - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- C-SIRT - Clean
- Certly - Clean
- CLEAN MX - Clean
- Comodo Site Inspector - Clean
- CyberCrime - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- ESET - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- FraudScore - Clean
- FraudSense - Clean
- G-Data - Clean
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Clean
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Malc0de Database - Clean
- Malekal - Clean
- Malware Domain Blocklist - Clean
- Malwarebytes hpHosts - Clean
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwareDomainList - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - Clean
- Netcraft - Unrated
- NotMining - Unrated
- Nucleon - Clean
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Opera - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- SecureBrain - Clean
- securolytics - Clean
- Sophos - Unrated
- Spam404 - Clean
- StopBadware - Unrated
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Tencent - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Trustwave - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Virusdie External Site Scan - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Web Security Guard - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZCloudsec - Clean
- ZDB Zeus - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- Zerofox - Clean
- ZeusTracker - Clean
- zvelo - Clean
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekeruncategorized
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
HBAIN
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
HBAIN
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
hbain
- Meta description
- The same text as the page title
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/return-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
hbain
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were 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
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The store's own terms state the company registration address is not a return address and direct customers to contact the company for return instructions, a pattern associated with higher-risk e-commerce.
- 02No phone number is listed on the captured page, leaving email as the only direct contact route.
- 03The registrable domain is 4357 days old
Web research findings
Independent findings for hbain.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 hbain.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.
- Domainhbain.com
- Redirects towww.hbain.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesimg.staticdj.com · static.staticdj.com
Domain Timeline
- Nov 15, 2014Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 21, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks 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.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (customer@hbain.com).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.hbain.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.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
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://hbain.com/
- 2301https://hbain.com/
- 3200https://www.hbain.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 store's own terms state the company registration address is not a return address and direct customers to contact the company for return instructions, a pattern associated with higher-risk e-commerce. · Registration records date the domain to 2014, while separate records associate it with a Chinese vocational school, indicating the domain was repurposed for this shop.
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 66 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Mar 8, 2019 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 21, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 66 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Mar 8, 2019
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 21, 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 hbain.com a scam or is it safe?
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Is hbain.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
HBAIN is a low-transparency online store with a repurposed domain and a return policy that steers customers away from the registered business address
HBAIN presents itself as an online shop with standard e-commerce features such as login, account creation and order tracking, and it names USEEMALL LTD in Manchester, England as its operating company. However, the domain has a history that does not match the current storefront: registration records date it to 2014, and separate records associate the domain with a Chinese vocational school, suggesting the domain was repurposed for this shop. The site's own return terms state that the company registration address is not a return address and that customers must contact the company for instructions, a pattern that makes returns harder to complete. No phone number is listed, and the only contact route is an email on the site's own domain. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is mixed, placing the site in the Moderate Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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