Is hkrefer.online safe?
http://hkrefer.online/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
HK Refer is a young, transparent job-referral page with no detected technical threats, but its operator and reputation remain unverified.
HK Refer (hkrefer.online) presents itself as an independent referral service that matches a visitor's résumé against publicly listed job openings and links to the real postings on the platform micro1. The operator, Harsh Kumar in New Delhi, India, discloses that he may earn a referral fee if a user signs up or is placed through those links, and states he is not affiliated with or acting on behalf of micro1. The domain is only 85 days old, and no independent reputation evidence was found, so the site cannot be rated Safe despite clean technical checks.
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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; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for this site.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
HK Refer (hkrefer.online) presents itself as an independent referral service that matches a visitor's résumé against publicly listed job openings and links to the real postings on the platform micro1. The operator, Harsh Kumar in New Delhi, India, discloses that he may earn a referral fee if a user signs up or is placed through those links, and states he is not affiliated with or acting on behalf of micro1. The domain is only 85 days old, and no independent reputation evidence was found, so the site cannot be rated Safe despite clean technical checks.
How the referral funnel works
The site's own text says it is operated independently by Harsh Kumar and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or acting on behalf of micro1 or any other platform referenced. It also states that the operator takes part in open referral programmes and may earn a referral fee if a visitor signs up or is placed through the links, at no cost to the visitor.
Each match is described as linking to the real posting on the platform, with all screening, hiring decisions and compensation determined solely by those platforms under their own terms. The referral fee is again disclosed as being at no cost to the visitor.
The privacy policy identifies the operator as Harsh Kumar, based in New Delhi, India, reachable at harsh@hkrefer.online, and repeats that the service is not affiliated with micro1 or any other platform it references.
Technical checks are clean, but operator reputation is unverified
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for this site, and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. These are positive technical signals, but they only mean no known threat was detected at the time of the check.
The registrable domain is only 85 days old, which is a neutral context fact rather than proof of harm. Because the site is new and no independent reputation evidence was found, the operator's public track record remains unverified.
The site claims that a visitor's résumé never leaves the page and is read and matched locally in the browser, with nothing uploaded to a server, stored, or emailed. It further states that the résumé is scored against a catalogue of publicly listed openings using a skills and domain lexicon, running locally on the device, and that the text is never transmitted to the site or anyone else.
What happens if you use the referral links
If a visitor signs up or is placed through the referral links, the operator may earn a referral fee at no cost to the visitor, and the actual hiring decision is made by the platform, not by HK Refer.
The privacy policy says that where the site sends a referral outreach email, it holds only what is needed to send it: name, email address, professional background, and the roles matched. Every message is said to identify who they are, disclose that they may earn a referral fee, and carry a one-click opt-out.
The policy also states that referral outreach details are kept only while the role is open and while corresponding with the visitor, and that if the visitor opts out, the rest is erased and only the address is kept on a suppression list so the opt-out can be honoured.
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/ 93
No detectionsSaved analysis from October 26, 2026 - stale
No detections across 57 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
- 93
All 93 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 - 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 - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- 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
- Synthient - Unrated
- 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
- Googlejobs
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
INDEPENDENT REFERRAL PARTNER
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
INDEPENDENT REFERRAL PARTNER
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
HK Refer | Match your résumé to open AI & expert contract roles
- Meta description
Upload your résumé and get matched to open expert-contractor roles on micro1 — legal, engineering, software, data and medical. Your résumé is read in your browser and never uploaded.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Privacy policy/privacyRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
HK Refer | Match your résumé to open AI & expert contract roles
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 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 85 days old, so the site has no long track record.
- 02The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for this site.
- 03The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Web research findings
Independent findings for hkrefer.online, 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 hkrefer.online. 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.
- Domainhkrefer.online
- Redirects tohkrefer.online
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Aug 6, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 85 days old when this review was saved.
- Oct 30, 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 (harsh@hkrefer.online).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for hkrefer.online.
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://hkrefer.online/
- 2200https://hkrefer.online/
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 93 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Oct 26, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 26, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 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.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
HK Refer is a young, transparent job-referral page with no detected technical threats, but its operator and reputation remain unverified.
HK Refer (hkrefer.online) presents itself as an independent referral service that matches a visitor's résumé against publicly listed job openings and links to the real postings on the platform micro1. The operator, Harsh Kumar in New Delhi, India, discloses that he may earn a referral fee if a user signs up or is placed through those links, and states he is not affiliated with or acting on behalf of micro1. The domain is only 85 days old, and no independent reputation evidence was found, so the site cannot be rated Safe despite clean technical checks.
09 · Community
Community
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