Is hoikz.com safe?
http://hoikz.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (62 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
hoikz.com is a look-alike of Shiki City's official homepage that the city itself warns people not to open, and 13 security engines classify it as phishing
The domain hoikz.com is named by Shiki City in Saitama, Japan as a fake site imitating the city's official homepage, with the city warning that visiting it can lead to personal information being improperly extracted and telling residents not to access it. Independent scanning agrees: 13 of 93 engines flag the domain as malicious and 3 more as suspicious, with several families labelling it phishing. At the moment of our capture the address served only the stock nginx welcome page, so the impersonation content was not visible in that snapshot, but the government warning and the vendor consensus are specific to this domain and put it in the Dangerous band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan16 antivirus engines flagged this URLalphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, G-Data, KasperskyAt a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
1 year old
Registered Nov 4, 2025Expires Nov 4, 2027Certificate
Invalid
Expires Jan 21, 2027 (68d)Hosting
Japan (JP)
ACEVILLE PTE.LTD.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
16/62
16 antivirus engines flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 13, 2026
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 12/100
Dangerous covers scores 1–20. 3 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive12 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- ModerateOne public warning from an official or consumer-protection source: "現在、本市のホームページになりすました偽サイトが確認されております。"
- MinorNo direct contact email found on the captured page.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no warning, the hosting IP has an abuse score of 0/100, and the domain is about one year 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).
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The domain hoikz.com is named by Shiki City in Saitama, Japan as a fake site imitating the city's official homepage, with the city warning that visiting it can lead to personal information being improperly extracted and telling residents not to access it. Independent scanning agrees: 13 of 93 engines flag the domain as malicious and 3 more as suspicious, with several families labelling it phishing. At the moment of our capture the address served only the stock nginx welcome page, so the impersonation content was not visible in that snapshot, but the government warning and the vendor consensus are specific to this domain and put it in the Dangerous band.
A city government names this domain as a fake version of its own site
Shiki City's official website states that a fake site imitating the city's homepage has been confirmed, and it lists https://hoikz.com/ as the address, adding an explicit instruction not to access it.
The same notice explains the harm it expects: accessing the fake site may result in personal information being improperly taken from the visitor. That is the classic purpose of a government look-alike — collecting names, addresses, identifiers or credentials from people who believe they are on an official municipal page.
Vendor detections line up with the warning, while the live page shows nothing
The saved scan result records 13 malicious and 3 suspicious detections across 93 engines, and 12 independent antivirus families returned an adverse result, with phishing among the labels applied. This is a technical classification of the domain, not a guess based on its name.
What we actually saw on the page was the unconfigured nginx default: 'Welcome to nginx!' with the note that further configuration is required, plus links to nginx.org and nginx.com. There is no logo, navigation, form, login field or contact information, and no operator is disclosed anywhere on it. The only outbound links are the stock nginx documentation links, which carry no commercial or payment purpose.
That gap matters: a bare placeholder is exactly what a look-alike domain looks like between campaigns, or when the fake content is only served to selected visitors. The domain is about one year old, the hosting IP has no recorded abuse reports, the browser threat feed returned no warning at scan time, and the saved TLS check did not validate while the address was served over plain HTTP. Those clean or neutral infrastructure facts do not cancel a municipal warning and a phishing consensus on the same hostname.
Why the score is 12
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
16/ 93
detectionsFresh result
16 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 13
- Suspicious
- 3
- Total
- 93
- Malicious13
- Suspicious3
- Clean46
- Undetected31
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | phishing |
| BitDefenderMalicious | phishing |
| Chong Lua DaoMalicious | malicious |
| G-DataMalicious | phishing |
| KasperskyMalicious | phishing |
| LevelBlueMalicious | phishing |
| LionicMalicious | phishing |
| SeclookupMalicious | malicious |
| SOCRadarMalicious | phishing |
| SophosMalicious | phishing |
| URLQueryMalicious | malicious |
| VIPREMalicious | phishing |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
| ESETSuspicious | suspicious |
| FortinetSuspicious | spam |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - phishing - Malicious
- BitDefender - phishing - Malicious
- Chong Lua Dao - Malicious
- G-Data - phishing - Malicious
- Kaspersky - phishing - Malicious
- LevelBlue - phishing - Malicious
- Lionic - phishing - Malicious
- Seclookup - Malicious
- SOCRadar - phishing - Malicious
- Sophos - phishing - Malicious
- URLQuery - Malicious
- VIPRE - phishing - Malicious
- Webroot - Malicious
- ESET - Suspicious
- Fortinet - spam - Suspicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- 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
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortra - Unrated
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- 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
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiPhishing
- Sophosphishing and fraud
- WebrootPhishing and Other Frauds
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
Visual context from the captured page
Screenshot shows a plain white page with the heading 'Welcome to nginx!' and the standard nginx default-server paragraphs, including links to nginx.org and nginx.com. No logo, navigation, product, price, form, login field or contact information is visible; the page is an unconfigured server placeholder.
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
Screenshot shows a plain white page with the heading 'Welcome to nginx!' and the standard nginx default-server paragraphs, including links to nginx.org and nginx.com.
- 02
No logo, navigation, product, price, form, login field or contact information is visible; the page is an unconfigured server placeholder.
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 0
Where the page went
- First loadhoikz.comSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
No test click was made on this page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Welcome to nginx!
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Welcome to nginx!
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 62 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Phishing & Impersonation
Service and business model
Unknown
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The saved TLS check did not validate the connection, and the scanned address was served over plain HTTP
- 02The captured page is the stock nginx default welcome page with no branding, forms, contacts or operator details.
- Also 5 listed above
Web research findings
Independent findings for hoikz.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainhoikz.com
- Redirects tohoikz.com
- Hosted byACEVILLE PTE.LTD.
- Referencesnginx.org · nginx.com
Domain Timeline
- Nov 4, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1 year old when this review was saved.
- Nov 13, 2026Saved security review — Rated Dangerous
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.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 13, 2026: 51% of the registration period had passed
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
At the scan on Nov 13, 2026: 24% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for aeibv.com.
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.
Server Reputation
Sites linked to this one
- On the same server IP3 sites with a report: 3 High Risk
3 linked sites with a report. Each dot takes that site's own rating; a shared detail is a lead, not proof.
Other sites we have reports for that share something checkable with this one. A shared detail is a lead to compare, not proof that the sites have the same owner or the same risk; each keeps its own rating.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 16 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 13, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result16 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 13, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is hoikz.com a scam or a legit website?
Is hoikz.com safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to hoikz.com?
Can I get my money back from hoikz.com?
Did hoikz.com steal my password or personal information?
How do I report hoikz.com?
Why does hoikz.com look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has hoikz.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is hoikz.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the hoikz.com domain?
Where is hoikz.com hosted?
How often is the hoikz.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
hoikz.com is a look-alike of Shiki City's official homepage that the city itself warns people not to open, and 13 security engines classify it as phishing
The domain hoikz.com is named by Shiki City in Saitama, Japan as a fake site imitating the city's official homepage, with the city warning that visiting it can lead to personal information being improperly extracted and telling residents not to access it. Independent scanning agrees: 13 of 93 engines flag the domain as malicious and 3 more as suspicious, with several families labelling it phishing. At the moment of our capture the address served only the stock nginx welcome page, so the impersonation content was not visible in that snapshot, but the government warning and the vendor consensus are specific to this domain and put it in the Dangerous band.
09 · Community
Community
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