Is ishg.shop safe?
http://ishg.shop/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 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
ishg.shop is a 178-day-old copy of the Ish Guitars brand: its only contact address sits on the real brand's domain and its pages are built on a known brand-clone storefront network.
The site sells PRS, Taylor, Martin, Epiphone and similar instruments under the 'Ish Guitars' name with 70% markdowns and '40th Anniversary Sale' banners, but the domain was registered only 178 days ago and the sole contact mailbox is support@ishguitars.com — a different registrable domain from ishg.shop. The pages are served from a storefront build used by a known brand-clone shop network, and no phone number, postal address or company registration appears on the captured pages. Independent research surfaced the genuine Ish Guitars at ish.guitars with its own shipping and returns policy, which is not the domain being reviewed here. Technical checks are mixed: no Safe Browsing warning and a valid certificate, but a saved antivirus observation recorded two malicious and two suspicious engine results. The combination of a cloned brand identity, an off-domain mailbox and no accountable operator puts this in the High Risk band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan4 antivirus engines flagged this URLCRDF, Webroot, alphaMountain.ai, GridinsoftSaved antivirus result from Oct 23, 2026At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
5 months old
Registered May 15, 2026Expires May 15, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Dec 11, 2026 (31d)Hosting
United States (US)
Beijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., LtdPopularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
4/60
4 antivirus engines flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 9, 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 30/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 6 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
- Start39
- -4
- -4
- -1
- Score30
What pulled the score down
- StrongThe store's only contact address is on another company's domain (ishguitars.com), and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network.-4 pts
- StrongThe store presents itself as a shop with 40 years of history holding a closing, farewell or anniversary sale, but its domain was registered only 178 days ago.-4 pts
- Strong2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.-1 pts
- MinorAnniversary-sale framing implying long heritage sits on a domain registered 178 days ago.
- MinorNo contact email uses the site's own domain.
- MinorNo phone number, postal address or company registration appears on the captured pages or in the rendered viewport.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the site.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe site publishes About, Privacy, Returns, Shipping and Contact pages with a working contact form.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 39 to 30 and split those 9 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger.
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site sells PRS, Taylor, Martin, Epiphone and similar instruments under the 'Ish Guitars' name with 70% markdowns and '40th Anniversary Sale' banners, but the domain was registered only 178 days ago and the sole contact mailbox is support@ishguitars.com — a different registrable domain from ishg.shop. The pages are served from a storefront build used by a known brand-clone shop network, and no phone number, postal address or company registration appears on the captured pages. Independent research surfaced the genuine Ish Guitars at ish.guitars with its own shipping and returns policy, which is not the domain being reviewed here. Technical checks are mixed: no Safe Browsing warning and a valid certificate, but a saved antivirus observation recorded two malicious and two suspicious engine results. The combination of a cloned brand identity, an off-domain mailbox and no accountable operator puts this in the High Risk band.
A brand name borrowed, an operator not disclosed
The storefront is built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network, and its only contact address is support@ishguitars.com — a mailbox on ishguitars.com rather than on ishg.shop. A shop that cannot receive mail on its own domain is not the brand it is trading under.
Nothing on the captured pages identifies who runs the store: no phone number, no postal address and no company registration are visible, and the rendered homepage shows no trust badges either.
The domain is 178 days old, while the site runs 'PRS 15% Off Core 40th Anniversary Sale' and 'PRS SE Series 20% Off Sale!' banners that imply a long-established dealership.
Independent research located the genuine Ish Guitars at ish.guitars, with its own shipping and returns pages describing UPS and FedEx instrument shipping and a Shopify checkout policy page. That is a separate domain from the one reviewed here.
Deep discounts on named brand instruments
The catalogue advertises steep cuts on specific models: a Paul Reed Smith S2 Mira Semi Hollow listed at $1,143.95 reduced to $343.19, and an Epiphone Masterbuilt DR-500MNS reduced from $345.95 to $103.78, both marked '- 70 %'.
The hero pitches 'Masterpieces for the Modern Virtuoso' and 'Unrivaled service and elite selection from world-class brands like PRS, Taylor, and Martin', with 'Shop Now' and 'Shop The Collection' buttons leading into the store and a cart in the header. Every observed purchase link stays on ishg.shop, so no cross-domain checkout destination was captured.
The site does publish About, Privacy, Returns, Shipping and Contact pages and a working contact form, but the policy text describes 'new apparel or accessories' and 'luxury fashion items' rather than guitars — boilerplate carried over from a different kind of store.
Clean connection, mixed antivirus history
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so nothing malicious was flagged at the transport or blocklist level during this review.
A saved antivirus observation, however, recorded two malicious and two suspicious engine results against the domain, including a 'Phishing and Other Frauds' categorisation. That observation is stale, so it is a technical signal to weigh rather than a current verdict.
The hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports, which says nothing either way about who is behind the store.
Why the score is 30
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
4/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 23, 2026 - stale
4 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 2
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
- Malicious2
- Suspicious2
- Clean56
- Undetected33
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- CRDF - Malicious
- Webroot - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - 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
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - 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 - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- 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
- 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
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- WebrootPhishing and Other Frauds
- alphaMountain.aiShopping, Suspicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
- Googleretail
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
Header shows a red script 'ish' wordmark with 'Menu', a search icon, 'Account' and a cart icon. Hero image shows several electric guitars on black display stands in a loft-like room, overlaid with 'Masterpieces for the Modern Virtuoso' and 'Unrivaled service and elite selection from world-class brands like PRS, Taylor, and Martin.' plus a white 'Shop Now' button. Below the hero, a centered heading reads 'Explore the Collection' above a row of product cards. No phone number, postal address, company registration or trust badges are visible in the rendered viewport.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows a red script 'ish' wordmark with 'Menu', a search icon, 'Account' and a cart icon.
- 02
Hero image shows several electric guitars on black display stands in a loft-like room, overlaid with 'Masterpieces for the Modern Virtuoso' and 'Unrivaled service and elite selection from world-class brands like PRS, Taylor, and Martin.' plus a white 'Shop Now' button.
- 03
Below the hero, a centered heading reads 'Explore the Collection' above a row of product cards.
- 04
No phone number, postal address, company registration or trust badges are visible in the rendered viewport.
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
- 2
- Other hosts contacted
- 2
Where the page went
- First loadishg.shopSame site
- On its ownishg.shopSame 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
A Curated Selection of Fine Instruments | Ish Guitars
- Meta description
Experience the best service ever! Authorized dealer for Paul Reed Smith, Taylor, Martin, Fodera, Spector, Ernie Ball Music Man, and others.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/aboutRead
- Privacy policy/privacyRead
- Refund / returns policy/returnsRead
- Shipping policy/shippingRead
- Contact page/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
A Curated Selection of Fine Instruments | Ish Guitars
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
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
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 0 saved reports
- 02Independent research found the genuine Ish Guitars at ish.guitars with its own shipping and returns policy pages.
- 03Hero image shows several electric guitars on black display stands in a loft-like room, overlaid with 'Masterpieces for the Modern Virtuoso' and 'Unrivaled service and elite selection from world-class brands like PRS, Taylor, and Martin.' plus a white 'Shop Now' button.
- Also 9 listed under Why 30/100 above
Web research findings
Independent findings for ishg.shop, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for ishg.shop. 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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainishg.shop
- Redirects toishg.shop
- Hosted byBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- May 15, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 5 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 9, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
ishg.shop was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No contact email uses the site's own domain.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 9, 2026: 49% 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 9, 2026: 65% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for ishg.shop.
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://ishg.shop/
- 2200https://ishg.shop/
Server Reputation
Sites linked to this one
- On the same server IP4 sites with a report: 2 Dangerous · 2 High Risk
4 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.
On the same server IP
Also served from 193.162.133.218 (Beijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd). Unrelated sites can share a server, so this is a lead, not proof.
- bourkestudio.shopHigh Risk
- boutiqaz.shopDangerous
- loveperelel.shopDangerous
- bloxshift.shopHigh Risk
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
CDN & fonts2
- fonts.googleapis.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.gstatic.comin pagecontacted
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
suspiciousMalware, 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 | 4 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 23, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 9, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 9, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 9, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 9, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result4 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 23, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 9, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 9, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 9, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 9, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is ishg.shop a scam or a legit online store?
Is ishg.shop safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on ishg.shop — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from ishg.shop?
I ordered from ishg.shop but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report ishg.shop?
ishg.shop looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has ishg.shop been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is ishg.shop on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the ishg.shop domain?
Does ishg.shop have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the ishg.shop report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
ishg.shop is a 178-day-old copy of the Ish Guitars brand: its only contact address sits on the real brand's domain and its pages are built on a known brand-clone storefront network.
The site sells PRS, Taylor, Martin, Epiphone and similar instruments under the 'Ish Guitars' name with 70% markdowns and '40th Anniversary Sale' banners, but the domain was registered only 178 days ago and the sole contact mailbox is support@ishguitars.com — a different registrable domain from ishg.shop. The pages are served from a storefront build used by a known brand-clone shop network, and no phone number, postal address or company registration appears on the captured pages. Independent research surfaced the genuine Ish Guitars at ish.guitars with its own shipping and returns policy, which is not the domain being reviewed here. Technical checks are mixed: no Safe Browsing warning and a valid certificate, but a saved antivirus observation recorded two malicious and two suspicious engine results. The combination of a cloned brand identity, an off-domain mailbox and no accountable operator puts this in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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